//------------------------------// // Chamber // Story: The Lost Race // by Field Marshall Nuggetman //------------------------------// "WAIT." Everypony stopped and looked at Twilight annoyed. "What? We gotta hurry!" complained Rainbow as she was about to just fly away. "Do we know exactly w here this facility is? Where is the old city she was near, huh?" Twilight pointed out. "Then where is she anyway?" Asked Celestia looking at her student. "Well she did leave a map of her old country in her journal, so..." "Lets compare her world with ours." finished Shining as he took the map from Twilight and set it up on the table. Shining then took out the map of Equestria. Pinkie took a look at the two and tilted her head, "They don't look alike." "Well, natural disasters do modify the landscape." Twilight said as she continues to stare at the map in thought. "Shining, is our world satellite ready for use?" Asked Celestia. "If I recall correctly, then yes, it is. Why?" "Using the satellites, we can take a look at the past of Eq uestria and present." "Good idea. Plus, Vanessa left postcards and the videos of the ancient city." They all look at the screen saw Vanesssa holding the camera. Shining pointed at the city with hundreds of skyscraper in the distance. "The city that thou points at is much more massive than Manehattan or Canterlot." Luna says as she makes her way towards the group. "Hmm, there's also a postcard here that says 'Greetings from Los Angeles'." Cadence added as she passed the card around which had a picture of Los Angeles and the "HOLLYWOOD" sign. "How are all the cities gone now?" asked Rarity in disbelief. "We don't know, but we'll find the answers when we find out where exactly Vanessa is right now." replied Twilight with confidence. The computer was now lin ked up with the satellite as they zoomed to Manehattan and the saw a pony settlement on the mainland but four destroyed bridges and old equally destroyed skyscrapers on a small island near the mainland. "Oh my those are the beautiful cities?" asked Rarity with just as much disbelief as before. "Why didn't we rebuild the cites? They were so nice." whispered Fluttershy. "Firsly, the metals used to construct the bridges and skyscrapers were tenfold the strength of our metals. Secondly, the dangers of being on the skyscrapers are simply too great." explained Luna. "Can we look at Los Angeles now? I want to know what pony settlement it's near." said Rainbow eager with anticipation. Shining punched in the proper codes and there was Los Angeles. Ten miles to the east of said city, was Los Pegasus. "Those poor h umans. Everything they built was all obliterated in a single war." said Twilight with her head hung low. The rest of the ponies continued to stare at the main screen. "I just found something." declared Cadence looking at a certain spot on the large screen. "What'd you find there sugarcube?" asked Applejack poking her head towards Cadence. "Well, the facility isn't in any of the cities like we thought it'd be. It's actually close to Ponyville, past the Everfree forest. It's... it's in a mountain." Fluttershy looked towards the screen, and then back to Cadence, "Umm.. if you don't mind me asking, how do you know that?" "I looked at the final few minutes of Vanessa's video, and there was a mountain behind her in the background. Plus, she hid the book and the camera in the library's tree, so it's gotta be in the mountain." "Now can we go?" asked Rainbow eager and slightly annoyed simultaneously. "Yes girls, we should all go. We are also going to send soldiers with cameras attached to their helmets. We might want to broadcast this LIVE." Celestia stated as she took out her phone and started calling television stations. "We should share this knowledge with other nations as well." Luna added. After roughly ten minutes, the Princesses were ready with a platoon of royal guards carrying assault rifles. They also brought their personal cameras to record what they would witness. The group then embarked on their journey to Ponyville. After an hour or so later, the group reached the mountains that they predicted was where the facility rested at. After close inspection, the ponies detected a few clustered boulders with odd appearance s in a particular area. Twilight and Princess Celestia lowered themselves to the cluster of boulders and began shifting them and moving them aside. Sure enough, the cleared boulders revealed a large metal door. "Interesting, this door was well concealed." Luna observed. "Uh, Princess? Ponies live across this world." said one of the guards in the back. "Well hello there. I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle and a few days ago we found a video that said the ancient myths of the humans inhabiting this world were true. We also found out that all the odd objects in our world belonged to the humans a long time ago. They built huge cities and lived as gods long before Celestia and Luna were