"Ugh, w-where am I?”

To what I could gather when I woke, I was in a forest. This was odd even for me, cause if I remember from what I read all plant life was destroyed during the war years ago. So why are there plant life here? Normally I would wonder where I am, but due to the splitting headache I have at the moment I'll have to wait till I recover a bit.

“What the hell happen? I remember that I was falling to my death." I said while rubbing my head. "Everything went dark and then..." I stopped to wonder why my felt weird, to my surprise I didn't have any feet only stubs. "W-WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY FEET?!” I screamed, wondering if someone painted my skin dark gray, cut off my feet, and left me for dead, or if someone was pull a sick joke on me.

I'm starting to wish that it was a joke, that or it was just a dream I was have when I fell off that cliff. Because when I was crawling towards a running stream of water to get a good look at myself my face went pale. "I...I'm a....pony?" I said while still looking at myself in the streams reflection. "How the fuck am I a pony? An anthropormorphic pony with bat like features.......Yeah this has to be a dream." I said while trying to walk with both legs or hooves….or whatever the hell you call them now

"Ok Adelle get yourself together, you probably just hit your head on something? Or better yet, you just fell into some kind of forgotten simulator room that people up top forgot and left to rust?” I then began to pinch myself to see if I was dreaming. "Okay I'm wrong, this isn't a dream. And seeing how if it was a simulator then it would’ve turned itself off when I died..........OH FUCK I'M STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF A GOD FORSAKEN FOREST IN THE BODY OF A BAT LIKE PONY HYBRID!" I scream which cause some of the wild life around me to scatter off.

After a few minutes of freaking out, and trying to knock my head into a tree to see if I still wasn’t dreaming. I calmed downed a bit and stood near the stream looking at my...well I guess my new body. “Okay I still have my P.R.P and my clothing, but am I able to walk with nothing but stubs that’s another question?" I started to lift myself up by using the tree next to the stream to help for support. "Ok I can still walk that's a good thing I guess? Now let's see if I can use my gear?”

Looking around I can see my weapons next to the tree where I was when I woke up. I grabbed them but not before I tested them on the tree next to me. So far they seem to be working right, but something seemed a little off when using them. I guess it’s because of my new body or something. "Well at least I know it still works even with this pony body I have. Now let’s see what I have in my inventory." I open up m P.R.P’s inventory to see if all my stuff was still in tact.

Inventory list:

999x First Aid Kit
500x AMMO Pack
200x Will’O Pack
Thruster board HS
250x Painkillers
300x Adrenaline
50x Frag Grenade
100x Bouncing Grenade
400x Sticky Grenade
100x Flash Grenade
300x Anti-Personnel Mines
200x Anti-Abductor Mines
Flare Knife
800x Cheeseburger
500x Fruit Punch

“Okay that covers my food and item supplies, now let’s check on my weapons.” With a press of a button, I open up my loadout screen to have look at my gear.

Weapon 1:
Aftershadow - Gale Force
Lv. 5
Power: 864
Attack Type: Cutting
Rarity: 4
Impact Damage (%): -

Critical Chance (%): 1.0
Critical Multiplier: 2.5
Chance of Absorbing Health (%): -
Health Absorbed (%): -

Fire: Frost: Electro: Will’O
9 15 40 0

Weapon 2:
EZ Katze Kralle I
Lv. 5
Power: 822
Attack Type: Projectile
Rarity: 6
Impact Damage: -

Firing Mechanism: Full Auto
Clip Size: 120
Max. Round Carryable: 960
Effective Range (m): 22

Fire: Ice: Electro: Will’O:
0 0 31 2

“Okay I have everything that I needed. Now then let's see it I can find a town or city that can tell me where I am?" Just as I was about to look around, I heard a blood curling scream from over the bushes to the left of me. With not a second to lose I ran towards where the screaming was, only to see that there was a blue pony with a horn on her head wearing a mage like outfit. And in front of her was some kind of animal that looked like a mix between a lion and a bird wearing a black shirt with a skull on it, a blue jean skirt, and black fishnet stockings.

