Doctor Adam Frisk walked down the halls of Demanil Labs towards the test area. He had a slight spring in his step and a smile on his face, today was the day they were going to test his greatest creation, the LX-42B. Not what he’d have chosen as the name but it was still in the experimental stages so it was just a designation so the bureaucrats could keep their records. After today though the device would be renamed to something more appropriate. Dr. Frisk had already decided on calling it the Alternate Energy Collection and Analyzer. The name didn’t sound very good but was accurate and it would revolutionize how science viewed everything.

Dr. Frisk was a slightly below average in height man with short black hair that was just starting to show sign of greying. Anyone who spent time with him knew he was brilliant. He had been recruited by Demanil Labs a few years back after publishing a few theories on alternate sources of energy that would be cheaper than the current sources that proved to have some merit. And now today all his hard work would pay off and he will become a legend. He couldn’t help chuckling to himself as he approached the door to the test area. On either side of the door were two heavily armed and armored men in the blue uniforms of the Demanil Labs security forces.

“Evening gentlemen. “ Dr. Frisk said as he flashed his badge to them and the guard on the right looked it over before taking out a small device. Dr. Frisk pressed his thumb to it and felt the slight prick as it took a DNA sample and scanned his thumb print. The guard watched the small screen and when it turned green he nodded to the other guard and both of them went to the side of the door where they input two different key codes to unlock the door, pressing enter at precisely the same time.

With a soft chime the doors slowly opened and without a word the guards returned to their positions standing as still as statues as Dr. Frisk entered the hall beyond. In the hall of the testing range were more guards. Dr. Frisk remembered his first days at the labs when security wasn’t so tight, but with the rebels having escalated their endeavors to bring down the Federal Government of earth and hitting many of the research facilities similar to Demanil Labs security had been increased everywhere as had the checks on staff, never know when someone had been replaced by a rebel infiltrator.

To get to the test area for LX-42B Dr. Frisk had to pass through two more checkpoints, each one having more security measures then the last but soon he walked into the large room containing his greatest invention.

The device was a circular platform, in the middle was a hollow cylinder that would contain the energy once it was collected. Suspended from the ceiling were two beamed aimed at the center of the cylinder that would focus the energy within the chamber so that it may be analyzed and collected. Currently the cylinder was opened as technicians calibrated the device to the exact specifications Dr. Frisk had given them.
“Good evening doctor.” One of the younger scientists assigned to Dr. Frisk’s team said as he entered, He couldn’t remember his name but it didn’t matter. While the team had provided some minor assistance to Dr. Frisk this was his project, his work and his legacy, not theirs.
“Good evening, are the calibrations almost complete?” Dr. Frisk asked watching the techs work.

“Yes doctor, we should be able to begin the test within the next few minutes.” The other doctor replied and the smile on Dr. Frisk’s face grew wider. Soon he would be a legend.

Twilight Sparkle read over her notes, triple checking that she had every calculation perfect. Once she was satisfied she nodded and checked it off. “Triple check notes. Done!” She said happily and set the check list to the side. “Ok ready spike?” She turned to the small purple and green baby dragon that stood beside her.

“You sure about this Twilight?” Spike said a bit worriedly. “This seems more complicated than most of your other experiments.” Twilight and he were standing in the basement of the Golden Oaks Library which had been converted to a lab when Twilight moved in.

“Yes I’m sure, I’ve triple checked all the calculations, everything is set. “She smiled at her number one assistant. “After this test we should have a new teleportation spell that will cost half as much magic as a normal teleport but allow you to go the same distance.” She pushed away from the desk and made her way to a cleared part of the room that had a large X drawn on the floor, there was another X drawn in the middle of the main room of the library.

“Well if you are sure about this.” Spike said as he watched Twilight take her position.

“I’m positive.” Twilight said and then smiled wider. “I can’t wait to tell the Princess of this discovery after this test; it will bring about an all new avenue of research.” She giggled and danced in place a bit on her hooves, unable to contain her excitement at the thought of her mentor’s praise.

