Chapters “Why did they bring us here Fluttershy?” rainbow dash asked in confusion as she sat on the small cot that was assigned to her, by one of the guards. “I mean rilly, we didn’t do anything to these people. so why did they bring up here?”
“Maybe they were scared of us” said Fluttershy as she tried very hard to piece everything together “I don’t rilly know, but I bet they have a good reason”
“Ok, than explain why applejack was put in a different room with those other ponys that none of us know, and we were left in here?” said dash in a relatively good amount of interest
“Well the guard said that there are only three to a room. Although he did say that after the other guard had to shoot you with a tranquillizer dart.” Uttered Fluttershy as she tried to explain obvious past events.
“Why didn’t he shoot you!?” yelled rainbow dash who still had no idea what happened
“Um, because I just stood there and let him pick me up and carry me here. While you were asleep. I was snug as a bug in a rug in that man’s arms.”
Fluttershy was now enjoying the conversation with her knowledge deprived friend
As Fluttershy explained more about what happened to them, they heard the iron doors lock, rotating as it opened.
“It looks like you two are getting a new friend to play with, and you’re going to need to give up the extra cot.” Said the guard as a large black and red pony was brought in asleep by an armed solder.
The solder dropped the colt on his cot and left the room still pointing his gun at him
“Hello there, im Fluttershy” trying to give a warm welcome to the pony covered in his own blood
“And im rainbow dash” also trying to lighten the mood for the obviously hurting colt
“H-hello… my name is, fire light” the blood covered colt said, to let the two mares know that he was not dead
“What happened to you?” asked rainbow dash. You look like you have fallen of a cliff
“Actually I have been stabbed; shot, tossed, and I did fall of a cliff. So can you please tear the bandages of my wings?
As rainbow dash did so she saw that his wings were metal
“O my Celestia! What in equestria happened to you!?” yelled rainbow as she was frightened by the metal that was never meant to be on a ponys wings
“My, um, original wigs, they were ripped off by some crazy earth pony who was trying to stab me to death. So I built these metal wings to use instead, and I can still fly and fight.
As fire light sead his response to dash and Fluttershy, he passed out on the bed. Soon after, his bleeding stopped, and he was just sleeping.
After about an hour Fluttershy had so see if the rest of him was ok.(you know the usual pony stuff) So she pulled off his sheets, revealing his iron legs and hooves.
“Ahh. Rainbow, come look.” Fluttershy said in fear
“O my Celestia. What happened to him? He has metal wings and iron covering his legs flanks and hooves. I don’t think that can even happen to a pony. We will need to ask him what happened to him when he wakes up. We need to know this.” Said rainbow dash as she looked over the iron covered body of what mite if been a Pegasus.
From the sound of rainbows yelling, firelight woke up, and jumped out of bed and into the air. Grasping it with his wings and slowly floating down onto the floor.
“O, sorry, you startled me.” Apologized fire light as he landed with his iron hooves clanking against the floor
“You need to tell us what happened to you. You are cover in iron and metal from snout to tail!
“Everything?” he asked
“Yes everything this is important” said Fluttershy who was still slightly scared from the surprise
“Ok. My wings were ripped off by another pony so I built these new ones. My iron legs and hooves are from two things. My front legs are just armor, it’s removable” as he removed the iron coverings showing his black and rainbow striped legs “the coloring is from being burned, and timber wolf blood. As for my back legs. One was sawed off, and I don’t rilly remember how that happened. The other is just like the two front legs” as he pulled the armor off his back right leg “the leg that was sawed off is a robotic leg that I made. The whole reason all this happened, is because I am a solder, and I have been fighting for a long time. Things can happen when you’re not careful about where you step, or who you shoot.”
At that moment the intercom sent out a message
“it is now 10:00 all units in cells or not need to go to their rooms and get some rest. As for today’s facility status
Three new units have been captured and placed in cells for later study
Ten guards have been wounded
Three from their own accidents
Two from burns
Five from sonic pulses
Tomorrow’s weather calls for thunderstorms
At 7:00 tomorrow all units in the e.p.s. section will be bathed and initiated
Tomorrow’s lunch is chees dunkers, grilled cheese, and hot dogs. This is because of the facility’s 26’Th anniversary
That is all for now.
Good night, to all staff, and all units
Sleep well”
“I think that man is rilly nice” sead Fluttershy as she went over to her cot “I wander what’s in the e.p.s.” she said in question while covering herself in a small blanket.
