//------------------------------// // The Hole in the Ground // Story: The Future is....Ponies? // by TheDawsonator1 //------------------------------// My dreams of the night were of the dark creatures, not able to be seen but with their red eyes glowing. They stalked and stalked until finally they pounced their prey…me! GASP! I woke up, the time was 8:30AM, about 1 & ½ hours until we made out expedition into to hole from whence I came. My thoughts were on those rumored dark creatures that I am sure have to exist, if there’s a rumor of these guys, there’s bound to be those creatures lurking around. But I have Princess Celestia on my side for the moment, and I know of her power, not many creatures would dare take up arms against her, not even most of the Immortals. Princess Celestia must at least remember a little bit of humanity, perhaps even having a secret library or something hidden around somewhere, preserved until a later time or a time in the past and to be used again in the future. I got a new set of clothes on, courtesy of Rarity of course! Got my machete and Bow and Arrows and I picked up, and got as about ready as ready could be defined for me. Twilight of course had to tell her five most trusted friends of course about the truth about the humans and the “Everything you knew bout the past foundations was completely bullshit” story. Speaking of which, they were all here by 9:50AM, the Princess was due to arrive in 10 minutes and now we wait… About 10 minutes passed before I saw the white Alicorn that is Celestia. She did not come with guards or anything…you know, because it’s a secret mission even the guards didn’t know, probably even Celestia’s Second in command didn’t know about this. She arrived and with quick conversation with Twilight, she and Twilight came inside and all of us were inside as well waiting to hear what will be said. Celestia then enters the room and looks seriously at all of us. “Listen, what we are about to do must NEVER be uttered to another soul, nothing about the truth here must be uttered to any other soul other than the ones in this room and Princess Luna and Princess Cadence, are we clear?” Celestia says in a serious tone. “Yes, Princess” every pony in the room said. “Now, I’ve casted the necessary enchantments to prove that we never left this room, we never went to an underground city and most of all, the next few hours never happened. There will be danger perhaps in this underground city, be on your guard at all times” Celestia warns Celestia is damn serious about this secrecy, I’ll tell you that much. Every pony was sworn to a Pinkie Promise. From what I gather, the Pinkie Promise is a contract with the devil and you’ll have a demonic Pinkie Pie running after you should you DARE break a Pinkie Promise! “Gather around my little ponies, we will teleport to the spot, all of you need just keep a hold on me” Celestia says, I think that last part was meant for me. I grab on Princess Celestia’s back as others took their grip, with a lighting of her horn, we teleported! The sensation of spinning and a slight lack of air for the tiniest of milliseconds was present. We landed at our destination, a wild dizziness came over me and then started to disappear slowly. What did matter is the same hole I crawled out of is in front of our very eyes. “There it is, the hole to the ancient past or basically a couple of days ago for me in my mind” I say “Twilight, Fluttershy and Rainbow, could you carry the rest of you friends down there? Joel, climb onto my back” Celestia orders “You sure your back can take that?” I ask “Of course it can, Joel.” Celestia says Yeah, I was riding Princess Celestia down the hole…OH FOR GOD’S SAKE YOU’RE THINKING IT AREN’T YOU? YOU DIRTY MINDED ASSHOLE!! Can’t even go into a future without this crap turning into sexual innuendos every 10 seconds. Aside from that, I was riding a flying pony, can you not say that is at least awesome? Of course we landed twenty seconds later but hey, it worked. “This rubble is the skyscraper that collapsed isn’t it?” Twilight asks “Yeah, I guess it couldn’t hold 3000 years or magic must of weakened it’s structure, I’d say the first one probably happened” I reply “This ruin is ugly” Rarity says stupidly “Of course it is Rarity, I hope Twilight did not drag you here on the promise of gems and human fabric, you may be disappointed. And for a note, some jewelry worn by woman can be fake but so realistic it would be a much more closer inspection to determine the difference” I turn to Rarity “Most buildings are still standing, it has felt like a million years since I was back in a human city” Celestia says “You remember it don’t you?” I ask Celestia’s face was all the answer I needed as she remembered back in such times. “I remember, the grass on which Luna and I would play on, before the meteorite struck, I remember growing up on such a divided planet, a four-legged creature without too much an explanation other than that meteorite did something” Celestia reflects “Did you ever find out anything interesting about it?” I ask “No, as much as anypony tried, turned or not turned, nopony found an answer, and any close sign of progress may have been eliminated by the war. Even with this extraordinary magic, the remaining humans and their weapons did put a massive fight and even the mother of all nukes wiped anything within 300 kilometers just from the explosion, destroying most of Europe” Celestia answered “Jesus! They went that far?!” I half-shouted God, did the humans re-enact Hiroshima but bigger and deadlier?! “What’s a nuke?” Pinkie asked “It’s a bomb, designed to incinerate and blow the fuck out of anything in the blast radius. I think they withhold these things because of civillains and such or there is not a need to. Now, I never knew much about these things but an average nuke would do about 10 kilometers at most I reckon but the radiation from the nuke would be much bigger. Put it this way, one bomb drops from the air and once it hits the ground