Human kind was dying from its now toxic atmosphere that was full of a new chemical, and their slow, flickering flame is on its last fumes but the humans find a new world to inhabit and take from their owners using the experiments they created.
Human kind was dying from its now toxic atmosphere that was full of a new chemical that poisoned them to no end. This new chemical allowed for the wildlife to evolve at a rapid pace allowing them to cope with their new environment while also making some sentient with new powers that could only be described as magical. Now the leading government plans to use this chemical and its mutations to escape their dying world to what they believe to be paradise.
They just have to take it first from both the nations of the planet and the experiments who have tasted what freedom truly is. Join this rag tag resistance as they do they're best to defend this peaceful, non-threatening world from their former slavers.
‘I made it.’ I look around to find my small, broken form in a small crater. ‘I may be die in the next few moments but at least i’ll die free.’ Hello, my name is Mimic and I am a Lupus, or a wolf as the humans call us. One of the few chosen wolves to be experimented on to reveal how the chemicals effected my species from birth. My kind made up the majority of their experiments as we were more prominent to develop unnatural powers and true sapience.
The humans did horrible things to us and forced us to combat each other in hopes of either awakening new powers or strengthening old ones. These powers were humans last saving grace for without them the chemical in the atmosphere that slowly ate away at them day after day and turn their once proud and intelligent race to nothing but dust.
Thousands were tortured in hopes that they could find a way for stopping this plague. Most were helpless against them and had otherwise given up on freedom while a few joined up with their captors as retainers to avoid the pain of being a test subject. I hated them more than anyone else.
You couldn’t blame the humans for wanting to survive but the things they did to try and achieve their goals were just inhumane. Not that there’s anything human left about them. That died off a long time ago.
The humans one day were up to something big and I mean bigger than anything they ever done in the past. In fact it scared me as they had cancelled all tests for the mean time. I wasn’t the only one to realize something was wrong so me and the pack I joined up with sought to bring it down while I wished to use it for ourselves. But the lupus I followed didn’t want this, they wanted peace with the humans but to only bring down this horrid organization or government, I couldn’t see a difference between the two anymore, and save the humans from their sick fate. I admired them, they were strong and fierce yet kind and loyal only wanting peace with a race that has brought us nothing more than pain.
I also admired the foolishness of their goals. Their was no saving the humans, their reign had ended with our birth. And why should we care? The age of the humans comes to a end now as we, and a few other chemical enhanced races, have managed to escape our confinement and lay siege to the facility where they kept this device. And now we make our assault on the humans collective military and their traitor retainers.
At least that was how it was supposed to go. But no plan survives first contact and neither did most of anyone apart of that bloodbath. Humans and the chemical enhanced were slaughtered left and right.
“Mimic!” A voice yelled from far off as my senses awaken from their slumber. The scent of death and fire lights my senses before I force my young eyes open. In front of me a fully grown, adult lupus stands there bearing her fangs at a few retainers who surround us. I quickly dart up and the wolf protecting me is the one I’ve known as my adoptive mother. “Stay behind me!”
“Night, what happened?” My voice croaked and everything hurt all over. I was starting to have trouble standing and quickly fell off my four paws. “Where are we, what happened to the plan?”
“Just stay behind me!” With that the four retainers bared their fangs once more before leaping at her. And thus their lives would quickly end for their choice. “Get back!”
The grass and other plant life quickly sprout from the ground entangling the first two while smacking the others away and pulling them into the ground to be devoured by the plants. The first wolf quickly recovers and rushes Night once more only to be ripped to shreds by the shadows. His blood coats the ground and plants quickly bloom around his corpse and quickly encompassing his body.
The last two seem to get the message and quickly make their retreat after their allies demise. Flowers now bloom the forest floor in abundance. Wait, forest? Yes we were in a thick forest compared to the metal and concrete facility from before. “Night, whats going on?” I ask with pain still wracking my body. “Where did everyone go?”
“That thing, whatever was, happened.” She responded through panted breathes. “I’ll explain later but for right now we need to move before those retainer return with humans. I’m in no shape to take on humans right now.”
I was worried at so many factors. ‘Where were we? What happened to the take over? Where was everyone else?’ I couldn’t help but ask more questions as my worry started to grow for her. “Are you okay? You’re not dying are you?!”
