"New York City," The pale grey one emoted surprise. "I worked here, what the hell happened?" Cookie looked around for anything that could answer his question. "This place was full of humans, a week ago, now nothing no bones nothing, it's like they were,"
"Completely wiped out," I interrupt angered that I was not the one to destroy my creator. I buck open a door to an old apartment complex and ascend the stairs. The doors swing wild with the wind, barely hanging on their hinges. "This can't be correct, there is a 75% chance of the humans to survive these levels of radiation, just to turn mutant. This does not compute one bite." I find one door still intact and push it open, it must be a restroom, I look into the shards of the mirror laying broken on the ground. That Platinum was correct, this body was not to grooming standards.
My 'mane' was matted and tangled, my 'fur' was full of dust and splotches of rust decorated it. The apartment was almost unharmed, and it's utilities still functioned. I filled the bathing recepticle with steaming water and layed down inside, the dust flaked off into the water. I had found a floor buffer in a closet and proceded to de-rust myself. My 'mane' soaked in the water. This thing humans call a bath was quite relaxing. I set myself in stasis for a few moments. the sound of screaming jarred me from stasis. I quickly exit the bath and look out the den window.
On the ground five stories below was a large creature, it's features suggested it was a mix of several species of arachnid, the scorpion tail and claws, eight limbs, several sets of eyes, and poison spitting fangs. It tore at the structures like it was searching for something, those horses scattered among the streets. Suddenly something I can only explain as a glitch in my system I stepped back and galloped through the window and into the air. The Nanobots went to work creating a pair of wings I could use to safely reach the ground. Two black feathered wings shot out and constricted the airflow.
As I landed the creature turned and charged it stood twenty feet, my systems easily anticipated the Berserkir's slow movements and it's energy quickly depleted. "Stop this immediatly!" I screamed at the Berserkir and it ceased it's attack. "It is safe for the moment," I shouted and the horses crawled out from their hiding spots amazed that I had calmed the beast.
"What did you do?" Celestia's jaw dropped and eyes widened.
"I told him to stop," I replied as I crawled oon his back.
"Holy shit you got wings!" Mustang flew around me and looked over my new appendages.
"How did you get them?"
"They just sprouted," I tried best to conceal the true method of aquirance. "I was sheltered during the explosion,"
"So you will have a longer reaction time than we did." Clover seemed convinced as did the others. Platinum was more interested in my overall appearance.
"Much better, you look like a proper mare now, I love what you've done with your mane, I had no idea it was green,"
"Berserkir, take us to the news station."
"Blargh,"
"Alright, climb on,"
"Is it safe?" Puddinghat, was hesitant.
"Berserkir grab that autobus."
"Megh," Berserkir's hand reached for an abandoned school bus and set it in front of him.
"Everyone get on the bus, we have to hurry, there is no telling how many others are out there." The others shuffled through the door and sat inside. "Beserkir, to the news station."
"Mergh," He grabbed the bus and cradled it. He slowly stepped one foot after another, each stride five feet. I began scanning my memory for an explanation on why this creature listened to my command. C.H.R.Y.S.A.L.I.S. Program specs, in addition to the Nanobots the subject can emit pheromones specific to a certain species, causing the target species within a ten foot radius to do the subject's bidding as long as it remains in the area.
"Mind control, this intruiges me greatly,"
After an hour of contemplating the most logical approach to learning about these new hybrid creatures we had arrived at our destination. As he set the bus down on the ground I watched as the other mutants came out of hiding and surrounded us. One species wore armor plating and helmets with Heracles Beetle horns, another wore tactical vests and wielded shotguns, another species wore blades on their wrists.