//------------------------------// // Prologue (Edited) // Story: Scootaloo's Big Daddy // by DarthVendar //------------------------------// It was a peaceful night in Ponyville, the night sky was clear and beautiful, and all around town ponies were turning in for the night. Scootaloo could almost see the other fillies and colts being tucked in by their moms and dads. Scootaloo looked back inside the cutie mark crusaders tree house and suppressed the tears she felt coming. Normally, she would try to be tough like her hero Rainbow Dash, and she wouldn't have any problems sleeping in the tree house, but tonight was different. Diamond Tiara's voice echoed in her skull again. "I bet the reason your daddy doesn't come to parent teacher conference is because he is too embarrassed of having you as his filly." Scootaloo wanted to kick that little brat right on the face, but at the same time she couldn't deny that Tiara was right. Why else would Mom and Dad just leave her on the doorstep of an orphanage with only a note with her name on it? Scootaloo was glad she got out of there; it held too many bad memories. The little orange pegasus walked over to the tree house window and peered up at the night and made a wish. “I wish I had a daddy. A big daddy, that would make Tiara eat her own words and could go crusading with me and my friends." Suddenly a shooting star streaked across the night sky and fell with a quiet thud in the Everfree forest. Scootaloo's eyes grew wide, she wasn't entirely sure what had happened but either something cool had just fallen from the sky or she had a new daddy. She grabbed her cape and charged out into the night ready for adventure. Rapture, 1954 Subject Alpha 9 - 2 Patrolled down the long halls of Rapture with his Little Sister riding on his shoulder. The citizens of Rapture moved out of the way of the seven foot, several hundred pound behemoth, and he wouldn't have liked it any other way. Alpha 9 - 2 was a simple soul of only base intelligence; in fact he didn’t even know his own name. All he knew for sure was that he was supposed to protect and serve his Little Sister. Today was beginning to look like any other; he would carry his Little Sister around, she would point out things she wanted him to go to, then he would get her food, and finally they would head home to the Little Wonder Educational Facility. Today, as Alpha walked in the alleyways behind Fontaine Futuristics, his little Sister noticed something and tapped on his yellow face plate before she pointed off at an object to his right. "Mr. Bubbles look over there. Something is glowing." Alpha slowly turned to face in the direction she was pointing. It wasn't uncommon for her to point out things she wanted him to get for her; however, it was a little strange that she was doing it in a garbage filled back alley and not a toy store. When he finally faced the direction she was pointing he knew without a doubt what she was interested in. Before him, sitting on the ground next to a large dumpster was a Plasmid vial with the word "unstable" taped onto it. It was flashing every color of the rainbow like it was a physical LSD trip. Alpha grabbed his Little Sister and set her on the ground so she could grab the Adam while his mind tried to process what he was seeing. Whenever he found some Adam he would always give it to his Little Sister to drink, and although it looked odd it was still Adam. However, even she was apprehensive of drinking the flashing liquid. She carried the vial over to him and looked up at him with her big yellow glowing puppy dog eyes. "Mr. Bubbles, can you test it and make sure it is safe, please?" How could he possibly say no? Taking out a syringe Alpha took a small dose of the strange Adam. While even the most desperate of Splicers would think twice about injecting such a strange concoction into their blood stream Alpha merely obeyed jabbing the syringe through his suit and into his arm. At first, nothing happened. Alpha emptied the syringe into his arm and Waited for some sort of effect. He was actually worried for a second that he wouldn't get any sort of power from it. His focus shifted to his personal wellbeing when a feeling of agonizing pain and built-up energy threatened to disintegrate him. His body contorted in pain and glowed as the plasmid moved throughout his system. He cried out in agonizing pain and vanished before his Little Sister's eyes. Alpha found himself falling. Falling between space and time as both began to lose meaning. The planes of existence shifted and let him pass by uninterrupted until he finally caught one head on. Suddenly time, space, and gravity had meaning once more as he landed in a wet marsh. Despite his existential crises Alpha 9 - 2 was perfectly fine, and dragged himself out of the marsh with relative ease. Taking a short break the Big Daddy made a mental checklist to make sure he was in fact unharmed. 'Bones don't feel broken, suit seal is secure, and fingers are nonexistent, wait... What?!' Alpha looked at where his hands used to be and stared at his new hooves in shock. Instead of fingers there was now a hard stubby end to each of his arms. Even his suit had been changed giving him metal boots instead. It was as if he never had fingers to begin with. His back legs were no different except that he now had an extra joint that made his leg even less familiar. He wondered how he would use his drill and machine gun now. Suddenly his drill swung out from being behind his hoof and the machine gun came out of a square metal box on his back. It proved too much for Alpha. His mind went through various questions and thoughts as he tried to make sense of it all. 'Why am I some kind of horse?! Where did I get this strange gun saddle and drill!?! Ryan! He must have done this to me! He tore me apart and put me back together again as this thing! Probably for his precious little sisters! Curse you Ryan! Curse you Rapture! Curse you Comstock! Wait.... What did I just say?' The feeling of blood slowly running down his nose brought an end to his brief moment of independent thought. His mind struggled and lagged behind this new universe until he knew who he was. Mainly due to the intense mental programming and conditioning he had received as a Big Daddy. 'I am Subject Alpha 9 - 2. Alpha series Big Daddy. Earth pony. I must protect and serve my Little Sister at any cost.' His existence now making sense Alpha got onto all fours and began searching for his little sister. He was convinced he had only put her down moments ago, but that was in an alleyway and now he was in a marshy forest. Alpha tried to make sense of it all when he heard the sound of a young girl’s screech echo through the air. Alpha charged full speed towards the source of the screaming with one thought on his mind. 'Protect Little Sister.'