“Man mother nature really screwed up that creature in front of that pony. If I was born looking like that I would walk towards the nearest living thing and kill it. But then again I have killed abductors that were uglier than it.” I chuckled a bit, thinking about how a lion and a bird can have sex with each other. Before I started to lose track of what was going on, I was called back to reality to a loud roar that almost sounded like a roar from an abductor. Looking over to my right, I saw the monster with head of a lion, wings of a bat, and scorpion tail.

"I don't know what the hell that thing is, but something tells me that whatever that it is it's trying to eat that pony and lion bird thing." I started to walk backward a little, took a running start as I appeared out of the bushes, and swung my sword at the monster left eye causing it to reel back in pain. I turned my head slightly back to see if the pony and loin bird thing were ok. "Hey are you two ok?" I asked, but they didn’t say anything. They just stared at me with shocked expressions on their faces. I couldn't blame them, seeing how I just send that monster thing flying backward. That and I just appeared out of nowhere.

I turned my attention at the monster, who was pulling itself back up from the sudden sneak attack I did. The beast roared as it begun to charge at me. As the monster charged at me, I reached into my inventory and pulled out a flash grenade. “You two might want to cover your eyes for a second.” I said as the pony and lion bird thing covered their eyes as I threw the flash grenade at the beast. The monster stopped in it’s tracks as I used my binding thorn to bind the monster from moving.

While the thorns did their work, I switched to my EZ Katze Kralle I and fired upon its front legs. As the monster kneeled down face first onto the ground, I pulled out a sticky grenade and threw it at it’s head. In a matter of seconds the grenade exploded as bits and pieces of the monster’s head scattered around the area….including me. “Ugh, gross! What was I thinking when I did that? I should’ve moved away before blowing that thing’s head off.” Brushing off some of the blood and small piece of monster out of my hair, I then turned my attention back at the two creatures behind me.

“Hey, are you okay?”

“Y-Yeah, we’re fine.”

“The great and powerful Trixie didn’t need your help...But she is fine, thanks for asking.” Trixie said as she looked at me up and down.

"How the hay were you able to take down that manticore? So far I have never seen a pony let alone a unicorn take it out like it was just a fly!"

"Yes Trixie is also wondering? How were you able to take on a manticore without so much as drop a sweat? You will answer Trixie's question at once!" Trixie demanded as she slammed her hoof onto the ground.

“Normally it would be against the rules to tell someone from a different Panopticon, not to mention that I would have 100 years added to my sentence. But seeing how I’m not back at home, so I might as well tell them who I am.”

Before I could answer my stomach started to growl, causing my face to turn red in embarrassment. “I’ll tell you after I get something to eat.” I looked over at the remains of that manticore I killed. "Hey think that I can eat that dead monster over there? I forgot that I haven't eaten anything in quite some time and I never tried anything like this.” This took them both by surprise, mostly Trixie giving me a ‘You eat meat that just sick’ kinda look.

“You eat meat?!”

“Well yeah, just been a while since I’ve eaten it back where I’m from. Why’d you ask?” I said answering Trixie’s question.

"B-but your a bat pony right? Bat ponies don't eat meat, granted they do drink blood when needed but they still have the same anatomy as a normal. The only species that I know that eat meat are griffons like her and dragons." She said while pointing a finger towards the griffin girl.

"Oh so that what she is? Good thing I didn't ask her what she is, other why she might end up killing me." I thought as I shivered a bit at the thought of her killing me.

"This "griffin" has a name you know?" She said with a pissed off look on her face. "The name's Gilda by the way kid." She said as she extending her claw like hand out towards me for to shack

"Normally Trixie doesn’t give out her name to anypony....But seeing how you saved me and all, my name is." Trixie’s horn started to glow as she jumped back. "The Great and Powerful TRIXIE!" Fireworks and sparklers shot out from behind her like she was some kind of celebrity or something.

