Bioshock:Everfree Rapture

Bioshock:Everfree Rapture Intro/chapter1

Prologue

The Everfree forest had always held secrets from civilian ponies, even from before the reign of Celestia and her sister Luna. Many of those secrets involved vile and dark energies from long dead magical experiments that prospered in a place so dark and twisted as Everfree. Magic plants litter the entirety of the forest. One of the most vile is called A.P.P.L.E., a strange plant which grows very slowly in deep water. The deadly fruit holds secrets and long abandoned magics so unstable that it can give zebra, pegasi or even earth ponies magic abilities of their own. But not without twisting them into former shells of themselves. near the heart of the Everfree forest was a huge gulf of water deeper and wider than any other in all of Equestria. The legends say it was created by powerful alicorns of the past. A city of science lay forgotten under the murky waters In wait for the day it would be reactivated and unleash its horde of evil and unthinkable magics upon Equestria.

Intro

Being a personnel knight in Celestias private army I had been sent to investigate the disappearance of several fillies around the area. I had access to high level information deemed too volatile for the ponies of Equestria to know. for quite some time now, I had been rather famous to the ponies of smaller towns because of my abilities. To become a Knight of the Celestia sun, A unicorn must be well known throughout Equestria and possess an element of destruction. A magic ability intertwined with the destructive forces of nature. there were others like me but my forte was fire, one of the top ranks. My red fur and dark red mane, I always thought, complemented my cutie mark and element very well. On my flank a twisting inferno of bright red and yellow flame that seemed to entangle each other seemingly forever frozen in a dance of vivid color.

Just reaching the edge of the vastly huge body of water had been nerve-racking. I pondered why Celestia had sent only me to a place as dark as Everfree. But Equestria is a network of secrets and illusion to help keep the idea of thousands of years of peace fresh in the minds of young colts and fillies, I quickly determined that the rest of my unit must have had jobs of their own to do, and as Captain it was expected of me. Lone knights would often be sent first to investigate and determine the need for larger units to move in. however being inside Everfree alone, even with my vastly powerful fire spells, made me incredibly nervous.
Hearing branches crackle above me, I charged my horn to full power without a second thought,
"REVEAL YOURSELF in the name of Princess Celestia" I commanded the mysterious noise
more branches snapped as I saw a Large shadowy figure easily 2 or 3 times the size of a pony. fly through the Overgrown canopy Coming to a stop in a nearby tree.

"Griffons Eh?" I scoffed "I am Fireswarm, I am a Captain in the Knights of Celestia Sun, a griffons feathers are no match for my flame"

No sooner than I had finished my last sentence a Lumbering figure swooped down from the tree hurtling straight at me full speed. I let my horns stored magic explode in a beautiful but violent perfect tornado of fire. The fire struck directly into the creature in an Orchestra of dancing heat that seemed like it could melt the sun. The blast exploded on impact the flaming swirls hugging so close to the body of the creature I could no longer see it. It was no use. The creature seemed to ignore my attack. Bellowing then bursting through the cloud of bright red super intense heat without even slowing down. My eyes went wide as I threw my hooves in front of my face waiting for the impact. Which was only a second away.

The heavily armored creature slammed directly into me with the force of a freight train, seeing myself flying through the air was the last thing that happened before feeling my body smashing into a tree and falling limp. Everything went black.

Chapter 1: Welcome To Everfree Rapture

A massive chandelier flickered in the sickly dim lit room, the light so faint that Nightmare Moon herself would shudder at the vile and decrepit things that might lurk just out of sight. Sprawled across the floor in the dim luminosity I slowly started to regain consciousness.
Waking up to horrible nausea and headaches I struggled to remember where I was, or even Who I was for that matter. A noise in the distance broke my thought to make my head shoot up, I strained my eyes until they hurt but it was much too dark to see more than a few yards, I found myself cursing the darkness and just wishing for a little more light.... without a second thought my horn started to glow, something was happening, a few seconds later the overpowered light spell burst out in a rainbowesque flash of blinding brilliance...The combination of my eyes being open and the light source being right in front of my horn blinded me, but not before burning the horror into my vision.