“Stop worrying. I’m just... tired. We need to find somewhere to rest and I’ll be fine after a few.” She was exhausted despite the act she put on. In fact I’ve never seen her so tired in my entire life, but otherwise she appeared relatively healthy. Her black fur has green markings similar to swirls that travel across her body with neon green eyes. She stood about four feet high and was exceptionally strong for our kind by foundation standards compared to the things we learned about on earth. “Come on, I can’t... I just can’t talk right now. Let’s go, please.”
“O-ok.” We started off in a random direction or what seemed like a random direction. Stumbling through this jungle like forest I found myself still able to keep up due to Night’s deliberate pace. The plants seemed to clear way for Night but stood strong in my way. ‘Even the plants listen to her...’ I thought as I crawled underneath another low hanging branch. ‘She’s always been the strongest out of all of our group.’
We eventually happened upon a small little nook covered in vines with a stone slab covering the top. A small pond sat on the edge of the clearing; it was deep enough to support a small school of fish. Sunlight, ACTUAL sunlight poured down on this little oasis causing the near pond to shimmer a little. Overall the area had a serene feel to the place that just put me to ease.
“Wow, its beautiful.” The notion was missed on Night as she barely made it into the nook before collapsing to the ground. “Night, are you okay!?” I was worried as her breathing slowed and she barely moved save for a few twitches from her ragged breaths. However her condition didn’t worse seeming to stabilize now that she was in the darkness and after what felt like hours worrying for her she finally whimpered something out in her melancholic voice.
“Don’t worry... Rest... Please...” She was exhausted and the long walk to get here only agitated her condition. I worried for her but my underdeveloped powers couldn’t do anything for her. I curled up next to her offering what little comfort I could give but despite this I was still the first to slip into slumber.
"Grab it!" Yelled a human wearing a tactical uniform pointing at me as several retainers leaped at me. A wall of fire erupted beneath them turning them to ashes that blanketed my coat and sent my flying backwards into the middle of the inferno. "Stay away from me you monster! Get back, oh god please No!" The man was no more as his grizzled frame and short brown hair was reduced to cinders. The blue in his eyes liquidize and evaporate within milliseconds.
I lay upon the ground covered in ashes as retainers and human soldiers tried to get to me. However each and everyone of them was met with a fiery blaze. Fear and panic awoke the cowardice that lay deep with in me as I started to concern myself with the fact of never being able to see Night again. The fires grew closer and closer and the intense heat I felt was near unbearable.
The flames stood calm and burned with so little heat that I could touch them but anything that was not near me was reduced to complete ashes as the room exploded outwards and the flames cradled me. After a few seconds everything grows silent and a figure stands over me but yet they're appearance alluded me. I could tell that we were one of the same, I could tell that they wouldn't allow me to burn.
"As long as you stick with us kid, Fire nor the wind or the forests will never do you harm." His voice was ragged and deep but carried a certain composure to it. "Stand behind me now, it appears we have a guest. And one of her own kind too." I did exactly as he said and peered out from behind his legs.
"Oh my, if it isn't the sociopath who slow burns his victims for dinner~" She was navy blue with the top of her head being a wispy white that trailed down her back all the way to her tail. "I certainly wasn't expecting you Dawn breaker. And I most definitely didn't expect you to kill them quickly."
"That's rich coming from you Mist." His voice now carried spite. "Leave now, and your brother won't have to cry over your ashes."
"Ohhh, you're feisty today. Ditch the pup and I'll show you just how much of a sociopath I can be. Or maybe keep around and see just how well he holds up in the mist." The room, or what was left of it, started to fill with an eerie fog. "Or don't and you with have to worry about him every five seconds but I really want to see what you are at your best. And if your mother had ever been there to raise you, she would've told you to never leave a girl disappointed~"
"Mimic, leave." His voice was assertive but I chimed in with my own voice unexpectedly.
"But, you can't beat her alone! You need me!" I responded with worry in my eyes as they shifted between the fog and the roaring flames. "What would Night say about this?"
"This isn't your fight, and I can promise you that I don't intend to die here." He responded with a grin on his face as he stared down the psychopathic wolf. "And when have I ever let you or Night down before? Now scram. I have a few burning words I would like to say to her alone."
I merely nodded and sprinted down a near hallway as the sounds of explosions, roaring winds and water filled the air behind me. Yet again I failed to stand by them. And now, now Dawn was-
*Splash
My keen ears picked up on the sound and zeroed in on it and awakened me from the nightmare. Someone or something was outside near or in the pond. The sound wasn't enough to steer Night from her dreams and I didn't want to wake her either. I stood up on all four of my paws and left the warm embrace of her tail. 'Huh, still had enough energy to make sure I was warm for the night. Of course she would do that, she was always caring for me no matter the circumstance.' The chill morning air hit me like a tsunami and I found myself wishing for a thicker coat of fur.
