> Mare vs. Machine 2 > by batran > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prologue or Chapter 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was foggy in the dark graveyard. Two blue pony-like figures were standing near a grave, trying to get it open. “Medic, why are we doing here?” said the bulky one with a Russian accent. “We will see”, said medic, in a German accent, “Heavy, carry Scout’s body, we will try to bring him back to life,” with a dark chuckle. ______________~{MvM}~______________ “Ma’am”, said a Royal pony Guard, “we decided to let you in this cave, but be warned, we do not know what is down there”. “Thank you” said Twilight Sparkle, the magical Lavender unicorn. The Lavender Unicorn went into the cave, not knowing what is down there. The cave was damp, with drops of water leaking from the ceiling. That indicates there was water above. Twilight lightened the cave using this type of “magic” from her horn. She quickly looked at her surroundings, and found a skeleton on the ground. She leapt in surprise staring at it for almost a minute. During that time she managed to gather her courage and started to race down deeper. Eventually Twilight found an entrance, It was cold and hard, possibly some type of steel door. She studied the door, and she finds out that she should put in some numbers on the Code-lock. She gave up after a while and flashed her horn at the door breaking the lock and the door slowly slid open. She cautiously looked around inside before stepping in. She saw a computer beeping with a bright light flashing: Argon Levels- 78.4% (Warning) Oxygen Levels- 20.1 % Carbon Levels- 1.0% Radiation Levels- 0.5% (Press the right key to search the system) “Hmm what is this?” Said Twilight, “I know all of these except this ‘Radiation’” Twilight slowly pushed the right key then she jumped when the computer system quickly loads up the search bar. “Wow researching without going through books? This technology is amazing!” Twilight had thought about it for a while, later she decided to type the timeline. The screen slowly loads the list of years from the year 3053- 4067 and the current year as 19535. “Interesting…” said Twilight while her curiosity grows, “Amazing in the pre-pony period that they invented this technology! But why did we devolutionized, if that’s even a word?” She read through the list slowly and carefully, she decided later to see pictures from the past to see what they look like. She typed in “Images” in the search bar. A load of images and videos showed up showing everything that happened in 500 years. Twilight’s giddy smile faded away when it didn’t showed her species. Instead they had shown these ape like creatures who called themselves ‘Humans’. Later she found out how to scroll from instructions on the screen and then scrolled through the Images and Videos until the last video was shown. She was unsure at first but she clicked play. ______________~{MvM}~______________ “Eh-y!” said Scout’s RED doppelganger, “hey Lesbo!” “Leave me alone, Other Scout!” said a (female) Cyan Pegasus with rainbow hair in an annoyed mood Scout’s RED doppelganger came to this world through the portal Engineer had built from a defected Teleporter. He and Rainbow Dash (The Cyan Pegasus) had met through a nearby town called Ponyville. Ever since then, he harassed her. “Hey! Lesbo!” “WHAT, plus it’s not my name!?” “Base-ball!” The Red Scout threw the ball at Rainbow Dash and hit her in the forehead “That’s it! You asked for it!” Rainbow leapt into the air and sped towards The Red Scout at astonishing speed. “Well, Time to run!” and with that, Red Scout dashed off, “This is better than watching the movie 2012 one that came out in 2010!” The chase has begun. ______________~{MvM}~______________ Twilight has stared blankly at the screen even after the video had stopped. She quickly noted a lot of stuff in her notepad. The video had shown her that a man was logging about these experiments on these horse like creatures. They had created two new races with these creatures: The Pegasus, and The Unicorn. After they had been given better intelligence they had called themselves ponies. They rebelled against the government and killed all the human species on the planet, making the ponies dominant overall. ______________~{MvM}~______________ “Ready Heavy?” said Medic “Ready!” said Heavy grabbing the lever “Okay, pull it now!” said Medic pointing to the lever The Bulky blue Heavy pulled the lever and a wave of energy from the defibrillators hooked up onto the scout’s