//------------------------------// // Garden // Story: Mare-Do-Well: Moongate Asylum // by SirPotato //------------------------------// 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 Garden Once Mitta was outside the room, she activated her radio. "Moonbow, I'm done. Pinkamena is subdued and I have her prints scanned." "So you can find the secret lab in the Gardens." Moonbow said. "Yes. Tartlet's been all over the island, so I'm calibrating the scanner to only show prints that have traces of chlorophyll." "Ok, listen. Be careful. I looked at a thermal image of Moongate. The Gardens are showing up hot. Something bad is happening there." Mitta frowned and hung up. Clearly, what was going on in the Gardens was big, which probably meant that the Savage was being mass-produced now. Her thoughts were on Beast and the first Savage-controlled thug she fought. She did not need another appendage broken. At this point, Atmosphere's voice rang out over the intercom. "Pinkamena and those other psychopaths were just a little warm-up. And to be fair, she did an okay job of distracting you from my work." Atmosphere chuckled. "Of course, that's the only reason I let you go after her. I'm already close to creating my own personal army." Mitta ignored him and raced to the door. She ran through the room with the electrified floor and knocked out a maniac in the hallway. In Cells Access, she heard a radio come on. "We are back at the Manehatten Bay with our reporter, Current Affair. Affair, we're seeing reports that all access to the island has been restricted. Police and Royal Guards are manning checkpoints." "That's correct." Current Affair replied. "The island is effectively cut off from the mainland. Nothing on or off. Early reports that Mare-Do-Well herself is on the island appear to be confirmed. Eyewitness reports state that she was returning Dr Atmosphere to Moongate after the incident at the Mayor's Office. "There are unconfirmed reports that Mare-Do-Well was killed during Atmosphere's daring escape, but I must stress that this is currently unconfirmed and should be taken with a grain of salt. More as it happens. Back to the studio." "Thank you, Affair. We'll bring you more as it happens. As Affair said, we do not know for certain, but it appears that Mare-Do-Well may have been killed in the breakout attempt. Stay tuned for the latest news. Now, back to the scheduled program." Mitta frowned at this. News like that may cause the population to panic. The police would have to work overtime. And Mitta was annoyed that they actually thought that she had died. As she walked out to the exit, she was attacked by two more insane inmates, but she managed to shake them off. She exited the door and found herself out in the fresh air again. Which was ruined by another maniac who was mauling a doctor. After she smashed the maniac, the intercom jingled, and then Atmosphere's voice echoed around the island. "Factory Workers, I have the distinct pleasure of announcing that Pinkamena has been put under lock and key. I also have the distinct displeasure to announce that most of the penitentiary's craziest inmates have escaped the building and are roaming around the island. "If you see anypony exhibiting odd behaviour, then don't hesitate to shoot them. We have no need of degenerates like them. And once you're finished with that, get yourselves to the Gardens at once! I'm working and I have no intention of being disturbed." Atmosphere was right. The island was literally swarming with the maniacs. Mitta did her best to avoid fights with them to conserve her energy. As she approached the Gardens, she heard Atmosphere's voice again over the intercom. "Good news!" Atmosphere sounded satisfied. "I have finished working on the Savage formula! For those of little intelligence, that means that I can now infuse any willing minions with the power of a god! And for those who are openly opposing the Savage, and I know there are a few, then you get to go first. "I'm in need of unwilling test subjects to make sure that it works. So you would be perfect. Of course, if everyone wants to have a shot, then we can just try it out on some of the... 