"Right......Anyway my name is Adelle Topaz, former sinner of Panopticon in New York.” I replied while shaking Gilda's claw hand.

I starting a fire and placed the manticore meat on a rock to cook. It was kinda nice actually, sitting there next to an open fire not having to worry about getting attack by someone from On High, an Abductor, or having Natalia lecture me. It would have been nice if my friends were still alive and here with me, but I guess having a unicorn and a griffon will have to do as company I guess? Anyway as the three of us were sitting there in front of the fire I began to tell them who I am, what I did for a living, the war with the people from On High, and how I ended up here in this place.

"So your a thing called a hue-men from a planet called earth?” Gilda asked as she flipped the manticore meat.

“And you used to be a sinner that served her sentence for her Panopticon?” Trixie said as she began to eat her salad she made from the surrounding wildlife.

“It’s pronounced human Gilda, and yes for your question Trixie. Back on earth I was pretty much sentence to 1,000,000 years for a crime of killing a man for trying to have his way with me.”

“Geez, and I thought the Griffonstone’s law were harsh.”

“Suckish part about it is that your freedom is kinda limited when you start out as a sinner. As you start out as a sinner, your rights are taken away and you have to earn them by contributing to your Panopticon. Mainly you have to undertake operations and stuff to progress from level one sinner to level 8.”

“Trixie hates to live where you come from, Trixie is wondering something”

“How I took down that manticore?” I said as Trixie nodded. Taking a bite out of the manticore meat and swallowing it, I begun to answer her question. "Well back on earth the manticore kinda reminded me of an Ramosa. They’re kinda easy to take down if you know what you’re doing. Plus I been doing this for the past few years so yeah.”

"You know kid you’re one really odd pony that I normally don't see that much of."

"How come?" I asked.

"Because your eating meat, nopony that I know of besides Rainbow Dash eats meat without having stomach problems. Hell, bat ponies don’t even eat meat last time I check."

"Yes Trixie must agree with Gilda on that, why is it that you’re not sick from eating meat?"

“Well humans are omnivores so that pretty much means we eat both meat, certain plants, and fruits." After saying that, both Trixie and Gilda got a little bit nervous at me saying that humans eat meat. "But don't worry I don't eat ponies, griffins, or any sentient being of any kind."

"Nice save Adelle." I thought to myself, would of been bad if I just left it like that and they start running away. "But enough about me, what about you two? Why were you both out here in the middle of the forest, and almost becoming that manticore's lunch?” They both look at each other as if they didn't want to talk about the event that happened a few hours ago, but with a sigh I heard coming from Trixie and Gilda they explained what happened.

From what Trixie told me, she was running away from ponyville after something called a ursa minor attack the town and was humiliated by some purple pony named Twilight Sparkle. "I'm hoping that this Twilight pony doesn't have the book twilight, or some kind of book that similar to that." I thought. With Gilda’s story she told me about how this pink pony named Pinkie Pie was pulling pranks on her, and took her friend Rainbow Dash away from her. Judging by how she put it I just guess it was one of those ‘long time no see’ friend that just wanted to hang out with her old friend’ kinda deal.

"That explains the running into the forest bit, but what about the manticore thing? That doesn't really give me a lot to go on you know?" I said taking another bite out of the cooked manticore meat.

"Trixie was getting to that. Anyway as I was running off into the everfree forest after my humiliated defeat by that cursed Twilight Sparkle. When all of a sudden I ran into Gilda, who was at first about to kill on sight. In my frighten state, I shot a beam a magic at her face in self defence but....."

"It missed and ended up hitting a sleeping manticore that was sleeping behind a shade of bushes." Gilda said picking up from where Trixie had stopped.

