//------------------------------// // Amnesia // Story: Fun Bug // by HJSDGCE //------------------------------// “Hello? Is anypony there? Hello?” The sound of somepony talking woke him up. “Huh? Where am I? Uhh, why does my head hurt?” As he touched his forehead, he noticed that it’s bleeding. Dizziness covered his mind as he thinks on where he is. He gets up from the floor, weakly, and walks around the room, searching for the other pony. “Hello? Is anypony there? Please reply.” As he hears the pony’s voice, he follows it, slowly, until he found the voice was coming from under the drawer. He looks down as sees a small radio. A walkie talkie to be exact. The pony reaches for it and grabs its antenna. He then takes the radio and sits down on the floor, pressing the button and replying; “Hello? Is that you? Who are you? Where am I? What is this place?” He waits for a reply when suddenly… “You’re awake! That's great! I thought you were dead.” said the pony in the radio. “I wish we could talk more but I’m gonna need you to listen to me. Right now, you’re at the basement. And the building is mostly empty, which is good by the way.I need you to follow my instructions and try to survive as long as you can. First off, you’re gonna need a weapon. There’s a gun in the cabinet. I need you to take the gun and use it to protect yourself. If you’re wondering how I know this, it’s because that gun was mine until I left it.” The pony just nodded and listened to his instructions. He went to the cabinet and opened the second-top drawer. There, he found a gun. It was a glock to be exact. He checked it to see how much ammo was left. “There’s still some ammo. Not much, but good enough.” said the pony. Then, the radio buzzed and said; “Did you find the gun? If you did, you’ll probably notice that there’s some ammo left. Now I need you to go outside from the basement into the lobby. Do it as quiet as possible. We don’t want to attract attention.” “Then, just go up the stairs and keep on going up till you reach the roof. I meet you up there. Also, try to survive.” said the pony in the radio. The pony then pressed the button and replied; “Ok, got it. By the way, who are you and how did you know I'm here anyway?” “Let’s just say I’m a friend. I also saw you from the clouds.” "What?" "Nothing! I wasn't stalking you because I'm at the edge of insanity or anything! Hahaha! Why would you think that?" "I didn't." "Ohh..." Then the radio went silent. --------------- The pony walked through the room and saw a mirror. He saw a reflection of himself. He was an earth pony, had a dark blue body, his mane was brown and was messy and unkept . He was quite a normal pony. No different than any other. Colorful and unique. But he felt different. He was scared. As he climbed the stairs to the lobby, he felt a shiver up his spine. He opened the door and the door gave a loud and annoying creak. creeeeaaaak That sound would have scared anypony who has no idea where he was. He walked through the door and slowly examined the room. It was a medium-sized room, the main entrances blocked off with rubble, furniture all torn up and thrown aside, and a dead stallion, lying at the side of wall. He walked slowly to the body and examined it further. His cutie mark is beyond recognition and his face looks like it was ripped off by animal teeth. In his hoof was a small, dull pocket knife. From the looks of it, he was trying to protect himself but was surrounded. But whatever did this to the stallion, he should try to avoid. “Wow, this is brutal. I better keep on moving though. Those things might still be here. Whatever they are…” He walked forward and searched for the stairs. When he found it, the door was closed with a wooden plank as a latch. He took off the latch and opened the door. As he entered the stairs, he looked straight up till he saw the last floor. “Well, this is going to be a long climb…” And so he climbed. As he climbed, he counted the floors he passed and also listed the things he found while climbing. He only did that to avoid being bored. He found a poster of ‘Vinyl Scratch Equestrian Tour’ on Floor 5, a bag filled with fuel and probably butter on Floor 7, a bottle of pee on Floor 13, and a banana with a picture of Princess Celestia taped on it on Floor 22. When he reached Floor 23, he felt exhausted, like he just went through a triathlon. “Huh, huh, I really need to work out some more.” He looked up and saw that the stairs above him were destroyed. “Oh darn it! Now how am I suppose to get to the rooftop?!” raged the pony. As he tried to climb the rubble and avoid going through any floors, he nearly fell and thought to himself that the chances of him falling is quite high. He was also an earth pony, so flying wasn’t an option. Guessing that he didn’t have any other choice, he had to use the second set of stairs at the other side of the floor. And the very thought of it gave him goose bumps. “Well, better get going then…” said to himself as he opened the door. He slowly walked through the room and looked around. It was just a hallway filled with rooms. Some of the doors were broken and it was dark as well. He saw the exit sign at the other side of the hallway, knowing that the stairs are right behind that iron door. With his gun in his hoof, he passed the rooms until he stopped as he heard a sudden voice. It was faint, but e heard it as if it was growling the word 'Fun'. He