//------------------------------// // When I Wake Up // Story: Nano Swarm in Equestria // by BioChemicalWolfGear //------------------------------// Author: So basically I’m trying to change up the point of views so that there are paragraphs with 3rd and 1st person view points. I also changed it so that when Cole is thinking too himself its like this so yea that’s also a bit new. Ok not liking how it turns out right now…But it’s ok because this is just a meh story that I just felt like throwing together. If you find it entertaining then like and if not don’t. I’ve also noticed I got more favorites on this one than my other one. (Before I deleted to be rewritten) So I WILL CONTINUE THIS STORY ALL THE WAY THROUGH! Expect some delays though because I am now working on 2 stories at once. (And working on the italicized words that won’t transfer over -.-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “So you’re a Cosmonaut?” Asked the lavender pony. “Yea.” Said Cole John Cole has been talking with the lavender pony for hours. Politics and origins were what usually went between them but Cole took extra precaution in making sure he doesn’t come off as a soldier. Said enough about the military to give her an idea of how it’s structured but not too much too make her suspicious. “Oh hey Twilight. Is there any possibility I can get you to find a doctor to check on me again? I want to prove to them that I’m ready too leave.” “Well ok but you can’t leave until their done. Oh and were will you stay when you get out?” Ok didn’t think of that. Maybe a hotel? Wait I don’t know what kind of currency they use. FUCK! “Yea that’s going to be a problem.” “Not to worry I have a few good idea’s with who you can stay with. Actually since you probably would cause some commotion by walking around town I have already narrowed it down to possibly three…Ok scratch that two.” “Possibly three?” “Well you’ll have too fly for that one…And I don’t think she would agree.” I need to know how too fly? “What do you mean need to know how to fly?” “Well she’s a Pegasus and-“ “What!? No way that’s possibly the coolest thing ever. Can I meet her at some point?” “Sure I’ll get her on my next visit. But to stay with her you’ll need to fly and I don’t see wings.” “Ok. One moment Twilight gotta check something.” Ok how do I access my library ag-oh there it is! Ok lets see is there a flight capability here? Ah there column 3 row 6 and that looks like…Oh ok I’ll need a nano field before I can- “Umm what are you doing? You’re just sitting there.” “Oh yea I’m checking my Nano library.” “Wait you told me about Nanobots but Nano library?” “Okay well the Nano library is were Nano tech users can access their abilities.” “I thought you said they are mostly used for military purposes.” FUCK! “There also used for commercial uses too. I chose too get them because I'm an engineer and being able to use Nanotech to lift heavy objects allows me to be more efficient. And paid more!” “Oh well that makes sense. So can you lift something right now?” “Well. No I just got the upgrades and I need too wait for my hands to grow the Swarm Bay. Well I think that’s what it’s called.” “So how many Nanobots do you have on you? From my understanding there so small that you can’t see them so how do you know when there around?” “Well they emit a blue glow when they are concentrated.” “Oh you mean like magic?” “Magic?” Said Cole with a skeptical tone. “Yea like this. Uh oh see that book over there?” Twilight points with her hoof too a book that was on top of a medicine cabinet. “Ok?” “Watch.” Her horn lights up in a purple aura. Another purple aura lights up the book as well and it starts to hover over toward them. Cole gapes in amazement. “Whoa…” The book gently lands in front of Cole and it opens up. “Whoa! Ok that’s cool. I wonder if I can do that with the Nanobots.” “Well you can try. But do you have enough of them?” “Just enough to make quite a bit of drones and finish the construction within my body.” Ok this is pretty cool with all the magic stuff. Maybe I can learn magic. “You think I can learn magic?” “No you need a horn.” Of course. “But from what you told me magic is similar to Nanotech so that shouldn’t be the problem.” Still doesn’t fill the empty void in my soul. “Well you’re right I guess. Hey can you fly with your magic?” “Well I haven’t tried. And I don’t really want too unless I have too because I don’t want to accidently fall. Pegasi can fly almost nonstop and unicorn magic runs out so there is a big risk in doing it.” “Yea ok. Kinda disappointed. Anyway what do you eat? Not meat right? Horses are herbivores were I come from.” “Yea only plants. Why?” “I’m a human. Omnivore so I need both food groups. Well I don’t need meat but it helps me stay in shape.” “Well I don’t feel comfortable watching you eat a squirrel. And there are ponies who really hate carnivores so you’re better off letting people know you like to eat hay or something.” “Well I don’t like eating hay. It’s terrible and has bad manners!” Twilight found that funny and gave a small giggle. “Well what do humans eat other than animals?” “Bananas, oranges, carrots, apples, grapes and other stuff.” “We got those. I’ll tell the nurse to serve you those food types when you’re out.” “Thanks Twilight. Oh hey who was it that brought me here?” “My zebra friend Zecora.” “Ok visiting hours are over now.” Said the doctor. After which Twilight