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// Glitch 
// Story: Mare-Do-Well: Moongate Asylum 
// by SirPotato 
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The Mare-Do-Well character is based off the character from the fanfic ‘Waking Nightmares’, written by KnightMysterio. Moonbow Peek is an OC made by nightelf37. Mitta is an OC in a fan game by Donitz. If you really don’t care about this, then continue on. If you are not a brony, then leave this page immediately and forget you ever looked at it. Otherwise, continue!




Mare-Do-Well: Moongate Asylum
Glitch




The first thing that Mitta saw was a gigantic tree-like object extruding out of the stairs.

As she looked around, she saw that it wasn't just the stairs. Vines as thick as oak tree trunks were smothering the mansion, strangling it like the mansion was a tree itself.

Savage is definitely having a different effect on Greenlife. Mitta thought. At the rate these plants are growing, they'll soon be out of control.

Mitta turned and looked down the stairs. She saw a plant that was orb-shaped at the top with teeth that looked like they were made out of a sort of hardened sap. It had made some sort of large crack in the ground, presumably where it came out. A curious maniac approached the creature. The plant regarded the inmate curiously for a moment before eating the pony in one bite.

Looks like the plants are mutating further. Mitta mused, with a touch of uneasiness. Those things look like the creatures that Flower Power used to attack Manehatten last year. I have to avoid them.

Mitta walked down the stairs, cautiously avoiding the mutated creature, which was probably thinking that Mitta would make a good snack. Once she was out of biting distance, she made her way towards the mansion. She was slowed down by the fact that the mutated plants were pretty much everywhere. 

Once she had reached the mansion, she found that the front door was blocked by another tree-thing. Plus, there was another toothed plant hanging out right in front of the entrance. Deciding to go above, Mitta grappled up to the higher levels. The vent she had taken down before was still down, so she grappled in.

Once she was inside the mansion, she smelled a fragrance that was similar to that of roses. Of course, Mitta knew that roses didn't grow inside the mansion, so she wasn't surprised by the sight that she saw.

Large vines were everywhere, making them look like creepers in a jungle. A crimson-coloured gas filled the lower levels. Mitta knew what this stuff was. Poisonous spores. If she inhaled them, she would die in seconds. 

Mitta looked across the room. There was a platform that offered a way into the next room. Getting out her Line Launcher, Mitta aimed and fired at the other side. She slid across, looking around for any more toothed plants. There were none, so she just landed and then grappled up into a room.

Mitta went through the door, looking out onto the main hall. It was the same situation here, except there were some toothed plants here as well, fighting over what Mitta really hoped was beef.

Mitta jumped down onto a walkway. She went over to the end of the room. A vine blocked her way, so she Line Launched to the other side. She then continued along and jumped down onto some stairs.

To her satisfaction, Hook, some guards and a doctor were here. Hook looked at her and said, "Figured you'd be here about now. What's the deal with the plants?"

To this, Mitta replied, "...It's complicated."

"Let me guess... Flower Power?" Hook growled. "He teamed up with Atmosphere?"

"All that matters is that I can stop the plants from taking over the island, but..."

"There's always a 'but', isn't there?"

"Where do you keep Arachnid?" Mitta asked. The guards and the doctor looked at her with surprise and alarm. "I found a door in the sewers but it's sealed shut."

Hook's face transformed into a mix of hatred and fear. "That monster's got his own special cell. It's right below the Transfer Room back in Intensive Treatment. Elevator goes right down to an old sewer. We just drop livestock from Appleloosa down there every day or so and try to forget about him. It's locked off. More security than Atmosphere. You won't get in without the Warden's permission. He has the codes."

"Thanks Hook. Don't go anywhere near the plants. They'll kill you."

With that, Mitta grappled back up to the walkway and made her way back to the exit.

Truthfully, Mitta wasn't looking forward to entering Arachnid's lair. He was terrifying to even think about. He was smart, quick and strong, which wasn't a good combo. Added to that was the fact that there were hundreds of spiders on the island which Arachnid could communicate with. If he was in trouble or distress, then they would all rush to his aid. Mitta really didn't want to be dealing with a hundred venomous, eight-legged beasties.

