Off the Grid The Final Season

Darknesss was all around Tarsaunus in the rebel base, as he was chained to the wall. A light creepy buzzing was heard, as Tarsaunus gasped, returning from consciousness. "H-Huh...what's going on, where am I?" Tarsaunus asked, as a rebel soldier on the one way looking glass, spoke with everyone else behind him.

"This is an awful idea, this is a containment breach waiting to happen" A soldier complained.

"That's one of Regalias's General's" Another pointed out, as a third soldier turned to Stryker.

"Why did you bring him here?" The soldier asked him.

"What if he escapes, it'll reveal the location of our base" A fourth asked Stryekt along with the third, causing Pixel to speak up.

"It's fine, we had him uncsonscious, the entire way here....he know's nothing" Pixel told them, another soldier turning to Jamie.

"Still this is super risky" He told the gold mare.

"It's a risk we'll have to take, he's going to provide some very valuable information.....isn't that right?" Jamie asked through the open mic of the room, as Tarsaunus scoffed.

"I will tell you nothing, your pathetic, and traitorus rebellion will be....." he rambled, as Shift turned to them.

"Eh...big talk for a pony chained up in a dark basement" He told them, while Scarlett cackled.

"Let me at 'em....I want to have my fun playing with him" She cooed softly, causing Stryker to turn to everypony with a grin of his own.

"Alright, who want's to go first?" Stryker asked, as Pixel was the first to interrogate Tarsaunus.

"WHERE ARE THE HOSTAGES!?!?!!?!?" She shouted, as he scoffed.

"I won't tell you....." Tarsaunus began, until Pixel punched him in the stomach, causing him to groan.

"WHERE ARE THEY, WHERE ARE THE HOSTAGES!?!?!?!?!" She shouted, as Stryker spoke through the comm's.

"Alrighty thank you Pixel, I think he get's the idea" Stryker told her, as she turned to Tarsaunus with a growl.

"Watch yourself" Pixel snarled, before walking away, as Stryker entered the room.

"Come on Tarsaunus, don't be difficult" Stryker told him, as Tarsaunus sighed.

"Ah, the good cop, bad cop routine" He grimaced.

"Where are the other hostages?" Stryker asked, as Tarsaunus scoffed.

"FOOL, you should have taken them, and left....too busy playing heroes to realize, we snatched them right back, they're probably locked up in some cell back at The Grid now" He answered, as Stryker shook his head with a sigh.

"Don't you see what your doing is wrong, your destroying your own kind" Stryker told him.

"High Lord Regalias has a supreme vision for an ideal future" Tarsaunus told him, but Stryker pushed the issue further.

"And this supreme vision consist's of turning The Grid into a prison camp?" Stryker asked.

"He's RESTORED order, and control....peace has it's price" Tarsaunus snarled, causing Stryker to scoff.

"You'd rather get in line than fight back, he'll get rid of you, as soon as he see's fit" Stryker pointed out.

"If that is his will.....SO BE IT!!!!!!!" He snarled, as Stryker exited the room, speaking to Jamie, Scarlett, and Pixel.

"He's hopeless, he's too lost to the cause, we're not going to get anything out of him" He told them, causing Scarlett laughed.

"AHAHAHAHAHAHA.....welll time for me to rip him apart, and play with his blood. A shame, I wanted him to be my toy to torture" Scarlett snarled, as she spread her claw's...bloodthirsty for a kill, until Shift spoke up...stopping her.

"Let me have a go" He smiled, as Shift entered the room. "General Tarsaunus you, and your squad are in charge of rounding up deviant ponies, and repurposing them, during the Great Nightmare War. You were sent to military prison after selling out General Lightning Dust, as countless ponies went through your anamalistic educational program's, but Lightning Dust knew you were going to sell her out, and gave evidence to send you to said military prison. Civilian's, and children were made to fight in the war" Shift told him.