leaves the room the doctor heads over to the other patient in the room. Cole couldn’t see the other pony because there was a tarp that blocked his view. He chose this moment to check out the data banks that he was given during infusion. Ok lets see what we got here…Oh I can check my nano count…the fuck? Damn 1,572,589 is a lot! WHAT THE FUCK! It’s only 20% fully functional? The hell is going on with my equipment! Oh that’s new…Huh? I can make clothing out of nanobots? I can sure use that. Oh flight is very possible if I…oh that sounds painful. Maybe I could just try to jump with them instead…Oh I can do that? Ok well I didn’t think I could but now that I know all I need now is to figure out how to turn myself green…No fucking way! That’s an option?! Holy shit military grade Nanobots RULE! Why the hell would the science division make that possible? Oh it’s for stealth ok never mind. Oh wait I can disappear if I want? FUCK YEA I CAN TOTALLY SPY ON-oh wait yea this world doesn’t have human chicks…I feel totally safe in my mind. No one can listen too my awesome thoughts. I wonder if the nanobots can record them? OH FUCK THEY CAN! Shit how do I dele- “Excuse me sir?” “WHOA! Don’t sneak up on a man while he’s deep in thought bro.” “Umm sorry but what was your name?” “John Cole.” “Ok John Cole I’ll just add that too the clipboard.” “Hey doctor you think I can leave?” “No not yet you still need too heal. You have broken bones that won’t heal themselves.” “Well doctor I don’t have any broken bones. And I’m fully capable of walking out on my own right now.” “I doubt that, but I will need some tests tomorrow to fully understand your situation. I’m not familiar with your anatomy so I will need to take a few X-rays and figure out what’s natural and what’s not.” “Well I can help you out. I know my body pretty well. I’ll show you what shouldn’t be there if you need me too.” “Well all right. You should rest up for now. I heard that there are a lot of ponies in Ponyville that want to meet you. I sent them all away except Twilight who had a letter from the princess saying that she wanted to know more about you.” Wait letter from the princess!? You mean she kept the truth from me too? Well I can see why she would. It could encourage me to clam up about what I was if I knew she had direct ties too the princess…Now that I think of it that whole librarian story seemed off. I’M A FUCKING DUMB ASS! “Wait she said she had a Pegasus friend. If they come here will you allow her in?” “Well it depends. If Twilight isn’t with her I won’t let her in because there are a lot of ponies in Ponyville who know Twilight.” “Really? Wait Ponyville? Know what never mind I don’t need to know that now.” “All right Mr. Cole I’ll let you rest now.” “Thank you doctor.” The rest of the day seemed to go by very fast. It was soon dusk and then night. Cole fell asleep really easy and had a dream about the last moments of the Trinity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “Armor! What do we do!?” “Evasive maneuvers! Don’t let the Titan fire at us dead on!” *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM* The entire ship rumbled and the power went out. The backup generators came on and gravity plating and stabilizing was reactivated. Matt looks at his console and sees that only 1/3 of the Trinity was being registered by the internal sensors. “Oh fuck!” “Sir?” “We’re floating. Dead space awaits our voyage Lt.” “Sir how bad is it? What’s the damage?” the Lt. sounded panicked and had every right to be. “We’re not even flying half a ship.” “T-the crew?” “All decks are gone.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cole didn’t realize this at the time but when the Titan ion disruptor fired it not only took out most of the ship; but it also tore open a hole in the bridge. Nano shielding was fast enough so not much oxygen got out. However thanks to the ships power supply being at the rear of the ship, the back up generator near the bridge didn’t have enough power so the nano shielding started to deteriorate. Matt died of depressurization and suffocation. Matt would have been struggling for air rather than talking to the Lt. at the navigation station. The Lt. would’ve also been dead before then too since he was in the back were the nano shield was being pulled up after he was sucked out into space. Author: Grim but beautiful :’) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cole wakes up after seeing these images of his crews’ fate. He knew Matt was dead by now. No one has ever survived an ion weapon of that magnitude before. It didn’t matter if Matt got hit with it. The escape pods would have been without power if he did survive. Cole finds him self in the dark room wide awake. With nothing too do he searches his data banks. He found the entertainment that he believed was supposed to be a practical joke at first glance. But when he saw the pony resting on top of the logo he couldn’t help but think of the lavender pony he just saw. In fact it almost looked exactly like that same pony. Curiosity made Cole watch an episode. Each one made him feel like his manhood was being ripped away but he continued anyway. He had too do this after he realized that the ponies in each episode was a real creature in this world. Or that was his theory that he hoped he would be able to test out later that day. He got to the sonic rainboom episode before he stopped. Shit I