That said, Mitta had long ago ignored her fear when it rose. In fact, she used that fear to stay alive.

Still...

Mitta exited the mansion, looking down upon the island. All the plants on the island had become sentient and were attacking any non-flora object in their immediate area. That solidified Mitta's resolve. If she didn't face Arachnid, then the whole island would be Flower Power's to control. With that, she glided down, carefully avoiding the plants.

As she walked through the forest, she came upon a group of ponies wearing security guard uniform, but something told Mitta that these were no security guards. Sure enough, as she approached, they all turned around and shouted, "Boo!"

Within seconds, they had surrounded Mitta.

The first thug tried to kick Mitta, but she dodged and kicked him back. She then fired a blast of magic at the next one and threw a thrower at another. The next minion tried to blast her with magic himself, so Mitta dodged and then slid over and punched his face. She then bucked a thug who was sneaking up from behind.

The sixth and seventh thugs rushed in together but ended up on the floor. The eighth one got hit by a thrower. The third thug tried to punch Mitta and got smashed in the face. The fifth got blasted by magic. The second grabbed a metal bar and swung it at her, but Mitta ducked, flipped over the thug and kicked him away. He collided with the first thug as he flew.

The fourth thug got back up and charged at Mitta. She dodged and threw a thrower at the eighth thug. She then picked up the sixth thug and threw him at the fourth. They both went down. The seventh thug got punched in the face and went down. Mitta then leapt on top of the fourth thug and prepared to finish him off on the ground.

Unfortunately, the first thug bucked her off of him.

Mitta blinked and stumbled, before getting back into a fighting stance. As the first thug tried to hit her again, Mitta grabbed him and smashed him into a tree, knocking him out. The seventh thug got knocked out by a thrower while the second got blasted by magic. The fourth and sixth had their heads smashed together and the third got bucked.

Finally, the fifth got punched in the face and the eighth had his foreleg broken.

With the fight over, Mitta exited the forest.

As she neared Intensive Treatment, she heard Moonbow's voice over her radio. "Mitta, every route into Intensive Treatment is locked and I can't do anything to change it."

Mitta looked up and saw a thug on the roof. "There's a sniper up there. If he got in, then I'll find a way in."

Mitta crept around, avoiding the plants and the sniper's line of sight. Deciding to use her Line Launcher, Mitta crept up to one of the two watchtowers, advanced up the stairs, avoiding the red beam that the rifle gave off, and arrived at the top. She got out her launcher and aimed for the opening.

The line hit the wall opposite the thug with a slight sound. He turned, saw the line, spun around and got kicked by Mitta. He went down, but not out, so Mitta advanced and punched his face into the ground. With the thug down, Mitta advanced into Intensive Treatment.

Now in maintenance access, Mitta walked forward a few paces and noticed that the room shook, with dust falling down onto her. Mitta assumed that it was Flower Power growing more plants.

Mitta's headset clicked on and Moonbow's voice came out. "I'm sensing seismic activity all over Moongate Island. Are you okay?"

"For now, yes." Mitta replied. "But Power's plants are taking hold. I have to stop them before he has control of the whole island."

"You'll manage it. You always do." Moonbow replied.

"I know." Mitta said and hung up.

Using her magic, Mitta ripped a grate off the wall and climbed in. As she progressed through, she realised something. She hadn't found Pinkie Pie yet. It was possible that Pinkamena had killed her, but to Mitta's eye, Pinkamena had been too busy throughout this night. She was probably still being held captive somewhere. That was something to work on after she had taken care of the plants.

Mitta climbed out of the grate and experienced another shake. Ignoring it, Mitta grappled up to a platform and tore off another grate. Climbing inside, she crawled along and activated her lenses, just in case. They picked up a few armed thugs, so she pushed out the next grate silently. Creeping along, she found where the thugs were. They were in the first room that Mitta had to take out silently. Peeking out of the grate, Mitta saw what they were doing.

There were about seven or eight thugs, with a few on ladders planting what looked like explosives onto the gargoyles.

Atmosphere's voice then echoed through the P.A. "Have you planted the explosives yet?"

A thug on the ground nodded. "Done!"

