Another explosion rang in her ears. Alice set the timer on the screen. A prerecorded message echoed throughout the facility: Ten seconds to self destruct!
Another of her claymores exploded. she just nonchalantly ignored the it, grabbed the gear she swiped on the way. Right in front of her was the green doorway. The big circle was made of a special alloy of Titanium and Platinum and other various trace metals, it would not survive the the nuclear warhead sett to blow. The marvel of technology had taken almost twenty years of endless nights of research and development to make. It was a one of a kind item, a prototype. Just like her.
Detonation in 3.
She had destroyed every copy of the records of this facility. Every piece of information about it and her was none existent. Even most of the twos creators where gone and soon everyone working with them. The public notice of this facilities existence would never even be brought to light. She put her friends old hat on her head.
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"It's now or never." She took the first step into the green watery surface. It was like ice cold jello.
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She stepped trough completely.
Behind her the world flashed out of existence.
_-_
This morning Twilight was giddy with anticipation. The princess had after long last granted her request to study the sublaylines crystal that Starswirl the bearded made so long ago. Or with other words Starswirls oculus. The old magus had a theory that by utilizing the sublaylines long range teleportation was going to be instantaneous and mass did no longer matter in the equation. This theory was still unproven. Sublaylines had been proven to exist years ago. Nopony had just been able to tap into them... Yet! Twilight was was determined to be the first to do so.
An hour later somepony knocked on the door. Spike quickly went to answer it, twilight stayed in her lab preparing.
"Twilight your package is here!."
"Great! Bring it down!" Twilight called.
"There might be a problem with that!"
"Why?!"
"It's to big for me to carry safely!."
Twilight let out a deep sigh. "Coming!"
When she got upstairs a package double the height of Spike stood by the front door. "It's not that big but I see what you mean. Common Spike let's get get to work.
"Roger that!" The dragon saluted.
The morning thereafter Twilight was going over the notes from she had taken during the last day and night's study session. The magical contraption hummed gently. She was happy with the notes after the fourth time going trough them. Yawning she was going to switch it off. She focused her magic on the crystal matrix. Nothing happened.
"Odd." She mumbled, she tried again. This time the old magical instrument stopped. Once again the crystals where dormant. "That's better. Now..." She yawned and seated herself for another check on her notes. Upon she promptly fell asleep, unknowing to her the machine once again sprung to life.
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Before Alice was one of the strangest creatures she ever seen. A lavender unicorn slept head resting on a desk. She knew it had to be some sort dream or she was dead. There was also the likelihood that she was in a drug induced coma. That is, if she survived the nuclear blast.
She inspected a odd contraption in the middle of the basement, she at least thought that it was one. It was a mix of a library and a lab of some sort or a book filled lab if you so like. With a finger she gently prodded a the blueish crystal. To her surprise it was solid unlike everything else she had tried to touch in the room. She could freely walk around in the basement but getting up the stairs was impossible, out of the question so to say because her feet phased trough the staircase. After looking at the odd crystal contraption for a bit she decided to do like the pony. So she found herself a good spot and sat down. she leaned back on her rucksack, after she pulled her hat to cover her eyes she drifted into a restless sleep.
When Alice woke up the lavender unicorn also did. The unicorn somehow had gotten herself a blanket. Alice presumed it to be female anyway. She now looked wondering on the crystal contraption that Alice had earlier touched. The horn of the unicorn glowed magenta and Alice decided to take a closer look.
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Twilight woke up to the hum of Starswirls old instrument.
"What the? I shut that off." And as Twilight did not need it for the time being, she decided to turn it off again. In the middle of this process she was startled by the sudden appearance of a strange face. She momentarily lost control of the power and the and the magical matrix overloaded. The crystals flashed with a loud, Foom!
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Spike came to look what had caused the ruckus in the lab was. As he overlooked the lab he saw that everything stood in it's place. Not a sound coming from the room. The dragon shrugged his shoulders and closed the door. Happily he skipped out of the library, he was going over to carousel boutique to help Rarity to find more gems today. Oblivious to the fact that Twilight had gone up in smoke.