need to get out of here and figure this out. I’ll send out a scout. Cole holds his hands in front of him self and a cyan orb forms between there void. The orb was a perfect orb of nanobots that Cole controlled. After it made a connection with his mind he was able to sense its every movement and see all around it. It was like experiencing the room rather than seeing it. The orb made its way to the door and dissipated between the cracks around its corners and disappeared. Author: I thought it was pretty bad ass to type ‘between there void’ XD and I will get annoying with my sudden wall breaking! “AAAAAAAAAAAAH!” I love my handy work. The orb made its way out each door and slowed down to lip between each of there corners. It eventually made its way outside and flew into the skies. Everything in viewing distance can be sensed easily by Cole and it felt godly. Being able too see the world-No feel the world! It was amazing. But he could also feel the sky and he could somewhat sense colors. Though the orb wasn’t alone in the sky. A pony seemed to notice and they went up to follow it. It seemed to be grey with blond hair. Though grey was a strange color for such a colorful world. But the pony was blocking the senses of the orb by just being behind it so Cole dissipated the orb enough so it couldn’t see it but Cole could still see the world. The pony looked around and went back to the ground. With this distraction gone the orb returned too its proper state were it continued unchallenged. The doctor enters the room and goes too the pony on the other side of the room. “You’re fully healed and you can leave the hospital.” He wheels the pony out in a wheel chair and leaves the room. Ok that was. Kind of an anti-climax “Oh Mr. Cole? I’ll be back in about five hours to take you to the screening room.” “Ok then.” Now that Cole was alone again he had some time too go back to the scout. He now notices that it again wasn’t alone. Only now that he is better with colors and he couldn’t tell exactly what color this was. It seemed to hit every spectrum of colors and- HOLY SHIT IT’S RAINBOW DASH! Cole didn’t know what to do. Rainbow was the fastest flyer of Equestria. A fact he learned from the episodes that were downloaded from the Trinity. (Shut up it’s my story IT DOESN’T NEED TO MAKE SENSE) He tries to dissipate the orb so she couldn’t see it and it works. He moves it a far distance from her and assembles it again. Though her eyes were amazing and she saw it from miles away. She speeds toward it before Cole dissipates it again and she kicks it. Smashing the orb and making the nanobots separate. They will assemble once again and in a more concentrated form. The orb was even smaller so it almost looked like the snitch from Harry Potter. (Fuck you harry potter is still cool in 2200 or something!) Only it was three inches larger than an actual snitch. The concentration of the orb made its cyan glow look solid. Then the orb dissipates back to its regular size. Ok seriously I’m not going to fight this! Ok maybe if I slowly fly it to the hospital then I can explain everything too her so she wouldn’t do this again. Hang on maybe Twilight can help? No she’s asleep I can sense her. Cole makes the cyan orb move toward Ponyville at a more passive pace so it didn’t startle the rainbow Pegasus. She took the bait quite well and she started to follow the orb. Though she seemed to be quite annoyed with the orb and she seemed to be talking to it. It made its way to the hospital and she stopped some distance away watching the orb go into the hospital. Cole stopped it so the Pegasus could get the idea to follow it inside. She figured this out pretty quick since it didn’t take very long for her to continue chase. Rainbow ends up inside the hospital and she is greeted by the pony known as Red Heart. Red Heart sees the orb and stares with her mouth at the same level as the floor. Rainbow continues to follow the cyan orb unhindered by the nurses and attracting a lot of attention. She manages to find the room that Cole was in and the cyan orb returns to Cole’s side. “Sup!” Said Cole. Rainbow’s jaw dropped when she saw the orb hovering passively next to the creature Zecora found in the woods. “W-what are you?” “A human. You’re a pony. I spoke to Twilight but I didn’t explain this.” Cole points to the orb. “It’s what I use to look around while I’m stuck here. Can you do me a favor and don’t kick it? It hurts me when it’s damaged.” Cole lied “Oh sorry about that I didn’t know!” “No it’s ok. But can you just let it go in peace?” “Umm. Sure?” “Thank you. You may go now. Oh and I would like too see you during visiting hours if the doctor doesn’t agree with me and still thought I need an operation.” “Umm. Ok? Why with me?” “You fly faster than my drone. Why not with you?” Gotta admit feelin’ pretty baller right now. “Oh well I guess that makes sense. I am the fastest pony in all of Equestria!” “Good too know. Explain more later I’ve got to send this thing back into the clouds.” Cole holds his hand up to the orb and sends more of his nano swarm into it. This creates a strange anomaly that looked like a small heat wave going from Cole’s right hand to the cyan orb. The orb grows even larger from this and looks more thicker. Nurse Red Heart comes in the room and stares at the orb for a while until she says. “What’s that?” “It’s Jesus. Get to worshiping.” OH GOD THAT WAS AWESOME! I'm going