Hatching in Equestria as a Silver Dragon

POV Major Bradford.

Another success, this capture was hard fought, I was surprised by the little monster, first of all I wasn't informed it could speak, and I didn't expect it to sound like a fucking 10 year old child, he even tried to surrender, too bad the mission's parameters said we had to sedate it fully.

I stared at it as it slept, looking peaceful like a dog, I still couldn't believe it had managed to do so much damage at such a small size, I winced in pain, starting to feel the adrenaline run out, the pain was barely tolerable, I was sure I had broken a few ribs and maybe had bruised lungs, as I was coughing some blood.

"Bradford here, I have the target, but I'm going to need some help, send the medics and one of you maggots to pick up this thing, it gave me a good fuckin thrashing before it went to sleep." I announced with some difficulty.

"Yes sir, coming sir" they all answered in unison and one of them stepped forward, Ramirez was always the helpful one.

I waited for him to run over and pick up the target, bringing it to the main door, through the interior of the base.

Many of the soldiers had to intervene to prevent civilians from approaching, they were furious, insulting and calling us child murderers.

I had to talk to them, even in my state, I couldn't let them call my men that! Who the fuck do this civvies think they are?

I pushed my way through and approached the group of men and women standing there with a look of disdain, grief and hate directed at us, specially at me, once they saw me.

"What the fuck is going on here? We came here to save you and this is how you react? You have no respect for our troops, aren't you American?!" I ask them all in a loud voice, quieting them down for a second, but a short hair blonde chic steps forward and glares at me.

"You didn't save us you horrible murderers! You killed him?! He was nothing but sweet and friendly towards us for a whole day, he even told us about his home, his family, we shared lunch together for fucks sake! He was not human, yes, but he was a better person than you ever will, child murderer!" Who the fuck was this bitch? Why was she so angry over the little alien?

"First of all, we didn't kill him, we sedated him! Second, who the fuck are you? And why do you support an alien over our own species? That thing was dangerous, it almost killed me, if we hadn't managed to sedate it who knows what it would have done? It broke one of the outside doors open and now it needs to be held to keep the station from freezing over!" Her glare softened, but she still was glaring and clearly angry, along with everyone besides her, there were at least half the people in the station, 20 have come to protest us.

"O-oh thank god! My name is Jessica Meyers.
But you really should release him, he didn't do anything wrong, you just scared him when you attacked him, we heard him scream for you to stop, but you didn't! He just wanted to visit us... I apologize for calling your man and you a child murderer, but please release him, we won't say anything about what happened here, we won't even talk about him!"

Before I could answer she begged.

"Please, all the people here just want to ask for him to be released and I'm sure he will leave and go back home right away if we just let him go, I promise he will."

"Miss Meyers, we have orders to capture him alive, and bring him back, even if I believed you, I have sworn to do my duty, goodbye, we left supplies in the gymnasium, our troops are leaving now."

I turned and left, ignoring her begging, limping slightly as my wounds were protesting from being ignored so long, I realized my armor was cracked on the chest and abdomen.

Exiting the station, and closing the door behind me, I saw the creature already safely locked in its cell, a tube connected to its maw, supplying sedatives at a rate that would keep it asleep.

"So, Mister Lee, is the little monster ready for transportation?" I asked while wincing.

"It's in a deep slumber, and it won't wake up as long as this little automatic sensor keeps pumping sedatives in its system every few hours, it also won't suffer any I'll effects, just be incredibly sleepy for a while after the effects wear off, so yes we are ready to travel." I nod in thanks, then signal the men to load up the plane, the cage barely fits and we are a little short for space.

Four hours later

The doctor has given me a quick examination, he says I have a slight internal bleeding problem but I should hold on until we get to Australia, and we will be landing in minutes.

