Mare-Do-Well: Moongate Asylum

by SirPotato


Savage

The Mare-Do-Well character is based off the character from the fanfic ‘Waking Nightmares’, written by KnightMysterio. Moonbow Peek is an OC made by nightelf37. Mitta is an OC in a fan game by Donitz. If you really don’t care about this, then continue on. If you are not a brony, then leave this page immediately and forget you ever looked at it. Otherwise, continue!


Mare-Do-Well: Moongate Asylum
Savage


Beast used to be a scientific experiment that went wrong. He was given experimental chemicals that acted as extreme steroids. They mutated his body chemistry and completely changed his physical appearance. While he still acted like a pony, he had horrible claws sticking out of his hooves, sharp, pointed teeth and he had become both a carnivore and a cannibal. He was one of the eight assassins that once tried to kill Mitta due to a bounty on her head. The last time Mitta saw him, he had destroyed half of Ponyville and was at the peak of physical strength.

Now though, he was just a thin, frail-looking brown earth pony strapped to the ceiling by the use of some device with tubes. The tubes in question where pumping out a red liquid which Mitta assumed was Beast’s blood.

“I thought he broke out of Alcatrot!” Twilight exclaimed, alarmed.

“Cut… me… free…” Beast begged. It was disturbing to see him beg like this.

“Who did this to you?” Mitta whispered.

Beast’s eyes flashed with anger. “Dr Heart… the witch… drained the Snarler from my blood… must… stop her…”

The computer screen next to them switched from a black screen to Atmosphere’s face, which was smirking. “Sorry, Beast. The good doctor won’t be a problem for much longer.”

“YOU!” Beast roared. “You’re the one… who got me into this… get me out of it!”

Dr Atmosphere chuckled darkly. Holding up his wing, he revealed what looked like a detonator. Leaning in, he said, “If you insist.”

He pressed the button.

Immediately, the red liquid changed green as a new compound flooded down to Beast. He started to scream in pain as the stuff changed him. His muscles bulged and grew larger and larger and larger. His teeth started to sharpen and claws burst out of his hooves.

Usually it would stop right there. But in this case, Beast kept growing.

Realising what was going to happen, Mitta turned to Twilight and said, “Twilight! Run!”

Twilight complied as Beast finally grew as large as he was going to get. The tubes suspending him from the ceiling snapped as Beast hit the ground, creating a cloud of red smoke.

Mitta glared at the smoke, ready for Beast to come charging out.

A different Beast charged out though. The Beast she remembered still walked like a pony and had smaller claws and teeth… but this monstrosity was different. His claws were longer and sharper and his teeth resembled a dragon’s teeth. Added to that, he was like the monster that broke Mitta’s wing. He stood upright and his muscles were HUGE, bigger than they were when they first met.

Reaching her, Beast raised his fist and tried to punch her. She nimbly dodged the hit and punched him in the face.

Not the slightest reaction, except to pick her up and throw her through the wall.

She smashed right through it, hurting her damaged wing even more. She hit the ground, barely noticing Beast walk through the wall he smashed through and chuckle darkly.

“Have fun.” Atmosphere taunted.

Mitta stood up. Beast was probably liking his chances right now. And honestly, she couldn’t blame him for that right now.

The first thing he did was charge at Mitta. She dodged aside, realising the moment she stopped momentum that she could’ve blinded him with a thrower. Beast charged again, but got hit by a thrower, blinding him. Mitta barely got out of the way in time.

Beast smashed into the wall, stumbling around dazedly. To Mitta’s surprise and annoyance, he recovered very quickly. He glared at her, turned and (to Mitta’s shock) ripped part of the wall out. He turned around, grinning, and threw it at her. She dodged the projectile and it smashed against the wall.

“You will not escape me again!” Beast snarled. With a war cry, he charged again. Mitta threw another thrower and dodged out of the way as Beast crashed into the wall. This time it did the trick, as Beast clutched his head and swung blindly. Mitta rushed up, punched him once, twice, and then jumped onto his back. He tried to grab her, but Mitta just ripped a tube from the contraption out, then jumped off.

Furious, Beast brought his fist up. Mitta quickly jumped off the ground as Beast slammed his fist down, making the ground shake.

“Is that the best you can do, Beast?” Atmosphere asked, sounding bored. “That’s a shame. Now I have to send my stallions down there.”

On that, several inmates jumped down from the railing. Dodging a piece of the wall thrown from Beast, Mitta started to attack the thugs. Now having to juggle between attacking the thugs and Beast, Mitta decided to attack the thugs first, then move on to Beast.