I was in an immense ballroom, debris now littered the floors. Several ponies were standing just out of range of the non magic amplified light that the rustic and stained chandelier still flickered out after what looked like a bomb had gone off in the once beautiful room. As my vision came back in what seemed like an eternity of sickening blindness I could see that some had spotted me and were moving closer still staying well out of range of the light.
I frantically searched around for some object to use for defense. In my amnesia and panic induced stupor I took my eyes off of the mysterious ponies. I heard hoof beats running behind me as I quickly swung my head around, I was shocked when I saw him. A sickening bluish Pegasus with a horribly grotesque mutated body was charging toward me now ignoring the light, he wore an odd mask of a bunny covering most of his face. I screamed as the Pegasus took flight gaining even more speed almost impossibly fast slamming into me and knocking me back several yards out of the light. Tumbling into huge wooden boxes and tons of other junk I let out a cry of pain. The symphony of exploding crates under the force of the pegasus' attack would have been amazing, had it not been so painful.

Hearing many more moving towards me, eyes unadjusted to darkness I simply closed my eyes and waited for death. Moments later a very loud scream followed by a bellowing noise I had never heard before forced me to open them, by now I could make out the figures of dozens of earth ponies and a few unicorns all of them looking mangled and deformed. They had stopped running at me and were now all staring at the hulking behemoth that had entered the room. Several unicorns started levitating long pieces Of metal and wooden looking contraptions. Within seconds the room erupted in a violent escapade of light and loud noises. The beast cried in pain his easing green colored visor turning a deadly shade of red. I had thought that the mangled ponies display of awesome raw excitement and powerful weapons could not be beat. I was wrong, I heard thoop thoop thoop, as I saw three small objects fly through the air and impact at the hooves of the unicorn that had shot first with a firey and violent explosion catching some of the ponies that had been standing close inside a screaming death spewing out pieces of gore in every direction. My jaw dropped open in the unforgiving firepower of my savior. Silently cheering on the beast which looked like a pony that had been almost quadrupled in size, given heavy weapons and......had a filly riding on his back?! The filly was a washed pink color earth pony with purple and white mane. Her cutie mark was a tiara. piercing all yellow eyes stared at me as she looked in my direction. Something about her felt strange.

The beast was awesomely powerful but there were just too many of those mutated "things" they went at him like rabid wolves attacking and retreating before the beast could retaliate. I thought he wouldn’t last much longer, my rage began boiling I turned my attention on the pegasus, the same one who had attacked me first. I thought must have been their leader. He was after all the only pegasus in the group I had noticed. If I had been paying more attention to my horn I would have seen it begin to glow faintly red before giving off a spark, then a second, then Violently spewing out a ball of flame toward the flying pegasus. It hit him directly, he mercilessly span around a few times before crashing into a wall. I yelped in excitement. This was the second time I had lost control of my emotions forcing my horn to do magic that I couldn't remember.

The beast like pony let out a pained bellow that caught my attention, I looked over to see strangely mangled earth ponies with hooves replaced as hooks moving in disgusting and mind boggling ways attacking the beast with flurries of violent swipes. Claws ripped at his suit and into flesh as a glint caught my eye to my left, the metal awesome stick of death that one of the mangled unicorns had been using before her world had been ended in an exciting and terrifying display. I enveloped it with red magic as it levitated to my side. Mimicking the way the other unicorns had It took me a second to realize how to work it but when I heard a faint "swoosh" and turned I saw that vile blue color once again this time charred skin showed through burned patches of fur. "No way!" I thought to myself "I LIT YOU ON FIRE!" I screamed aloud. The pegasus pony laughed swooping in for another attack. This time I floated the unicorns weapon to face the diving pegasus. After realizing you needed to "pump" the gun before firing as I felt the shot slide into place, I pulled once more on the until now useless trigger. BLAM! The gun sprayed a mass of metal shrapnel into the face of the pegasus quickly closing the distance between us. Gore and brains exploded from his face but that did not stop his body from keeping its momentum and slamming directly near me creating a hole in the wooden floor, we fell two stories into a pool of water the lifeless Pegasus' body landing near me, blood swirled filling the pool.