"All ponies have been organically different since creation with a purpose, some are more combat oriented like Stryker, other's are imbued with higher thinking like you, but those values can be warped, re-alictaed, a ponies based nature can be changed to fit what is needed, and at that time THE GRID needed SOLDIERS!!!!!!!" Tarsaunus bellowed.

"YOU TOOK MY SISTER FROM ME!!!!!!!!" Shift shouted, as Tarsaunus struggled against the chain's.

"I TORE HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES APART FOR THE CAUSE!!!!!!!" Tarsaunus screamed back, causing Shift to let out a pained sigh.

"Well Jamie, I tried" He huffed, until Tarsaunus spoke.

"Did you say Jamie?" He asked.

"WHAT....you know her?" Shift asked, which made Tarsaunus scoff.

"Forget it...I said nothing" He told him, as rage coursed through every fiber of Shift's being, and for a few minutes....he snapped.

"Tell me what you know" Shift told him, his voice sounding dark with Stryker immedietly seeing this, and knew he needed to take it down a notch.

"Oh no, Shift is totally playing into his hand's....." Stryker realized, as he opened the comm's. "SHIFT......Buddy, he's messing with you don't let him get to your....." Stryker attempted to warn, as Shift cut off the comm's, snarling at Tarsaunus.

"Talk" Shift told him, while Tarsaunus turned away.

"No" Tarsaunus replied.

"TALK!!!!!!" Shift shouted.

"NO, LIKE I'D EVER SUBMIT TO....AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH" Tarsaunus screamed, as Shift pulled out a sinister eletrical prod, and zapped him with tendrils of electricity, until Tarsaunus coughed. "W-What are you doing?" Tarsaunus asked, as Shift growled.

"EVERY TIME YOU DENY ME AN ANSWER.....I'LL TURN UP THE VOLTAGE ON THIS THING!!!!!!!!" He screamed, causing Tarsaunus to panic.

"W-What do you want to know?" Tarsaunus stuttered, as Shift spoke at him...enraged.

"EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!" Shift shouted.

"Your sister....she had an incredible affintity for combat, there was so much latent potential in her, but the mind....it can only handle so much, we wiped her mind clean, long term, and short term memories we're gone...to make room for more comabt values" Tarsaunus told him, as Shift's next voice was of shock, and slowly had part's of his insanity in it.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER!?!?!?!?!?!?" Shift shouted, as he raised the voltage, and zapped Tarsaunus again, his scream's echoing throughout the room.

"E-Even with the re-education her moral sentimental being was too strong, despite having no memories, she knew what we we're doing was wrong, she broke free of the program.....AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!" Tarsaunus screamed, after Shift zapped him again, before pointing the prod to his neck, ready to kill him.

"WHERE IS SHE NOW!?!?!!?!?!?!" Shift screamed, as Tarsaunus screamed his reply.

"AAAAAHHH....I DON'T KNOW!!!!!!!" He screamed, as Shift was about to kill him, until Stryker bursted into the room, and tackled him.

"GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!!!!!!!!" Stryker told him, while Shift struggled trying to get free.

"GET OFF ME!!!!!!!" Shift shouted, but Stryker lifted him up, and punched him in the face.

"Your better than this" Stryker told him, while Shift got up, and breathed deeply.

"Sorry Sheriff I lost it for a moment there" Shift told him, as a rebel soldier on the other side spoke.

"Wow, kinda sound's like what you went through Goldie" The soldier told Jamie, as she looked at him, and then back at Tarsaunus, hiding her unbridled rage. Inside the room, Stryker spoke again.

"We're willing to let you go if your willing to facilitate an exchange for the prisoner's" Stryker told him.

"I believe that can be arranged" Tarsaunus nodded.

"Perfect, until then....enjoy your stay" Stryker told him, and left the room ending the interrogation, as everyone else went with him. During the interrogation, Shift had dropped Tarsaunus's radio, as Regaiias opened a channel through it.

"General...can you hear me?" Regalias asked, as Tarsaunus planned to fill him in.