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// 12: What Have I Done Last Night 
// Story: Shadowbolt Chronicles: Codename Prism 
// by RDDash 
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Rainbow Dash woke up in the cave, she wasn't sure how she got there, but from the looks of it was dark, dark and, Rainbow adjusted her armour sensors. Light detectors in her eyes switched to ultraviolet, and then it switched to night vision. She was glad that still works, then she frowned, right in front of her, there was a barrel of radioactive toxic material, that was just great she had been absorbing rads for quite some time now.  there was something else odd as well, as a bonus, she was laying on something soft, Rainbow just didn't know what.

Rainbow Dash tried to stand up but failed to do so because someone or something was holding her if she would have to guess some sort of arm in a suit. If Rainbow didn't know any better than she would have to guess that she is screwed. On another note, if she is still alive, then the creature that was holding her didn't mean her any harm. Rainbow could tell that the creature was alive because of the body heat that had been transmitting from it to her, It was kind of nice.

In any case, Rainbow Dash tried to free herself from the obstacle that had been restraining her. She succeeded and doing so and then looked at her captor, she was bipedal. Yes, the creature was probably female from the looks of it, and there was something else. on her hip area, there was a silver blaster. Was that an infamous alien that Rainbow heard so much about from Matilda, as well as other Wastelanders.

Speaking of Matilda, where did she go? Rainbow couldn't remember. She was now outside so she looked around for some clues that could help her figure out what's going on. She could see now with perfect clarity that's it was early morning, and that means that her night vision switched off and her eyes returned to normal. Because of that, she could easily see a wreckage of extraterrestrial origin.

"Do you remember now?" The voice of AI Celestia echoed in Rainbow's mindscape.

"I think I do! I was in space, weren't I?  Or abducted, or something like that?"

"Yes, what happened after your abduction?"

"You know it's kind of strange, there had been an Enclave officer with me in the cell. He started screaming at me about the Dashites and how all of them are traitors. I finally couldn't take it and called him a hypocrite, and then I laughed at his face. It felt good doing that."

"Why? What was the reason?"

"After I accused him of hypocrisy, I told him the old legend of ours. I told him there was once a soldier in the army. That army thought a war with another tribe. One day that soldier had been accepted in the most elite squad, and on the same day, his own squadmates defected to the enemy. so then this soldier went and hunted them all down, some of them killed, some surrendered. And then I told him, you know what that makes this story funny, is that one of his new squadmates is a traitor from the other side. The enemy soldier who is the traitor from the other side is now helping him to hunt traitors who defected. I remember hearing that shut him up for awhile. The Legend of a Hypocrisy Soldier." Rainbow's eyes widened, "and, it's kind of ironic too."

"And then?"

"What do you mean, and then? You already know what happened next, don't you?"

"Guilty as charged! Oh fine, be it your way! I will just replay the memory call back. Still, want me to do it?"

"Yeah, sure knock yourself out." Rainbow Dash mock saluted empty air as if there were somepony there only she could see.




Twenty-four hours previously, detention area, alien mothership. Rainbow Dash had still being locked away in the cell. It was difficult to read time, even though she literally had an internal chronometer hardwired inside of her brain.

"Wait, just a god damn minute!" Rainbow Dash suddenly jumped up from her side of the cell.

"Oh, what is it now?" She heard a response.

Rainbow put a hoof to her face, she definitely felt it as it was real, and like there was something else. The only cybernetic component she had before is her ears, but now her eyesight changed, several of her motor skills changed as well. It's likeable to see everything that makes her body tick. She knew for a fact that her body was mostly biological, the keyword was mostly. She was faster too, her brain worked at a faster pace now. "It's nothing!" She didn't know why she lied, she just felt like she didn't want to share.

Right now her chances of escaping were extremely low, as low as 32.5 percent. She mentally slapped herself, she needs to stop thinking like a robot. She tried to remember now, how the hell did she end up there. And then she did, it was almost ridiculous now.

According to her memories, she and Matilda had been performing hired work, a small smash and grab job for Steel Rangers. Somehow Matilda managed to get a hired work for them to loot an abandoned military facility for anything of value. The dangers were pretty standardized, there were psychotic robots who attacked everything in sight because everyone to them is a dirty Zebra. There was also a buttload of automated security, which is also is eager to shoot them up. Anyway, it was that type of suicidal mission where Steel Rangers didn't mind employ outsiders, if they go back great, if not then they were expendable. She recalled that they ended up being ambushed by the Enclave....





Rainbow Dash once again had been standing beside the cave. "What, That it? I thought there is going to be more." 

"Unfortunately, yes. You did experience extreme asphyxiation brain damage, which then resulted in a partial memory loss. That means because of certain restrictions for organic memory I can only show you what you can remember, and that's not a lot."

"My brain is still organic?"

"Some of it, yes." 

Rainbow remembered, yes what AI Celestia had been saying it was all true. There were blackouts, however, she also remembered silent explosion. She remembered she was floating in space and ha about thirty-two seconds to live. She didn't need to breathe, breathing in her present situation is going to be really bad, It was cold too. She felt there was some emergency oxygen been injected Into her blood, but she knew it wouldn't last for very long.

Bellow, her was a planet that going to be soon her grave, her corpse going to most likely to burn up in an upper atmosphere. She looked around, there was some debris that was pretty useless to her. Then she noticed a gleam of glass somewhere out there. She couldn't believe it,  by some dumb luck there it was an extraterrestrial Starfighter had been floating nearby. She needed to act fast or in the next ten seconds she would surely die.

With an effort, she tried to remember what little she remembered from a physics class at the academy. She used the momentum to push herself towards it. Using the same momentum she used some random debris to smash a glass shield. She was just hoping that she didn't make a stupid mistake, and Starfighter should have some backup systems. Her gamble was correct though, there was some bluish force field that engulfed it and the most important part of her gamble did rely on the fact that the aliens breathed the same or almost the same exact air that ponies did. She could relax now, her world faded to black when she woke up next she was in the cave.





"Huh, so that's what happened, and the alien?"

"If I had to guess she was in the Starfighter when you decided to hijack her ride."

"But then why didn't she, she could of just easily get rid of me, that's her right?"

"Yes her gender is female, and if I have to guess again little girls like cute anthropomorphic animals, especially if it's equine."

"Especially if it's equine? What's the hell, Celestia? We are not animals!"

"Aren't we all?" Was all she heard in a reply. 

If that alien was just a child, then did she really have a right to leave it behind? She sighed, "Celestia, what should I do?" Celestia didn't reply, Rainbow mentally cringed, that's going to be a long day. She would still need to find Matilda at some point, but that can be done later right now she needs to make a decision to leave or to stay? After a few minutes, Rainbow did decide to stay.