The other soldier who was bitten has been patched up but will also need surgery to realign the broken bones in his hand, he will be fine, but there is still one doubt in my head, why do I have the feeling it was holding back in some way? It was too controlled, most of the time, it didn't really try to attack until I said to attack it in the eyes, it didn't seem to WANT to fight, but orders are orders.

Fucker had a lot of power on those legs, I would probably need to go to the hospital as soon as we landed.

Not even 10 minutes later we were on the ground, a team ready to receive us, I was helped to a station where technicians removed my power armor, then I was loaded into an ambulance, I gave one last look at the cage, the creature within, I would not forget it.

I could see as their loaded it into another much larger cargo plane, with some fresh soldiers escorting it.

POV Onyx an unknown amount of time later

I slowly came back to consciousness, feeling a notification appear on the corner of my vision.

Your body has adapted to the sedative and you have become immune to condition: Forced Sleep.

You can no longer be knocked unconscious by sedatives or somnolents.

The second thing I noticed was a stinging on my tongue, I winced, there was a needle stabbing right into it, I looked around discretely without moving first, if there was anyone, and I moved there would be trouble right away, I realized there is a camera in the corner of the room, looking straight at me.

I was in a cage, a thick steel cage made of reinforced steel probably, I had no idea where I was, I needed to find my general location, i checked my map but it just shows only places ive seen before, so no help there.

It was like a jail cell, but fully white and had no bars, or windows, only a door that looked like thick steel, it had no way to see outside either. I had to get rid of that camera, the easiest way I figured would be to just destroy it, but they would probably notice that right away, instead I could use Prestidigitation to paint a symbol over the camera lens, making it look like it's just dirty, conveniently obscuring my cell while I did what I wanted.

So I did, large black spots similar to ink covered the camera lens, while I ate some food I had to be careful to make the least amount of noise possible, so I ate eggs by pushing a hole through the shell and swallowing then whole, the inside would just spill inside my tummy and I'd get slowly fed over time from the eggs as the shell dissolves.

I also drank water, I was very thirsty, sipping it slowly, then everything went back into my inventory. I had to do all of that with the damn needle stabbing my tongue, it didn't hurt much but it still felt bad, I didn't want them to know I was awake so it needed to stay for now, i then went back to 'sleep'.

An hour passed and I started to hear footsteps, and more than one set, i quickly dismissed my magic from the camera, without moving from my spot, a sound of a lock being opened was heard and I felt 3 people enter the room, two of them were soldiers, probably from their heavier footstep and much thicker body frame, I could see them all with my blindsight as they were approaching me.

"How odd, the camera looks normal from here, the specimen is asleep, still fully sedated, its not going to get up, don't worry, now let's get it to the surgery room! In all my years I have theorized and published papers on xenobiology but to think I would be studying a real, living breathing alien?" The man let out a chuckle.

"I'm going to find what makes you tick, just you wait.
Lads, please help me carry him to the surgical room." I was starting to worry, what did he mean by surgical room? Did they really mean to open me up, alive? They had another thing coming, first I would see how far they can go, before I punish them, I have given this people enough leniency.

I relief fully on my blindsight for this, as opening my eyes would give me away, and I relaxed fully, I knew if I was tense my pulse and breath would give me away, this was nothing, Ive been in much worse situations before, Celestia herself was more scary than anything this people could come up with just with her presence and power.

Would I get to her level one day? Or even surpass her? I feel getting there was going to take a looong time, but... I craved that power, being unbeatable in a real fight when going all out, basically being a force of nature, she could probably destroy entire continents if she wanted to, and it wouldn't take her that long.

I felt them lift up my cage between the two of them, while the scientist walked ahead with his hands behind his back, I was carried like this for less than five minutes, I sensed we had entered a much larger room than my cell, the door to this place shut behind us as we entered fully, they moved me to the back of the room, and in there they opened my cage and lifted me up by the midsection, I flopped limply and let them move me around.