chesty erupts into a shockwave energy, Making the body shake from the release of electricity. There is a high pitched scream slowly turning to a lower one. It came from the body. “Shut it off!” said Medic. And the Heavy did. “Okay, okay alright!” said the still steaming body of The blue scout, “I’m burning!” Medic went and poured water on the scout. “Okay, thank you” weakly said the scout, “why did you… bring me back to life?” while panting “Well…” Chuckled Medic, “It’s Miss Dashie’s Birthday”. To Be Continued… > Back on your feet... or hooves > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scout give a blank stare for a moment before sighing and jumped off the bed and starts trying to walk (or trotting) but stumbles over and falls flat on his side. "Ow..." said Scout, voice sounding annoyed but a hint of pain "Now hold on." said Medic, lifting scout back on his feet and onto the slightly cushioned bed, "We can't simply let you out without doing some tests first!" also while lifting a hoof up. "Ugh" sighed scout, "let's get this overwith." "Okay!" _________~{MVM}~__________ "This is not possible!" said Twilight rushing through her books, "There is no recorded evidence in these books to show that 'Humanity' ever existed!" Twilight scattered a couple of books around the almost dark room, she even sticked her head in the large satchel, but still nothing about humanity! Twilight eventually gave up and retrieved the scattered books, then leaving the computer behind the explore more of the crashed large space shuttle. The machine would still be there when she come back, right? Twilight lit up her horn to illuminate the halls, rooms, and corridors( Is that the same thing of halls?). She slowly looked around the room, Argon was not poisonus to ponies, but it just gives them a little harder to breathe. She was recklessly walking down the corridor after a while, due to boredom, until she heard a creepy horrific sound of agony in the distance. Somepony or Some-THING(or someone), was lurking in the darkness. The sound of it reminds Twilight about other normal ponies, someone must be hurt! Twilight slowly walked towards the sound of agony. She passed a couple of rooms, 'B132, B133, B134, B135, B136, etc.' until the echo of the sound trace back to a preservation room where the humans had slept during stasis. A lot of stasis cells is without an owner and most of them are a little rusted, but thanks to Argon it didnt deteriorated fast. One of the stasis cells showed an early middle aged man frozen as he barely tried to get out. His face looks familiar though, light blue eyes, almost thin face, and a short cut of hair. Twilight recognised that face somewhere, then realization hit her... It was Scout. _________~{MVM}~__________ "GET BACK HERE!!!" yelled an angery cyan pegasus (with rainbow hair). "Need to catch me first!" Red Scout responded with a chuckle. Rainbow was chasing RED scout for almost an Half an hour, scout would tell she is starting to become tired, as well as him. RED scout realized that so he panicked to find somewhere to hide and catch a breath, he found a (Everfree) forest and raced towards it. Rainbow almost got him in her hooves when he looked like he dissapeared out of sight in the trees, Rainbow landed in a clearing and called out Scout's name for a couple of minutes but then gave up and flied back out to the forest's enterance. She turned around afterwards and stomped a hoof on the ground and started walking towards home. But she was stopped when she heard a sudden cry of you-know-who, she looked back and saw RED scout being chased out of the forest by a large black bear. _________~{MVM}~__________ "Okay, place your fing- uh hooves on your temples (do they even have any?) and cough" said the German pony And so he BLU pony(scout) with wings did. "Well when does Scout have a chance to get out there and kick some metal ass!?" boldly said Heavy. "Dont worry, I am finishing up these tests" responded Medic bothering to look at heavy while writing in his clipboard, "Okay, now turn your head and coul-" "No, just no" said the Scout sounding a little too stubborn in his bored attitude. "Hmph, fine then, don't come back to me when you have a problem, besides an injury." "Heh, I will!" scout then took his bat and signal Heavy to follow him out the door. Heavy looked back at Medic which nodded and galloped out with scout. Medic then turned around and wrote something on his clipboard and uttered something in German before following out the left open door, then closes it.