walked slowly, following the voice and stopped at one room. He leaned to the wall and peeked into the room. “Oh my Celestia… What in the world is that?...” In the room, he saw a carcass or a body of a dead mare. But that didn’t surprise him. What surprised him was what was on her. It was a pink mare, her hair poofy and pink as well, but her entire body was stained with blood. She was biting and chewing the body, eating the remains of the dead mare. And due to his carelessness, he accidently shoved a vase, which broke upon impact onto the ground. “Oops…” She looked behind, and he ducked quickly and tried to hide himself from the mare’s view. The pink mare walked slowly, searching for the source of the sound. And from her voice, he heard her chanting; “Funfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfun…” He cocked his gun and readied his stance. He waited for the right moment to shoot until… He accidently showed himself. He is not very good at hiding. “Oh shit, she saw me!” The pink mare looked at him in the eye. He saw her blood red eyes, the eyes of a hungry animal. She then lunged towards him at full speed, growling and chanting “Fun!” at the same time. He tried to shoot her but she was to fast and agile. She jumped from wall to wall, avoiding bullets. When he was down to his last bullet, the pink mare already jumped on him. “AHHH! GET OFF OF ME!” screamed the pony. He repeatedly punched the pink mare as she tried to bite him with her sharp, blood-wrapped teeth. When he managed to stun her, he cocked his gun one last time and… “Take this, you pink bastard!” said himself to the pink mare. BAM! He shot the pink mare in the face at point blank. She went silent and fell on her knees, her eyes looking up and froze. She was dead, and that’s just how he liked it. “Celestia, that was the most horrifying thing that ever happened to me… Oww… My head…” He touched his head and noticed it was still bleeding. He forgot to patch it up. But even if he remembered, he thought to himself, where could he find any medical supplies anyway? He then kept on walking until he reached the stairs. “Just a few more floors.” he thought to himself. He climbed the stairs slowly from exhaustion, watching his surrounding, believing that more of those ‘things’ would come out of nowhere. He then reached the rooftop without any problems, other than the usual rodents that scared him. Opening the rooftop door gave him the feeling of excitement, relief and fear, all at the same time. “Finally, made it. And no monsters coming out of nowhere to kill me either.” He walked to the edge of the rooftop, seeing the wondrous view it had installed for him. Or that’s what he thought until he actually saw it. “Oh my Celestia…” What he saw probably scarred him for life. He was at Manehattan, but it didn’t look anything like it. The buildings were burning, some were collapsing , and some stood still, but damaged beyond repair. The streets were full of blood, bodies and other things he didn’t want to know. Vehicles trashed all over the place, some still had their engines on. The clouds were dark, gloomy and thundering. But it wasn’t going to rain. The sun was about to set, but the color wasn’t orange or yellow. It was reddish brown, like blood. It was complete chaos. “What happened? What’s going on?!” Then, his radio clicked and buzzed; “I see you’re still alive. Good. I expect you didn’t have much trouble. But now is not the time for chit-chatting. We don’t have much time. I need you to stay at where you are right now for 10 minutes. I’m coming to pick you up. But I need you alive for this. Just kill anything that passes through that door till I get there.” “How can I trust you? What if you’re just trying to trick me on waiting here till I die? And how did you know I was up here anyway?!” said the pony. “If I was lying to you, I wouldn’t have tricked you to climb up, would I?” “What do you mean?” wondered the pony. “I mean, look down from the edge.” The pony then carefully climbed the borders of the building and looked down from it. There was a large mass of pink ponies, some were earth ponies and some were unicorns. There were pink stallions and pink mares surrounding the building. They broke down the main entrance and entered the building. “Oh shit! I can barely handle one! But this many?! I’ll be torn apart!” “Just stay there and try to survive! I’m coming as fast as I can!” said the pony from the radio. “But I don’t have any more bullets! What am I suppose to-“ Then the radio went silent. “Why does this guy keep hanging up on me?!” shouted the pony. He panicked for a minute and then calmed himself down. He went around the rooftop, searching for anything he can use to protect himself from the pink monsters. He dug through some rubble and found himself a some useful objects he could use. He found a wooden plank, some nails and a broken brick. He then nailed some of the nails on the wooden plank using the brick. “Je je je jeng!” shouted the pony in happiness. He built himself a weapon. “Now I’m ready! Bring it on, you pink freaks of nature!” said himself with full of confidence. He waited… and waited… and waited some more… He heard noises but nopony went through that door. He kept on waiting and wondered; “Maybe they won’t reach the rooftop in time. It is 25 floors after all. It took me a pretty long time to climb.” He sat down in relief. As he let his guard down, that’s