anyone even within seeing distance would be absolutely destroyed and if they somehow survive that, the radiation from that nuke would end them” I explain “And this one was 300 kilometers?” Rarity asked ignorantly “Yes” Celestia answered “How the humans made something like that and used it, I don’t want to even know! Since the amount of nukes existing in 2015 were enough to blow the Earth up to smithereens and the moon too many times over” I say My god, and I thought we humans were bad enough with blowing things up, but at magical creatures? How could the Humans do this? “Entire countries could be wiped off the planet with some of these nukes, if the explosion itself was 300 kilometers wide, that’s a fucking explosion and then some more!” I say “Let’s change the subject” Celestia says wisely I see Fluttershy sobbing into Rainbow Dash, I feel really guilty about this subject, I can’t help but feel some “What the hell?!” towards the humans, this prejudice ended up in the mother of all nukes. But still, i felt guilty raising this subject with someone as sensitive as Fluttershy. Something got my mind of nukes when I saw it: the familiar building I exited out of when I first woke up. “That building there, it’s the building where I woke up” I say to Celestia I open the door, and the blue light from the capsule was still active. How much battery could that light have? Celestia lit her horn as a torch of sorts the light the way. I walked to the note I read when I first woke up and showed Celestia. She read it and then handed it to Twilight who read the note. “This scientist sounds insane” Twilight comments “You’re telling me, I want to know who he was at least” I look towards the note as I say it. “I did not know a Human being capable of this technology” Celestia says “Either he really has accomplished this in the present time or he invented this in the future, got back to the present just to freeze a random guy from 2015. I’d say the former makes more sense. But still five year technology advance seemed to have spurted all the sudden” I say my view on the subject “Still, I for one think that if something like this was kept so hidden, there may be other things Humans could of left that went unnoticed by the Immortals and their races” Celestia theorized That sounds like fair logic, but I think this may be a one-off sort of thing personally… After leaving the room and going down a couple of streets, my back was getting a weird tingling feeling. I turned my head back and it was just Fluttershy and Rarity behind me. Still, I was getting bad vibes for some odd reason, maybe it was moving away from the natural light that got me a little scared, or the fact this place is ruined and it’s really quiet. It’s almost daring a horror movie monster to come out any minute. I went into a clean looking house for a search, found a diary and a photo of some dude’s family, mind you, some of the family were ponified. Did they turn on each other? Were they separated? Or did they escape somewhere and die out naturally? I decided to flip through the diary. The last few entries seemed to be at the meteor landing. 25th May, 2020 I don’t know what happened! One minute I was walking through the mall with my friends and then the next something fell and threw the roof down on us. We escaped by then we all lost consciousness. When I came to, I found most of my friends were these weird coloured ponies with horns and wings on them. I screamed for my life diary, the others also did. But we weren’t the only ones this has happened to, the whole country has apparently been infected with this weird thing. I need time to think… 26th May, 2020 I’m afraid now! They started rounding the ponified humans on trucks, it wasn’t contagious but they were taking all my friends away. I couldn’t stop it! I feel so alone! Only Jessica remains with me and my dad, my mum got turned too! I WANT MY FRIENDS BACK! 30th June, 2020. What? WAR?! We’re going to war with the ponies?! And the griffons, minotaurs and all creatures magical? I don’t want to fight! They’ll make me shoot my friends most likely! I can’t back out away from this. Lord, if you exist, please spare me and my friends from this madness. 31st October 2023. Oh my god! I killed Ashley! I didn’t mean to! I-I was in a raid for intel and something scared me and I shot Ashley, one of my friends that turned into a pony. Oh, please forgive me! 31st December 2025 I couldn’t take it anymore, this war will never end! Why are we even going to war with them, they’re the same as us! Sure they have magic but we could co-exist in peace! This war has shed too much blood, some of it on my hands. I ran away back to my old home, they are coming after me, I don’t think I’ll live to see another day. Goodbye Diary, please forgive me my friends. I noticed a skeleton near the diary, the person clearly was a girl. The poor girl must have been terrified out of her wits. Either the humans or the ponies got her, I don’t know as there aren’t any bullets anywhere. I heard creaking and then shrieks that belonged to none of my friends. I darted out of the house quickly to investigate. “What the hell was that?” I ask “Nothing I know of, and I know it isn’t friendly” Celestia says “So we’re not alone?” Dash asks “I think we may want to move to another area completely” Twilight said wisely. Then I see them, black creatures, both bipedal and four-legged creatures. Shadows emanating them in quite a dark manner, I got the obvious feeling these guys aren’t here for a meet and greet. “Uh, girls. We may want to run. And I mean run like fucking hell run!” I say “Don’t stand there! RUN!” Celestia orders quickly The Black creatures started running towards us and we ran like hell, I kept my human speed too, if it needs to, I may have to use the super speed. I am sure Celestia could of dealt with them but there was the risk of us getting in the way of her fighting if she did choose to fight. For now, this is basically something close to the Zombie Apocalypse…that’s more like it!