Chapter 2
The yellow Pegasus awoke. Shrouded in darkness. The echoing of falling water resonated all around her. A faint sickly, sweet smell wafted into her nose. Climbing to her hooves she meekly called out “Is anyone there?” the darkness gave no answer. Deciding to get out of this scary place, she took a step forward. Suddenly a dim red light began to slowly fill the room. Now being able to see, she saw that her little walk would have been short lived. All around her was a curved glass wall. Under her legs was a small circular grate. She felt something tugging at her stomach. Looking down she saw that some sort of tube was sticking out, and running up to the top of her chamber. As the light grew more of the room was revealed. There must have been four or five other glass chambers, dark objects bobbed up and down inside them. Noticing how wet she was she shivered as the cold air penetrated her fur. Suddenly her vision was suddenly filled with a round orb-like object with a red eye. “Oh, yer awake.” It said with a twang. “Hm, I don’t know why ya woke up but. Here lemme get’cha outta thare.” Moving back, the small orb closed herself eye and, with a shriek. Slammed herself into the glass wall. Glass shattered all around the small Pegasus, cringing she let out a little squeak as a blade of glass cut her cheek.
Moving back and forth, the orb looked like she was losing her balance. Which was an impossibility, because the Pegasus saw that it was moving along a rail. Slowly coming to a stop, the orb looked at her and said “C’mon we gotta get movin, else the boss will find us.” The Pegasus motioned to her stomach, where the tube was still protruding. “Oh.” Was all the little orb said. Several seconds past before she said anything else.
“How far can ya move?” she leaned forward and even that was straining it. Little streams of red flowed from around the tube. “Ok, lemme see what I can do.” With that she left. Several minutes passed when, a slight pop could be felt from within the Pegasus’s gut. Her stomach started to burn, it wasn’t bad at first but then it slowly rose to a white searing pain. Suddenly the tube fell away. Looking down she could see where the tube was attached.
A small bald spot and a dark red scar that ran across her bare skin, the only indication of it ever being there. “Did it work?” came a familiar voice. “yes.” She said quietly, giving a little flutter of her wings. “Arite, jus’sit still, I want to see what yer number is.” As she leaned in, the Pegasus’s mind wandered. She tried to remember how she got here, actually she tried to remember who she was.
Suddenly her train of thought was broken by the orb shouting “Fifty eight!” she declaird turning around the orb was looking at her and repeated “Yer number fifty eight.” Fifty eight, the yellow Pegasus looked at her flank, and plastered there was 58. “Fifty eight.” She rolled the word in her mouth, trying it out.The orb moved up to her face, “Hey I fergot to ask ya, whats yer name?” the Pegasus met her red eye. “I don’t know. . .” the Pegasus admitted. Then an idea burst into her mind. “Actually, I do know.” She said, the orb looked a little confused. “What?” “My name is fifty eight.”
“But I thought that you said you don’t know what yer name is?” she asked. “Wll.” She said “Its tattooed on my flank, so it must be my name.” it made sense to her. “Hey.” She said looking up “What’s your name, if, if that’s alright for me to ask that is.” the red orb concentrated for a moment. “Erm. . .I aint supposed to.” She looked away “O-oh ok I see.” She lowered her head and flattened her ears. “Buuuut.” She giggled “ Rules er’ ment to be broken.” At that 58 looked up “My name is Apple Bloom, did it hurt when I pulled yer bilical cord out?” “N-not really.” said 58. “Ok, now we gotta get outta here.” 58 looked gave a nervous nod. “Do you know somepony ?” she asked as she shakily climbed down from the tube. “Ya! Er well actually more like two ponys.” Apple Bloom shook her head. “But I’ll tell you later, I know where they’r at.” 58 walked up to one of the tubes, Apple Bloom felt a little apprehensive to let her look, but 58 hasn’t seen her reflection yet so she couldn’t possibly. . . “W-who is that?” 58 asked. Nodding towards her clone sister. “Er, its just somepony else.” Apple Bloom didn’t want to tell her that it was her inside of there. “Ok. . . So where are we going to go?” asked 58 “Hm?” Apple Bloom was suddenly broken from her train of thought. “Oh um. Its this way.” Apple Bloom turned and seemed to float out the doorway. “W-wait for me!” 58 called as she trotted out of the room.

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