when it happened. “Woowooah!” screamed the pony in fear. He was in midair. Flying, soaring across the city. Generally afraid of heights, he screamed and panicked. And he did it quite loudly as well. “PUT ME DOWN! PUT ME DOWN! PUT ME DOWN!” shouted the pony while wiggling his body as an attempt to escape. “Woah there, dude! It’s just me!” said the pegasus. “You! You’re the pony from the radio! Oh my Celestia! I’m being kidnapped by you! I knew I should have listened to my parents! Never talk to strangers! But instead, I had to listen to YOU! And now you’re gonna drop me from the clouds! It’s the perfect murder! MOMMY!” “Dude, will you shut up for a second?! It’s kinda hard to carry wiggling ponies, you know. I, accidently, MIGHT drop you.” said the pegasus, intimidating him. The pony kept quiet and just nodded. Then, off they flew through the city. --------------- After a few minutes of flying, the pegasus landed them on the rooftop of a tall skyscraper. “There, that wasn’t so bad, was it?” said the pegasus. The pony just grumbled in disapproval. He then examined the pegasus. The pegasus had a dark blue body, his mane color was grey with a blue stripe, the style was straight forward, and wasn’t that messy. He had razor-sharp blades mounted at the front of his wings. His eyes were gold in color. His cutie mark looks like a musical note, so the pony assumed that he was a musician. He walked around the rooftop, looking at the view and understanding his surroundings. He was on top of the Celestial State Building, with its fences covering the edges of the rooftop. There were binoculars mounted at every corner, but had no use since they require a gold bit. Like any other building, there was rubble in some parts. The elevator was also out of order, as it was seen with warning tapes around it. He then thought that the only way to get down is with the help of the pegasus. “You know, you haven’t introduced yourself yet. Or was it I suppose to introduce first?” the pegasus thought. “My name is Indigo. A fast flyer of Manehattan. What’s your name?” asked the pegasus. He kept quiet, not saying a word. His eyes rolling, thinking of his own name. “You don’t have a name? Too bad… I’ll just call you Saddy. Cause it’s sad you don’t have a name.” said Indigo. “Wait, why call me Saddy? I don’t get-“ Indigo then hushed at Saddy, his eyes completely focused on Saddy. “That’s some wound you got there. Wait here, I got just the thing for ya” said Indigo. Indigo flew to a different building, just two blocks from here. He took something from the building and came back. It was a medical case. It had scissors, bandages, anesthetic and some long pieces of cloth. He then took out the cloth and wrapped it around Saddy’s forehead. He tied the cloth in place and used the scissors to cut the remaining, unused piece of cloth. “There! All better! The wound should heal in a day or two.” said Indigo. “Wow, thanks, I guess.” said Saddy. Saddy then looked at the sun as it was about to set. “Is this where you live? On a rooftop of Equestria’s tallest building?” asked Saddy. “Yeah, this is where I live. Not really a dream home, huh?” said Indigo proudly. He then laughed. Saddy laughed with him. In the evening, hey sat in front of barrel of fire as the wind from the cold night blows through their home. “So you can’t remember anything from your past?” asked Indigo. “Yeah, I can’t. I don’t know why though. I can’t even remember my name. But I can seem to remember Equestria’s history and geography. But I don’t remember what happened here.” said Saddy. “You probably had amnesia. In that case, let me tell you a story…” said Indigo. “Once upon a time, there existed 2 princesses that ruled over Equestria. One lifted the Sun and the other lifted the Moon. Under them, were 6 different ponies. Each of them were special, and each of them held one of the six ancient relics, known as the Elements of Harmony.” “I know that! I just wanted to know what happened here!” said Saddy. “I was just about to get to that part.” said Indigo. “One day, scientists made a very special, untested drug to cure ponies from an unnamed disease. But due to budget cuts, they decided to use the legendary Mirror Pool to make more of it. But they didn’t know that the pool was cursed.” “A few days earlier, a purple unicorn used a powerful spell to send the fake pink ponies back to the pool. But she also sealed the pink pony’s DNA in it. And when they tried to clone the untested medicine, it was mixed with the DNA. And that made the Fun Bug virus. Except that they didn’t know it was a virus yet. And hilariously, they first figured that out when 20,000 ponies already took it.” laughed Indigo. “The virus, which had the pink pony’s DNA, started to evolve inside the body of the infected. They first attacked the cerebrum of the brain, then motor controls, then slowly taking their personality and turning their fur into pink. Their hair turns poofy and then become these monsters that I like to call Pinkies.” Indigo told to Saddy. “Wow… that’s harsh. What happened to the bearers of the Elements of Harmony?” asked Saddy. “I actually have no idea. But I don’t expect on finding out. Also, we better wake up early tomorrow. We’re going on a road trip.” “To where?” asked Saddy in surprise. “To Appleloosa. Where the Resistance is.” said Indigo. Before Saddy could ask anymore, Indigo went straight to sleep in his bed roll.