“Later on you need to tell us why you were fighting in the first place” said a confused and tired rainbow dash
“I rilly hope that I can explain it the right way” said fire light as he drifted to sleep “and I hope I can remember why I was there”
After a long night for both the staff, and the contained units in cells. Everyone started to wake up to the sound of the morning alarm
“All units go to your stations and do as you were doing yesterday” the intercom sounded just after the alarm
Fire light started to wake up when he saw a small yellow pony next to his bed.
“Hello are you awake” said Fluttershy still in a morning daze
“Im up, what’s happening!” yelled rainbow from the other side of the room
“Nice job dash, maybe tomorrow you can just yell the announcements” said fire light, knowing he would get a rise out of the blue mare “hey you next door you hear this” he yelled as he banged his hoof against the wall
The only response from the other side of the wall was a mare’s voice, but no pony could figure out what she was saying
“Hey, you still need to tell us why you were fighting” said r.d. as she turned to fire light
“I don’t remember why I was fighting” said fire light “but it’s coming back to me. I will tell you everything, when I remember”
The iron door soon rolled open as a man’s voice came into the room
“I am here to take you to the lab. You are not being penalized, just studied” said the man
Soon fire light, Fluttershy, and rainbow dash were taken to the lab. It was very scary to them, seeing all the other ponys in cages, but all they could do was walk by, and stare.
After they got to their destination, firelight was told, then forced to remove his armor (f.y.i. firelight does not like to be naked when he does not need to). Once the ponys had all armor and “clothing” (saddle bags) removed they were each covered in a strange white liquid, and scrubbed by the men in the room. After about two minutes the burned fur on fire light came off revealing his bright red coat. By the time this happened Fluttershy was a large white ball of bubbles, and rainbow dash was a cotton ball with two eyes and a man’s arms going into it.
“why are we being sterilized?” asked firelight in his deep Russian sounding voice “ is this just for sanitation?”
“Actually yes it is for sanitation, and dr.marten does not need his lab covered in dirt, or, um, chard hair.” Said the man who was washing the remaining sope off Fluttershy.”
Firelight thought about it for a minute, and being the over observant solder he is, he had to ask
“Who exactly, is dr.marten?” firelight asked as he looked at Fluttershy than the guard cleaning her.
“I think you will be the first to meet him. So I guess you get to find out for yourself
After a minuet a new guard walked into the room, and picked up firelight. Soon after he was brought into a room, and placed on a table. He had two thoughts in his mind. Fight or talk. He did not have time to deicide because an unarmed man came into the room with a name tag that read “dr. marten”.
“Hello there, you must be firelight. I am dr. marten” said the man “please do not be afraid I am not going to hurt you”
Just when he said “do not be afraid” firelight started giggling internally
“What do you want with me? I am just a solder.” Said firelight hoping that he would get some answers before killing the man
“You are a solder?” said dr.marten “I did not know that you kind of equine could be hostel”.
“Now why am I here?” asked firelight. Who was now thinking of more ways to murder the unknowing ape.
“I will tell you that after I have fully analyzed you. I want to tell you everything but it will have to wait” said dr.marten who was holding back the urge to say that firelight was cute. “Now I am going to feel along your bone structure. So try to not to move very much”
And so he did. Firelight did as commanded. He knew that if he was “good” around the scientist he would get info, and possibly a better chance at escaping, to go home and see his child. Glow stone.
“Firelight, I am going to take a blood sample so we can know that you have no dangerous diseases. Are you ok with that?” said dr.marten as if he had done this a thousand times. Which he may have done.
“im ok with it. You will get fresher blood from my back by the way.” Said firelight. He thought that giving the doctor more info would be strategically helpful in gaining his trust.
“Ok, thanks for the blood. I will send this to the lab. In the meantime, I think that you should get to know my good friend, dr. Ivan church. He works with phycology; you may be comfterbal with him, and I think he will like a pony like you.
“Thanks for your offer, I will consider it.” Said firelight who was actually thinking about meeting up with this “Ivan church” person.
Firelight soon was taken under a more thorough examination, and given a vest to ware around the facility. This vest was strange to firelight at first, intill he read the words on the side tag.
