What Happened In September

What Happened In September

Part 3: The Death, the Decay and the Awakening

August 31st:

Through the day Mike and I have been hauling in the boxes from the alley way. Apparently, he has been planning this for a long time. He stored equipment in there that I always assumed were the old supplies from the bakery. The bakery was dusty and dim, though Mike had set up a few lights and single-hoofedly cleared out an area for us to work. I kept noticing a bruise on his right forehoof, probably from the moving. Normally I would think nothing of it, except it was the same spot I had mine.

There was no time to see Pinkie today. Mike kept me busy working on the mysterious machine to his design. Most of it was ordinary metal and electrical wires, though some of it was unknown even to me. The main tool he gave me was something he called a "Sonic Screwdriver". It worked like a unicorn's horn, and was just as magical. When I asked where he got it from he simply said he found it.

Hour after hour was work time with Michael. We both wore lab coats so we wouldn't get too dirty, and the machine started looking odd after a while. Something he insisted was for the inside to be hollow, and he never mentioned any power source for the device. Even stranger, it was very peculiarly shaped; like a pony.

September 1st:

"It's almost complete," Mike told me.

"What do we need to add?" I asked him.

"No more mechanics can help this machine. The finishing piece will arrive shortly."

I wondered what other than mechanics could help the device, and who would be delivering it. "How does it work?"

He looked at me with his blue eyes, but I could have sworn they were brown as mine for a moment. "When powered, it will change their minds," He assured me. "Forever."

"But how is it powered?"

Mike walked towards the back door of the bakery and opened it, revealing... "Pinkie?? What are you doing here? I'm sorry I couldn't see you yesterday, but you didn't have to come looking for me.."

Pinkie Pie looked confused at me. "But you told me to come here, to help you with your project remember?"

"Yes, I did Pink," Michael answered, instead of me. "I'm sorry for the confusion, I just need you to make sure the Nightmare Night costume I made you fits, it's right over there."

Against my will, I pointed a hoof at the machine. I tried calling out, I tried running to her, but it was as if I no longer had control of my actions. Helplessly I watched as the one I loved stepped into the machine. I got up and unwillingly closed her inside. She started to scream as she was confined to the small, cold and metal space. I heard her terror in my ears, and as horrified as I was I could not even comfort her for my wrong doings.

I heard Michael begin chuckling to himself and spun around, now somehow in control.

"Finally, it's done... IT'S FINALLY DONE!"

He hovered over a control panel and I realized what was really going on. "Stop! It's going to kill us all!" I shouted, trying to convince him of his evil scheme being flawed. "Stop it!"

"NO. I'm going to save you.. I'm going to save you all!" He cackled maniacally. "Isn't that what you wanted? Hahahaha! DON'T YOU TRY AND STOP ME! Go away from me..." Now he was talking to himself as I watched in total horror. "This is your redemption day everypony! Stay away from me.... Go away!"

I advanced slowly, trying not to make him suddenly react.

"You can't touch me now! You see this button here?" He motioned to the large button on the panel.

"I'm gunna PRESS IT!!" I shrieked as my hoof came down, fully aware of what I was about to do. The ponies deserve this! They hurt me; Death and Decay, Michael Delachord, the Master! Seperated I was too blind to act, but now my mind was connected to both sides once more! They called me screwy, but no longer! My hoof hit the button, and the machine now powered by my lover's brain came to life! The last thing I saw before my coma was it blast forward at me, knocking me unconcious.

Epilogue:

October 31st:

As I continued to stare at the now collapsed bakery, I started regaining my memory. I brushed my blood-tipped spiky blue hair, and glanced at my tombstone cutie mark. I was alive, and finally I remembered what had happened back in September.

"I just remembered, what happened in September; I'm the one who killed them all, I survived after the fall!"

I howled in united laughter of both sides; Michael Delachord and Death and Decay. Together we were the Master. The Living Tombstone that marked how all the others had fallen. The only survivor.

I turned around and hit my head on a big blue box. I fell over and before I had a chance to think, a hoof reached out and pulled me inside. The brown pony; the Doctor, had found me.

/This is the third installment of four in the Forgotten Power series. Read the others and wait for the final conclusion to be released\