"Razor's just finishing his off now." A female thug said.

"Good." Atmosphere said satisfactorily. "Let's test them out."

"What?! No!" Razor shouted in alarm. "I'm still up-"

BOOM

Razor screamed as he plummeted towards the ground.

The thugs all ignored it and went about normally.

As Mitta pushed off a grate, one of the inmates asked, "Why are we beefing up security here again?"

"Atmos wants the building kept free of the Mare." The mare from before replied. "We've sealed off the door. No way in or out."

"No way she's stupid enough to come back here. If she does, the bombs will finish her."

Not unless I don't use the gargoyles. Mitta thought to herself as the grate slipped off. She noticed a thug in front of her grate though, so she stayed put.

"Yeah? Why do you think that'll happen?" The mare thug asked the stallion.

"I just hope she stays away, that's all." The stallion explained as the thug turned his back. "I don't want any more trouble. Atmos's nearly done and then we can all get the Tartarus off Freak Island."

"Yeah, I guess." The mare agreed as Mitta jumped down from her grate and behind the thug.

Mitta grabbed the thug and forced him to the ground, suffocating him into unconsciousness.

Once he was on the floor, Mitta sprayed some explosive gel around his body. Then, she grappled back into her vent.

"You lot may want to observe the walkway to the west." Atmosphere said coldly over the intercom. "And while you're there, keep going."

Immediately, about three thugs headed over to the body. One of them said, "He's right. Stallion down, over here!"

They reached the body. The one that talked before knelt down to the body while the other two clustered around. "Wake up, you hear me? Damn, he's out-"

BOOM

All three thugs flew backward. Quickly, Mitta leapt out of the grate and smashed their heads into the ground, making sure that they wouldn't get up. Then, just as the thugs started investigating, Mitta jumped down from the walkway and hid behind the nearest wall.

Activating her lenses, she watched as the remaining four thugs found the bodies. When they split up, Mitta immediately ran, as two of them were coming her way. She found one of them going down the stairs, so she grappled back up to the walkway and crept up silently to him.

Once behind him, she throttled him until he was unconscious. Then, she sped off again.

"Once again, I have lost faith in my instruments." Atmosphere sighed. "Go find her already!"

Mitta laid down some more gel and sped off and hid behind a small wall. Two thugs crept up to the body. She detonated the gel.

One thug flew off the walkway and hit his head on the floor below, going into unconsciousness. The next one required Mitta to run up and smash his head into the railing. At this point, the last thug leapt down to see what was going on and Mitta pushed him off the walkway to meet the same fate as his friend.

Mitta grappled up to the main room to do something about that door. She found a control panel with two bombs attached to it. Knowing that this would be slightly more difficult, Mitta took out her Sequencer and found the three frequencies. The panel exploded, although the bombs did not, and the gates below deactivated.

Mitta went down and through the door, finding herself in the corridor that she went through to take Atmosphere to his cell at the beginning.

Mitta walked through the corridor, looking around for potential ambushes. There were none, surprisingly. Although there was an odd smell in the air.

Then she started coughing.

Hard.

Then she fell to the floor and passed out.



Mitta's eyes slowly opened. At first, she couldn't really comprehend her surroundings.

Then she sprung upright in shock.

She was strapped to a restrainer. The same one Atmosphere had been strapped to at the start of this whole misadventure. And Atmosphere was standing in front of her, smirking.

In fact, their positions had been completely reversed from before.

"Can I keep her? Pretty please?" Pinkamena asked. She was standing in front of Mitta as well. "I'll feed her and walk her, I promise."

Jeff the Killer and a random thug came up and started pushing Mitta backwards to the end of the hall.

Mitta's mind was reeling. She had absolutely no idea what was happening. Had she been unconscious for too long? How did she get here? Was there something she was missing?

As she was being pushed, she looked around, trying to find some clue as to what was going on. She saw Hook, Twilight, Pinkie and Fluttershy all being herded into a cage. They looked completely defeated, save for Fluttershy, who just looked terrified. The thug herding them gave her a violent shove and she finally got behind bars.

WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON?! Mitta thought frantically.

"You know, you were right all along Atmos." Pinkamena said. "Classic martyr case with delusions of grandeur." She twirled her hoof around her head. "Coo-coo!"