*SPLASH
'Yep, somethings out there alright. Maybe I should wake Night, but she's in no fighting condition.' I glanced back at her peaceful form. 'It's up to me to save her this time, I'm tired of being some pup that always needs rescuing!' I lurk my way to the entrance and gaze out just enough to see the intruder. 'What.' It was a statement and a question as I questioned what I saw but my brain merely referred to it as what in a more confused then questioning phrase. Looking back at it now, I think its called a brain fart.
In our pond, our only source of water, was a small zebra. In the middle of the forest. Oh but the forest part wasn't the only part that was strange. It, or she from the sound of her voice, was humming a song and occasionally speaking in a hushed tone that I couldn't quite understand through my stupor. She was just swimming around and diving under the water every now and then as if... As if she were taking a bath. 'Am I watching what appears to be a sentient zebra female, or a male with a very feminine voice, taking a bath and/or having a good old swim?"
"Oh god, Cadisk was right..." I muttered aloud but she thankfully didn't hear that. I stayed and observed her until her little trip was over and she wondered over to a pile of gold rings. 'Not only a sentient zebra but a rich sentient zebra too. Maybe the Corporation found some other creatures to infuse besides wolves.' This was a fun experience but with her soon departure I could probably go back to sleep. Or I could follow her back and bring back some food for Night.
Stalking the zebra from afar and using his senses to the best of their abilities, Mimic followed the zebra shaman all the way back to her lair where a few unexpected guests explored.
Apple bloom, Sweetie Bell and Scootaloo rummaged through Zecora's hut looking under and over everything for the zebra. They had wanted to try out potion making especially since Apple bloom was really good at it.
"Where could she have gone?" Asked Scootaloo staring at the masks on the wall. "Why does Zecora need all this creepy stuff again?"
"Maybe she's out picking flowers and stuff for her potions."
"Yeah and we probably should've warned her ahead of time before coming here." Applebloom looked at the cauldron in the center of the room filled with a thick, brown liquid with several things potting out of it. Those things included but were not limited to carrots, flowers, weird brown chunks and a few chopped onions. It smelled like the literal definition of death incarnate and Apple bloom couldn't imagine it tasting any better than it looked and smelled. "Does she eat this stuff?"
"Girls? I was not expecting you, but I see you do dislike my brew." Giraffe walked into the hut and stared down the girls. She immediately turned behind her and looked around frightfully. "But I do believe it is time fo-"
*CRASH
"What was that?" Yelled all three of the cutie mark crusaders with worry in their eyes.
"It sounded real big!"
"Came from outside ah think?"
"What if it's a monster or something?"
"Oh no. You must go, now." Zecora started to get a little bit frantic as she shoved the cutie mark crusaders into a nearby closet before jumping in herself. "Silence is key, if you wish to survive these three." Zecora was not expecting them to find her this quick and if this kept up she might have leave right away to warn Twilight.
However Zecora's thoughts were interrupted as she soon heard voices outside. "This is Kappa three reporting in. We have located the strange hut one of the retainers observed. No signs of life, over." Soon footsteps were heard and through a creek in the closet she saw the things that made moving around the everfree even dangerous. "Control, we're getting readings on nearby experiments. Unsure as to which ones though, but we know they've been here or are still here. Over."
Their green camouflaged coats pulled over most of there bodies and black metal masks covered the entirety of their faces. In their hands lay the dreadful metallic tools that had made Zecora fear for her life like never before. The things made a rapid terrifying boom when activated and made small chunks of dirt rise up around her. But she seen what it did head on against a lone timber wolf that got in their way. It never stood a chance as it was ripped to shreds and reduced to a pile of broken branches.
Three pf the creatures enter the area with the first two holding out the 'boom sticks', as zecora had come to call them, and searched throughout the area before finally dropping their weapons and yelling out, "Clear!" After that the third one walked in with a strange hand held device emitting a low hum before beeping as it was pointed throughout the room.
"Control we're gonna have to get out of here, the air around here is coated in a thick layer of chemical X." He stood still for a moment before once more speaking. "Confirmed, we are falling back now and our retainers are on route." The creatures made their exit quickly but Zecora remained in the closet with the girls just a little longer to be sure.
The group of five step out of their hiding spot cautiously but soon becomes bewilderment and amazement. "Whoa, what were those things?! They came in like royal guards or a wonder-bolt!" Scootaloo's amazement soon infected apple bloom and the two started to faun over the new creatures.