I was carried and deposited on top of a long bed, with my tail placed to the side and my arms and legs spread open and then secured on metal restraints, my head was locked by the neck and snout, forcing my neck to stretch and be fully exposed, I had to fight my instincts and remain relaxed, but they were telling me I was in great danger, and if I didn't fight I would die here, I ignored those thoughts and waited to see what would happen.

"This is where we will learn everything there is to know about this xeno life form, now where to cut? Maybe if I try to slice between the scales... Oh wait, what do we have here? The report has x rays of its body, very interesting, I am curious to see what this all looks like up close, and take samples, maybe even remove one of the organs, the only thing I must do is keep it alive, which should be easy." I say this guy open a cabinet and pull out surgical knives and other tools, some electrically powered I assumed because they looked thicker.

I could 'see' the guards, always vigilant and staring at me with their weapons drawn, this weapons weren't the same as the ones they captured me with, I could only guess this guns were the real deal, and they would do real damage, I ignored the scientist and focused solely on the weapons, using Blindsight was more or less the same as having a lidar scanner on my brain, I could use it at wide angle and get less definition or focus it on a certain point, and see more detail, no colors, but I could see shapes very clearly, even see things like indents or shapes that were shallower than the rest, for example symbols next to the gun safety, I could tell they were with safety off.

The smallest movement and they would be able to shoot me full of holes in less than a second.

If I wanted to get out of this alive I would need to use precise telekinesis and lock the safety to on, while I fought them, without losing the hold on their guns, probably would need to remove their guns from them and destroy them before I tried anything.

While distracted with my planning I felt the scientist start to try to slice between my scales, but then realize there was no gap, the scales aren't just one next to another, they're always overlapping slightly, if you wanted to get through it would take more than a small surgical knife, it would take incredible force, and something piercing, my scales were much stronger now than ever.

"This trash doesn't work! I'll try using the surgical robot, move back gentlemen, I'll control it from this computer here, the robot arm will cut straight through its bothersome scales, once the scales are cut and peeled off, I will begin to take samples."

The bastard walked over to a nearby computer and began typing at it, above me, a compartment opened up and two robotic arms came out, they had circular saws at the end of them, and they looked extremely scary. I could not tell what they were made out of, then they turned on.

I waited, were they really going to do this? Did they really got told to do this to me? Only one way to find out, it was going to suck.

The saws came at different points over my body, one at my chest and other at my belly, they wanted to make a window in my chest and see what I was made out off huh? Very slowly they lowered, and then they started to scrape, a loud horrible noise of steel against hard dragon scale, sounding like screeching of metal on metal was produced.

There were probably sparks flying to both left and right, I could feel my scales heating up tremendously at those areas, starting to burn slightly, I still let them keep going, slowly eating away at the scales but, this was proof enough for me.

"How is this even possible? The saws are overheating! The blades are almost fully dull now! And the scales aren't even cut all the way?! I will keep going anyways."

Oh, now they started to touch my skin, causing painful friction burns, luckily the saws were dull by then so it didn't shred my flesh like I expected, this was proof enough, I needed to attack.

Onyx has taken 20 damage! 226/246

My first subtle spell was to blind the camera above the door with a small cantrip like before. Then going fully into action.

Without any sound I opened my eyes and grabbed the arms of the soldiers with telekinesis and forced them to aim directly at each other's before they could react, while at the same time equipping my Robes of the Occult, forming a quick misty step to move out of the way, a simple line of sight short range blink, I appear right behind the scientist, my favorite dagger pressed gently to his throat. -10mp
262/272

I spit out the needle in my tongue, no longer needing it, the whole contraption falling away with it.

The soldiers were held in place, not able to move their arms.

At first I was going to kill them all, but then I though, was it worth it to risk traumatizing myself just to escape this place

"Gentlemen, try to struggle, and not only will both of your heads explode, but I will also slice the good doctor here right on the neck, so please, I will let go of your arms and you will drop your weapons to the ground, do so and all of you will come out of here alive." I said clearly and with a threatening tone, but I had other plans in mind, the xenobiologist, doctor or whatever, I didn't care, was not only my hostage but also my meat shield.