Then they stopped pushing her.

"JuSt GoT tO cHeCk YoUr PrIsOnEr, DeAr." A demonic voice sounded to Mitta's left.

"Whatever, just be quick." Pinkamena said dismissively. "She's not looking too good."

"No, ShE's NoT." Fear Feeder agreed, stepping into Mitta's line of sight. He was wearing a mask that looked a bit like a scarecrow. "We ShOuLd FeEl SoRrY fOr HeR. sHe NeVeR rEaLlY gOt OvEr HeR cItY's FaTe. It LeFt HeR qUiTe InSaNe."

HOW DOES HE KNOW ABOUT THAT?! Mitta was seriously starting to get scared.

"WhAt Is GoInG oN iNsIdE yOuR hEaD, mItTa?" Feeder asked rhetorically. "BaH! sHe'S gOnE. jUsT a TwIsTeD sHeLl Of A mArE."

Mitta snapped. She lunged forward and shouted, "Cut me free!"

Feeder didn't even flinch. He merely stepped back and turned to Pinkamena and Atmosphere. "ShE's AlL yOuR's, AtMoS."

"Oh, goody!" Pinkamena said enthusiastically. "C'mon Atmos, we're ready!"

"Yes, we are." Atmosphere finally spoke. He walked up to Mitta, a grin on his face. "I've waited a long time for this, Mare-Do-Well." He pulled out a laser gun and pointed it to her face. "But you? You will wait for nothing no more."

There was a bright flash of light.

And then darkness.

So that's it. Mitta thought. I'm dead. Great. I failed.

...

...

...

Wait.

Something occurred to Mitta. If she was dead, then she wouldn't be thinking right now. She had no idea what death was like, but she usually imagined it as an endless, black void.

She was also pretty sure that she wouldn't be able to feel dirt coating her entire body.

Mitta pushed her hoof up and through the ground. She quickly found empty space and pulled herself out of the ground. Strangely enough, she didn't have to gasp for breath. She looked around at her surroundings.

Oh. She thought as she surveyed the swirling vortex around her. Well, that explains a lot.

To her right and left were cages were clones of her were acting like maniacs, with one of them even chewing on a rat. Disturbed, Mitta walked across a walkway and leapt across a gap to find herself at a chasm. A large metal wall kept swinging side to side, blocking her way to the other side every now and then. Mitta got out her line launcher waited until the perfect moment until she fired the line and zoomed across.

Once she reached the other side, she felt a massive headache and put her hoof to her head. She then looked up and saw a massive hoof with several needles attached to it. She knew just by looking that it belonged to Fear Feeder.

I'm really tired of this. She thought to herself. Seeing the orange spotlight that was Feeder's line of sight, Mitta waited until he was looking away before leaping over to a canister and hiding behind it. She followed the same procedure until she could leap up and grab onto a ledge.

"WhAt ArE yOu TrYiNg To Do?" Feeder asked the air, jabbing some needles into the ground and spawning a few skeletons.

They rushed at Mitta and one threw a punch at her. Mitta countered it with a punch of her own, destroying the skeleton. She threw another punch at another skeleton, stopped a crowbar from hitting her by pushing it back into her opponent's face, threw a skeleton into another and generally kept smashing skeletons apart until there were none left.

Mitta continued along, climbing up to a higher level and waited for Feeder's gaze to shift before zooming forward and climbing up to a ledge. She ran up to another canister and hid until Feeder looked away. Then she  ran over to the next wall. She leapt to the next platform and ran to her right and quickly slid behind the little nook to avoid Feeder. 

She ran along to the next wall, leaping over a gap on the way, and then continuing on to the next wall. There, she saw a moving crate that could protect her from Fear Feeder's sight. Once it was near her position, she ran behind it and ran in time with it to the next section.

Once Feeder looked away, Mitta jumped over a gap, climbed up a wall, and hid behind a small wall. As she did, Feeder asked mockingly, "ArE yOu ScArEd To CoMe OuT aNd FaCe YoUr FeArS, mArE-dO-wElL?"