“Ok, ok. So then shouldn’t you be doing the test then?” Spike asked, he couldn’t shake the worry that was lurking at the back of his mind. He always worried when his adoptive big sister did experiments like this but for some reason he was more worried than usual.

Twilight stopped her dancing and blushed a bit. “Oh…um…yes you’re right. “She laughed nervously. She stood in the middle of the X. “See you in a moment Spike.” She smiled at him before closing her eyes and her horn began to glow. She went through the spell and was just about to execute it when she felt a pulse ripple through her magic. Before she could think she felt the pulse again, stronger this time. It seemed to be focusing on her magic. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Another pulse hit her and she tried to undo the spell but another pulse stopped her, something seemed to be latching onto her magic. She desperately tried to cut off her magic but the next pulse set off the spell. Her eye’s shot open as she watched the colors of the room invert and she looked into the fearful eyes of Spike. “Twilight, what’s wrong, what’s happening?”

“I…I don’t know, something—“ She was cut off when she started screaming as pain shot from her horn through the rest of her body and she could feeling something pulling her magic and her along with it. She collapsed on the floor, desperately trying to stop her magic but it was no longer in her control.

“Twilight!” Spike jumped off the stood he stood on and ran toward her but was stopped in his try by some sort of bubble that had formed around her. He banged his fists on the bubble as he watched Twilight’s horn glow brighter and brighter. “TWILIGHT!” He slammed his fists into the shield harder as he watched Twilight writhe in pain on the floor.

She opened her eyes and looked at him. “Spike…”She managed to say before another wave of pain hit and all the colors in the room inverted and she screamed as it all vanished and there was only pain and then darkness.

Spike was thrown across the room by a pulse of magical force and cried out in pain as he slammed into the wall. Shaking the dizziness from his head he stood up and looked where Twilight had been. “Twilight?” He said stepping closer. The part of the room that had been cleared for the test was now scorched black by the massive pulse of magic. “Twilight!” Spike said as he ran upstairs to where the other X had been. He stopped as he burst into the empty room.

Twilight didn’t know how long she was in the dark; all she knew was pain unlike anything she ever felt before. The pain was everything; it was the only thing that existed. It came in waves faster and faster till she no longer could tell where one wave ended and the next began.
Then all at once it stopped. Slowly one by on her senses returned. The first thing she noticed was a copper taste in her mouth; she had been gritting her teeth so hard her gum had started bleeding. Slowly feeling return and she was laying on a cold hard mettle surface. Then sight return but all she saw was blackness. Then she became aware of muffle voices as her hearing returned. They sounded distant.

Slowly she tried getting to her hooves but her legs gave out under her and she fell back onto the cold floor. Her head felt like a dragon had been using her head as a piñata. She tried again and on her fifth attempt she managed to keep her legs under her if barely.

“H-hello?” She said quietly finding her voice. She could see hear the voices but when she tried to move towards them she found her path blocked by a metal wall. Feeling around she found she was in a very small room barely big enough to hold her. “Hello! Somepony! Anypony! I’m in here!” She called out and started banging on the wall in front of her. She heard the voices stop. “Help me! I’m trapped in here!” She said banging hander. She heard the sound of hissing air and then a mechanical whirring noise and the wall in front of her began to slide out of the way and the small space was bathed in a blinding white light as well as the smell of ozone and something burnt. Twilight had to squeeze her eyes shut tightly against the blinding light. Through her closed eyes she saw the light blocked by something.

“What the hell?” She heard a voice said and the sound of hoofsteps and she slowly started to open her eyes. As her eyes adjusted to the light she saw what it was that blocked the light, it wasn’t a pony. What stood before her was some sort of biped with bare whitish pink skin least the parts she could see did. Most of its body was covered in some type of clothes, its pants being dark brown and its shirt was blue. She recognized the white coat it wore as a lab coat. On top of its head was short black hair that looked to also have a bit of grey in it. Its green eyes held intelligence to them but right now they were wide with shock as they stared down at her.

