Chapter 2
With a start I awoke, looking around I saw that the elevator doors were open, there was a dimly lit hallway that led out of the elevator room and at the end of the hallway was a big white neon sign with the numbers 02 in dark black. Cautiously I walked out of the elevator, shaking the sleep from my head. The hum of the neon lights underneath the glass was slightly calming, like that of the elevator. Under the big black numbers was a row of pictures. Each depicting a way to die and was framed by a black square. The only ones that weren’t lit up were two that stated no water and, oddly enough a slice of cake.

Looking to my left there was another circular door, but this one was different. All around the edge of the door were cracks and fissures that spread out from around the door. Walking up to the door I pressed my hoof onto the smooth surface and expected it to slide open. Instead it just sat there. Frowning I pressed harder on the door, when, with an almighty “CRAAAACK!” the wall, the door, the ceiling, and some of the floor fell away. Raising my arms to cover my head so I wouldn’t get hit by falling debris, I laid there. When the dust had settled I saw that I was on a long strip of floor that was connected to the elevator room behind me. I could still see the neon sign from here. All around me was nothing, just a straight drop down into the black void underneath me. Looking around I saw that there was a thin walkway that led to a rectangular door along the side of the wall behind the walkway that I was already standing on.

The only problem was that there was a gap that separated the two walkways. Grunting as I thought of ways to jump the gap, I saw a flash of yellow and pink fly through the air to my left. “Huh?” I exclaimed looking around there was nothing but the empty void. Then the flash appeared to my right. “Hey hold on!” I yelled at it.” “CLANG!” I looked over to the metal walkway and saw a bright yellow Pegasus with light pink hair and blue eyes. “You do not belong here.” She said softly, staring at me with such hatred that I tentatively took a step back. Then before I could answer her she flew up onto the air and slammed onto the bridge again, it shook slightly under her weight. “H-hey stop that, your gonna make it fall. Then how would I get out?” she repeatedly rose into the air and dropped onto the bridge. With a slight groan it bent down ward suddenly, then screeching like a dying animal she dove as hard as she could onto the bridge.

As it collapsed under her weight I backed up and, with a throaty roar I launched myself at her. With a yelp she shot upwards, but she wasn’t quick enough. Clinging to her hair, I dangled there like a fly on the end of a web. “Let go!” she said quietly looking down at me. “Not unless you tell me who you are. . .and why you broke that bridge!” I yelled, with a sigh she drifted to the door and landed. I let go of her hair, but stayed within reach incase she decided to fly away again.

“My name is Fluttershy.” she said flatly, her eyes boring into mine “I run this facility, as of now you and I are the only ones alive.” looking at her I asked “What happened to the others?” she looked away, I saw her shoulders heave a couple times and when she looked back at me there were tears running down her face. “She killed them.” with a sob she sat down, looking at some distant place beyond me she continued. “Just about 4 years ago, why’ll there were others. We were the one responsible for bringing that. . .that abomination.” she spat the last word out like it was poison.

“Things were fine at first, she would handle making the tests and test chambers, and we would study the test subjects. But as time went on she. . .questioned her existence. She found out that she could control the entire facility by herself.” with her tears gone she looked at me and stood up. “At first we didn’t really worry, she just did little things. But soon, as her powers grew stronger. She would cause “accidents” to those who wanted to disable her.” she trotted over to the door, and as I followed she rested her head against it. “We didn’t know what she was really capable of. We were like cave ponies who found a nuclear warhead. The others started to worry, but I said no. Soon others disappeared.” looking over her shoulder as she opened the door she said “We tried to control her, we put these. . .these cores on her that limited her. But each time we put one on another one was killed.” she smiled slightly, but it was loaded with sadness “we even put this one core on, we even thought it would work. But it had the opposite effect. He told her to flood the facility with neuro toxin, and she did.” and with that she left.

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