“E.p.s. unit 6290
Safe
Under study
Name-firelight
He knew that he was in good hands at the facility, but he still had to be ready at all times for an emergency. He decided that later in the day he would talk to Ivan church, but intill then he would sleep in the cage that he was placed in. which happened to be in dr.marten’s office, probably for later study. Dr.marten did seem rather interested in firelight and the ponys in general.
It is now 7:00, and firelight was being sent to dr. Ivan church for unknown reasons. When he arrived he noticed there was another pony there besides him.
“hay you, got a name” said firelight who was slightly interested in the other pony, who at the time was wearing battle armor
“Firelight, is that you? It’s me moon dust. Wow it’s been years since I’ve seen you what’s up.” Said moon dust as she stared at her long lost friend.
“What! Moon dust, what are you doing here, and why are you in battle armor?” asked firelight.
Before anypony could answer the door opened, and a tall thin man walked into the room.
“Hello, my name is Ivan. I was told to see you here.” he paused for a moment “where is glow stone?”
Once Ivan mentioned the name glow stone firelight started trying to piece together what was going on. He saw his old friend moon dust in battle armor, a strange man with a rifle on his back came into the room, and his child was mentioned. The only thing that he could think was that something has gone wrong, and that there was a fight to be fought.
“Firelight, I almost forgot that you had a kid.” Said moon dust “and what happened to your wings?”
He was going to answer his friend, but another man ran into the room, and be was out of breath.
“Ivan, come quick, 478 has breached containment. It’s killing everything in the e.p.s.” said the man. He would have said more but a blade soon punched though his chest.
“O shit!” said Ivan as he pulled out a handgun and let loose on the killer. Once it was dead he looked down at the tag which contained all its info “e.h.d. 478. Hostel.”
By the time he had read the label blood had covered a small section of the room.
“Glow stone is my child. Where is she?” asked firelight as he created bright burning orbs under his wings and prepared to let loose on the man. “Tell me now, or I kill you”
“Firelight stop it! Don’t hurt the man. He will bring us to the cell she is in” said moon dust hoping that her old friend would not kill the man. Then she created orbs of her own “or we can kill him and find her ourselves”
“No need” said Ivan “I talked to her just yesterday she is in my office with the pony I have been protecting. Follow me”
And so they did. As they walked he halls down to Ivan office, they saw that lots of other people were killed by 478, and they were all killed the same way. This was by slicing the body in half, horizontally. When Ivan tried to open the door, but it only made a small click noise which meant the door was locked.
“Son of bitch” said Ivan
He soon removed his rifle from his back and proceeded to blowing the lock off with the shotgun portion of the gun.
“Holy shit” said moon dust “what is that thing?”
“It’s a fennorein fluttergun, and it’s perfect for killing locks, or anything for that matter.” Said Ivan in pride of his large gun.
The grope soon walked into the room to see two mares sitting next to Ivan’s desk on strange chairs.
“Glow stone, Derpy, there are some ponys here to see you” said Ivan
In a second the two mares looked over. Derpy sat in her chair and stared at the other two ponys, and glow stone jumped up to see her father.
“What’s going on glow? You know these ponys” said Derpy who at the time was happy to see her protector Ivan return (if you read “last resort: slender” you will know why Derpy is here)
“Ya, I do. The red stallion is my father, and the blue mare is his sister.” Said glow stone who was still smiling from seeing her father after a long time.
(If you read “last resort: small flame” you will know what’s up with moon dust and firelight. Ps. It’s a long fucking story)
“Hay glow stone, wow, you got bigger since I last saw you.” Said moon dust “and Derpy, I don’t think we have met. My name is moon dust”
“Hello” said Derpy, who at the time was happy to see that there were more ponys around
“Alright, you all should get some rest while I figure out what the hell happened in the system, and no funny business Derpy. This is not Cherno.” Said Ivan jokingly since it was only a couple weeks after they had escaped churnarus. (read “last resort: slender”)
Back at rainbow and Fluttershy’s cell shit had hit the fan.
“What do you think happened out there” said Fluttershy as she stared wards the colt that was guarding the room “rainbow do you know who he is?”
“No, and why is it that every pony keeps shooting me with tranks! I mean rilly it’s like they are trying to not shoot you” said rainbow dash as she pulled a dart out of her side and dropped it on the floor “I wander what happened to firelight? He’s been gone since we were, um, examined, by those men.”