She knocked down two, countered a buck from the next one, then dodged a charge from Beast. He hit one of the thugs that was starting to get up. He went flying, hit the wall, then fell back down, unconscious.

She grabbed another convict, knocked him to the ground and broke his leg. She turned to the next one, countered his punch and knocked him out as well.

As Beast charged again, she stunned him, rolled out of the way and watched him crash into the wall. He recovered quickly, ripped out part of a support column, and threw it at her. She dodged aside, but realised that Beast had used that as a distraction so that she wouldn’t notice his charge.

She threw another thrower and dodged aside, letting him crash again. She punched him twice and ripped out another tube. She then had to leap off the ground to avoid his shockwave attack.

“Need more help, Beast?” Atmosphere asked. “Very well then. Get down there!”

On that, another seven stallions jumped down. Sighing, Mitta threw a thrower at one, and bucked another. As she was fighting, Beast ripped out another piece of the wall and threw it at her. She dodged and it hit three henchponies.

Mitta winced as they hit the ground. She sincerely hoped that they would survive. It didn’t look like a particually big section of the wall.

She ran over to one and punched his face. Another tried to catch her unawares, but she flipped him over and broke his foreleg. Beast charged at her again, but only hit another convict, knocking him out.

The last two thugs charged at her as one and tried to hit her at the same time. Mitta counted this by ducking down, picking one up and throwing him at the other. They both went down.

Beast charged again, got hit by a thrower and hit the wall. Snarling with fury, he ripped out another section of the wall and threw it at her, but she dodged again.

“Stand down Beast. Now!” Mitta snapped.

“No.” Beast growled. “Not until you’re dead.” With a yell, he charged again.

It ended the same way and Beast hit the wall. Mitta charged in, dodging his blind punch. She hit him two times, jumped on his back and ripped out another tube. She ran off and jumped as Beast slammed his hoof down onto the ground, causing another shockwave.

By this time, the room seemed to have had enough. Debris started to fall down from the ceiling and onto Beast. Mitta stumbled, looking around. Noticing an exit, she grappled up to it.

After crawling around in some things that weren’t exactly wanted, Mitta climbed out of a stallionhole. Wincing from the pain of the battle, she massaged her shoulder. Already knowing what was going to happen soon, she brought up her command panel and typed up some commands.

She felt a hoof on her shoulder. “Mitta! Are you alright?”

Mitta turned. “I’m fine Twi. Where’s Pinkamena?”

“Gone.” Twilight grumbled. “Must’ve gotten loose while Beast was throwing you around.”

Mitta looked at Twilight in concern. “We need to get you off the island.”

Slightly annoyed by this, Twilight said, “I’m not a rookie. I can handle myself.”

And then the wall next to them exploded.

Hit by some bricks, Mitta flew backwards and hit the ground. She winced, then felt herself get lifted into the air by something with claws.

“I will break you Mare-Do-Well!” Beast roared. “And then the witch!”

“No, Beast.” Mitta growled. “This time, I break you!”

It was it this point that Beast noticed some bright lights coming his way. He turned…

…and saw a silver-white star-shaped aircraft coming his way.

Seeing an opportunity, Mitta kicked away from Beast, getting her out of his grasp. Distracted, he didn’t move as the star-thing smashed into him. With Beast on its hood, the star flew into the water surrounding the island.


“You need to get back to the mainland.” Mitta said once she and Twilight had reached the docks. “It’s too dangerous here.”

“I don’t like leaving you here.” Twilight frowned, clearly wanting to help. “I don’t want to leave Pinkie and Fluttershy here too.”

“Fluttershy’s safe and I’ll rescue Pinkie.” Mitta responded. “The radio claims that Atmosphere’s planted bombs around Equestria. Equestria will panic. You’re needed there.”

Twilight didn’t like it, but she knew Mitta was right. As she prepared to fly off, she asked Mitta, “The condition Beast was in… it wasn’t like it was when he destroyed Ponyville… what happened?”

“I don’t know.” Mitta admitted. “But I’m going to find out.”

Twilight nodded, having full confidence in her, and flew off.

Once Twilight was gone, Mitta activated her radio. “Moonbow, go through the city’s computers. Pull up anything that references Dr Heart. I’ll go through it all when I get to the Mare-Cave.”

“Ok.” Moonbow sounded amused. “You should hear Silver Star right now. He’s demanding that you build him a new flight vehicle.”

Mitta smirked. She had a good reason to use Star’s vehicle. Due to his refusal to reveal his real identity and Mitta’s failure to find out, she didn’t trust him and the two usually came to blows. To her, sinking Star’s Shooting Star was payback for a recent insult.

“Tell him I’ll get to work on it as soon as possible.”

