“Sir, here is your coffee.” Axel, a tall muscular man wearing a Unitologist uniform, made his way into the overlook office, his drink in hand. He was an archeologist with high hopes in the old Diamond mines under Crystal Gem high school. The old mines still held many gems most of which were diamonds. It was highly sought after until he came along. He pushed everyone away from the mines; he had his sights on the artifact and the legend that went with it. The legend behind the mine was kept secret for many years and for good reason. Axel being a descendent of those responsible for the legend; had to get his greedy little hands on the artifact buried below.
Machines of all kinds worked to dig up his precious artifact. “Sir, digging this far down can’t be good for the workers.” A concerned worker brought up but Axel was in no mood to listen and he didn’t rightly care. His sights were set and he would get what he came for even if all his men died to get it. The problem was that he couldn’t act like he didn’t care or he wouldn’t have anyone to work for him.
“Don’t worry so much Kyle, everything is fine. Go ring the lunch bell, I don’t need my men getting too tired for work and remember how much I’m paying you.” Kyle saluted his boss and ran off. The bells for lunch signaled and everyone working rushed toward the lunch room. Axel took a peek out the window of the over look and frowned. “Two hundred feet down and not a sign of it anywhere.” Axel hit the window and let out a sigh. He had to find it, he would kill for it.
Of course Axel wasn’t the only one trying to find the thing, there were plenty of others that were from his ancestor’s time that wanted it for the same reason but there were those that also wanted to keep it hidden. The ones that didn’t want it found he hired a hit man to take care of them. There was one that threatened him more then anyone else though. The Clarke kid, little Azaliah Clarke, she was a thorn that made his work difficult. She had caused more problems with the other locations he had worked for and if he didn’t hurry, she would ruin this one as well. “She just had to be like her great-great-grandfather didn’t she? Curse you Isaac, destroying everything that we worked for. Now Azaliah is walking in your footsteps, keeping us all from our glory. I don’t care if she is sixteen, I’ll kill her if needs be. I don’t need her in my new world.” Axel knew that he had to hurry; she would surely be here anytime now. He would be shut down and that couldn’t happen this time, he wouldn’t allow it.
Axel made his way to the microphone and began speaking; his voice echoed throughout the entire mine over the intercom. “Everyone back to work immediately, there is no time to waste. I don’t care if you have to take your food with you, just get working.” He set the microphone down and watched as his men went back to work and in a hurry, Axel scared people.
Hours past and a small tip of something poked out from the rock below. It was normal to find rock, dirt clods, or some mineral to poke out but this one was different. Axel had moved on from over look to over look just to keep his eye on things. “That must be it, it has to be. We can’t go any further down.” His body shook anxiously waiting for more dirt to clear. Little by little the dirt separated from the object. “The ancient artifact, it’s finally mine.”
“I don’t think so Axel, you’ll bury that thing or I’ll force you to.” Azaliah stood behind Axel, arms folded and her foot tapped the ground irritably.
“No, not when I’m this close to our destiny, you won’t ruin this again.” Axel turned around to attack Azaliah but she had her gun pointed at him. Axel stopped dead in his tracks and growled angrily. “Why, why stop us from becoming better?”
“You think this thing will make us better? My father, his father before him, and his father before him have made sure that this insanity, this demonic alien artifact, the marker did not continue. I will not let you ruin lives for your own greed you fool of a man.” Azaliah snapped her fingers and in flooded five cops ready to arrest Axel.
The cops tackled Axel and had him arrested for multiple accounts of illegal mining. Axel fought back and ended up next to the window that over looked the progress. A blood curdling scream was heard below loud and clear. “It’s too late, the world will rejoice in it’s new accomplishments.” He continued to fight the cops until Azaliah knocked him out cold.
Azaliah went over to the microphone and spoke into it. “Attention all of you workers, cover-” She was cut off by the sound of the microphone buzzing loudly. Everyone in the room had to cover their ears to keep from going deaf. Once the buzz died down, Azaliah tried speaking into the microphone again but it didn’t transfer. She hit the object a few times to try and get it working but it was useless, it wouldn’t work. “Let’s blow this place up, there isn’t saving anyone now.”