'Party Poopers' we've captured. Anyone who wants to bring popcorn is welcome." So he's completed the formula... Mitta mused. She opened the door and walked into the Botanical Gardens. I need to pick up Pinkamena's trail. I can't waste any time finding the Savage production plant. With a quick scan, she found two armed thugs standing near the door. She crept up to a corner and listened to deduce whether they would talk about anything important. "What the hell was that thing?" A female convict asked. "No idea." A male inmate replied. "Atmos is cooking something up." "Yeah, and it don't smell good." "Thinks he's Celestia or something. Messing with pony's bodies." "If he tries that stuff on me, then I quit." Mitta decided that they weren't going to talk about anything important. She grabbed two throwers and threw them out at the inmates. Both fell down and hit the pacification barrier in the process. The electric shock was enough to knock them out. Mitta went to the control panel and brought out her Cryptographic Sequencer. She fiddled a bit before the panel exploded. She opened the door and walked through. Her eyepieces immediately detected six armed inmates. She grappled up to a vantage point and looked around. They were all wearing 'suicide collars', which was going to make things a little harder. She noticed a thug walking below a gargoyle. She grappled to it, waited for him to pass through, then silently jumped down. She grabbed him and pulled him to the floor, suffocating him to unconsciousness. The collar made so that she had very little time, so she quickly sprayed some explosive gel then grappled away. "Check your numbers." Atmosphere said coldly over the intercom. There was a small amount of confusion between the inmates for a bit, then about three went over to the spot where Mitta had knocked out the thug. When they were all around the body, Mitta detonated the gel. The thugs flew off. Mitta jumped down and quickly knocked one out before somepony spotted her. She grappled away and looked for her next victim. "Oh no, oh no. I lost her!" An inmate shouted. "You're an idiot!" The leader snarled. "Don't lose her again!" Two thugs went over to both of the unconscious ponies. One tried to wake one up, but to no avail. "What're we going to do?" He cried. "We need to find her, or we're next." The leader said. "You hear me!?" "Mare-Do-Well?" The first thug said shakily. "Can you hear me? Show yourself!" Two thugs teamed up while one was watching the exit. This left one thug that was just on his own. Mitta had to wait until the perfect opportunity to take one down. She got this chance when the two ponies that had teamed up climbed down a ladder. She came down and suffocated the thug. He went down and she grappled away again. She waited until Atmosphere said, "This is stupid, she's taken out half of you already!" The two thugs realised that the third was no longer with them and they climbed back up the ladder. The one at the door didn't move. Deciding to take him out now, Mitta pulled out a Sonic Disk. It was a device that disrupted electronic equipment and generated odd sounds. She threw it and it hit the floor in front of the minion. It immediately started generating an odd sound. The minion blinked and went over to the source of the sound. Mitta, taking her chance, jumped off the railing and landed silently behind her. Then she suffocated her into unconsciousness. She quickly grappled away again. After a few seconds, Atmosphere announced over the intercom, "You have another mare down." At this, all the courage of the inmates disappeared. One ran to the unconscious inmate while one stayed where he was. Seeing this, Mitta jumped down and suffocated the inmate. She then followed the last thug and knocked him out with a kick. "Really." Atmosphere said. "She beat you all. Again. It must really take an army of monsters." Mitta activated her lenses and looked around. The hoofprints were everywhere in this room. Pinkamena must have been searching this place from top to bottom. She came to the door and went through it. The room she entered was flooded with water. On the other side was Dr Atmosphere, who turned when he heard the door open and close. With him was a Moongate guard, whom Mitta assumed was a prisoner. "You need to stop this now." Mitta growled. "Before it gets out of control." Atmosphere smirked. "Same as ever I see. I'm not going to quit just because you say so." "Let him go NOW." Mitta snarled. Ignoring her, Atmosphere looked at the guard and said, "I originally planned for this stallion to be a test subject for the Snarler." He then reached into his lab coat and pulled out a laser gun. "But I think he'll suit the better purpose of setting an example." Atmosphere fired the laser gun at a power box. It flew from its hinges and fell into the water, creating an immediate electric current. Atmosphere then picked up the guard and pushed him into the water. Mitta's eyes widened. "No!" Too late. The guard spasmed beneath the water for a bit before becoming inert. Atmosphere chuckled. He started to walk away, saying, "You really have to pick up your pace. At this rate you'll never catch me." He pulled out a remote detonator and pressed a button on it. The hall he was walking through exploded, creating an effective barrier. Mitta growled. I need to shut down the power to this room. She thought. She