I was going to let their arms free, but I was going to set their fire safety to on, I was also examining their helmets with my telekinesis, looking for a way to release them and take them off, I'm sure they had something, just like those knights back in the second dungeon, this power armor was troublesome to deal with, and they would probably have radios in their helmets I needed to reactivate quickly.

There was a tense silence, then I finally found the release, it was simply twisting in a certain angle and then lowering and lifting then helmet in a specific sequence, I did this with both of their helmets, their hands instinctively went to hold the helmets and taking advantage of that I pulled their guns away from them, having them on a sling just meant that I could unbuckle them off, nothing not held directly was safe from behind removed if you had good telekinesis, control was the hardest part, and I was cheating in that sense.

They realized they needed their guns more and let go of the helmet, but in the end they were too slow to get anything, I tossed both things to my side and behind me, where my tail touched and stored everything in my inventory, one after another.

2 XM7 rifle (suppressed) obtained.
2 6.8x51mm rifle ammo mag obtained.
2 composite kevlar-ceramic power armor helmet obtained.

"Okay, now that you're all nice and unarmed... Oh no, wait, sidearms! Put em here, and all of your extra mags!" How could I be so dumb? They had pistols still, it was never a good idea to underestimate someone with a pistol, I also wanted the ammo for the rifles.

"Please, don't hurt the doctor!" One of the soldiers said in a scared tone, he probably was terrified of my magic, not knowing what it was or what it could do.

"Then do as I say, pull out your sidearms, ammunition, everything, throw it on the ground! I won't repeat myself again." I said and pressed the dagger a bit more, but not enough to cut, I didn't want to poison him.

"If I accidentally cut him, he will die, even if it's a slight cut, this dagger has extremely potent poison, so you don't want to make me slip up, do ya?!"

Finally that pulled them out of their stupors, and they took off their pistol, holster and all, and placed it on the ground, where I floated them over and stored then away safely, along with all of their ammo.

2 P320 Pistol obtained.
4 9mm pistol ammo mag obtained.
10 6.8x51mm rifle ammo mag obtained.

"Now listen you three, the only thing I want to do is get out of here, safe and sound, will you tell me how? I don't really want to hurt anyone, you stupid humans just are obsessed with war and don't seem to realize the damage you are doing to yourselves, I don't want to pretend that I don't want power too, but torture isn't the way to do it, tell me about an exit and then I'll leave, i won't mess with you, even you, in the lab coat."

I sighed and let him go, storing my knife back in my inventory.

He ran away and stood next to a soldier, basically hiding behind him for protection.

One of the soldiers stepped forward, looking concerned but he looked like he didn't want to die, his hands were raised in surrender.

"Just keep going through this corridor and eventually you'll reach the exit, you need to go up using 3 elevators to get to this level, once at ground level, you must find the main door, everything and everywhere is heavily guarded, there are mine fields outside too except on the road, there are snipers at every corner of the base, they also have infrared sensors and other ways of tracking anyone, i know you could have killed us, but you didn't, so thanks."

The other soldier glared at him but said nothing.

"Thank you for the information, and yes I could have killed you all very easily, but I don't want to kill, even now, if there is a way out where I both get to live and not resort to that... Then I'll take it. I still think you all suck and should maybe find another job, you bastards, you were trying to torture a 9 year old!"

They all looked terrified at my angry outburst, probably because my eyes were shining indigo with magic, giving the room an eerie glow.

"Go on, stand in the corner of the room and close your eyes, I'll be going now, bye! I'd appreciate if you didn't tell everyone I escaped until I was gone, please." All three nodded, but I knew they would probably tell on me.

