You continue reading.
"Subject was recaptured and disassembled. Everypony it talked to has either been bribed or taken care of. However this accident has proven useful. We were completely over thinking our design process. Instead of giving it it's own thinking matrix, we need to, instead, give it an input command core. The only problem we have with this design is that somepony has to overlook the machines and tell them what to do. It's much cheaper than our original design, but doesn't have the level of understanding that we were tying to capture so it could operate on its own. Still, the progress is instrumental. With this new design, we will be able to reduce the amount of workers we need to operate this facility properly."
Continued examination of the papers provides no new information. You continue searching the room and locate the door control panel. There are many buttons and switches but one catches your eye, "lockdown." You begin to reach for the switch but then stop when you remember the announcer. You glance around the room and notice a crowbar lying in the corner. You pick it up and return to the switch. If the mare returned, you would at least have something to defend yourself with. You flip the switch and dart toward the door only to stumble at what lies before you. The dark factory walls no longer reside outside the door. Instead, a catwalk with many pipes and valves lined the walls. From what you can see, there isn't a floor beneath the catwalk. You step outside the door control room.
There was no gust of wind, only the loud resonating thunk of your hooves on the metal catwalk. Glancing back reassures you that the door control room was still there. Continuing down the catwalk, you notice a door on your right, it was already open. You look inside and see a containment cell, two large vats of an unknown liquid, and an old blasted out computer monitor sitting on a desk. The cell door was wide open. You scanned the room for another way out, but the doorway you're standing in is the only one. You see nothing of great importance within the room so you continue down the catwalk. After walking for some time you see a skeleton of a pony with a wrench lodged within its skull.
Glancing beyond it, you see many more skeletons skewed across the catwalk. You notice another path leading off to the left and away from the battlefield before you. You begin down this path. The catwalk twists and turns around several pipe complexes. Some pathways were blocked by exploded pipes. Whatever happened down here must have interrupted the entire facility. Eventually, you find another door, this one was closed. Many 'DO NOT ENTER' signs were posted about the door. You could tell by their age that they were placed before the factory was closed. You attempt to open the door, but it was rusted shut. You try to use the crowbar to pry it open. After a couple of seconds the door swings open and reveals the room where it had all started.