11/10/9027, 8:36 AM, RAINBOW DASHS PALACE

Dash was fast asleep, dreaming of endless clouds, endless flight space, and no one else around to bother her. CRACK. CRACK. CRACK. CRACK. Dash awoke to loud cracks of noise, similar to lightning; but the Pegasus ponies hadn’t scheduled a thunderstorm for today and definitely not this early. CRACK. CRACK. Dash was getting very annoyed at this. She flew out outside to see who was causing this irritating loud noise. “HEY! STO-“ But she saw no one. She just assumed they got scared when they heard her and flew off. CRACK. Dash was getting sick of this. CRACK. She noticed the noise was coming from below on the forest floor, and flew to investigate it.

11/10/9027, 8:36 AM, ADAM JENSEN, FOREST

Adam spied a rabbit, “Finally, something to eat…” he crept closer, making sure to keep quiet when stepping. Once he was satisfied he was going to hit it, he fired, and missed, so he fired 3 more in succession, only attracting attention to himself. “ROOOOOOAAR!” A Manticore shouted. Adam whipped around and instinctively shot at it, without even thinking. “What the hell?” Adam thought to himself. “This is one creepy place…” The Manticore lies on the ground, bleeding out, and a hole in its right arm and the left side of its chest. Adam knew he had no choice, and sliced a portion of the arm off. He knew it would taste nasty, but he took a bite anyways, and almost threw up. He had almost been killed to get this meat, and wasn’t about to throw it up. He forced himself to contain this odd animal’s arm meat in his stomach. He had to get out of here before this dead body attracted any more attention. Adam thought this animal may be “Some sort of a genetics experiment on animals.” Adam put on his signature grey coat, and placed his pistol into one of the combat vests pockets. Adam scouted around the forest, and decided that a cave would be the best place to stay. Adam heaved two logs and a few sticks to help start a fire in the cave. “This time,” He thought, “This will be much easier.” The cave he was in now was much less muggy and cold than outside. The rest of the cave would remain dark; however, this was not a problem for Adam. He had light augments embedded in his synthetic eyes. Once the fire sparked, a couple dozen bats flew out of the cave and flew away to find their precious darkness once again. Adam felt the warmth of the fire unfreezing his arms and legs, and defrosting his cryo ice-flake saturated hair. He scanned around for a flat enough rock to sit on, then moved to the near-exit of the cave to pick it up, bringing it back with ease. He sat on the rock, thinking about his life. “What happened to Megan?” “Why am I stuck here?” “Why me?” He pondered on these thoughts for a couple of minutes, almost completely ignoring the outside world, what some would call: “Staring off into space.” He considered going outside again, but remembered that Half-Lion-Half-Scorpion beast thing that tried to kill him earlier. Why would it do that? Adam knew he had done nothing to provoke it.

Adam knew it; he was going to be stuck here for a long time. Sarif Industries would have sent a drop-ship to find him by now. Had GPS also been down? This was either a major coincidence, or something was very, very wrong.

11/10/9027, RAINBOW DASH

Rainbow Dash had flown down to the Forest to have a look around the area the pesky noise was coming from. She smelled the smell of death; a wretched stench of a nearby corpse. That corpse belonged to none other than a Manticore, with massive bleeding holes scattered on its body. She almost puked at the sight. EUGH! , she shouted. Dash saw a couple of metal casings that looked like metallic tubes with no tops, colored like brass. She also smelled smoke; the smell of burning wood mixed with the smell of a rotting corpse was disgusting. The source of the smoke was identified as a cave a couple hundred feet away. Dash was becoming frightened; A dead Manticore on the ground bleeding? Smoke coming from a relatively close cave? This was seriously scaring Dash. She wondered if she should even check the cave out, seeing as the thing in there could be the thing that killed the Manticore. She could “Mare up” and investigate, or chicken out. Of course, no-pony would ever know, though. Dash picked up a small stone and threw it into the cave, yelling “Hey! Come out!”

11/10/9027, ADAM JENSEN

Adam heard a rock clunk on the cave floor, followed by the voice of a teenage feminine sounding voice uttering “Hey! Come out!” He noted some amount of fear in her voice. “Who are you!?” he shouted. The voice replied “No, who are you!” He retaliated with: “Hey, I asked first, now, who are you!?” “Fine! I’m Rainbow Dash! Now tell me who you are!” “What the hell kind of name is that?” He thought to himself. “I’m Adam Jensen, and what the hell kind of name is that?” “What kind of name is Adam Jensen?!” She replied. “Show yourself!” He yelled. Adam looked and listened, hearing a loud clop of what he assumed, boots, hitting the floor. He looked and saw a small blue horse, and only stared in astonishment. She did the same thing, the two both amazed at what they saw. The both of them sat and stared for what seemed to them, forever. They both asked the same question at almost the same time:

“What are you?”