“That was rilly weird.” Said Fluttershy “I had to stand there while he felt all over me, and took blood from my back” she said as she rubbed along where the needle had gone “he didn’t even say sorry for stabbing me.”
“Um, ya, I got examined too” said rainbow trying not to tell her friend how dirty her complaint sounded “what did he do, I mean rilly; tell me.”
“Well first he felt along my back and sides. It was so hard not to per, and it was kind of like a massage” said flutter’s “ I had to explain what a cutely mark was which was ok. I think I’ll keep the rest to myself”
“um f.s. let’s just stop the conversation before this get rilly weird” r.d. had some past experiences with mares who were over stressed and talked to long about it, and she wanted Fluttershy to stay calm “why don’t you just go to bed, I’ll talk to the pony outside”
“um, ok. I don’t know why but ok. I think going to sleep is probably the best idea, we have been up and about all day. Guess I’ll see you later
Once rainbow dash was shore her yellow friend was asleep she went over to the door and talked to the guard
“Hay, im rainbow dash, why are you here, and what’s your name?” said r.d. (obviously it was not the guard talking)
“Im here to protect you from the containment breech. My name is jumper. Is there something wrong?” (Jumper is from “last resort: slender”)
“No, not rilly, but can you tell me what escaped?” said rainbow
“Ok, e.h.d. 478 has breached containment and has killed 26 guards. Also e.d.d. 476 also escaped and we can’t find her.” said jumper
Rainbow wanted to know more but a large alicorn soon interrupted
“Hay jumper, bro you got a friend. Anyway I just talked to Ivan over the buzzer (phone), and he is in his office with the ponys, firelight, moon dust, glow stone, and Derpy hooves. Ivan killed 478, and are trying to find out what’s going on” said the large colt (gander is from “last resort: bright moon”)
“Nice, and this is rainbow dash, this is the first time I’ve actually seen her. Rainbow this is Gander, he works with the ethics committee. Gander you need to stay here Im going to find Ivan.” Said jumper as he loaded his chest gun (gun that goes on ponys chest and is aimed with lazer pointer and head movement)
“Ok so what do I do if longbow gets out?” asked gander
“That’s rainbow!” yelled rainbow dash
“I was not talking about you? Longbow is a colt in the room next door to yours” said gander as he laughed at the silly blue mare “don’t worry you will probably see him soon”
“Anyway, I will see you two later” said jumper
Jumper soon walked down the hallway with his gun raised and ready to fire. When he arrived to Ivan’s office, he saw something he did not expect.
After jumper arrived at Ivan’s office and blasted the door open with his gun he saw something “funny”. Three pony about to let loose with Pegasus magic (war ponys can use magic because of a unicorn program that gives the solders magic. This became hereditary)
“Jumper what the fuck are you doing!” yelled Ivan as he disarmed his weapon
“O sorry. I thought you guys were locked inside” said jumper
“So you think we were locked in the room with the key to get out” *face palms* said Ivan
“So what’s going on everypony?” said jumper
“Well not much. Why don’t you come sit down?” said Ivan
Soon jumper walked into the room. Ivan pulled a chair out of the closet for him. Jumper was then told of all past events from when firelight got to the facility to killing 478. Once everything was explained from both sides, they got jumper settled in. they were hoping that he could fly into the vents and get to the main control room, find the director, and see what he knows. Before launching himself into the duct there was a knocking at the door, which soon became a terrified banging sound. So moon dust opened the door, she looked down and saw a small orange filly-Pegasus. She soon heard gun shots, so she pulled the filly into the room. Moon dust sat the small filly on her chair.
“hello, what is your name, are you ok?” said moon dust. The filly seemed to be scared, but she could still talk “are you hurt?”
“Um, no, im not hurt, my name is fanner. Have you seen my mother?” said the small mare whose name was apparently fanner “do you know where I am? Because I don’t”
Moon dust had only two choices, go out into the hallway which was probably full of units that breeched containment, or assume the role of the filly’s guardian intill her mother was found. So she decided to hold on to the filly intill she could find her mother, if she was alive.
“No, I haven’t, but I am going to take care of you intill we find your mother, is that ok?” said moon dust, hoping that the small orange mare would not run away.
“ok, I’ll stay with you.” Said fanner
Moon dust was surprised that fanner gave in so quickly, but it made sense to her, it only took five minutes for her “father” dusk take her in and care for her, but she was physically wounded with crossbow fire. So it was assumed that fanner had been under some physiological pain. Ivan saw this, and he invited fanner over to his desk to talk about what had happened, and like with moon dust she quickly gave in.