"Yeah ah guess they were pretty awesome but what were they? Maybe they're monsters?"
"Maybe we should probably be more concerned that they broke into here." All three fell silent as they realized they had just witnessed a break in. "I mean they didn't look to friendly and Zecora doesn't seem to know them, right Zecora?"
Zecora cared less for the conversation as she made a range of faces at her own shadow. It seemed like she wasn't even paying them mind. "Zecora?" Finally Sweetie Bell managed to knock Zecora from her entrancement. "Zecora are you alright?"
"Yes... We need to leave. Now." For the first time in forever Zecora had not rhymed and a more serious tone adorned her voice. "Follow closely, the everfree is no longer safe for me or any pony."
Mimic zoomed back to the clearing he had left Night in. 'They could track us...' He ran with all the might his young muscles could carry him. 'A high rank was in there, a strong one too. Almost as strong as Night...' Fear started to overwhelm him as he found himself not remembering the route correctly and taking a few wrong turns but he eventually found himself in the clearing. 'Shes still here, she has to be!' He leaped into the den and collided with the sleeping ball of fur known as Night Leaf. 'Please wake up soon, I won't be able to fend off retainers or humans.
Retainers. The traitors who had abandoned the rest of there kind for a better chance at living next to the humans who tortured us for years. 'If it were up to me, they'd wouldn't be a problem anymore.' Why Night Leaf shows them mercy is a mystery to Mimic but he still cuddled deeper into her warm fur.
He had time to think as day turned to night and soon the morning came around again. 'Dawn, Cadisk, Ivy, I hope all of you are okay...' Despite his lack of sleep he felt fully rejuvenated and ready to patrol the forest once more. He hopped up and made his way to the entrance of the den however a voice stopped him right as he was about to leave.
"Mimic, I swear. I'll keep you safe. No matter what." Night was still asleep but her overall condition had gotten extremely better. "And we'll all... We'll all be one big happy family.." Mimic stopped and stared at her before turning away without a thought or an expression on his face. However the little skip he performed every now and then conveyed how he felt perfectly.
'Shit!' I yell mentally as I run my hands through my brown hair and sprint down the white and metallic hallways. 'I'm fuckin' late!' Be me, Alan Vincent, head of Recon and Intelligence of corporation forces late for a rare and extremely important with my colleagues and most importantly the director. 'Bro is gonna have my ass for this!' Rushing past both scientists, guards and displaced civilians to the deeper parts of the facility where less and less people were found.
Soon the metal walls turned gray as cement went to full on bunker material as I traveled deeper and deeper. To mock me, the intercom came on with a message straight from the director himself. However it wasn't the director who spoke. "Mr. Vincent, would you be so kind as to get YOUR ASS IN HERE!"
"Fuck you Willis!" Even though I knew he didn't hear me, It felt good to tell him to stfu. But as fate would have it, he somehow managed to hear me.
"NO FUCK YOU!"
"No You!"
"ARRRGGGHHHHHH!" He lets out a battle cry but relents as the intercoms go silent. He was a fuckin' prick, Willis was. Always screaming and talking about how we should take are jobs more seriously. Fuck man, I know we're trying to save the world but take a chill pill bro.
The large metal gate with black and yellow warning markers on it came into view. This gate standing almost eighteen feet high with a thickness of twelve inches. Two automatic A.I. controlled machine guns sit in front of the door. These guns reminiscent of the old world guns shot .50 cal bullets lined with unstable chemical X to stop most experiments in their tracks. And regular humans would be ripped to shreds.
I quickly whip out my key card as the guns lock on to me. Luckily they would not attack humans but I always have my key card ready just in case they ever had a reason too. The doors begin there slow opening as I pull out a pocket mirror to check my appearance.
A yellow sweater with the official Corporation badge of a green shooting star and some basic khaki's. God I hate them, why won't they just let me wear my regular cargo pants. My hair is a little disarrayed but its short so it shouldn't be too much of a problem. The holster at my side contains no handgun as I forgot it again. I should be fine. Hopefully.
As I begin to walk through the now open gate with a wooden door behind it a familiar voice yells out to me. "Mr. Vincent hold the gate please!" I turn around and see Doc, the head of medical research and the hospitals here. He wore your standard egg head lab coat and had a pair of reading glasses on his face despite not needing them. His black hair and blue eyes did manage to catch the eyes of many ladies but most would turn away when they talked to him. He uses a lot of big words when talking to people he doesn't know."Thank you, I see I wasn't the only one who had important things to attend to but if I may ask, what held you up?"
