Chapter 2:Appendage
By SinclairThompson.mlp
The elevator came to a slow stop the door pausing for a moment before hissing open, twilight stood there for a moment not sure to come out but she felt her hooves move forward left then right.
She peeked out the door none of the creatures seemed to have followed her on the way up and now the room was still, silent, and nerve racking.To the left she could see three steps leading to a small room with no walls just a skeleton, she walked towards the steps in the small room was a dead body of an earth pony his body limp and seemed to be eaten on some parts, the sight churning twilights stomach.
The body was leaning against a bench the wall behind him had the words "cut off their limbs" written in his blood.On the bench layed a small weapon sitting there as if an angel had set it there, just for her.
As she walked up to it the small chest display portrayed a holographic image reading in medium sized letters," PLASMA CUTTER", she stared at the display then back to the weapon, then slowly reached her hoof to the plasma cutter and picked it up, a slight feeling of assurance came to her mind.
On the side she saw a small tab that read,"ALT", without thinking she flipped the tab its front end switching to a horizontal position in a second startling her, twilight played with the tab flipping back and fort back and forth.
The moment was short lived as a violent rustle started behind the door to the left she looked in the direction, behind the door she heard a stallions voice crying for help,"HELP!!! HELP!! GET IT OFFFF!!", twilight bolted for the door its circular hologram reading locked, she searched frantically for a way to open the door her eyes then rested on a purple glowing circuit.
Aiming the plasma cutter at the circuit she fired, the weapon shot out a bolt of plasma striking the circuit with a shower of sparks the doors hologram went to unlocked and twilight thrust her hoof unlocking it.
Just as the door opened twilight witnessed the creature thrust the stallion to the ground, before she could lift up the weapon the creature stabbed him multiple times then pulling his leg off, the stallion released a blood curdling scream as his rig went dead.
Twilight shot a bolt of plasma into the torso of the creature throwing it back, but it just stared at her a low growl came from its throat as it lunged at her both talons outstretched for the kill. Twilight jumped back remembering the words on the wall as she dodged the creatures swings, quickly switching the alt onto the horizontal fire she squeezed a bolt at a leg the searing hot plasma slicing through the flesh and bone like butter.
Screaming in rage and pain the creature crawled swiftly towards her with its upper-hooves, another bolt ripped through one of its upper hooves and it collapsed to the ground dead, coagulated blood ozzing from the torn appendages and body.
Twilight stood there panting, starring at the mutated creature her legs felt like thin columns of jello ready to just fall and never get up. Stepping cautioulsy over the now dead creature twilight starred at the limp body of the stallion, now a rag doll just lieing there twisted and mangled his cold dead eyes seemed fixed on twilight as if blaming her for his death.
"God, oh god why, god...", twilight wimpered to herself as she shut her eyes as tight as she could, trying to block out what just happened.
"If she just reacted and not of just frozen he would have been alive", twilight thought to herself, "alive and breathing thanking her for saving his life", but no that was not the case, he was still very much dead his eyes like two glass water filled orbs casting a cold glare upon her soul.
She stepped over his corpse and made her way down the hallway cautiously, a fine mist had settled upon the blood caked floors, glowing faintly on the ground twilight saw a small metal tablet which read,"audio log", finding a small activation button she pressed it and the log played, a panicked voice spoke from it.
"Entry log 442 we've figured out how they travel, its through the vents dont get close to the vents or they'll get you. Hey get him away from that ve.....AHHHHH!!!!", a voice in the background of the log srcreamed then went silent as the log came to a close.
Twilight tossed the audio log to the side and continued making her way down the hallway until she came across an unlocked door, tapping her hoof on it the door hissed open.
The area looked to be a control room of some sort, holopanels glowed softly waiting for a response then the metal doors outside the windows slid upward revieling mike and circuit on the other side, her rig link activated portraying circuit as she spoke.
"Twilight! Oh thank celestia you made it", said circuit in a relieved tone, the camera rotated to mike,"its good to see your face again twilight, we need to get this tram running", said mike as he was then interrupted by circuit.
"Mike are you crazy you almost got ourselves killed", replied circuit in a panicked tone,"well we wont if you just listen to me!!", said mike trying to reassure circuit from her panicked state as she paced back and forth nervously.
"Now circuit can you give me a reading on the tram?", questioned mike as he looked at her with a questioning glance,"uhh...ya..i suppose", replied circuit as she pulled out a data reader,"well the motherboard is fried and the tram is in need of replacement, there might be another motherboard inside the maintenance area ", sighed circuit as she shooved the data reader back in her pocket.
"Alright then, twilight i need you to go and get that motherboard on your way back replace the tram from the tracks", said mike,"oh and be safe out there, good luck", the rig link went to static and minimized back into twilights chest display.
"Well here we go..", sighed twilight as she turned to her right towards the door, it slid open and she gazed to the left down the hallway where a light was flickering of and on.
Sighing, twilight tightened her grip on the plasma cutter and pushed on.