//------------------------------// // Chapter 6 // Story: StoneHeart // by JT //------------------------------// I hit the ground, feeling pretty much all of my bones shatter, and my organs rupture. Blood spewed out of my mouth and nose, ejecting like a bullet. My Nanites were going insane, saxons blaring in my head as damage reports flooded in. I could feel myself slipping, nearly over the cliff and into the black abyss. I smiled as I knew this was my final time. I felt a gust of wind over me, followed by something else hitting the ground, I opened my eyes barely, to see a crying Celestia and another crying Alicorn. Her mane was filled with the stars and flowed in an unnatural wind. She was a dark blue, her face in tears as they stared at me. "W-W-Why? Why would you do this?" Celestia stammered out the question. Crying a bit more before turning to the other. "Come sister, we must fetch the hospital staff, maybe they can still save him." Two more gusts of wind, and they left. They wouldn't get here in time. I cringed as I felt a sharp pain in ,y head, followed by a new presence. 'External and Internal damage excessive. Initiating Pheonix Protocol.' I felt myself begin to move, pain roared through my limbs. I cried out and tried to stop, but i couldn't. I could see a small cave, barely big enough to fit through it. i could feel myself moving towards the cave, then with one final push, I fell in. I hit the ground with a thud, adding to my already insane pain. I felt myself stand and lean against a wall. My arms spread out, and my legs straightened, I tried to move but I couldn't. 'Distributing stasis-cell sedatives. Repairs and adaptations complete in: Three months and twenty three hours.' the last thing I saw was my Nanites leaving my body. Then, nothing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Three months later. Daring Doo chipped away at the cave, just underneath Canterlot. There had been reports of strange insects going into the cave. Strange metallic insects. She was a tan mare, and a black mane, with a vest on and a safari hat. She loved getting rich, and diving into dungeons. if the rumors were true, then this place was filled with alien technology, and the corpse of an alien. She practically drooled at the prospect of how much cash that would bring her. With one final swing, she opened the hole wide enough for her to fit through. She slid down the wall, then lighting the lantern she brought with her, she scanned the room. On the floor was a massive bloodstain, leading off into a wall. She gulped as she saw this, but gasped when she saw the wall. The wall was covered in a strange glass like substance, Covering the creature within its confines. Inside the glass was a swirling mix of fluids, neon green in color. Along the wall was an assortment of weapons, ranging from a powerful looking bow, constructed out of a metal entirely foreign to her. She laid her eyes on a massive claymore, the blade as thick as her hoof, and jet black. The base of the blade was colored in gold, and the pommel was a simple round sphere. Next to the sword was a strange looking metallic, box, thing. She tried to pick it up, but it was so heavy that she could only get it an inch off the wall. She was distracted from this object as she heard rocks skitter down the hole she came in. Her eyes widened as she heard a familiar voice. "So, Daring Doo. It seems you have discovered the Creature's Tomb. So sad that I'll be taking its treasures." She turned and stared at the offending beast. "Ahuizotl.." "The one and only." The creature before her was a strange one. It looked feline in origin, covered in blue colored fur. The tail ended in a paw. His stare was filled with greed. "Yeah? You and what army?" "This one." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HK48's P.O.V 'Repairs complete. Weapons Complete. Adaptations Complete. Skeletal Reinforcement Complete. Dermal shell Complete. All systems green. Ejecting....' I felt the fluids around me jet and begin to evaporate. The wall in front of me shattered and I was thrown forward, onto the cold floor. I coughed up some phlegm and chemicals. I could feel hoses sticking into me, and after a few tugs, they came off. I shakily stood up, and immediately felt something on my face. I reached up and felt something metal covering my face. From running my fingers over it, I felt that it was a skull, modeled after my own, it connected to another part of metal, and judging from the motorized hinges, it retracted into my back. I opened my eyes, to see my hands covered in some sort of gauntlet that ended in a sharpened claw. I could see the rest of my body was covered in some sort of armor that followed the contours of my chest and body. I looked over to the wall beside me, and saw a beautiful assortment of weapons. A claymore, nearly as tall as I was, I picked it up off of the wall. Next was a bow, simple in design, but the same size as the claymore. Next to it was a quiver of arrows, I took them both. What I saw next surprised me, it was a pistol, modeled after the Desert Eagle. I picked it up and turned it over, finding no magazine port. I simply stuck it to my leg. Then I realized what I did, I looked down to the weapon, to see it attached to the metal on my leg. Magnets, fuck yeah. I was brought to look at a pony wearing a vest and a safari hat. She looked at me with wide, rose colored eyes. Above it, standing in a hole near the ceiling, was some sort of feline. "Oh, well, you're no good to me alive. So KILL HIM!"