Do to Twilight only coming up to what she assumed to be its waist and stomach she had to look up at it. Her own eyes were wide with fear as she tried to push herself further into the small mettle room. She tried to reach for her magic but a wave of nausea put a stop to that and her legs went out from under her once more. “ow….”She said weakly and the creature took a step back from her as she saw more creatures move up behind it and peek over its shoulder, they were a bit taller than the one with the salt and pepper hair.

“What is it?” one of them asked.

“I don’t know.” The first one said still staring at her.

“It kind of looks like a horse.” Another said. The creatures were distracted when more entered the room wearing some kind of blue armor.
“What the hell is going on here?” One of new creatures demanded. Whatever the first group said Twilight never heard as darkness claimed her once more.

Dr. Frisk looked at the small purple horse laying in the infirmly hooked up to an IV drip. His eyes roamed over the creature. During the test there had been a surge in the equipment and his team had been scrambling to try to shut down the test. Two of his team had been injured; one when his console had exploded and the other when a surge of power caused one of the electrical panels had exploded. The entire time the control room had been filed with warning alarms has the device was getting closer and closer to breaching containment. If not for one of the technicians running into the test chamber and physically severing the main power conduit from the device Dr. Frisk doubted any of them would be standing there. He actually felt somewhat saddened the young man had been killed as the electricity going through the cable passed through his body turning him into just a blackened husk. It was a shame as the young man hadn’t panicked like the rest of his team and had actually come up with a way to shut down the device. Dr. Frisk could have used someone like that but he was dead now so no point in dwelling on what might have been.

The team had been trying to tend to the injured and trying to figure out exactly what had happened when they heard banging and yelling coming from inside the chamber. They had all been hesitant to open the device but Dr. Frisk’s curiosity had gotten the best of him and he ordered it opened. It had been quite a surprise to find the small purple creature standing inside of the chamber shortly before it passed out.
Dr. Frisk was drawn back to the present as the small purple horse creature started to stir. It groaned a bit and slowly opened its eyes and looked around its surroundings. Its eyes widened as they came to rest on Dr. Frisk and it seemed to try to try to sink into the bed. “Wh-who are you?” It asked in a voice that was clearing female. It also confirmed that Dr. Frisk hadn’t been hearing things when it spoke in the chamber.

“My name is Doctor Adam Frisk.” He said calmly, the thing was hardly in any shape to be dangerous and the two guards at the door could easily deal with it if he was wrong. “What…would your name happen to be if you have one.”

“T-Twilight Sparkle.” She said watching him. She seemed to relax a bit. “Where am I?”

“Well, you are currently in the infirmary of Demanil Labs. More than that I can’t tell you for security reasons.” He told her. He actually could have told her more but he didn’t see the point.

She took this information in and nodded and started looking around the room her eyes finding the two guards. “Who are they?”
“Just guards miss Sparkle, they are here for my protection. “He chuckled.

“Protection? From what?” She tilted her head and winced a bit.

“Why you of course. We’ve never seen a creature like you. So the higher ups are not taking any chances.” He told her looking over at the guards who stood perfectly still, their rifles held at rest in their hands.

“Oh I wouldn’t hurt anypony.” Twilight said looking at him. “They aren’t needed.” She said smiled in what Dr. Frisk assumed was an attempt at a friendly smile but it seems it caused a pain in her head as she grabbed her head in her front hooves and groaned in pain. “Sweet Celestia my head hurts...” She muttered.

“Anypony?” Dr. Frist asked, he figured this Celestia was some sort of deity.

“Oh…sorry, guess I should say anybody as I’m the only pony here. “She giggled a bit then grabbed her head again wincing in pain.
“So…you are a pony?” Dr. Frisk asked. And Twilight nodded. “Interesting…” He said as he looked her over.

“What are you?”

“Oh, I’m a human” He told her absently as his mind raced. He still didn’t completely know why the device brought this creature here when it was designed to collect energy, not transport living being. “May I ask what you were doing before you woke up in the test chamber?” He asked and her eyes perked up.