"Recon Strategy Analysis..." I blurt out as memories of what I really was doing fill my head.
I sit in my room on the bed staring into the TV with a controller in my hands. I carefully aim my gun at a man about to spot me but right as the sleeping dart hits him he lets out the iconic alert noise that I love oh so much. "Man I love the metal gear games even though its pre-world stuff."
"Yes... Recon Strategy Analysis, I was taking into consideration new stealth tactics."
"Oh I see, tell me one of these new tactics you came up with."
"Classified... But I can tell you it involves boxes."
"Boxes?"
"Well we should probably start heading in, don't won't to make Willis any more mad than he already is."
I brace myself as I grab the knob to the wooded door and open to see... That everyone was not here yet. Well, director Zigmal and adviser Willis were in here but besides that everyone had not shown up yet.
"Wait where is everyone?"
Willis was quick to answer my question in a very disgruntled tone. "They will arrive soon when the meeting officially starts." Steve Willis was a blonde haired man who was both strong and smart. He was clever and rarely made a bad tactical decision.
"What?"
"It starts in an about half an hour; I just told you the wrong time because I knew you would do this."
"Hey I'm early if what you're saying is true!"
"You were suppose arrive an hour ago!"
"Fuck you!"
"No FUCK YOU!"
"SILENCE! You two really shouldn't be bickering in front of the director like this. Act like the respectable adult I know you can be Willis."
"Hey what about me?"
"I rather not tell lies if I have too."
"Oh fu-" The wooden door slams open and a middle aged brown haired woman walks in with a golden retainer behind her. Dr. Moria Brown, a short tempered woman who ran most of the corporations chemical x development alongside being the head of research for the experiments.
"Ah, I see you have taken initiative in arriving early for once Mr. Vincent. I'm sure your brother will be pleased to hear of this when he arrives." She walks past everyone to a seat in front of the directors desk leaving the retainer looking around kinda confused. This retainer was golden yellow with a white underbelly and a small red heart on the left side of his chest. One eye is blood red while the other is a blinding yellow if stared into for too long. He stood about as tall as half a normal human height. "Mr, Everest come sit next to me."
The director finally spoke as the retainer took an awkward seat on a chair across from the director. "Ahh, so this him I presume Dr. Brown?"
"Yes Director, I beli-"
"Please wait for all of the others of the inner circle to show up before explaining. I hate hearing things twice."
"Yes Director."
With the Director going back to his silent stage all of the others followed suit and went about waiting for the others to show up. But curiousness kicked in as glances and curious stares were made towards the nervous retainer that stayed silent and moved around uncomfortbly. Luckily the retainer was given a break as three new occupants entered the room, two of which being retainer Captains.
Mark Johnson, Head of the recovery team who was currently over tasked with amount of escapees they had to track down. Tall and strong with a buzz cut to boot. His eyes blood red from Chemical X contamination at a young age and extreme pale skin with constant chemical X decay coating his left making him stronger in the substance but weakening the rest of his body. He was a strange man who was both deadly and effective at his job. Such job making sure that any and all experiments make their way back home to the corporation.
At his side were the experiments Z-002 and B-008, two out of the four current retainer captains who were loyal to the corporation for some reason or another.
Z-002, otherwise known as Privolva was of the Lupus variant of the experiments. A near complete black coat of fur cover her with the end of her tail being red and green. Her eyes immediately fall onto the other experiment in the room before returning to a neutral, straight forward stare.
The other experiment, B-008, known to his own kind as Ember. Was the more dangerous of the two suited more for combat. Ember being of the Vulpine variant and a good bit taller than Privolva nearing human height. He is a bright orange with several traces of green along his coat; his eyes are also green.
"Dr. Moria, care to explain why there's a unknown experiment in here with us?" Asked Mark as he stared down the experiment who instinctively flinched back from the man.
"I'll explain once everyone is here Mr. Johnson, as ordered by our grand Director." B-008 had now taken notice to the other experiment and unlike Z-002 made his way over to the strange retainer.
"You're certainly different from the others." He spoke as he sniffed near the other retainer. "Your scent is almost entirely human. Strange."
"B-008, please refrain from approaching him. He is rather jumpy in this state."
"Yes ma'am." He quickly responded as he retreated into an corner of the room near Alan.
