//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: Getting to know your fellow Brony // Story: Bronycon 2013 // by Magicolt808 //------------------------------// Chapter 2: Trey was huffing up and down as he sprinted down the hallway on the physical development floor. Patient 5, a cybernetic man, shirtless and wielding a large katana continued to chase him. “RRRRAH!” the man yelled, flying through the air and landing on top of Trey. “Get the fuck off of me, you asshole!” Trey yelled as he squirmed underneath the man. His mechanical left leg and right arm was sparking, and had loose wires sticking out. “I have a name you know!” The man yelled down at Trey. Trey started laughing mischievously, “Why? It’s not like we name toasters or printers!” The man slammed his sword down in front of Trey’s face, “The name’s David, kid, gave it to myself yesterday.” The left half of David’s face was glowing faintly red, and his dark metal red eye scanned Trey’s face. David, got off Trey and walked back down the hall, “Meh, I don’t even know why I try to fight with you, kid, you’re not even half a challenge.” Trey stood up and dusted himself off, mumbling curses under his breathe. After collecting the loose papers, Trey continued walking up the stairs to the next building level. Pushing through the door labeled, “Experimental Drug Testing,” Trey found himself looking down a long maze of hallways. The ceiling was extended, and though it was to see, Trey made out metal bars running the length of the ceiling. As Trey continued walking, his ears filled with the distant screams, ringing throughout the building. “This placed always creeps me out.” Trey said quietly to himself. “Alright, keep calm Trey, just find the exit and get the fuck out of here.” He was sweating now. The darkness seemed so dense around him, like it was thicker than regular darkness. The lack of light was sucking the courage out of him. “I just have to drop these off with Leo, and then I can go...” He said to himself. “...Get what to Leo...” Trey froze in place. Directly behind him, Patient 4, Sai, stood silently. Trey turned around slowly and was face to face with Sai. Trey backed up, moving away from Sai’s shirtless scarred body. From under Sai’s long hair, that was covering his pale face and red eyes, his low and dark voice traveled to Trey, “What’s the matter? Cat got your tongue?” “St- Stay away from me...” Trey whispered. “Aren’t you supposed to be sleeping or so- something...?” Sai slowly walked forward, the ball and chain around his ankles dragging as he did so. “Since when do they let little kids into the loop?” Sai’s eyes quickly locked onto the folder in Trey’s hand. “Or are you just the little messenger boy? Why don’t you hand that over...?” Trey backed up faster, trying to separate himself from Sai. The loud clacking of the steel balls and chain rang out through the halls and Sai stumbled toward Trey. Panicking, Trey turned quickly and ran into a soft surface. “Huh? Did you come up here to play too?” Trey turned quickly and saw a young girl in a cute kitten costume looking at him. “Oh it’s just you...” he said sighing. Trey turned back to Sai, who was now a foot from his face. “Errr...what do you want with this data shit anyways? You know as well as I do theres no escape from this place.” The little kitten suit girl jumped and landed in front of Trey, “He wants to know what his life was like before all this,” she said smiling. Sai was frozen in place staring at Trey. The girl continued, “He wants to know his family,” she giggled. Sai kicked his leg quickly and the steel ball at the end flew towards the girl. She gracefully jumped over it, back flipping and landing behind Trey. “Well you’re out of luck anyways guy, I don’t think they have any background info in here,” Trey said, shaking the folder lightly. Sai’s eyes closed slowly as he blankly started walking the other direction back down the hall. “How do you think he sleeps like th-” Trey was cut off. “So do you wanna play tag?” the girl said smiling. Trey scratched his head, “Uhm no Kitty, I’m alright. Hey isn’t there suppose to be two of you?” Just then, a shining black knife flew into Kitty’s side, cause crimson blood to streak down her chest. From the steel bars above, another girl, in a wolf suit was laughing. “Gotcha! You’re it!” she yelled. Kitty grabbed the knife and ripped it out of her chest laughing. “Awh