I awoke to a rattling door, and an empty stomach, my sister still sleeping in the corner. My hunger had sharpened my perception, and I noticed that a few of the terminals had their back panels unscrewed, wires hanging from their openings. as I trotted over, doing my best to ignore the scratching at the door, i tried to turn on the nearest terminal. Its screen lit up, the only problem was that it was only showing code.

With that terminal out, I checked the next two terminals, both dead. The last terminal I checked was one with its back removed, it seemed pointless to check. But when I did, the screen lit up! And it had words I could understand on it!

Initiating....

Procedure complete, welcome, Dr. Harrington.

Seeing his name made me remember the recording he and Amethyst had left us, the fact that they had recorded that before giving up was worthy of more than laying in this room forever, they deserved better than that. I decided I'd try to bury them, well, if I got out of here. I cringed at the thought My sister and I might not make it out of here, mentally scolding myself.

But it was true, the scratching at the door proved it. But I couldn't think like that, these two ponies never gave up, why should I? giving up would have made their hope pointless, and I didn't want to betray them, even if they'd already died. I shook my head, this could wait till later, right now I had to find out what happened. The computer screen displayed its greeting message, and gave me three options; experiment data, diary, and a corrupted file.

Not knowing what the corrupted file was, I selected it, and was given a screen saying, 'this file is corrupted, please select a different one.' I selected the experiment data, not comfortable with reading his diary, and began to read. The experiment was headed by the ministry of Wartime Technology, Applejack, to see if ponies could potentially survive for short periods of time under cryogenic stasis. When the war became full blown and the Megaspells got involved, Applejack decided the risks of extended cryogenic-stasis were less than the gains of some pony remembering what Equestria was before the war.

Many of the original Scientists left the project because, they didn't want to be blamed for us being in stasis too long, but Dr. Harrington and Dr. Amethyst were two o the few who didn't leave. The two alone weren't sufficient to keep the machines under observation, and more scientists were assigned to the project. A few scientists planned for the worst and stocked the closet with food, ammunition, and weaponry. The file ends saying that we were going through stasis better than expected, and that we might be able to stay for hundreds of years, and checking the date on the terminal, we'd done just that, we'd stayed in cryogenic-stasis for just under two hundred years.

That explained a lot, why the glass had enough dust to look like it was painted gray, why the terminals' white coats looked like they were overused t-shirts, and it even explained why the pods had malfunctioned, two hundred years without maintenance was simply too long. The things it didn't explain were the creatures still being alive after hundreds of years being trapped in a building, and why the lights were STILL on, two hundred years and the lights had only dimmed.

The experiment data giving no hints as to what happened with the megaspells, I was forced to read Harringtons diary. I started a few weeks before our experiment began, hoping it wasn't explicit. He wrote about the two of us being great people for the experiment, talked about our parties, and said we only tried to bring people up. A few days after he wrote about how hard it was to assemble the pods, each apparently having to fit us perfectly to stop the sickness that should have come with stasis.

He then wrote for an entire week about how his relationship with his mare-friend was going. After two days writing about her, he wrote her name, Amethyst. After writing about his mare-friend he started talking about how coworkers weren't supposed to be in relationships and how hard it was for him to hide it. He had literally wrote about Amethyst for an entire week.

After he writes all of that he writes that they finally removed the policy, and provides a download for security footage of a ding hall somewhere in the building. He continues writing about his observations during the experiment, one of which was that when we had frozen we were facing straight forwards, but somehow after week two we were facing each other, and the equipment for reading magic levels had started picking up more magical activity than usual.

There were three more entries in his diary, one dated three weeks after the others. I selected the third to last one, in which he wrote about his recent engagement to Amethyst, and how happy he was when she'd said yes. The second to last one only contained hints of the happiness from the last one, it starts with the two's plan for a honeymoon in the crystal empire, but fades into worries about the tensions between the zebra and pony nations, and that he was becoming worried that even if war didn't break out, we'd be their only hope.

The last one was written as though whoever was writing it had lost hope, in it he talked about the booms they'd heard and felt, and about how the radiation shielding of the building should protect them. He talked about how Amethyst had to repair the computer, and how some of the experiments had escaped, and from the sounds he could hear, had taken revenge.

the last words were directed to us, "Bluestone, Stormy. I am writing this without much hope of writing another, and want you to know that whatever happens to us, you can't let happen to you. you have to survive, you have to remember. There is a sky wagon in a garage on the third floor, its attached to the dining hall near the edge of outside of the building. Take care, and goodbye, Dr. Harrington"

Author's Note

the original was to fast paced, had to edit drastically, sorry if it seems disjointed. Once again, feedback appreciated!