“Got it. So do you think that Dr Heart’s been experimenting with Snarler, the same chemical that turned Beast into that animal?”

“Yes. I’m worried. Beast seemed somehow stronger than usual. Atmosphere appears to want the Snarler and that can only be trouble.”

“Hmm…” Moonbow sounded worried. “You sure you’ll be okay?”

Mitta chuckled. “It’s me, remember?”

Mitta walked along. There weren't any thugs at the moment, which was quite odd, so she continued, walking to Moongate South. As she walked, Moonbow asked, "So what's the deal with Dead Pony's Point? It's been a favourite suicide location on Moongate Island for over 100 years."

"Yeah, I know." Mitta replied. "I once saved an unfortunate inmate from jumping off into the rocks below. I found a cave entrance and over they years have moved a number of supplies here. It's a regular home away from home."

Mitta came to a wall which she quickly grappled over. This lead to a path which lead to a cave which, in turn, lead to Dead Pony's point. Mitta walked through the cave, grappling over ledges and opening up a metal door. This lead to a room which had a small pile of pony skulls in the middle. Ignoring them, Mitta climbed up a ledge and came out to an outlook.

At this point, Mitta knew that she had to be careful, since she couldn't fly at the moment. Spreading out her cape, she jumped down and glided over the sea. She quickly turned and landed on another outlook, which seemed to lead to a bare wall. As she stood in front of it though, an unseen scanner scanned her from top to bottom. Once it was finished, the wall slid down as a female voice said, "Identity confirmed. Disabling countermeasures. Security deactivated."

Mitta walked along a tunnel, which lead to a steel walkway upon which a waterfall was crashing down. Mitta went through the waterfall and over to the end of the walkway, at which point she said, "On."

The entire cave lit up as lights and equipment responded to her voice. Mitta ran and jumped off, gliding down onto the main platform. she landed and walked up to the giant computer that had Luna's symbol on the screens. She turned it on.

"Moonbow, what have you found?" Mitta asked, turning on the comm link.

"According to this, Dr Heart was heading up a project." Moonbow replied. "It was big, a lot of external funding. Here are the last notes she filed." A window opened up. "I can't make any sense out of it. What does it mean?"

Mitta frowned. "It looks like she was experimenting on the Moongate patients." Mitta brought up a 3-D image that had the words 2.0B SAVAGE at the bottom. "This new chemical only barely resembles the original Snarler compound.

"There have been multiple changes that appear to amplify the strength of the drug." Mitta continued. "Multiple references to a Titan formula. Even a small amount could cause a Snarler-like transformation in the host, eliminating the need for the storage tank that Beast requires."

Mitta blinked. "Hang on... these notes aren't complete! The formula is missing! This must be the secret that Dr Heart is hiding. If Atmosphere gets his hooves on this, he'll create an army of a thousand Beasts!"

"Forget about Atmosphere, think of what'll happen if Pinkamena gets the formula!" Moonbow said.

Mitta did. It was enough to send a chill down her spine.

Mitta opened up a supply crate and pulled out a claw-like object. She attached it to her grapnel and looked at it for a moment. Then she walked down the stairs, saying, "I'm going to find Dr Heart. She was heading to the old mansion with Hook. I'll go up top via the catacombs."

Mitta pulled down three supply crates from a walkway, not really caring what was in them. She jumped onto the walkway and ran across, pausing only to wait for a door to open. She then came out into an area that was basically a walkway. Noticing a grate cover, she pulled out her Claw, fired, then pulled the cover off.

Grappling up and crawling in, Mitta heard a thug start talking. “Sorry boss. Took a little longer to find her that you figured it would.”

“OH, I’m sorry!” Mitta heard Pinkamena’s voice instead of Atmosphere’s. “I’ll try to be more precise next time I’m planning an island takeover!”

“No! I didn’t mean-”

“Criticism I can take, I mean, I’m not perfect! Well… come to think of it, I’m pretty close to perfect, aren’t I? Where was I? Oh, yes.

“Criticism, from a worm like you, a worm who’s only crawling around freely because I opened his cell, is something I will not tolerate!”

“I’m sorry boss! Really, I didn’t mean it like that! Please!”

“Well, seeing as you’re so apologetic, I’ll just send somepony over to break your wife’s forelegs.”

“But Pinkamena-!”

“Do you have a problem with my generous nature?” Pinkamena hissed.

“Err… no, um, I guess not… err, thanks?”

“Don’t mention it. Let’s just consider the matter closed. Did I ever tell you the one about the guy who came home to find his wife a paraplegic?” Pinkamena laughed a crazed laugh and seemed to hang up.

Mitta walked up behind the thug and took him down silently. Then it turned out that Pinkamena hadn’t hung up.

