//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: New Life // Story: Who I Am // by Slingshot619 //------------------------------// As I sped off, I couldn't help but take one more glance back at the lab that once kept me, I wasn't sure where I was going though. In a matter of seconds, I had landed on a cloud overlooking a small town. I watched it's inhabitants roam freely as I watched them with intent. They went on with their daily lives, unaware of the danger they were in. I heard a voice in my head, a sinister cold voice. Hello "Um, hello?" I'm your killer instincts! I'm hear to help you make decisions! "WHAT?" Your first decision is to KILL "What the fuck? Why are you here?" You see, you were made to kill. And so they put me here! To make sure you killed whether you wanted to or not. I tried to gather my composure while I heard the voice give out a sinister laugh. Why would I want to kill them? I came here to start a new life, not murder everything I saw. "BOO!" I jumped and almost fell of the cloud, I turned back to see a beautiful cyan blue mare, she had a rainbow mane accompanied by a rainbow tail. I was breathing quite heavily from my shock. "THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" The rainbow pony stopped laughing and a sad look replaced her smile. I calmed myself down and apologized. The smile instantly returned. "I haven't seen you around before. Are you new here?" "I guess." "By the way, what's your name?" I thought about it, what was my name? I didn't know myself. I tried to remember the stupid codename they gave me back at the lab. "Slingshot." "So you need a place to stay?" I thought about it first. The cyan blue pony continued staring at me with her rose red eyes. I needed time to think. Do it! Say yes! It'll be easier to kill them all that way! "Shut up!" The cyan blue pony looked at me and raised an eyebrow. "Sorry, just kind of tired you know. By the way what's your name?" "Rainbow Dash. The name's Rainbow Dash." "Thanks for trying to help Rainbow Dash, but I don't need a place to stay." I hopped off the cloud and walked away. I didn't look back as I walk down the crowded streets. Why didn't you say yes? "Because i'm not a psychopath." I'll show you what happens when you disobey me. "What- AHHHHH!" I felt immense pain in my head. The voice continued mumbling malicious thoughts. I let out a blood curdling shriek. All the ponies stopped and stared at me. A grey pony with a blond mane approached me, her eyes were derped, I still had that stupid headache. "Sir?" The grey pony asked "BACK OFF!" I snarled She did, and so did everypony else. I got up and ran for my life. I ended up in the forest. I tried to get rid of the voice, but the bastard came back. Did you enjoy my gift? "What did you do?" I have access to 80% of your mind. You have only 20%. I could do a lot of damage if I wanted to. "What do you want?" You know what you want. Go back there and kill everybody. "NO!" You asked for it. Once again the immense throbbing pain came back and I found my self rolling on the ground, my hooves bashing at my head. "I GIVE! I GIVE!" The voice uttered a slight chuckle. It stopped the pain and allowed me to go back to the town. I walked back and explored the town. Along the way, a pink pony spotted me, she leaped in the air gave out a gasp, then dashed off. I continued walking, everypony was staring at me as if I was some sort of monster. I probably was by then. I walked down the streets and found a bakery. It was called "Sugarcube Corner". Dammit monster or not I needed to eat. I stepped in and was greeted by colorful streamers, confetti and various other party things. Argh! I thought I told you to kill! Not party! I shrugged and ate a cupcake, the pink pony that I saw on the road hopped out of nowhere. "Hi my name is Pinkie Pie! You must be new here because i've never seen your face until just now and so I set up a party just for you! By the way, what's your name?" "Slingshot." "Okey Dokey Lokey! Have fun!" Pinkie left me alone as I continued munching on my muffin. Five ponies emerged from the crowd, one of which was Rainbow Dash. The others were complete strangers to me. "Hey there!" Rainbow Dash said "Rainbow, you know this charming colt?" The white unicorn asked "Um, we met just now." I watched as the ponies chatted , finally after about an hour of chat, they introduced themselves. The lavender unicorn was called Twilight Sparkle, the white unicorn was called Rarity, the yellow pegasus was Fluttershy, the orange earth pony was called Applejack. "What's your name?" Twilight asked "Slingshot." Your supposed to be killing them dammit! Do I have to do things myself? I excused myself and left before my instincts could nag at me any longer. Get back in there! "NO! I mean, there's too much ponies around, i'll have to wait 'till nightfall." Ah, smart. I like that. I walked back to the outskirts of the town, trying to reason with the stupid psycho. "I can't just kill them for no reason!" Yes you can. No one's stopping you. "But, I mean, they've never really done anything wrong have they?" So? "How's about this. We'll compromise. If anypony offends you in anyway at all. I'll murder them. Deal?" Fine I breathed a sigh of relief. At least I wasn't going to kill that much now. But I was still going to end up killing them one way or another. I calmed my killer instincts down and headed back into the city to make new friends. I went to the library first. Inside I found Twilight Sparkle studying. She looked up and raised an eyebrow, puzzled that I had come. "You stay in the library?" "Yup. Where are you staying?" "Nowhere." Twilight looked at me with a confused look on her face. "Okay, time to go." I thanked her and was about to leave, but Twilight stopped me before I could. "Are you doing anything tomorrow?" "No, why?" "Well, I think me and my friends should get to know you better, so meet us here at the library afternoon." That didn't sound like much of an invite. It sounded more like a request. I thanked her again and flew off, looking for a place to stay.