walked out of the room and looked at her map. The door on the right lead right where she should be able to turn off the power. She jumped down and walked through the door. It lead to a corridor that had a small flower patch in the middle of it. In the flower patch was a statue of one of the previous Mayors of Manehatten. It was this particular mayor that approved the building of Moongate Asylum in the Manehatten Area. Mitta walked past the statue and noticed something glimmer on the park bench next to it. It was a tape reel. The kind they used when they were interviewing patients. Mitta blinked, frowned, then picked it up. It seemed really careless for somepony to just something like this here. Interview tapes were usually placed in a record room, where all patient interviews throughout the years were kept. Deciding to ask somepony about it later on, Mitta placed it in a pocket within her cape and walked on. She walked into the generator room. Inside were six thugs and a staff member who was strapped to a chair. "Stop! Please!" The staff begged. "I'm not important. I can't help you!" One of the thugs chuckled. "You're lucky the boss don't want you hurt too bad. Said something about you bein' the perfect bait." At this, the thug frowned. "Don't get it, you're not special. So who's gonna save you?" "Mare-Do-Well?" Another minion suggested. The first thug chuckled. "Please. Why would the Mare be interested in a pig like this?" The second thug shrugged. "Dunno. But that's what the Mare does, isn't it?" "...Huh. Good point." Mitta got out three throwers and threw them at the closest three thugs. They went down. Mitta punched a thug in the face just as he was turning around. The other thugs were startled to notice Mare-Do-Well in their midst, so Mitta had enough time to use her Claw to force a thug's face into the ground. The last thug ran up with a bar in his hooves and swung it at her. She grabbed it, pulled it off of him, then smashed his face in with it. The second minion tried to buck her, so she flipped him over and bucked him right back. The fourth thug got punched in the face again, going back down again, and the third thug tried to punch Mitta, but got punched right back. The first one got hit by another thrower, hitting the ground, and the sixth thug got bucked into the wall. The fifth and fourth thugs ran in together. Mitta grabbed them both and smashed their heads together. The second thug got kicked in the face, knocking him out, with the first thug following him. The fifth thug got up again (without the fourth one) and instantly got hit by the sixth inmate. They both went down. The third thug started to say something but got punched in the face. When Mitta cut the janitor free, he said, "Thanks. Are you okay?" Mitta smiled under the mask. "I'm fine. I eat punks like these for breakfast. What were they doing in here?" "The ones that weren't hitting me went over there," He gestured to a control panel. "And started doing something to the power controls. I have no idea what they were doing." Mitta looked at the control panel. Strapped to it were two obviously placed bombs. Looks like Atmosphere's booby trapped the control box. This is going to be tougher than before, but it's a risk I'll need to take. Mitta got out her Cryptographic Sequencer and got the box's frequency. It looked like it had to be deciphered three times. She got the first frequency easily, but the next one took a bit of time. The last frequency was difficult, but eventually, the box sparked without properly exploding, signalling a small victory. Above the control box was a screen of the flooded corridor. It showed the electricity going out and the water becoming safe again. Looks like I've cut the power to the generator ahead. Mitta thought, satisfied. She walked out the door. As she walked, Atmosphere mocked her over the intercom. "Well, aren't you the persistent one. Always one step ahead." He chuckled. "Your efforts are in vain though. In a few moments, I will have an army of Savage monsters destroying Cloudsdale and perhaps Manehatten. It will be my greatest success and your greatest failure." By this time, Mitta had reached the flooded corridor. She walked through the water, avoiding the dead guard, and reached a grating. She pulled it off and crawled inside. It was like a maze inside and it came to a point where she had to go back a few times. Eventually, she got to the opposite grating and pushed it off. Jumping over a fallen pillar, she blew up a wall and found herself near a door. She pushed through and found herself in an abandoned chamber. Like the catacombs, this place seemed eerie and liable to collapse at any moment. It wasn't safe to use the grapnel here. She jumped down onto a platform. She walked up some stairs