“Oh! I was conducting an experiment with a new teleportation spell and then….”She paused and her face scrunched up for a moment. “Then….I don’t know….last thing I remember is starting the spell and then….I woke up in the dark.” She said looking concerned.
“Spell?” Frisk asked in a bit of confusion.

“Yes, it’s a common spell most unicorns learn, it makes travel much faster for small distances, I came up with a new version that wouldn’t cost as much magic to use.” She said brightly.

“Unicorn? Magic?” Frisk said in confusion. “I thought you said you were a pony.”

“Oh I am a pony, but there are three types of ponies, Unicorns who can use magic, Pegasus who have wings and can fly, manipulate the weather and walk on clouds and then earth ponies who are strong physically and experts at faring and building.” She said. “We all live and work together under the rule of the Princesses.” She said and Frisk felt like he was back in his university days listing to a lecture.

Frisk sat and listened to the pony creature tell him all about where she came from the Princesses who rules over them and controlled the sun and the moon all the way down to her friends. Frisk made a mental note that once she got going she didn’t seem to stop for anything and also that she was very trusting considering she just woke up in a strange place and had no problem telling him practically anything about where she came from. It was hard to get his mind around the concept of ‘Magic’ and the fact it was common in ‘Equestria’ the country she was from in her world. But the fact these Princesses were strong enough to control the very sun and the moon themselves

After a few hours of listing to the purple pony explain everything he suggested that she should rest and politely excused himself from the room. He had many things to think about but first he had a report to write. This information opened up so many new doors if they could just harness this ‘Magic’

To: Director Franklin Graceland
From: Dr. Adam Frisk
Subject: Request
Dear Director, as I sure you are aware we had an incident in one of the test labs involving the LX-42B receiving a power surge and nearly breeching containment. I am emailing you to inform you I may have found the cause of the incident.

It seems the device worked exactly as I had planned it to, but what I had no accounted for what exactly what kind energy it would find.
As you know after the incident my team discovered a small creature with in the chamber. After having it transferred to the infirmary I was observing it when I awoke. The creature is intelligent and capable of speech!

I spent two hours talking with it about what it was and where it came from. Its name is “Twilight Sparkle” and is what is called a “Pony” from “Equestria” a place ruled by what she referred to as “Magic.”

It seems her world is full of magic and it was this such magic that the device targeted. This magic is naturally accruing in all ponies as well as other creatures that inhabit her world. From what she has told me some even have enough magic to control the very sun and moon themselves.

I asked a few questions about the level of technology and military. It seems they have steam powered locomotives but nothing much more advanced than that. The only military force they have is what she called the “Royal Guard” which are armed with spears and swords mostly though some are capable of using magic directly.

The most powerful magic users would be the two “Alicorn” Princesses that rule their land and control the sun and the moon.
I am requesting permission to be studying the creature we currently have in order to discover all we can about her species and “magic” so that we may modify the device in order to open a stable “doorway” so that we may secure this limitless power source.

Dr. Adam Frisk, Head of Alterative Energy Research

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To: Dr. Adam Frisk
From: Director Franklin Graceland
Subject: Request Response

Dear Doctor, I am writing to inform you that your request has been granted under the stipulation the subject does not die. It is difficult to gather information from a corpse. As long as the subject, hence forth referred to as P438-29T, does not die you are free to conduct whatever tests you wish.

Sincerely Franklin Graceland, Director of Demanil Labs

Twilight landed with a pained yelp as she was tossed into the pen that had been her home for the last two week. She curled into a tight ball and began to sob. The latest round of “tests” had been more painful than the last that she had gone through. Her body had sever stitched up wounds along her body from where they had cut her open to see what made her tick. Normally they at least sedated her but this time they wanted to see how she’d react to the pain. They wouldn’t stop till she started to lose consciousness and then they stopped and Twilight thanked Celestia….till they injected her with adrenaline that brought her fully awake and it all began again. All under the watchful eye of the first of these humans she ever saw Dr. Frisk.