"So here's my question again. You’re a unicorn and you’re a griffin right?" They both nodded. "So why didn't you teleport the hell out of there and you fly the fuck out of there?"

“Well...you see...Trixie was about to escape, but she couldn’t because… she was drained of her magic after what happen in Ponyville. That and running away on hoof can tire a mare out.”

“I would’ve flown away….but fear pretty much go the best of me in this case.”

I started to laugh a bit after listening to what had happened to them, but then started to settle down a bit and whipped away the teardrops from my eyes. "So it seems that we all have no place to go back to then huh?" Gilda and Trixie agreed with me on that one. From what Trixie told me her home got destroyed by that giant cosmic bear, and Gilda couldn't go home mostly because of parent trouble. "Well then how about the three of us become friends then?"

They both looked at me with questionable looks to their faces saying ‘The fuck are you talking about?’ "Look hear me out for a second. We pretty much have little to no food or money at the moment right?” They both nodded to my question. “Not to mention that we don’t have a place to go home to right? So why not become friends to help each other out in this situation we’re in?”

“Hm, Trixie will agree with you on that. She doesn’t normally be friends with anypony, but seeing how you saved her from a gory fate I will be your friend for the time being.”

“I guess I’ll be your friend too only because you saved my tail. Plus I’ll be able to rub it in Rainbow Dash’s face when I tell her I have a much cooler and awesomer friend the she is.”

“Okay, then it’s offical. We’re friends, now the first order of business is figuring out how to get money.”

“Trixie doubts we could get jobs to get money. Especially after what happen in Ponyville for me.”
It was then I noticed Gilda walk over to a wooden sign that was at a fork in the dirt road. Looking back at me, she then pulled out a few flyers.

“Adelle right? Can I ask you something?”

“What’s up?”

“How good are you as a fighter? Because…” She then set the flyers down and when Trixie and I looked at them, we were surprised to see that they weren’t flyers, but wanted posters. “If you were able to take down a Manticore, I think being able to capture a few of these punks would be a good way to get some easy bits.”

“Let me see those wanted posters for a second?” I asked as Gilda handed them to me. “Okay let’s see here.” I begun to skim through the less important ones and notice a picture of dragon. When I looked at how much he was worth, my eyes widen. “Looks like I found our bounty.” I said as I showed them the picture. “One million bits for this sucker, dead or alive.”

Trixie herself stared wide eyed. “Oh my…… me.”

“Don’t you mean goddess?”

“You worship your thing. Trixie worships hers!”

“Ladies, focus please? With this much money we can get the stuff that we need to get on the road. Not to mention we can get you a new wagon Trixie, and you... whatever it is that you need Gilda.”

“Not to sound like a downer, but how can you take down a dragon like that? The ponies that I know that can do that are Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.”

“If the dragons are anything like the Dionaea’s back home, then I’m sure I can handle take them down.” I said as I pulled my gun. “Plus if you haven’t notice, I’m like weapon factory so this pretty works in my favor.”

"Trixie is wondering, what is your plan to win a fight with the dragon?"

"I'm gonna shoot it in the heart or head with with my gun, simple right?” I smile at them both telling them my ingenious plan. A moment of silence that lasted for a few seconds until both Gilda and Trixie started to laugh.

"T-Trixie have heard of many plans before b-but this, this is just a plan is s-stupid."

"Kid that something Rainbow dash would think of."

"Oh screw you guys. I think it a well thought out plan that will work."

"Okay Adelle, then let see this plan of yours work out tomorrow. I'll take you to the cave where the dragon lives, and if the plan actually works then I'll wear a maids outfit. But if your plan fails then you'll have to fork over those weapons of yours and tell me how it works, deal?" Gilda spat into her claw and extended towards me.

"Okay then, you got yourself a deal Gilda." I said while spitting into my hand and shook her claw in agreement.

"Trixie believes this will not turn out well, but then again nothing really does doesn’t it?"