man Wolfey!” she yelled before jumping up into the rafters to chase her companion. Trey blinked hard repeatable for a second before he too walked down the next set of hallways. The cold air and sharp turns felt like they lasted for miles before Trey found the next staircase leading higher into the facility. The door at the top had no label, it just said “Leo,” in cursive. Trey quickly opened the door, relieved to leave the Experimental Drug Testing level. ------▲------ Mr. Johnson led the group into a room farther down in the EQD Building. The walls were lined with steel plates with red lines between them. As everyone entered the last room on the bottom floor, a woman in a white lab coat and glasses looked up from her clipboard. “Oh, Johnson, I see you’ve brought the guards,” she said. Mr.Johnson paced in front of the large machine that the woman was standing in front of. “Are they coming soon Maddy?” he asked. “They should be here any minute.” She replied. Just then there was a humming noise that steadily became louder and louder. “Here they come,” she announced. At that moment there was a bright flash of light. Shapes began to appear in the center of the device. The blobs began to take shape. They split and took the forms of ponies. Seven of them to be exact. The one in the back towered over the other six in the front, who were all the same size. The light emitted from the pony figures began to fade and the shapes began to take on identities. On the far left was a white pony with a short horn and long purple hair that was curled in an intricate and stylish way. Next to her was was a pink pony with large, pompous curly hair. Beside her was a yellow pony with light pink hair and a face that told the world she was afraid of her new surroundings. Her wings stood out on end as she gazed into the room. Then to the right was a Purple pony with a simple hair cut with straight bangs and a horn in the middle of what looked like highlights. Above and to the right more was a blue pony with wings in full motion. She had rainbow striped hair and a face of curiosity and bravery. On the far right there was an orange pony with tied up hair and a hat. She looked almost queasy from the trip. Behind all of those ponies was the largest and most magestic. There stood a pony with both a long pointed horn and a pair of large wings. Her hair flowed out, almost like the other ponies, only it was softer. She held her head high, and and looked onward with pride. Everyone stood still in astonishment. Celestia slowly walked towards Mr.Johnson smiling. “Hello Andrew!” she said. Mr.Johnson held his hand out to Celestia, “I trust the journey wasn’t that bad?” Receiving the human greeting,“It was actually quite delightful.” “Must have been fun for the other six. It was their first time, right?” questioned Mr.Johnson. Pinkie started bouncing dizzily forward with Applejack walking slowly and steadily behind her. Caught off guard, Dash could hardly hold herself up in the air, she was dropping and elevating every second. Twilight pranced forward and Rarity dragged her bags as she followed behind Twilight, it must have been easier to teleport for unicorns. Fluttershy dropped down and put her hooves over her head, occasionally peeking around, looking at the other people in the room, they all looked so frightening. “Hi Mr. Johnson!” said Twilight, eagerly running up to him, talking about a schedule she had planned for the ponies time in the human world. Alex hopped off Travvy’s back and walked towards Fluttershy was still hiding beneath her hooves. Confused, Alex started poking Fluttershy’s head. Applejack laughed at Alex, “She doesn’t talk much,” she said. Alex looked back blankly at Fluttershy. Travvy came up behind them and rubbed his hand on Alex’s head, playfully messing up her hair, “Neither does she.” he chuckled lowly. Applejack turned away from Fluttershy and Alex’s amusing scene to look at the rest of the guard. She approached Magic with caution, she was very trusting of the humans already. Magic was leaning against a nearby wall twirling his pistols. “Ah like yer hat.” Applejack said smiling. Magic tucked his guns back into his belt, “Heh, I like yours too.” Applejack began telling Magic the story of where she got her hat ,while Pinkie bounced around the room, excited to be around so much more potential friends. Jonathan was now talking with Twilight, Celestia