//------------------------------// // Unknown Territory // Story: We Need You To Survive // by Muei-Tou //------------------------------// My head was throbbing while my body was completely not responding to anything. I was not sure what I was thinking in taking Flare Spite's place in coming back through time, I mean I'm hardly capable of doing such a responsible thing and on top of that I'm a useless pony. What's the meaning of being anything useful when your horn is chipped in half. Now's not the time Giga Bit your not sure where you are or if the time manipulator even worked for all you know it just sent you someplace else in Equis after all they did say it was a crap shot if anything it was beyond to fail from the get go, but it was better then doing absolutely nothing. I was only able to gather that my body was trying to reboot itself from the manipulator giving me nausea. Whatever that shitty piece of crap did sure did a number on me since the unnerving pain over my body was starting to unravel after each second my systems rebooted before I knew it I was bracing for the un-forsaken pain, strangely enough it didn't come instead numbness. After everything reset my circulation of feeling become consumed with frigidness. My breathing was hollow and empty. Everything was beyond stiff, my entire body was probably barley holding itself together at this point if the precising noise from the weather was anything to go by. Out of all the places it had to sent me it just had to be the bucking frozen landscape of the frozen north. I for damn sure was not nearly equipped for this shit show, I mean the frozen north where it was miles and miles of snow packed weather with 24/7 stormy ass blizzards all day everyday. Nopony was up of this kind of serve weather even if your gear was able to handle what this place had to throw at you no sooner then later the icy weather would crawl up upon you and later you'd be found dead within your own body or coughing up blood from breathing in the frosty air which resulted in collapsing the lungs. Not anyway you would want to go out... Looks like this is the end, A pony who went through hell and back gets killed by freezing to death because the damn time machine send me in the middle of this forsaken place. Lets out a low chuckle at least I got my wish of leaving the bunker. I decided to accept my fate of dying here and let my eyes close while shaking hoping for it to end quickly. All of a sudden out of nowhere I begin to hear the crunching of snow approaching my position very quickly. My hoped peak for a second before it came crashing down because the precising noise of mechanical parts moving and a over whelming magical source which was only part of one thing "Seekers." Seekers are dog like mechanical hounds with razer sharp chain link teeth that could shred apart anything that could fit within its mo. They were not anything to take lightly since even the most skilled individual would have a hard time taking one down that's why rules were set in place for a party of 4 or more ponies instead of one when salving for resources after ponies of one were later reported MIA then later showed up shredded to pieces. Another reason was there adaptive capabilities of mesmerizing combat effectiveness so one thing that worked on them before would become useless the next engagement. My advice is run as fast as you can and pray to whatever celestial being that you can make it out alive. For once they have there sight upon you your chance's of surviving are zero. Fear set in the moment those sounds reached my ear, I was beyond scared for my life. In the heat of the moment I bucking tried forcing my body to move for luna sake hoping to get away even though it was a lost cause since my body was fucked over from frostbite killing my limbs and in the end the noise stopped, causing me to halt for I knew what was coming next. I felt a icy cold metal paw around my neck slowly lifting up my form setting me up to face the demon face to face. I grunted trying to scrim out of its grip while slowly losing oxygen in my lungs from its grip cutting circulation off. The world started to fade in an out while the seeker drew my head closer every inch to its mo until suddenly my cracked left lens lit up displaying the words "Alternate Power And Motor Function Online." "Redirecting Alternate Power To Combat Effectiveness..." "Error...Several System Malfunction's present..." "Rerouting To Sub-Systems...Booting Up X.A.N.A AI..." "X.A.N.A Boot Up successful...Reroute Successful...Direct Linkup With Host Online" "Cutely laughs luckily I booted up just in time now time to show this mutt what happens when you mess with my creator." "...X.A.N.A AI Assuming Control..." I creaked a small smile after hearing X.A.N.A, whispering my last sentence "What took you so Long?" before unconsciousness take hold.