born. Unfortunately, they had a huge world war against each other and completely destroyed their own race." Twilight summed up everything that had happened to the guards as short, but informative as possible. "But we might have found a chamber where all the sleepy-head humans decided to take a looong nap and wait for the bad war to end," said Pinkie cheerfully in the back. The group slowly walked up to the door. However, when Twilight touched it, the metal door instantly rusted and crumbled down. Twilight gave Celestia an uneasy look which Celestia returned before nodding to her guards. The guards walked in and found a light, which wasn' on of course, that struggled with all the dust buildup in the air. The guards flipped the light switch on and a long hallway was illuminated. One after another, lights began to flicker to life spreading the comforting light further down the hallway. The guards readied their weapons for any imminent dangers and turned their headset cameras on. After five minutes of exploring the extensive hallway, the group finally made it to an open doorway that had a sign ab ove the door with "CRYO ROOM" sketched into the sign. Inside, there was a single man within an enlarged glass tube. Twilight's eyes went wide, "Huh, a human in real life... I can't believe it." "Captain Shining Armor, this man appears to be a soldier." declared a guard that was examining the man. "How do you know?" "Well, he looks physically fit than any of us and this sign says his name and rank." Shining switched the camera to his point of view and looked at the sign. [ Major David Smith age-26 height-6.4 ] There was a button that was on the wall that caught everypony's attention. Above the button was another sign which said "Release CRYO patient." Without thinking, Twilight pushed the button and the water in the tube slowly drained out and the glass in the front of the tube opened. David fell out the tube and landed on the face which woke him up pretty quickly. The major began coughing and sputtering. "Major David Smith the human, I am princess Celestia of Equestria and I hereby welcome you to our world." Celestia greeted the human. "Princess? Ha, there hasn't been a princess in 20 years." Then David thought for a second and looked up. As his eyes told him that he was looking at anthro ponies, David quickly thought up a plan and kicked a guard. The blow dazed the guard just long enough for David to swipe the guard's weapon and aim it at the Princesses. "What the fuck are you?" he scowled with death in his eyes. The guards quickly reacted by pointing their rifles at the human with an M16 in his hands. "We're ponies Major." said Rainbow flatly. "Ponies my ass. You guys are just failed experiments of the US military." "Wait. Experiments?" asked Twilight, clearly puzzled. "During the first year of the war we started experimenting with human and horse DNA. The scientists came upon 4 types of abominations. A human with manes but one with nothing, simply a mane and tale. The second type had wings, the third with a horn, and the fourth with wings and a horn," explained David. The ponies were all in a shocked state and so was every last equine that was watching TV at the time. "Within all four of the abomination species, there were a male and female. The president decided to simply let the monsters run loose in the wild." "So..." Cadence started with a knot in her throat, "we're just experiments of war?" It was clear that Cadence was fighting back tears as the cold, bitter reality enveloped her mind. Major David continued, "Well, it wasn't just us. The Chinese were messing around and scanning DNA to change animals as well. The Russians were combining a uh... I think it was an eagle, and lion to create a griffin of sorts. As far as I can remember, the Europeans were infusing human DNA and oxen DNA to come up with something similar to mythical beasts call minotaurs. and The African Republic made human-zebras before the nukes came in. So-" "We were all experiments?" asked Twilight, interrupting David. "Yes. You are. Fortunately for you all, we put enough genes in your DNA so you could become sentient and sapient 'cause we know we were well on our way to extinction. So we believed that there should be some type of humans on this planet after the original humans have passed." "Oh, and another thing. Why the fuck did you release me? And how long have I been sleeping?" "We are here for a girl called Vanessa Meyers. You've been asleep for close to three millenia," explained Rarity. David's grip on his rifle loosened ever so slightly, "Three thousand... Wow that's a first." "If you don't mind me asking, do you know where Vanessa is?" asked Fluttershy as loud as she could muster in her shyness. "She's in the other room. Come on I'll show ya." said David casually as he put on his US marine uniform, which was hanging on the wall near his capsule, and marched out the door. The ponies looked at each nervously and followed him out the door.