“Hello!

“My name is Scootaloo. You might know me - I’m the vice-president of Stable-Tech and founder of Red Racer, plus my performance at last year’s GALLoPS was kickass, so I’m pretty famous. Not that it matters a damn anymore, I suppose…

“Ugh, sorry. If you are hearing this, then that means Omega-Level Threat Protocols had been enacted, and citizens of Equestria chosen for this Stable had been safely sealed inside, while… the rest of Equestria…

“Damn it!

“Sorry, I just… made a few of those recordings already, and saying those words every time, that you’re dead and that everything you knew is gone… ugh, sorry. Since you’re hearing this, you must already know all that, and this is just some mare’s rambling to you…

“Alright, let’s get this over with. You have been selected for the position of the Overmare of Stable Eight… wait, this is for Stable Eight?! Damn it, Sweetie Bell was supposed to do the recording for it!

“… ugh, I’ll end up doing all of them, won’t I?

“Sorry, sorry, this is the last time I go off-script. As I was saying, you have been appointed as the Overmare of Stable Eight. You have been chosen for your sense of loyalty and duty, both to the ponies around you and to this company. Your job is to lead ponies we entrusted you with, and make sure you pass on Equestria’s spirit to the generations that’ll come after you, so that one day they might return to the surface. We here in Stable-Tec understand that it might take decades or even centuries for Equestria to be livable again, but…

“… fuck, why did it have to come to this…

“By now you must have realized something about your Stable; or, to be more precise, about the Stable’s denizens. There is a reason for that. You see, here in Stable-Tec know that it would be pointless to save ourselves just so that we would die later. We must find out what went wrong, so that in the future, ponykind would do better. Because of that, we decided that the all denizens of this Stable will be unicorns.

“Unicorns have an advantage over pegasi and earth ponies by their ability to use magic. You can use it for mundane things, like moving stuff around or lighting up the room. You can also use it for more complicated tasks, like healing, constructing, teleporting, growing, and bunch of other things. It is said that in the times before founding Equestria, a group of unicorns could even move the Sun and the Moon, just like the Princesses do it now.

“Research it. Develop new spells. Find new uses for the old ones. Master them. Your Stable had been equipped with many spellbooks, procured from the Ministry of Arcane Sciences and from the Ministry of Peace; and let me tell you, that wasn’t easy. Encourage ponies to study them, to develop their talents.

“Of course, I do realize that this could lead to disaster. Hell, seeing that you are hearing this, I don’t really have to explain that, right? Damnit… anyway, we took precautions. Little point about having this Stable build if we would just let you blow it up, especially after that preaching earlier. We made sure that none of the spellbooks contain any dangerous offensive spells; that, and, the MAS wouldn’t let us have them. Also, the chief of security in your stable knows a spell that negates magic, and he’ll teach it only to other members of security.

“As I had mentioned, we gained many spellbooks from the Ministry of Peace - who were much more generous than MAS, I might add - and as you can expect, most of those contain healing spells. Here in Stable-Tec we firmly believe those to be the best kind of spells to be researched by your Stable. We hope that, when after generations it’ll be safe to come out for you, you’ll be able to use your magic to heal Equestria from what we did to her. That you’ll be like angels that come down from Heavens to help all of us.

“Heh, Angel helping… Sorry, inside joke.

“Inside the safe in your new office you’ll find a set of all precise instructions, objectives, and details as to how your Stable has been prepared for the task we put before you. Also, if at any point you believe this project poses a threat to the safety and security to the ponies in your charge, you are to cease participation. The list of protocols included in your safe will help you take necessary steps to rectify the situation. In other circumstances, though, it is crucial that you keep to the directives provided, and keep Stable-Tec appraised of all result, as per your sealed instructions.

“I mean, practicing healing spells can't hurt anypony, right?

“Thank you. From all of us. From all of Equestria. May Stable Eight and all its ponies live long and well.

“...

“May you succeed where we have failed.”