Collateral History

by Genesis Swift

Chapter 1: The Find.

Dear Blink,

If you are reading this than the time to prepare is now; for my recent observation of some ruins has unleashed a horror of great magnitude. I was doing what I normally do as my job, my talent discovering more about the past and the origins of our own lives...

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Genesis means origin, that is my name and oddly enough that applies to my talent; a high understanding and experienced research of human culture and life. Most ponies that do studying and research happen to be unicorns but I am a pegasus and an intellectual intrigued with human beings. My coat is a cool dark blue with a short cut mane that is just as white as ice with sky blue highlights an addition of mine. Might I add that I am engaged to a lovely girl by the name Grace and I miss her every moment I'm off at work. My cutie mark confuses other ponies and a little myself all I know is that it is some human artifact. That is who I am and I am currently on an adventure.

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The air was cold with a howl of winter gusting behind it. I had prepared for a long day of searching with only rumors to guide me. I was airborne at the time for the advantage of height to aid my search. When I found what I had been tipped off to look for, the description matched. I touched down with the dust being blown away by my wing's quick landing of anticipation. I had found the ruins I had been looking for that I had heard ever so much about.

I was standing right outside the only personnel door, that was sealed up in a metal to powerful to get through with any magic or force, and nearby a giant what seemed to be a metal entrance for a larger vehicle or aircraft was lined with the same stuff. There was no handle on this door, instead the only thing was this electronic gadget with a small crack which you could only slide a piece of paper through if you tried. But here is the weird thing it lit up, it was actually alive with energy. Looking around for any clues I found a plastic card with bar-coding, and random numbers/letters on one side, and on the other a symbol of an eagle with the words "In God We Trust" above it, and below what I could read "United States O". I pondered what the rest could of said but nothing good came up so I slid it into my saddle bag just in case it had any further use to me. Now that I think about it I didn't have to decipher those words I had seen them on many pieces of paper across the many ruins I had been through, of America that's what it always says.

The area around me was grassy plain for the most part with a few ruins of buildings around. Near the middle lay an obelisk not that tall and slightly broken off at the tip but I can probably guess that most of it lay underground. I went into a larger pile of ruins nearby the metal structure's entrance that were excavated to see if I could find any clues on how to get in. Since it is just ruins there wasn't much to look at as expected, but what I did find was a dented trash bin. I took a gander inside and saw a crumpled paper; no harm in taking it. I unraveled the paper and my luck turned up, the gadget that's on the door was on the paper and I believe this will tell me how to open that same door. The words didn't catch my eye because the pictures were all I needed to see; besides I can always decipher them later. The picture was zoomed in on the top where a card was hovering above it with an arrow next to it pointing down. The next one showed the same card at the bottom with a light pinging on and the door open. I withdrew the card from my saddle bag and knew this is how I'm gonna get in. I just pray to celestia herself that this is the card I need and it works.

When I headed out here to the discovery of the metal entrance it was already dawn with an orange sky. I don't have much of a camp but flint n' steel for a fire and a bedroll will do to keep me warm under this cold night's sky.

I slept horribly that night. I had a dream where I could see a panning of the ruins with the obelisk a lot taller and a lot more ruins on each side with a giant shallow pool near the obelisk, with a screaming louder than a siren's in my ears; it was terrifying. My bottom eyelids were heavy and dark with deprivation and the feeling of hunger throbbing in my stomach, thank Blink for making me these dragon lilly muffins I ate well for the morning.The casual breakfast helped me wake up for the day though I wish I had something more satisfying than water to wash the meal down. Yawning I stretched out my hooves and gave my wings a good lap around the area. Of course I always limber up before I go into a potentially dangerous structure; I didn't expect that though and thought it would be perfectly normal in there but I've been wrong before.

Now filled with anticipation I took the plastic card out of my saddle bag had it so the bar-code was on the left side and slid it down the gadget so that it may open.

The door let out a little pinging sound.

Green light, door opens.

I say my casual catchphrase "This is where the fun begins; when only discovery and mystery lay ahead."

-Chapter End-

Author's Note:

Hey if you find anything that seems to be a punctuation error that I didn't catch in the final edit plz message me. Oh and any pointers for future stories would be nice.

Comments

[Hallucination]

this kind of feels like a point and click adventure