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// A Coltnapping 
// Story: A Harmless Plague 
// by DiamondTheHedgehog556 
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	I wake up to the sound of rustling coming from just outside the door. Assuming it’s the Doctor, I say, “Brass Key.” I know that much since that’s what he’s holding whenever he walks in.
However, a voice says, “Quiet you!” as the doorknob starts shaking violently. That’s not his voice. I say in my mind. 
I hear other hoofsteps as I hear a female voice say, “Come on, we don’t need him. There are plenty of others.” Her voice sounded familiar but I couldn’t place it.
“He’s the best one that’s compatible and STILL ALIVE!” The first voice says. Still alive? I ask myself. What does he mean by that?
The door slammed open and two ponies came in. A gray earth pony with a spikey black mane, small spikey black tail, a locked door for a cutiemark, and he was wearing black suit and had an ear piece. Beside him was a blue mare unicorn with a fluffy blue and orange mane and tail. She had a book for her cutiemark. Like her voice, she looked very familiar, but I couldn’t place it.
“Sorry Hex.” She says as the agent looking pony points his gun at me. Without warning, he knocks me out with a single hit.
I wake up to the sound of a gunshot. I open my eyes and I’m in a confined, black room with nothing but a small light hanging from the ceiling. I’m tied to a table. I see the two ponies from before. The blue mare has a worried look on her face and the agent pony is holding a gun towards the ceiling.
“Good, you’re awake.” He puts the gun away.
I look at the ponies and ask, “Where am I?” I’m not usually so afraid. Then again, I’ve never been coltnapped before.
The mare says, “I’m sorry, but you’re our newest test subject.”
“Test subject? For what?”
The agent says, “For the disease. Only a few ponies are compatible with the serums we’re gonna be using. You happen to be one of them.”
The mare says, “Sorry again, Hex.”
Almost immediately, I yell, “Alright, who are you and why are you so familiar?”
She cocks her head sideways and says, “You… don’t remember me?”
“You look familiar.”
“My name is Pray Tell.” It took me a minute, but then I remembered…
Many years ago, before I’ve met Rainbow and before the quarantine broke, there was Pray Tell, or just Pray. She had almost become a romantic interest for me, but it seemed to me that, while we did love each other, we never got further than holding hooves. Things were going great, to my 7 year old mind that is, when she came to me and broke my heart.
“I’m sorry, but my parents have found work far away from here. We’re going to be living in a lab in Canterlot.” I could do nothing but stare with my eyes mouth wide open. She was like life to me. We had our final goodbyes staring out at a pond not far from Ponyville. For the first time, we kissed. It felt amazing, yet terrible at the same time. I thought I never would’ve seen her again.
I looked at her and said, “P…Pray?” She nods. The agent pulls out a syringe with a green liquid inside.
“Now be still, this will hurt and it may kill you.” He says. I scream and start jerking around. 
“You’re crazy! You’re fucking crazy!” I yell as I feel the bars holding me down start to loosen.
“He’s breaking free!!!” He yells. I wanted to say, “No shit Sherclop Pones.” But I just keep screaming. All I could really do. I finally felt the bars break and I jump off. I look around for the nearest door and run out. 
I can’t even remember what happened next, all I know is that I was outside and running into the Everfree forest… and I kept running. 
I finally tire myself out and fall to the ground next to a tall tree. I lean against it and look around at the dark forest. I wished I had done something more logical, like looking to see if Ponyville was anywhere around. But it was too late for that. I put my hoof against the tree to pull myself up. As I do, I notice bumps. Not usual tree bumps, but it was as if a pony carved something into the tree. I look at it and written in the tree was, “Twilight Area. Do not enter.”
I said, “What the hell is a Twilight?” before I felt a pain on the back of my neck and I fell unconscious. The last things I see are 4 purple hooves.
I wake up to the warmth of a fire, a hot steamy smell of boiling water, and a couple hoofsteps around me. I open my eyes to see a purple Alicorn with the white eyes of all the infected. She was walking around, mumbling to herself.
“Hello.” I say. She jumps at me with her horn pointed right at me. “What are you gonna do with that? The infection changes the magic. Killing me might kill you or leave you to die with your supplies gone.” She shoots a beam at a tree. The magic was perfect and controlled.  “Nevermind then.” 
“Who are you and who sent you?!” She yells.
“Geez, woman. No need to yell. I’m Hex and I came here when escaping that lab… somewhere.” I say. “No one sent me.”
“Good. If they want me, they got a fight coming.” She gets off me and starts walking around, mumbling to herself. There’s another voice.
“Twilight! Hey Twilight, how’s the new guy?!” It yells.
The purple Alicorn, who I assume is Twilight, yells, “He’s awake Note!” I see a stallion Pegasus walks in  from the trees. He’s pure white with a fluffy blue mane and short tail, a lightbulb for a cutiemark, and he had saddle bags filled with what I assume are supplies.
“Um, hello.” I say.
The stallion says, “I’m Note.”
“I’m Hex.” I say.