She didn’t understand why they were doing his to her. They had helped her at first. While she was in the infirmary. They made sure she was healthy. Frisk came by to talk to her every day and she had enjoyed their talks…had she known what was to come she could have tried to escape as soon as she was able. Once the medical doctor had confirmed she was healthy it was when they had brought her to The Room. She hadn’t under stood why she was brought to a room with just a table and a two chairs and a mirror on one wall. She had learned, by Celestia she had learned.

Every day for the past two week it had been the same, in the more she went to the room and they asked her questions about Equestria, the neighboring countries, the Princesses the Royal Guards, magic, everything. If she tried to hide something or they thought she was when they brought out their tools. After the Room it was to the Lab for testing. Then onto the Infirmary to patch her back up and from there her pen. The same routine every day for two weeks straight, her own little living nightmare. She had been trying to use her magic to teleport away but for some reason she couldn’t focus enough to form a spell. It all just slipped away when she tried.

“Hello 438.” A voice drew her attention from her pain and she saw her handler Marcus. One of the younger medical staff had been assigned to take care of her when she was in the pen. He was what she knew was an average height with tan skin and dark black hair. He wore the blue Medical scrubs all the medical staff wore. “I brought your food.” He said in a gentle voice as he opened the small slot at the bottom of the pen and slid in a bowl of fruits.

Twilight bushed it away and curled into a ball. She heard Marcus sigh. “438 you need to eat.” He told her. “Please?”
“Why should I?” She asked flatly not looking at him.

“Because you need your strength...and…you know what they will do if you don’t eat.” He warned and she shivered. She had tried not eating thinking if she made herself to weak for their tests then they would stop. She made it for two days before instead of Marcus bringing her food it had been two guards. One had held her while the other had forced her mouth open and force the food down her throat. They hadn’t stopped till every last scrap of the food was forced down her throat and while she was being forced to eat she had bitten the guard forcing the food down her throat he had recoiled and she managed to kick the guard that was holding her in a very sensitive place and he had dropped her.

She had been so proud of herself, there was no way out of the pen but she had struck a blow against them…then the batons came out. When she tried to strike out again when she saw an opening one of them had drawn a little yellow gun and shot two small prongs into her. Every time he pulled the trigger electricity shot through her body and she couldn’t move. She still tried to fight back. But with one guard using his baton and the other using what she learned was a Taser over and over again there was nothing she could do.

After that it was another trip to the Infirmary. Slowly she uncurled and pulled the bowl over to herself and began to eat. As she ate she felt Marcus hand stroke her mane. It was something he had started doing a few days ago as the tests got worse. As much as Twilight hated to admit it she enjoyed when he did that…it made her feel a little better. She hated herself for letting her self be comforted by one of these…things…these monsters.

Twilight ate in silence while Marcus stroked her mane and when she was finished he retrieved the bowel and wished her a good night before leaving. Twilight curled up on the small mat that was in the corner of the pen that was her bed and closed her eyes, sleep was the only escape she had from this nightmare.

The next morning she was awoken the same as she always was, one of the guard banging on the bars of her pen why yelling at her to wake up. She got to her hooves and stood head down not looking at the guards. She knew what glaring at them would result in The Room being worse so she glared at the floor.

The guard started to walk and she followed as another guard followed behind her. Both of them had their batons out in case she tried to run. She kept her eyes focused on the boots in front of her as he led her to The Room. She knew the path well so when the guard turned down a different hallway she stopped and blinked looking up in confusion. That was a mistake. She felt the baton strike her back as well as heard it. “Move it 438!” The guard behind her barked raising the baton again, Twilight quickly started moving again.

The guard led her to a door marked “Firing Range” He swiped his badge and the door unlocked and he walked in. Inside were Dr. Frisk and his team as well as about a dozen guards and some of the medical staff. She quickly looked out of the corner of her eye as she was lead past them and past the booths till she reached a door and was lead out into an open concrete room. The far wall was full of small holes all along it. On the far side of the floor was an X near the wall with the holes.