and found a platform just hanging on the other side of a walkway. She jumped, managed to somehow grab on, and pull herself up. She noticed something fall under the waterfall. She blinked and ran to where it was. It was the body of what seemed to be one of Pinkamena's minions, except weirdly altered. Another mutation. Mitta frowned. If Atmosphere's making these monsters he hasn't perfected the formula yet. I need to hurry. Mitta then ran back and went through the door. WARNING. YOU MIGHT FIND THE FOLLOWING PART DISTURBING. "So just sit down." Dr Atmosphere said to one of his thugs. "I won't be a moment." "No problem boss." The thug said. He looked nervously at the syringe gun in his wing. "What does that thing do anyway?" "It contains a formula that increases your size, strength and intelligence." Atmosphere explained. He then frowned and said, "Well... it'll certainly increase your size. Not sure about the other two." At this, Atmosphere fired the gun. A syringe shot out and hit the minion in the shoulder. "YEOW!" The thug jumped back, looking at the syringe. "What did you just stick me with?" He suddenly doubled up in pain. "But... it hurts." The last word came out a bit distorted due to the pain. The minion's muscles in his right foreleg suddenly started bulging, as well as the muscles in the left back leg. "Fascinating, isn't it?" Atmosphere asked rhetorically. "But it hurts!" He yelled, growing bigger. Random muscles started bulging all over his body. Unable to sustain his own weight anymore, the bones in his leg broke, sending him to the floor. He screamed in pain as he started bulging all over. Eventually, the muscles actually burst, spraying the area around him with blood. He cried a bit more before his heart started bulging too much and exploded within his own body. He shook for a bit before he died. Atmosphere sighed, as if mildly annoyed, wiping the blood off of his face. "Disappointing." He turned to the two minions who were guarding the door. "Get this mess out of here. Then I want you to prepare the next test subject." The thugs didn't hear him. They were staring in horror at what was left of the guy they just sent in the room. "WELL?!" Atmosphere snapped. The thugs suddenly straightened up and went over to the body. With nauseous faces, they pushed him into a large hole which led to the waterfall. After a small fight with two thugs, Mitta talked to a janitor. "Are you okay?" "Do I look okay?" The orderly demanded. "They were trying to kill me! They rounded us all up and forced us into cages!" "Are they still in there?" Mitta asked. "No, no-pony's come out since. You've got to help them!" "Stay here." Mitta ordered, walking off. She walked through the door and heard someone scream, "Help me! Please!" Mitta ducked behind a corner and peaked out. There were two doctors trapped in cages hanging over a deep pit. Why the pit was there was anypony's guess. "Okay, listen." Atmosphere said over the intercom. "If you see Mare-Do-Well, then you can send the doctors to Tartarus, understand?" In the control tower, an inmate said into a microphone, "Yeah! They're going down!" "Good." Atmosphere said, satisfied. "Now remember, if you hear a suicide collar go off, then Mare-Do-Well's here." I'm willing to bet that all the thugs in here are wearing security collars. Mitta thought. I'll need to take out the operator first. Mitta waited until the thug to her immediate right turned around, then silently dashed to the grate in an indent in the wall. She silently pulled it off and climbed inside. She found herself in a small alcove where she had to grapple up and climb a ladder to get to another vent. Using her lenses, she noticed a thug looking out over the pit. She dropped down silently and crept along to the next area. She grappled over to the railing but didn't climb over it, reason being was that there was a grate to her left that she had to go in. She dropped down and silently pried the vent open. She climbed inside and found herself face-to-face with a stone statue imbedded in the wall. She grappled up a bit to find a opening to the control tower. When the time was right and the minion's back was turned, she jumped down and suffocated him into unconsciousness. I've incapacitated the main threat, Mitta thought. But the hostages are still in danger. Mitta climbed down and crept behind a thug when Atmosphere said over the intercom, "So, you managed to solve my puzzle. Well done. But you seem to have forgotten about my alarms. Now, to my men, stop Mare-Do-Well from getting to me!" The thug blinked before Mitta throttled him into unconsciousness. She then went over to the second thug just as he was turning around. She then took out the last thug before he could react. "Never mind." Atmosphere said bitterly.