"Well I might as well get this out of the way but the others won't be joining us as recent complications have come up." The director spoke in his nonchalant tone. "Both Dr. Alan and Dr. Heart are caught up making sure the facility doesn't explode. While Anderson and the other Vincent try and set up defenses from large scale attacks."
"Large scale attacks sir?" Asked Mark. "Base defenses should be enough, what else is there besides a few unorganized experiments running around."
"As observant as always Mr. Johnson, as of today we face a great many threats." Answered Willis as he started to hand out papers with a new strange creature on it. "The portal worked some what despite being tampered with during the escape."
"What do you mean somewhat?" Dr. Moria chipped in finally doing away with her papers for the new ones. "Everyone's here right?"
"Out of the three billion humans left on earth, only 982,232 survived. More than half that number is currently suffering from heavy Chemical X poisoning." The room immediately went silent as they flipped through the papers with horrified looks; even the normally calm Privolva was shocked at the mass loss of life. Ember couldn't care less. "Not only that but Z-001 has managed to rally her forces against us creating a rather dangerous threat."
"We still outnumber them and have the firepower to counteract their powers. If we somehow re contain Z-001 they'll fall apart and it will be easy pickings. All we need to do is send in A-001 to weaken her down."
"That brings up another problem, Aether is in critical condition with his wounds healing very slowly."
"What happened to Aether?!" Yelled Privolva still shocked at the news. "If he goes down we have nothing that can keep her at bay!"
"But Z-001 doesn't know that. And it will stay that way until A-001 manages to recover." The director chimes in. "But they are not the main concern."
"Then what is?"
"The small horses and other races of this world are our main concern."
"..." (Literally everyone in the room)
"Uh, I could run a medical exam on you Director if you're feeling a bit ill." Doc was the first to speak as the room stared at the director with dumbfounded looks. "It wouldn't take long at all sir."
"I assure you that I am in sound health both mentally and physically despite my age." The director motions to Willis. "Explain the small horses please."
"Forward operation teams led by Nevin Vincent have discovered a few sapient species. These species being small mythical horses, were wolf looking things and a weird collaboration of different animals that refers to itself as Discord."
"Are you two sure you don't need a mental examination?" Asked Doc looking through the papers at the several mentioned species. "This can't possibly be real can it?"
"I assure you, It is." The director tone hardened as his hand raised once more for Willis to continue. "Go ahead Mr. Willis."
"Not only do we have the previous threats to worry about but now we also have infected colonies poping up all around the forest from what we assume to be the remaining humans that didn't make it through the portal with us. However the wildlife, another immediate threat, have been able to keep them in check as well as picking off any stray retainers and lost humans."
"What about this Discord character? What have we found out from it?" Mark asked as he began to show a hint of worry in his blood red eyes.
"Absolutely Bull shit." Responded Willis rubbing his forehead. "It is extremely annoying and works around all of our questions, in fact we don't even know how to keep it contained as if left alone for a few seconds he will begin to wonder the hallways after somehow escaping his containment. Luckily all we need to do is politely ask him to go back."
"Have you tried stronger methods of interrogation, I'm sure Dr. Heart could get him to talk."
"Another problem, even if we wanted to kill him I'm pretty sure we couldn't." Willis eyes showed fear as he remembered the interrogation of the strange chimera. "When we... When we tried those methods he laughed at us and thanked us for the gifts. He used each and every one of them with that damn cocky grin on his face."
"The hell did we get ourselves into when we opened that portal?"
"A chance to become more than what we were Mr. Johnson."
"What do you mean Doc?"
"During the transition between worlds we managed acquire a rare material that was then used to give a permanent immunity or great resistance to Chemical X at a cost. It has thus been named chemical Y."
The room once more fell into silence as they all listened closely, even the retainers did not have complete immunity to the elaborate chemical.
"Doc and I have managed to test it on both five humans and five retainers. Doc did the humans and I tested it out on my experiments."
"As it would seem, only three of the humans survived the initial transformation with the other two passing at a later date." Doc spoke in a disheartened tone. "But one survived."
Moria continued on where Doc left off. "All five of the retainers were to weak to survive the stress suggesting that Delta class and above are the only retainers/experiments capable of surviving the strain."
"Where's the surviving human? Is he still alive?" Asked Alan as he donned his much more serious look. "How soon can we refine this stuff for higher chances of survival?"
"The human is... Well no longer human."
"Yes, as Doc says he transformed into a... Lupus variant experiment."
"What the hell?!" Mark Johnson started.
"How?" Privolva chimed in.