Twilight was lead there she found ring had been added to the floor next to the X and there were small cuffs. Once she was placed in the middle of the X the cuffs were put on her hooves so tightly that they hurt. Once all of them were locked she found she couldn’t move from the middle of the X. One of the medical staff started attaching wires to her head and chest and one to her horn before he injected something into her. Her head swam as the two guards and medical staff left and by the time they left the large room she could feel her magic.

There was a loud screech from where the human were behind the stalls on the far wall and she heard the voice of Frisk amplified. “Now then 438 this is going to be a test of your endurance and magical shield you told us about.” Twilight blinked. “Don’t try to teleport; we have guards station everyone you have seen ready to grab you the second you appear.” She cursed under her breaths. She wished she had never told him how the teleportation spell worked. But what was she supposed to use her shield against?

She was answered as she saw the guards step up to the stalls and raise their rifles. She barely got her shield up as the first shots rang out. The sound was deafening, but the shock as the bullets struck her shield drew most of her attention.

At first they fired in bursts but soon they were firing full auto against her shield and Twilight had to grit her teeth against the pain. Sweat matted her fur and mane as the fire continued. Only pausing as the guards reloaded.

Twilight wasn’t sure how long she was able to hold the shield up. She had to focus so much of her mind just to keep it up but soon it shattered and she was collapsed as if a large hammer struck her from again. Her head felt like it was splitting open and her horn was ached and burned. When she reached up and touched it she had to yank her hoof back from how hot it was. She felt nauseous and the room spun. She was vaguely aware of the medical staff entering the large room but she wasn’t sure as the darkness claimed her.

Twilight slowly came to back in her pen. Her head felt like it was trying to split open and her horn ached like nothing more. Slowly she reached up and felt her horn; it was still warm from her magical burn out. She groaned as her hoof dropped back to the floor. Why were they doing this to her? What had she ever done to them that they would want to torture her like this? What was the point?
“Are you ok 438?” She heard Marcus say behind her. She just groaned and covered her ears. His voice made her headache worse. She heard the jingle of keys and the sound of the pen opening and the next thing she knew Marcus was sitting beside her and her pulled her into his lab and held her stroking her mane.

As much as twilight hated what these things were doing to her that simple act was all it took for the damn to complexly break and she buried her face into Marcus chest and cried harder then she had at any point since this nightmare began. Marcus didn’t say anything; he just held her and stroked her mane.

Twilight wasn’t sure how long she cried for but by the time she was done the front of Marcus shirt was soaked. “I just want to go home…”She whispered.

“I know 43, I know” He said as he stroked her mane. Twilight wasn’t sure when it was she fell asleep but the next thing she knew she was waking up on her mat with the bowl of food beside the mat and Marcus nowhere in sight.

The next morning Twilight was woken the same way she always was. Her head still hurt a bit from her burn out but it was much more bearable. The guards lead her to The Room where she was questioned as always and then onto the Lab. As always Dr. Frisk was there with his team but this time there were some of the Medical staff here as well. Twilight didn’t like this, yesterday was still fresh in her mind.
“Ah 438 you’ve arrived, good.” Dr. Frisk smiled at her as if he was seeing an old friend, it was all Twilight could do not to glare at him or say something that would result in a hit from one of the guard’s batons. Dr. Frisk gestured to one of the Medical staff. “This is Dr. Gale, head of surgery here at Demanil Labs.” He said. Twilight had never met the older human before. He was dressed in full surgical scrubs so all she could see was his blue eyes.

Twilight said nothing. She kept her face emotionless as she looked between them. “Now, I believe you told me that mark on your flank, Cutie Mark if I remember correctly, appears whenever you’re kind finds their special talent.” He asked her. Twilight didn’t like where this was going. She said nothing but keeping the emotionless mask was growing harder by the second. HE smiled at her. “Well you don’t need to answer, it’s in my notes.” He turned to the surgeon. “She’s all yours.” With that Twilight’s fears were confirmed and she turned to try and sprint from the room. A swift kick to her ribs from one of the guards put a stop to that.