“Hello? HEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOO?” She asked. “Hmm, wonder who got you, Mares or Arachnid. Hey Arachnid, you there? No? Pity.”

Mitta walked along. Turning a corner, she noticed five henchponies. Pulling out her grapnel, she fired at one. It immediately latched on the henchpony and pulled him towards her. The others noticed Mitta and charged.

Mitta attacked one and knocked him down, then countered an attack from the third. She bucked the fourth in the face and threw the fifth at the one she had pulled down. The second got back up and pulled a bar out of the wall. When he swung it at her, she ducked and flipped him over.

The fourth threw a box at her. She grabbed it and threw it back, hitting the convict. The third tried to hit her again but Mitta simply grabbed his hoof with her forehooves, twisted it around and snapped it. She then knocked the first one down again just as he was getting up again. This time, he stayed down.

The second rushed in and instantly met Mitta’s back hooves, knocking him out. The fourth and the fifth tried to hit her together but just wound up having their heads smashed together. Getting on top of the fifth, Mitta slammed his head into the ground. The fourth stood up shakily and then got bucked in the face again.

The fight over, Mitta walked away, thinking. One thing she noticed about these thugs was that they all had party hats and face paint in six different colours – orange, lavender, pink, butter yellow, cyan and white. That alone was a sign of a member of Pinkamena’s gang.

Another thing was that the thug she met before had referred to Pinkamena as ‘boss’. She was fairly certain that Atmosphere wouldn’t allow Pinkamena to be called ‘boss’ since he had planned the whole operation. So obviously something had happened during the short time she had been gone. Question was, what had happened?

Going through a passageway, she noticed that the path had two ways to go. Deciding to go to the left, she came across a door. Frowning, she tried to open it. It was locked though. Darn. So there goes the left-

SMASH

Mitta jumped back, alarmed. Through the broken glass, she saw some sort of monstrous face glaring at her.

“I will find you.” Arachnid snarled. “Rip your flesh like paper.”

And with that, he left.

Right. Not that way then. Mitta thought. She turned and went down the other end.

Mitta’s radio turned on as she walked, allowing Moonbow to say, “I’ve been looking into Dr Heart’s records. According to her bank records, there have been multiple payments starting April until two months ago. Then nothing. The payments came from a company owned by a mister Big Cash.”

“One of Atmosphere’s aliases.” Mitta mused. “So, Atmosphere pays Dr Heart to create his army and then all of a sudden he stops. Doesn’t make any sense.”

“I’ll look deeper.” Moonbow said.

Mitta reached the end of the tunnel and went through a door. She looked at the catacombs, thinking. These buildings are falling apart. I can’t use the grapnel. I’ll have to climb up the old fashioned way.

Before Mitta could start climbing, Moonbow clicked on again. “Hey! This is odd… the payments didn’t stop exactly. They were declined. Dr Heart put a block on her account.”

“Sounds like she had a change of heart.” Mitta decided. “She tried to block the payments. Atmosphere doesn’t like it when his partners try to back out.”

“So he decided to get himself back to Moongate, find the formula and create the army himself!”

“Exactly.” Mitta agreed, hanging up. Looking around, she found a starting point. She pulled herself up to a ledge and then leaped to a platform.

As Mitta leaped to the platform on her right, Moonbow started talking again. “I’ve looked into Dr Heart’s private electronic mail. The first is a resignation letter dated last week. Sounded like she was trying to get away.”

Mitta jumped to the next platform then the next. “And the second?”

“A message from… Pinkamena, surprisingly enough. It’s a long thread. Heart’s begging to stop the experiment, says it’s too dangerous. Pinkamena’s not listening… let’s see, random threats to her family, a couple of bad jokes… a picture of a dead foal and a threat.”

“Go on.”

“She says, ‘Atmosphere’s coming for you! He wants what he paid for!’ And then another joke about wheelchairs, lovely… and a drawing of some kind of donkey.” She said the last part a bit confusedly.

“No mystery as to why she’s so scared.” Mitta frowned. “I’m coming up to the surface, I’ll find her.”

Mitta walked up a fallen support column and then jumped to another platform. She jumped up to another piece of stone and then jumped to a water-flowing bridge thing. From there, she walked along another fallen column and to another piece of stone. She then jumped to the final platform and went through the tunnel.

Going through a door at the end of the tunnel, she entered a room which appeared to have a lot of stairs. She walked up them, eventually coming up to a weak wall. Getting out her Explosive Gel, she sprayed a bit on the wall and detonated.

The broken wall revealing a chasm, she leapt across it and to another door. She went through it, once again in Moongate Asylum.