"Science is some bullshit!" Alan Vincent yelled.
"I knew his scent was off." Ember added on.
"So that's who it is?" Steve Willis asked.
"Intriguing isn't it?" Director Zigmal finalized.
The room remained in an uproar of both surprise and shocked anger.
"Yes, as far as we know the only way to continue on the survival of our race is too transition to a new one. But this is not without reward. Not only has Jack here gained a great resistance to Chemical X, he now has his own unique power as he can wield Chemical X relatively safely to form electrical occurrences."
"But as far as Moria and I have researched we have discover one flaw besides the whole transformation thing. Being in a different body Jack here has trouble figuring out how to work his new body with the primary example being his vocal cords that he hasn't figured out how to use."
Suddenly a beeping noise fills the room before Willis takes out a walkie talkie with a strange crystal embedded in it. He mutters into it before looking surprised. "Sir, Aether has awakened."
'I feel like shit.' It wasn't often I cursed, it wasn't often that I suffered a near mortal wound. Hell, It wasn't often I suffered any wounds. But the battle for the portal was different. I was forced to fight, forced to kill for those who couldn't fight back. 'I wonder if the others are okay?'
I stared at my gray fur with black and white ends covered in multiple bandages that held back my blood. 'I look like shit.' I sit up on my haunches and look around the white room I've come to known as my own. 'At least I didn't get blood on my bed.' I carefully get up and limp towards the door before it opens and reveals a human who looks up to me.
"Y-you're awake!" The small orange haired human male looked up to me wearing the standard black suit he was oh so familiar to see. 'Well I guess all humans are small to me seeing how big I am.'
He immediately picks up his radio and speaks to someone on the other end before quickly getting off and reverting all of his attention back to me. "You really shouldn't be getting up, your injuries were pretty severe compared to the others."
"So they are alive?"
"Most..." His tone turned sour. "Equinox and her lackeys came through killing both retainers and humans, civilians included."
"Most? Equinox?" I was dumbfounded, 'She wouldn't do that? She would never kill anyone who didn't deserve it. Right?', I had to know more. "What do you mean? Equinox would never do that, let alone try to kill me."
"When the portals started opening she went berserk with most of the retainers that followed her religiously. They tore threw everything including you and the other Corporation loyal retainers. Together they were subjugated but the other experiment factions took this chance to either escape or lead the fight against us."
"But why? She's childish and rarely ever takes anything seriously so why would she do this suddenly? I refuse to believe this!" I growled out making him flinch away as if I would pounce. "What did they do to her to make this happen?"
"Nothing! S-she just went berserk and killed everyone who didn't follow her!" He smelled of fear but no lies. Even his heart believed the words he spouted. 'The Corporation did something to instigate her and he's been sent here with lies to persuade me into thinking this.' The man once more spoke up. "I swear she killed innocents. She killed a few friends of mine I swear!"
'I'll humor them for now.' Backing away from the human I found myself staring around the room trying to think of a response. "I'm going on a walk."
"Y-you can't go anywhere in your current condition!"
"Oh really? Whose going to stop me, that one retainer. Mr. Doesn't Exist I think his name was?" Responded Aether in a joking tone. "Or was it Micheal Mc Doesn't exist? I wouldn't know since he doesn't exist after all."
"They'll be angry!"
"And?"
"They'll... They'll..."
"Hold that thought till I come back, I have to go think now."
"Wait please!"
The human tailed me the best he could as I sprinted through the enlarged hallways meant for something of my size. Finally I lost him and found my way outside to the new forest surrounding the facility. 'A whole new world to explore... A whole new world to track you down again.'
"Equinox, I'm gonna bring you back. And this time, you won't be able to leave." I sprinted off into the forest ignoring my aching wounds. I knew I wouldn't be able to find her yet but it still didn't hurt to look. 'Plus a new world means new prey, I wonder what I can find to eat.'
Dr. Moria Brown was having a headache. Whether it was the wine she was drinking or the current problem she faced. She suspected both were the cause.She sat in her lab looking over the numerous amounts of reports on the experiments. Many had either died, been injured or escaped there confines during the gate's activation. Among the most disturbing of these reports were that A-004 and B-003 had gone missing. Two leaders of two different factions that had a vested interest in ending the either the corporation or the human race.
"This could not possibly get any worse..." She wished she had never said that as her hazel eyes looked over the next report.
The experiment themed X-005 is believed to have escaped alongside C-001, C-004, B-003 and B-004. They're current whereabouts are unknown but Kappa Three believes one of their retainers caught scent of him.
