Life, liberty, and the Pursuit of Bits.

by Timemaster

So Fun...

Beep...

Beep...

Darkness. An empty void, devoid of any form of substance whatsoever. Time and space are non-existent here, and as such, nothing is ever born nor dies. Color and light are abundant, for some inexplicable reason, and light seems to radiate from the ground itself.

Beep...

But just because this world is dead, doesn't mean nothing is alive in it. Beings from separate worlds are not allowed into this one without something special...
By an unnaturally smooth rock lies a silhouette of a pony. The form is pure black, the eyes being replaced by a white ambiance, and it lays there in pain. A sound reverberates around it, seeming to lessen the pain.

Beep...

The shape moves its head upwards, looking into the pitch-black sky. As it looked, something odd happens in the sky. A hole. A blinding light emits from the hole, illuminating the ground below. Through the hole, the form sees a sort of room, itself pure white, and begins to question what it is.

Beep... Beep...

The form moves upwards all the way, feeling less pain as it went. A second hole opens up near the first one. The area of the hole is the same as the first, meaning something must be happening. The form leaps from its position, the body seeming to stretch over the distance.

Beep... Beep... Be-

Just before the form makes it all the way into the first hole, the hole shuts. The form is split in half, entering this new world it must explore...

*Gasp!*, Gold wakes up on a soft bed, his eyes opening quickly. His eyes jutted around the area, only seeing an odd green tint. He blinks, breathing heavily. The tint remains, so Gold quickly moves his hooves to his eyes to see if anything was blocking them. There was nothing. He blinks once more, beginning to tear up a bit.When he opened his eyes, he saw everything, but something was largely off. everything was a bit GREENER. He looks at his fur, seeing an odd green color as well... but much darker than anything around him.
He then noticed the incredible ringing in his ears, which begin to deafen him. 'Help!" He calls, feeling his blood run down his ears. He watches as a green... no, green-tinted stallion with a yellowish hat come to him. The pony, who Gold believed was a doctor, was saying things to Gold, but he could not hear them. Gold just began to shake his head up and down in pain, grasping his head. He felt a prick in his side, then he felt nothing. Gold collapses, in bliss, onto his pillow.

...

*Gasp!*, Gold wakes up on a soft bed, his eyes opening quickly again. He attempts to raise his body upwards. His chest softly meets a small hood, halting his attempt. He opens his eyes once more, but to his dismay, it is tinted green once more... Except, only the pony beside him is tinted green. The tint did not only make the pony green, but moved in odd ways. It was like green water in a circular river... Gold was mesmerized, shocked at the beauty of the water. He then realized he was staring at this pony, and blinked...
The tint was gone.
All that remained was a young gray mare, a nurse cap on her head, who was staring at Gold with kind eyes. Gold opened his mouth, ready to speak, but only coughed up something nasty. He covered his mouth with his forehoof, as to avoid anything going anywhere. He stopped coughing soon after, and stared at his hoof. It was covered in some blood, sure, but there was something else. It was clean. The layer of brown dirt had been removed, and all that remained was a dark gray coat. His coat. He began to cry, snot clogging his nose runs down, and he covered his face with his hooves. He was injured in some odd ways, sure, but he is free once more. He is clean, free, and safe... safe...
He looked at the gray mare once more, staring at her face more focused than before, and felt a click in his mind. "Your town is the one... " He began to cough once more, tears becoming sour instead of sweet. The gray pony looked at Gold and said, "We-- We are all so very, very sorry for what we had done to you... but..." She coughed a bit, "Why do you have fangs?"
His throat clear from all that coughing, Gold looked back at the nurse, frowning, "That... That is because of my race." The nurse looked at Gold questioningly.
"Your... race?" She asked, her eyes very confused.
"Yes, but I will not tell any more than that..." Gold confirmed with a look that put some fear into the mare.
Gold began to shuffle, feeling a lot better than before, and found that he was wearing some form of robe. The nurse tried to calm him down with some words, but Gold was oblivious to them and began to exit the bed. Half-way off, Gold asked one thing.
The nurse answered his question and Gold quickly left the room. Seeing a bathroom down the hall, which was much whiter and cleaner than his room, he trotted to it...
After washing off, Gold left the restroom, heading for the entrance to the building. He trudged down stairs, seeing nopony throughout this journey, and began to hum. He smiled when he saw the entrance, but stopped before exiting. He forgot to remove the coat. He quickly removes it and drops it over a sleeping pony behind the counter of the entrance. He then ran through the door and out into the night...
And straight into another pony. The sound of the two's heads colliding was rather silent, even on the silent street. Gold quickly felt the sting of pain, but repeated small 'sorry's to the other pony. He looked at the other pony and is surprised that he can see her. Though it is completely black outside (No lanterns or anything), he was able to see, in clear detail, the mares individual hairs in her fur, but in a greenish tint. He is so shocked that he just freezes in front of her.

She pokes at him.

Gold moves his head upwards, seeing the mare's face. He frowned very quickly. Happily, she couldn't see the frown, so Gold just says something in a slightly deeper voice, "I am sorry ma'am, so very sorry, are you alright?" She looked at Gold's face with a smile, "Yes."

Gold quickly got up and said, "I am sorry, but I have to get going." And then he quickly trotted down the street...

Amazed at how illuminated it was by the odd green tint in his eyes...

Agent B was trotting into an odd folk town, which couldn't even afford street lanterns of all things, when she saw her newest target. This one was requested directly from HQ after she captured the few on her list, meaning this is her biggest hit yet. She was after Headden Dis Guise, an escapee of the dome who seemed to be interested in disguises. Though he is a stallion, his last known location was in this town... dressed as a nurse. Not only that, but the ponies (and even the Dome Spy) believed him to be a female. The description of him went like, 'A grayish stallion, who has starved himself for a long time, has been able to become skinny enough to seems as if he was a mare. He has taken the occupation of a nurse, probably hoping that I, Dome Spy, would never catch him, but HAH!' and then it just began to rant in some odd language.
She began to trot quickly to the large clinic where the stallion should be, nearly tripping of stones the whole way. She spots the clinic, seeing lights in it, and runs straight for the entrance...
Straight into somepony. They began to have the awkward 'I'm sorry!' conversation and she watches as the odd stallion runs off... seeing he was gray. She almost ran after him, but saw, in the light of the clinic, a gray nurse waking up a pony behind the counter.

Agent B smiles, taking out her staff...