Gasping for breath the guard hauled her to her hooves by a handful of her mane and shoved her towards the waiting surgeon. Twilight struggled as the nursed grabbed her and lifted her onto the table. She fought as hard as she could but four of them held her down as a mask was placed over her face. She knew what this was and she tried not to breath but it was futile. She couldn’t hold her breath forever and soon the edge of her vision started to darken as the world around her faded.

Twilight slowly came to back in her pen. Her head swam from the after effects of the gas they used to knock her out. She opened her eyes and looked around groggily. Slowly she became aware of some minor pain on her right flank and she froze as the memory of what Dr. Frisk had said resurfaced. Her pupils shrunk down as small as they could she slowly looked back at her flank. What greeted her were bandages where her Cutie Mark was supposed to be, slightly stained with blood. “No…no…nonononononono.” She said as she squeezed her eyes shut and covered them with her hooves and started crying. She tried to force the image from her mind but it stayed firmly at the front of her mind. That image was burned into her memory forever.

She was startled when she heard the sound of a metal bowl landing on concrete and the frantic jingling of keys. “438!” Marcus said as he flung the door open and stepped in. She looked over at him and his eyes were wide with horror as he looked at her flank. “What….what happened?” He asked barely above a whisper.

Twilight’s sadness was quickly replaced by a new emotion. Anger. “What do you think happened!” She yelled and he recoiled. “They took my Cutie Mark!” She yelled glaring at him with all the rage and hatred she felt towards every last one of these monsters. Marcus took another step back. “What have I ever done to any of you? I never even wanted to come here!” She screamed. She jumped at him and started to hit him with her hooves. She couldn’t hit very hard due to the effects of the gas still in her system but she tried her hardest to hurt him like they hurt her.

Marcus didn’t try to stop her, he just stood there and let her hit him over and over again till slowly her rage cooled and the sadness returned and she collapsed onto the floor curling into a ball and crying again. “Why…..why are you doing this to me….I never did anything to you…”She asked him looking up at him. His eyes stared down at her filled with pain as well. He turned and walked to the door and closed it. She heard the keys jingle. “Have a good night Twilight.” He said before leaving.

Twilight cried in her pen for a long while before his words registered complete. He had never called her Twilight before even though she told him that was her name. He always called her by the number they had given her.

She slowly got to her hooves and looked at the door. She stared at it for a long while before she slowly walked over to it. Studying it, it was pushed to but as she looked closer she saw the latch was undone. Slowly she reached out and pushed it and silently it opened.

Cautiously she stepped out into the hall and looked around. There was no one around something caught her eye and she looked. Lying on the floor was a small white rectangle. Walking over to it she looked down at it. “Marcus Santana Level 3 Clearance Medical Staff.” Twilight stared at the security badge she had watched the humans use to unlock the doors. Right next to the words was a picture of Marcus staring back at her.

Twilight quietly moved down the halls of Demanil Labs, Marcus security pass held in her mouth. She wasn’t far from where her pen was but that didn’t matter, what matter was that she was on her way to freedom from this nightmare, even if it wasn’t back to Equestria if it was outside of this building it was freedom.

Twilight had to be careful, she had nearly been spotted by two guard patrols already. She wasn’t sure exactly where an exit was but she was sure she’d eventually find one. Her flank burned where her Cutie Mark used to be as she walked but she ignored it, her mind was focused on the task before her and the chance Marcus had given her. She was sure that any door that needed the access card would be guarded but if she was careful she could lure the guards away or knock them out or something! It didn’t matter she’d figure it out when she got to that point.

She rounded a corner and came face to face with a guard. They stare at each other in surprise and then the guard moved to raise his rifle as he opened his mouth. Twilight reacted fast and stuck the one weak point she knew humans had. The guard doubled over clutching the area between his legs and Twilight shot her front hooves forward into his face. The guard went down.