and Mr.Johnson. Twilight was holding a folder. “So as you can see, I made a full schedule of all our activities,” Twilight said. Jonathan held up another folder, “And I went through the time frames of all our activities to make sure we get everything done!” Pinkie Pie slipped up as she bounced around, accidentally knocking the papers out of Jonathan's hands. “Ohhh sorry, hehe,” Jonathan said, bending over to pick up the papers that had dropped. King flew through the air kicking Jonathan in his face, “NO LET ME HELP!” he yelled, landing on top of them, desperate to talk to Pinkie. King and Pinkie started yammering on repeatedly about different thing, hardly listening to the other person. Rainbow Dash hovered on her back in mid air, “What’s up with these humans anyways, they don’t have wings or horns or ANYTHING!” Just then, Dash heard a sound and flipped over. With a small trail of fire shooting from his brown boots, Sky hovered next to a stunned Rainbow Dash. “Cool trick huh,” he laughed. Rainbow and Sky started conversing about how fun it is to fly and Sky’s awesome jet outside. Sky was doing mid air flips while Dash watched in awe and then started to flip around herself. “Heh, show offs,” Foxxy said as he walked towards Rarity, who was still struggling with her bags. “Need some help?” Foxxy drew the scythe off his back and hook all the bag handles with the handle side, scooping them up. “Uhm hehe thank you,” Rarity said blushing. Foxxy smiled and walk side by side with Rarity. Mr. Johnson and Celestia finished talking, “alright everyone, it’s time to show you to your rooms,” Mr. Johnson said. “I’m sure you will find it quite pleasant here on Earth,” said Celestia. ------▲------ Leo shuffled through the papers, scanning each page swiftly before turning to the next. His long, curly white hair almost reached down to his shoulders. “It seems as if everything is going according to my calculations,” said Leo, putting the papers back into the folder and handing it back to Trey. “If everything keeps going this great, we will be more than ready to execute the attack.” Trey laughed and swung his bat playfully, “Yeah, I can hardly wait!” Trey clenched his fist, “I can’t wait to bash some pony skulls-...” Trey suddenly fell to the floor screaming. Leo glanced up casually at him, “Still getting those headaches?” Trey was writhing in pain on the ground, from his body, flaming sparks shot out everywhere. Leo got up and walked to his cabinet as Trey’s screams died out. “I have some pills for you, but you’re going to have to learn to control that.” Leo tossed the pills to Trey, who propped himself up with his bat, before popping two pills in his mouth. “...Thanks...” he said quietly. Just then, David walked in through the staircase door, “Discord wants you, he said it’s time for the surgery...” Trey got up slowly and followed David out the door. Leo casually looked over the list of patients again. ------▲------ It was already midnight when the ponies all gathered in the room that was arranged for them to sleep in. They were all laughing and talking about the guards who had been assigned to them. “I really, really, really like King! He’s sooooooooooo awesome!” Pinkie said jumping around. “Foxxy seems very nice, a nice gentle colt.” Rarity said. “Remember Rarity, it’s gentlemen, we have to get used to how the humans talk.” Twilight corrected. “It feels odd, like learning a new language.” Fluttershy said quietly. “Well we have to get used to it, we will be here awhile.” Twilight said. “Well Ah fer one am enjoyin’ it here.” Applejack said with a grin on her face, “Ah like Magic. We’re...the same, ya know?” “This Sky guy seems ok, I mean he’ll never be as cool as me, but he’s good enough.” Rainbow said, laying on her back, looking at her hoof. “I feel like Jonathan doesn’t like me, he looked a little mad.” Twilight said quietly. “Of course he likes you silly filly!” Pinkie said smiling, “Everypony likes you!” “Don’t worry Twilight,” Fluttershy said, with a comforting smile, “if he doesn’t he’ll warm up to you.” “Thanks guys.” Twilight said, happier from the support. “Sugarcube, what do y’all think will happen at the Brony-whatchamacallit.” Applejack said. “Well, we can’t be certain what will happen in the future, but I’m sure it will be fine. According to Celestia, we are quite popular, so what’s the worst that could happen?” Twilight said smiling.