“You have to be kidding me; you’re just going to let everyone die. You won’t even try?” A cop said completely shocked. Azaliah was supposed to save people, not let them die.
“You want to die down there?” The cops weren’t sure of what to think, usually the word risk would be said somewhere in a sentence like that. Not this time though, it was straight out death. “That’s what I thought.” Just then the ceiling above began to shake and rattle. Dirt clods with rocks and other minerals began falling down. “He made the ceiling to thin, we need to move out now.” Azaliah picked up Axel and ran for the elevator. Once inside, the cop closest to the buttons immediately pushed the thirteenth button. It was a rather ironic floor to have.
The elevator roared to life and started to close when a worker put his hands in to keep the doors from shutting. “Help me.” The worker begged as a blade pierced his stomach and pulled him back. His screams echoed through the mine as well as the sound of gurgling blood. The doors slammed shut and the elevator began to move up.
Clods of dirt pummeled the elevator the entire way up. The elevator was jostled back and forth and one of the four tethers holding the elevator up snapped. It continued to move up slowly one floor at a time. Another tether snapped at the ninth floor up and then another at the eleventh. The elevator now hung by one tether as the doors opened up. They rushed out with Azaliah helping the cops out. Soon only one cop was left and her hand was reached out for his. The elevator moved around making the cop inside lose his balance and fall to the floor. He did his best to stand up and reached out for her hand. They got a grip just as the elevator moved once again. Azaliah pulled the cop half way out when the tether snapped and the elevator fell.
Azaliah fell to the ground as the cop was pulled down with the falling elevator that cut him in half. The cops scream lasted but a second as his lower half went down with the elevator. His blood flowed like a river down the shaft. The tunnel they were now in began to crumble above them. “Let’s move it people, we can mourn later.” They ran for the exit and made it out just in time for the cave and the school to collapse inward. Above flew one news helicopter and in ran reporters ready to ask questions.
It was a Saturday night and Rainbow Dash and the others were sitting around watching T.V. when their show was cut off. “What’s the deal?” Rainbow asked confused and irritated.
“Breaking news everyone, it seems that Axel Martin was illegally digging in the old Diamond mines. The mine collapsed, we are unsure of how many died down there. Here is Azaliah Clarke with hopefully important info.” The newswoman turned to Azaliah. “Tell us, what exactly happened here today?”
Azaliah glared angrily but answered the questioned. “Axel here tried to recover something that my family for generations has worked to keep hidden. Thanks to him hundreds of good men and woman are dead including one cop. This piece of trash is responsible for their deaths and should be put to death for what he has done. I will make sure that we have some people cover up this hole.” Dust filled the air as the school finished sinking, the dust made seeing anything on screen difficult. The story finished there and the groups show came back on.
“What was that about?” Rainbow asked as she stuffed some potato chips in her mouth.
“I surely have no idea but he deserves the death penalty if what she said was true.” Rarity took a sip of her drink.
“Ah don’t know, what do ya think Sunset?” Applejack looked over to their new friend who had a horrified expression on her face. “What’s wrong sugarcube?”
“Whatever is happening, it’s not good. Something isn’t right and I fear that our pony Twilight is in for as big a surprise as are we, whatever it is.” Sunset turned to her friends.
“Surprises are good.” Pinkie Pie said happily.
“Not this one Pinkie, he was digging for something deep down. I don’t know what but it isn’t good. Something about this just doesn’t set right with me.” Sunset took a moment to think. “The portal opens tomorrow, I’m going to go through and warn Twilight. She needs to know that something is up.”
“You’re not gonna let us go with you are ya?” Applejack asked.
“No need, I’ll go and be back before you know it. In the meantime, let’s get some rest.” The sun had gone down by this time and fog rolled in. Sunset couldn’t help but shake nervously. People don’t illegally mine, put people at risk and not have something big happen because of whatever was found. It took some time but Sunset was finally able to fall asleep but it wasn’t peaceful. It was terrifying and this was coming from someone who had once been a demon. Her nightmare was blacker than night and there were things surrounding her. She woke with a start and sweat covered her body. “Whatever was going on, Twilight had to know about it.” It took a while but she was finally able to fall asleep once again.