Twilight stood there panting, her heart was racing. She looked down at the guard and checked him, he was still breathing, she sighed in relief and then continued down the hall. She made it two halls over when suddenly an alarm sounded and lights started to flash along the walls. “Attention all security personal, Subject P438-29T has escaped containment. Apprehend subject through non-lethal mean. I repeat…” A voice started to say over the PA system. Twilight started to gallop down the halls, no point in trying to sneak anymore. Soon enough she ran into a squad of guard who raised some new type of rifle. Twilight jumped to the side just as they fired some sort of dart where she had been. She galloped down a side hall for all she was worth dodging guard as she found them having no idea where she was going.

Twilight rounded a corner and came skidding to a halt as she saw a door at the end of the hall with a guard beside it and one of the card readers. The guard shouted at her and raised his rifle. Twilight ran forward ignoring the clatter of the guard rifle as he fired at her. She ran straight at the guard and dropped at the last second, sliding across the floor. She put one of her hooved up as she slit between the guard legs and felt it connect and the guard dropped to the floor. Not looking back Twilight stood on her hind legs using the wall for support and swiped the card. There was a pinged the sound of a lock being undone. When she tried the door in opened with ease, right into a surprised guard. Twilight quickly spun and bucked the partly open door as hard as she could and heard as it stuck the guard and the thud as he dropped.

Jumping over the downed guard she found herself in a somewhat large room with a desk on side and two glass doors across from the desk. Her heart beat faster as she saw the outside world beyond the glass. Galloping over she swiped the card again and then pushed the door open. Cool night air washed over her body and filled her lungs as she sprinted through the door. She was in some sort of walled courtyard with a walkway through the middle and grass on both sides and lining the path were small trees, beyond the wall she could see a thick forest. If she could make it to the trees she could lose the guards.

She ran as hard as she could for the gate, her lungs burned her flank ached and she could feel fresh blood seeping from the bandages but she pushed her body. She was so close, she could make!

A massive pain shot through her shoulder and she dropped to the ground. She tried to scramble to her feet but her leg wouldn’t hold her wait and she fell. She looked at her left shoulder and saw a small bloody hole in it. She heard the sound of booted feet running up behind her as more came from the side. A set appeared in front of her and she looked up into the face plate of one of the guards. She watched as he raised his rifle and brought the butt of it down on her head and then there was only darkness.

Twilight slowly woke up again back in her pen, her shoulder was bandaged and she felt something cold around her neck. Reaching up she found some sort of collar had been placed around her neck. “I see you’ve finally woken up.” She heard Dr. Frisk say behind her. Slowly she turned around and saw him standing on the other side of the bars, his arms crossed over his chest. “That was quiet a show you put on, really gave the guards quiet the chase. “He smiled at her; it was the smile of someone who found amusement in something a bug was doing. “You’ll find there won’t be a repeat of tonight again, the collar around your neck is fitting with both a tracking device as well as a shock function. If you leave building it will send enough volts through your body to rending you unconscious. Also. “He pulled out a small device with a button and pressed it. Twilight couldn’t help but scream as electricity shot through her body till he released the button and it stopped. She lay there panting on the ground trying to catch her breath. “Every member of my team, the medical staff and the guards have been given one of these with instructions to use it if you step out of line in any way.” He said. “I trust we won’t have a repeat of tonight.” She just laid there on the floor panting, eyes squeezed shut.

“Also a guard will be in here around the clock to keep an eye on you. And a guard will be bringing you your food from now on. Since Mr. Santana failed to properly secure the door and lost his security badge, a mistake that nearly allowed a high values asset to escape.” Twilight said nothing, what could she say? They had won; her only chance at escape was gone forever. She heard Dr. Frisk footsteps as he departed and the sound of the door shutting behind him. She laid there and did the one thing she could do, she cried.

Author's Notes:

And Twilight's journey begins.

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