to fuck up someone's day! “What?” “Ok well it’s actually my only way of being able to see outside without my eyes. I can sense the world around this object and I can look around Ponyville.” “Oh well that’s good to know. Anyway what would you like for breakfast?” “Squirrels.” There was a long silence. That felt so good. “P-pardon me?” “What I’m an omnivore! It’s not a strange request. I could do with some cabbage or carrots. Or apples too those are all right.” “Ok I’ll see what I can do. But we don’t have meat.” She leaves. Rainbow speaks up after she leaves. “What the hay? Who do you think you are?!” “John T. Cole?” I’ll probably get executed for that but at least I’m upholding my former trolling wishes. “Red Heart’s father was killed by a timber wolf! You should apologize!” “Can I apologize by killing that same wolf that killed her father?” “What? NO! Well…I don’t know. But you should apologize!” “Ask. No I’ll ask. And don’t worry I will.” Well I guess I’m fucked! Oh well I’ll just give her the option too kill that wolf. And maybe apologize a bit. Wow my mind sounds pretty stupid when I think about it. “Hey I don’t mind lending a hand but ok I’ll let you solve this on your own.” “All right. Leave me for a while. And see me with Twilight too if you want.” Cole lifts his hand to the orb once again and puts more of his swarm into the orb. He now has very little left inside his body. In fact most of his swarm is in the orb itself. “So exactly what are you doing with that now?” “Oh I’m nothing.” “Doesn’t look like nothing.” “Well it really is none of your concern.” “What do you mean by that?” “Ok leave. We’ll talk later ok?” “Fine but this isn’t the end of this conversation.” Rainbow Dashes out the door. (Pun totally intended) Almost simultaneously the cyan orb leaves and returns to the skies and above the forest searching for the wolf. Then Nurse Red Heart comes in with a trey of apples, carrots, and lettuce. She places the trey in Coles lap and he immediately starts chewing on an apple. Then the nurse starts to leave and he made a grunting noise that got her attention. Cole makes a ‘come here’ motion with his free hand. “Need anything?” Silence while Cole chews the apple and swallows. “Yea I want to talk to you about my comment earlier.” “Oh that it was nothing. Now I really need to-“ “No no! I know what happened. I want to apologize for my comment. I'm sorry.” “…Well ok thank you.” She turns to the door. “Not done.” Red Heart stops and turns back to Cole. “Are you still hurt from that? Like emotionally?” “N-no of course not! It’s in the past now.” She said nervously. “But you don’t think so?” “What do you mean?” “You’re still hurt about it. I can tell because my nanotech allows me to sense the world. Before my orb left I could feel your heartbeat increase. And other physical changes that are associated…With rage.” “Umm no I’m over it!” She was now almost panicking. “No you’re not. I can feel it. You just won’t admit it.” “That’s not true!” “Close the door. This conversation is private and I can tell that the volume will only increase as we speak.” Red Heart goes to the door and closes it. Then she slowly moves her way back to Cole’s bed side were he holds his left hand up a few inches to her face. A small cyan swarm appeared on his finger tips. “This small orb here will read your thoughts. Imagine the timber wolf in your mind and I will see it.” Surprisingly enough she seemed ok with this entirely. She closed her eyes and imagined the timber wolf. She saw it kill her father. This was obvious since she remembered her fear and sadness along with the image of the timber wolf. It had a scar on the side of its face. Easy enough to spot right? But it was difficult to know how that may have healed or worse if the rain would have kept the wood wet and it would blend with the undamaged wood around it. Hmm quite literally a timber wolf. That is impressive for this world. “Ok I can see it. Ah ok now I see a pack around my scout.” Cole’s scout was dissipated enough so the timber wolves couldn’t see it. Though none of them had an actual scar so he moved on to another group. And another group and another group. He discovered a much larger group with an alpha male that was much larger than the others. He was roughly a foot longer and taller than all the others. He also had a scar. It was him! “Red Heart I found your fathers killer.” “Y-you what?” “Oh yes my scout is in front of him right now.” “W-what?” “I can kill it if you want me too.” “YOU CAN WHAT?!?! Nononononono! You can’t its. Wrong.” “It’s a creature that lives without true purpose other than to kill. From my understanding of magic timber wolves are just side effects of other magical items. The timber wolf seems to be the head of a very very large pack. If I were to kill it the pony eating pack should die along with it. Are you sure you want this opportunity for revenge and justice to simply disappear?” “…….no” Red Heart looks at the ground almost ashamed. “Well what do you choose?” “Do it.” She looked up with fire in her eyes that only someone with greatly suppressed rage could have. “Done.” The drone formed into a proper sphere once again and formed a spear that was angled toward the timber wolf. The other wolves started to growl at the scout and it thrust forward piercing the timber wolves’ skull. It goes limp as the magical aura leaves its body. The pack falls lifeless before the orb.