Placed a table between me and them, making sure no cameras or people could see me, and polymorphed into a mouse, and unequipped my robes, now I could freely run and escape.
-20 mp 242/272

I started to walk to the exit I was told, but i turned around and looked at the sing above, one arrow pointing straight read read Sector E Containment Cell, and the other pointing to the door where I was almost tortured, it read Sector E Laboratory and Surgical Room.

I was small enough for no one to care or even see me most of the time, as I ran as fast as my little feet could carry me, being a mouse felt incredibly confusing because of my sudden tiny size, but I didn't let that get in the way, I just ran along the dark edge of the otherwise gray and sterile looking military base, I didn't stop to check what they were doing or what other technology or beings were kept here.

I didn't have time for that, as much as I would have loved to, I simply ran until I reached the first elevator, then waited for someone to inevitably go up, hiding in the corner fearfully and standing as still as a statue, being polymorphed was terrifying when a human the size of a skyscraper was right next to you, and could basically turn you into a stain with a single stomp, even if I would just go back to normal, I would instantly have to fight to the death.

As I ran I saw other mice around, hiding in nooks and looking for food, some near the trash cans, this plane was not exactly sanitary, but I'm not one to talk, I probably stink worse than them, when was the last time I showered? I don't know how long I've been sedated, it's as gross as it sounds, the natural body processes still happen when you're sedated. I couldn't wait to bathe properly.

I had ran across two security doors by now, it was simply a matter of running when someone else was crossing them, the laser grids probably didn't see me as something worth detecting, almost every door had sensors of different types, it was probably the safest place to be at.

I sometimes also took ventilation ducts, they were too small for even a cat to crawl through but a mouse was smaller and I was pretty agile like this, I could jump surprisingly high, honestly this was pretty fun, being a mouse.

I kept going, the second elevator was much larger and had more security around it, not only cameras but several automated turrets with lasers scanning around coming from the ceiling like deadly chandeliers monitoring for anyone that didn't belong.

I was glad they were programed to ignore tiny animals or bugs, it wouldn't do for someone to get shot because a spider had climbed on their shirt.

I wondered if I could turn into a spider... Maybe a bad idea, a mouse was the smallest and also somewhat similar body plan to myself, turning into a spider would lead to me being the clumsiest spider in existence, and I'd probably get stomped on faster, also... Yuck!

Huh... Maybe not a bad way to get over my arachnophobia, becoming the thing I fear.

Thoughts I'll need to implement later, I got into the elevator and found a dark corner to hide on, trying to stay behind the man in a suit that was using it.

A woman got in right before the elevator left, I really really hopped she wouldn't see me.

She saw me, and as the elevator was going up, she screamed bloody murder.

"Oh god a mouse! Please kill it! It's behind you sir, please!"

"Calm down young lady, it's just a little mouse, it's more scared of you than you are of it, just let the elevator arrive and I bet you it's gonna run away, look it's even respectful enough to stay still and not move." The old man answered calmly.

"But sir, it's a mouse! A pest! They transmit diseases you know?" The woman argued.

"Miss, it may be a pest but I'm not going to just kill it, it's gonna leave a stretch in the elevator, I'll get blood on my shoes, and its just overall unpleasant business, if you want to kill it, then do so far away from me." He said with finality, the woman grumbled and muttered insults but this didn't affect the old man, he just kept his neutral expression until the elevator arrived to the top, I quickly followed the old man out, making the young woman groan and leave in a rush, she didn't dare to insult him, this guy was probably higher rank or some sort of officer.

Once she was gone I ran forward too, outpacing him and heading towards in the direction of the signs pointing at the exit, this time there was two ways up, the elevator and a set of stairs, this time I took the stairs, and i was right, everyone was too lazy to take the stairs, as soon as I climbed up i reached another large and sterile looking floor, mostly filled with offices, computers, meeting rooms and armed soldiers everywhere.

A loud claxon suddenly started to sound.

It seems those three at least gave me a few minutes.