Mitta ran over to the next section once it was clear. It happened to be a elevator that slid down once she touched it. Being extra careful, Mitta waited for Feeder to look somewhere else before grappling up to the other elevator.

Once there, Mitta saw the light that had defeated Feeder in her previous hallucinations. She waited for him to turn away, then she ran towards the light.



Fear Feeder looked worryingly at Mare-Do-Well. She seemed to resisting the gas's effects too well. In fact, she looked like she was going to break free any moment now.

That would not do for him. He needed her to fall victim to the drug. He had to break her. He HAD to.

Advancing upon her, he pulled out his needle hoof and said, "I tHiNk YoU nEeD a LiTtLe MoRe."

With that, he jabbed his needles into her foreleg. Mare-Do-Well cried out in pain, whether from the needles or the mind, Feeder couldn't tell. He then forced her into a cage with a group of thugs and locked the door.

"TeLl Me." He said. "WhAt DeMoNs Do YoU hAvE lEfT tO bEaT? sHaLl We SeE?"



Before Mitta could react, the floor broke out underneath her.

And then she fell.

Quickly getting over the surprise, Mitta waited to extend her cape at the last moment. She landed safely, although there was one small problem.

Fear Feeder was staring right at her.

"ArE yOu EnJoYiNg ThE eXtRa DoSe, LiTtLe MaRe?" He asked as skeletons burst out from the ground. "I wOn'T rUsH tHiNgS tHiS tImE. i'M gOiNg To SaVoUr EvErY mOmEnT oF yOuR tErRoR aS i SlOwLy DeStRoY yOu."

One of the skeletons tried to kick Mitta, so she grabbed his legs and shoved him back. She then attacked a different skeleton, punching him until he broke apart. She dodged a bar swing and retaliated with a blast of magic. With that skeleton in pieces, Mitta then dismantled the next one by bucking him.

The skeleton she attacked before tried again, so Mitta shattered his bones with a well-place magic blast. She threw a thrower at another, dismantling it, and then countered a punch with a punch of her own. However, a few more skeletons rose from the ground at this point, so Mitta grabbed one with her Hook and smashed his skull to the ground. With the last two, she grabbed their heads and smashed them together.

Then Mitta noticed something. In front of Fear Feeder were three lights that looked exactly like the Mare-Signal. The one that Feeder was resting his right hoof on lit up, making Feeder immediately let go of it.

However, he said, "YoUr'E fIgHtInG bAcK. gOoD. iT'lL oNlY wEaKeN yOuR rEsOlVe."

Then, a large skeleton pulled itself out of the dirt. It was much bigger than the other skeletons and stood on it's hind legs, so Mitta assumed that this one was meant to resemble a thug on Savage.

It roared and charged at her. Immediately, Mitta threw a thrower and dove aside. The creature kept running and smashed to pieces once it hit the wall.

Mitta blinked. That's it?

The light on Mitta's far right burst on, prompting Feeder to let go of it. He then glared at her without saying anything. A bunch of skeletons then rose up from the ground.

Mitta soon found herself countering punches and kicks left and right. Bones flew everywhere and Mitta found herself having to deal with two Savage skeletons attacking at once. Thankfully, they were all relatively easy to defeat and after countering the final punch, Mitta turned to Fear Feeder.

The final light burst on. Fear Feeder leapt back, blinded. Taking advantage of this, Mitta ran towards the floodlight and pushed it so that it aimed towards Fear Feeder. It sent a super powerful burst of light at him, making him shudder and shake, light pouring out of his body. "No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"

There was a flash of light and Mitta found herself holding Feeder's needle hoof with magic. She also appeared to be in a cage with a bunch of unconscious thugs and one unconscious Savage monster. Fear Feeder was on the other side.

Deciding to press her advantage, Mitta ripped off Fear Feeder's mask, expecting the same angry expression she found whenever she unmasked him before.

To her surprise though, the only expression Mindworks expressed was fear, ironically.

"How are you doing this?" He whispered. He looked at his free hoof and punched Mitta in the face.

She stumbled back and looked at Mindworks. He was cowering and staring at her. "You just ingested enough toxins to drive ten stallions insane!" He almost shouted. "What are you?"

And with that, he ran off.