I woke up, feeling sore and tired. I was in a cell, it was just large enough for me to move in a circle, the walls were pure steel while the door was glass. I looked at my reflection from the glass door, I had blue fur and a white mane. I had some sort of arrow on my flank, my body was sleek and slim, i had wings on my sides to top that. I stopped to look at it, I suddenly noticed the other ponies. They were in cells similar to mine, in the middle of our rectangle of cells was an arena. I saw some limbs and guts, there was blood too, I looked at the arena pale with fear.
I looked across and stared at the pony across me. She had jet black fur with a long flowing purple mane. She was beautiful, except for the fact that she had glowing purple eyes. I stared at her wondering what was wrong with her, all of a sudden a television screen turned on and this was what was on it.
"Subject 620: Codename Darkside prepare to engage."
Her cell door opened and she trotted out. Out of nowhere, robotic ponies popped out, one of them was a simple silver earth pony, the other was a pegasus pony that had chainsaws for wings. The robotic unicorn had a drill for a horn. The robot unicorn charged her, I prepared myself for blood and guts, but at the last minute, she raised her hoof and put it on the unicorn's head. The robot soon began melting, dissolving into a puddle of darkness. A female voice was heard from the arena.
"Test complete. Subject pass. Enemy status: Offline."
The mare tried to melt the walls, but restraints were shot at her, encasing her in electricity. She screamed in pain before a couple of ponies in radioactive suits came in and carried her back into her cell. The television flashed again,.
"Subject 621: Codename Kamikaze prepare to engage."
A pony that had white and red fur came out. He was laughing like a maniac. He set his sights on the pegasus robot and his hooves glowed with yellow energy. He charged towards the robot and in the blink of an eye, the robot exploded. Kamikaze was laughing insanely and twitched every now and then.
"Test complete. Subject pass. Enemy status: Obliterated."
I watched as ribbons of light wrapped Kamikaze and electrocuted him. Kamikaze was knocked out cold when the same ponies lifted him back into the cell.
"Subject 622: Codename Firestarter prepare to engage."
A pony with actual fire for a mane burst out. He looked scared and nervous. There was only the robot earth pony left. Firestarter saw it and he dashed toward my cell glass and knocked on it with his hooves urgently. I backed up towards the wall as he continued knocking and banging.
"LET ME IN! LET ME IN! PLEASE! PLEASE! LET ME-"
Before Firestarter could finish, the robot earth pony had punched a hole through his chest. Firestarter stared at the bits and pieces of his heart and lungs before collapsing, I was still staring at Firestarter's body with fear and disbelief. The robot seemed to grin at me. I was sweating by now, i looked at the psycho robot and panicked. Eventually the lady's voice was heard.
"Test complete. Subject fail. Enemy status: Online."
I stared at the arena as the television blazed to life.
"Subject 623: Codename Juggernaut prepare to engage."
A new pony came out. He seemed to be the exact opposite of me. He had red fur, and a black mane. I had blue fur and a white mane. He stared at me and grinned. He seemed to know me, and he knew that I knew him. But i didn't know him, though I couldn't help but feel related to him. But before I could respond the robot charged at him. He simply kicked it and the robot was reduced to nothing but a pile of scrap, a flat sheet of metal.
Wow. He's pretty strong.
I watched him trot back into his cell.
"Test complete. Subject pass. Enemy status: Destroyed."
I was breathing heavily by now. My heartbeat was off the charts, I was sweating so much that I could've flooded the cell.
"Subject 624: Codename Breakdown prepare to engage."
I stared as a pony with black fur and snow white mane came out. He seemed to be radiating malice. He had an annoyed look on his face.
Looks like somepony had a bad day.
I watched as his arms turned into blades. I gawked at what I saw. A new robot earth pony was up and running. It charged and got itself sliced up by Breakdown. Breakdown wanted more. He continued slicing the robot carcass until it was nothing but a million little metal cubes.
"Test complete. Subject pass. Enemy status: Terminated."
I couldn't help but feel pathetic and worthless. I didn't have any powers. I felt sorry for myself, I was going to die. The television lit up again.
"Subject 625: Codename Knuckledragger prepare to engage."
A vaguely pony like creature roared and stomped out. It was nothing but a skeleton covered by a huge mass of rotting skin and raw muscle. It had claws each the size of a leg. This thing was huge. It would take 4 of my cells to make a cell that can fit him.
It charged towards the robot pony and sliced it into three clean pieces. It tried to eat the metal, but he ended up coughing it back up. It turned it's attention towards me and bashed the glass.
Great. Now it's gonna eat me.
I backed up into a corner as the creature continued bashing the glass, the glass was starting to give, cracks were appearing left and right but it couldn't seem to break it. Eventually it got sedated and was dragged back to where it came from. I breathed a sigh of relief.
I relaxed and saw the television screen light up.
"Subject 626: Codename Slingshot prepare to engage."
I laughed at the poor fool. He was going to face a robotic chainsaw pegasus. I immediately stopped laughing when I saw my glass door open.
"Fuck me."