Ivan placed her in his lap, and gave her a small blanket to use. He knew that his warmth and the comfort of the blanket would calm the filly; he learned this from past experiences with both humans and ponys. It seemed to work, the heat from Ivan and the blanket started to calm the filly intill she was ready to talk.
“Now, fanner, can you tell me what has happened in the last few days. You don’t need detail, just anything important.” Said Ivan. He also used a soft tone towards the young filly, knowing she was probably still scared from whatever she saw.
“Ivan what are you doing?” asked firelight
“Talking, trying to get answers, and doing it my way. Don’t you remember, I work with phycology; this is my kind of thing.” Said Ivan “fanner as you were”
“Ok, I remember coming here in a big cage with some ponys I didn’t know, and my mother. Once the cage got here we were all put in these weird rooms with three beds. After that we were cleaned with this strange white gel. Then the monster got out, people started killing them, lots of them died, and so did some of the ponys, so I got scared and ran here, then knocked on the door because I heard voices inside.” Said fanner
“Very good, why don’t you go sit with moon dust? I will try to figure out what has happened, and were we can find your mother.”
After a moment fanner hoped off Ivan’s lap and sat next to moon dust. Once fanner lay at her side, moon dust placed a wing over fanner’s shoulder, and gave her a pat on the back. Within ten minutes of being beside moon dust, fanner fell asleep. She must have been tired from her previous endeavor.
“Hay, firelight” said moon dust “come over here”
“Ok” said firelight as he walked over to see his sister and fanner lying side by side “aw that’s cute. I need to talk to Ivan, maybe he knows what happened.”
Ivan explained to firelight what had happened to fanner
“Now here’s what is happening to the facility. For the most part, there was a system wide lag and all contained units in the hostel class breeched containment. So we are going to have to escape the facility” said Ivan
“What about fanner? I don’t think we can take her with us?” said firelight “do you know where her mother is?”
”actually yes I looked into the data base with her vest info, and found that her mother is now with rainbow dash and flutter shy in the room that you stayed in” said Ivan feeling proud of his usage of teck.
“Are the cameras working?” asked firelight “maybe we can use them to make shore that the halls are clear before we go”
“Why do we need them clear?” asked Ivan “can’t we just fight if there are hostels?”
“No, we can’t. Moon dust needs to watch fanner, you need to use the radar system, and that means I need to protect five mares at one time, so I would help is the halls were clear.”
“O ya, wait can’t glow stone and jumper fight?” asked Ivan
“I just checked jumpers gun and he is almost out of ammo, and glow stone can only stun she can kill, and there is no way we can all use weapon’s in these halls without everything in the facility hearing us, so yes, we need clear halls.” Said firelight in a commanding tone
“So do you have a plan?” asked Ivan
“I’ve got one” said jumper “firelight you will go first and use those orbs to mow down enemy’s, moon dust, fanner, Derpy, and Ivan, will go in the middle, glow stone and I will watch the back. That way if they come at us they get fucked up in seconds”
“did you honestly just think of that?” asked firelight
“Eeeup” said jumper “and glow stone can use her magic to hold Ivan’s handgun”
After about ten minutes Ivan had taut glow stone how to use a handgun. Fanner was still asleep so moon dust carried fanner on her back. Firelight got a firing system ready so he could fire with low accuracy but high capacity which in this environment was well worth it. Ivan still had his fluttergun with him but had to also hold the radar, so he just attached it to his gun.
Once they got into the hallway they were instantly greeted by a strange flying animal. It went over firelight, so Ivan proceeded to smashed through its skull with his fist.
“Silent but deadly mother fucker.” Said Ivan in pride of his ability’s
Luckily fanner was somehow still asleep on moon dust’s back so she didn’t hear anything. They got to the room that the other grope should be in.
“Fanner, wake up” said moon dust “I’m going to hand you to glow stone”
She then placed the filly in the arms of her niece
“I am going to go in and see if there in there” said moon dust
She walked in
“Is my mother in there?” asked fanner
Moon dust walked out
“You’re not my mother” said fanner hoping that her mom was right behind moon dust.
Moon dust looked up, tears in her eyes, and spoke in a soft tone
“I am now”