The claxon and lights made everyone stop what they were doing, red lights were alight in every room, I quickly ran towards the exit and in the chaos no one paid attention to me, I did have to dodge franticly running people in full armor, their rifles held pointed down but they all seemed to want to go down into the elevator, realizing not many could fit they took the stairs instead.

From speakers all around a robotic voice came through.

"WARNING, SECTOR E CONTAINMENT BREACH, LOCKDOWN COMMENCING IN 20 SECONDS, REMAIN AWAY FROM EXTERIOR DOORS, NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO ENTER OR EXIT THE BASE, ANYONE WHO TRIES TO EXIT WILL BE SHOT, A SPECIALIZED FORCE IS ON THE WAY, I REPEAT, DO NOT TRY TO EXIT THE BASE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES."

The incredibly loud message seemed to start setting in, I managed to exit out the main door a few seconds before it close all the way, now I was outside, around me I saw a lot of vehicles parked, normal ones mostly, but some were military trucks and APCs.

I could see the American flag when I turned back to look at the building, there was no name to it.

Everything was gigantic, and looked so far away, I was exhausted from so much running, I needed to find a place to take a break, preferably in my natural form as I knew I couldn't hold this spell forever.

I found the perfect spot, no one was outside by now since everyone had been forced to go into the base and search it top to bottom, I saw one of those lifted trucks that are extremely popular with insecure people, once fully covered under it, I relaxed my mind and returned back to normal, now tightly pressed between the truck and the ground, my back getting covered in grease, thankfully I could still move, but I remained still as a statue.

I must stink so bad right now... I hated engine grease!

They probably have cameras here too, looking at the parking lot, I would need to try another polymorphed shape, a bird? No, I didn't know how to fly, a snake? Now that was a better idea, but snakes usually were more feared by humans and more likely to be killed than even mouses.

Oh I was stupid, there's wide open skies above me, I didn't need to polymorph anymore, I had an easier spell that also made me basically immune to damage even if I was somehow detected.

I equipped my trusty robes again, and casted 'Gaseous Form' -15 mp

I became an cloud of smoke, slightly indigo in hue.
I started to fly up and head to the clouds, It took a few minutes but I reached higher and higher, soon the scary military base was no more than a small area on the ground, I saw helicopters approaching the base and land on designated landing pads, turns out this base had more than just the building I came from, it also had a plane landing strip, hangars and helipads, it was a full on airport too! There weren't any planes getting ready to take off, that was a relief. About 2 dozen soldiers started to descend from the helicopters and approach the base, I needed to get away from here and fast!

I started looking into different directions, but decided to simply fly southwest as fast as I could. The problem with this spell was exactly that, it wasn't very fast, while I could go up and down very fast, by simply changing my density, I couldn't fly forward very fast, It was about as fast as a powerwalk, but it was progress, much safer and no cameras to spot me.

I traveled like this for hours, slowly the environment stared to change from desert to mountains and there is where I was finally able to find somewhere to relax and rest, the mountains, I wasn't sure which mountain range, I didn't know much about this country's geography, but here I made camp, set up my tent mat and sleeping bag and was able to get all my basic needs met.

It was nighttime when I finally let my guard down, I had enough sense to not light a fire, just set up a tent and enjoy the cool night, letting my mind recover after today's ordeal.

I laid in my tent and pulled cheese and fruits from storage, snacking on them together, such a perfect combination between sweet and savory, I also had some raw meat, which I threw the bones down on the floor instead of eating them, I didn't feel like eating bones now, I was tired and it was late at night by now, I left chunks of fruits, cheese rinds and raw meat over the tent.

I went to sleep, unsure where I was and how many days I had been sedated, but what mattered was that now I had my freedom, and without having to bloody my conscience, I knew killing people even those who tried to hurt me would bring me misery, i wasn't a paragon of justice, using a hostage as a shield to try and get the soldiers to give me their weapons.