_-_
Coughing Twilight wobbled back up on her hooves. "What the buck just happened?" Her first sight was the inside of a cave, it was oddly familiar.
Somepony breathed through her teeth. "You tell me. Oh, hell my head!" The voice came from behind her.
Twilight spun around looking for the voice, before her in between her and the entrance sat a weird looking creature. It was naked of fur save for eyebrows. On its head it sported a long mane hanging lose over it's shoulders and down on her back. Then Twilight noticed a thin long tail. It had semi long white fur and a longer haired tuft in a chromatic style by the tip. It reminded her of a oddly colored griffon tail. It was clothed on most of it's body. only the arms and head was free of cloth if you don't count the hat it just put on.
"Ya going ta stare at me all day?" She snapped at Twilight.
Twilight snapped out of it and looked out of the maw of the cave. The sun was slowly making it's decent. "It's already getting dark? I can swear it was lunch time only moments ago." Twilight mumbled.
"I can testify to that or my watch is is completely of off." She. It was a she, looked at a wristwatch and tapped it few times.
"I don't know what just happened but... Who are you? What are you doing here? And why did I see you at my lab?" Twilight asked then she noticed a black handle strapped to her leg, most likely a knife. Twilight did not want to agitate a potential threat but she did want answer. Well to late now anyway.
"The names Alice, some call me Dawn so the names Alice Dawn."
"That's a odd way to say your name."
"Well I don't really have a proper name on paper. Alice was something that my caretakers called me so that stuck around the facility and some friends I had started to call me Dawn. Happy? Now what's your name?"
"Twilight. Twilight Sparkle. But I wanted to know what name you had when you where born with not what nicknames you had." She said skeptically and somehow she had forgotten about the knife.
_.-._
Alice let out a sigh. "Test subject #13 or like all the quacks called me 13." Alice had a love hate relationship with the number.
"Your real name is a number?"
"Nicknames are not that bad now are they? Also the ones that gave me that name is dead anyway. They could have called me Don Juan for all I care. Which is Squat!"
"Okay that still don't explain what you are doing here and how you where in my lab."
"I dunno. I was on my way to Sweden. I walked through a portal and whoop I was in your lab."
"Sweden? Never heard of."
"Did not think so. Somehow the teleporter I used must have overloaded. No colorful unicorns where I'm from." Then she slapped herself in the face. "Or the fact that that a nuclear explosion altered the properties of the portal."
"Did you say nuclear? Like in Atoms?"
"Yea. So?"
"How do you make a atom explode? They are indestructible!"
Alice laughed.
"What's so funny?"
"They are not indestructible, we have been able to split them for soon a hundred years." She was greatly amused. "What next? The sun is that the sun is circles the planet?!"
"It does. Princess Celestia have been maintaining the sun for thousands of years."
"Yea right! And I have a tail!" she said laughing.
"You do have a tail..." Twilight giggled.
"WHAT!!"
Alice twisted around and jerked the twitching tail.
"No. Fucking. Way! Oh the fuckers! If I could I would go back and... And revive them and murder them slowly!" Alice Fumed for a moment.
"You mean that? With the killing?"
"If they all wasn't dead." Alice fumed.
After a long dead silence her stomach growled.
"Hungry?" Twilight giggled nervously. She did not want to become Alice's food anytime soon.
Alice rose a eyebrow to the pony. "What gave that away?" she said sarcastic.
Twilight quickly decided to work with the subject. "If this is where I think it is then where I live is only a few hours to the east. I think we can get of the mountain before it gets to dark." She looked out of the cave again. "We could get something to eat there."
Alice considered her options for a moment. "Sounds good. Let's get going then... Where do you think we are anyway?" She did not want to eat something. Ahem. Someone, that is sentient anyway.
"On Smokey mountain. We should be able to see Ponyville from here." Twilight said as she trotted out.