B-004 has escaped... They were located in a dark, damp forest with plenty of shadows for him to hide in. And X-005, or Mimic as he had taken to calling himself was valuable to her research now more than ever. Especially with his power mimicking abilities. She took a moment to pull up B-004 and X-005's research analysis and reports.
B-004/Shade Report 12[Updated]
The Following is an overall report of B-004's abilities, mental/emotional strains and physical strengths and/or weaknesses. Any questions or procedures for updating this document can be directed to the Head of Chemical X research, Dr Moria Brown.
Description
B-004 is a Vulpine Variant Experiment who to this day still remains somewhat of a mystery to us as he is almost always hiding in shadows or have himself cloaked. Methods such as thermal imaging and even throwing flour at him doesn't work all too well. Despite this we still have managed to observe his form a few times.
He is Pitch white with gray eyes. His fur glows and can even change how bright it is depending on if B-004 feels endangered. Due to his unique powers he escapes on a day to day basis and if he were to ever escape to somewhere where darkness is always present we would most likely not be able to find him without causing major harm to the environment.
Chemical X Manifestations
B-004 manifests his Chemical X by making himself somewhat intangible but completely invisible to most senses. The only way to detect B-004 is by attacking him with Chemical X laced attacks or by detecting his near undetectable scent. B-004 has managed to trick and escape those above him quite often.
Mental/Emotional Overview
This is still under debate as B-004 refuses to speak to any other experiment or Personnel.
Physical Attributes
Experiment B-004 has proven quite difficult test his physical attributes as he avoids confrontations as much as possible. Despite this he has shown himself to be quite durable and able to pack a punch. He has shown able to be able to bite down with a force equivalent to 1,900 lb. Considering his base species is a fox this is quite stronger than average. To add on to his strength he is able to carry up to 92 pounds without noticeably being slowed down.
He moves at 207 miles an hour and can keep this speed up for a good hour before needing to slow down. He has shown to be incredibily agile able to scale trees and obstacles within seconds.
'Hm, we're not finding him anytime soon. Maybe he'll have a run in with the inhabitants and they'll somehow weaken him enough for us to capture. Ugh I don't even want to think of the small horses right now. What are we even going to do with them?' The door to Dr. Moria's office opened revealing Alan Vincent. He stepped in with a nod to her.
"Excuse me for intruding doctor but there were some things I wanted to discuss with you. You know business and such." He walked in and took a seat eyeing the wine she was drinking. "Mind if i pour myself a cup?"
"Do what you please Mr. Vincent." She sat the reports down and faced him. "But what business do you have with me today. As you can see I am quite busy as of the moment."
"It's about a specific group of experiments, the Mismatched I believe they call themselves. I needed to know if they were gonna be a problem since Z-001 is rallying up her own army. I wanted your advice if they would partner up with her at all."
"The Mismatched don't care for what she believes in as far as I can tell. But I wouldn't be surprised that if Z-001 did attack, they would take advantage of the chao's to free the members still locked in here." She sighed and rubbed her temples. "Still they might try and finish us off given the chance."
"Hmm. Thanks Doc." He finally took a sip of the drink almost spitting it out. "Jesus what are you drinking, straight alcohol?!"
"Possibly."
"Whatever Doc." He sighed and put the cup down. "Well at least most of the A tiers are still contained. Right Doc?"
"Oh do I have some news for you." She muttered as she finished her glass of wine.
The cutie mark crusaders trotted behind at a brisk pace as Zecora stealthed her way through the woods scouting out a path for them to take. They were scared but also surprised. There wasn't a time where they had heard Zecora speak without a rhyme. Then there was also the weird creatures that spoke as if they were straight out of the royal guard, or the E.U.P!
There was just so much they didn't know what was happening.
"Sweetie Bell! What were those things back there?" Whispered Apple Bloom harshly. "Why did Zecora take us off the path? Why do we have to sneak around?"
"I don't know, maybe Zecora is scared of those two leg things? They did break into her house and she hid from them." Sweetie Bell responded. "I mean I wouldn't be very happy if someone broke into the carousel boutique."
"But we still don't know what they are or how Zecora knew they were coming."
"Yeah..."
"Hey Scootaloo you've been awful quiet over there." Apple Bloom turned behind her to see that her orange friend was gone with no clear indication of where she went. "Scoots?"
"Uh oh..."
"Girls?" Scootaloo yelled over the dark ambiance of the forest despite the sun light piercing through the trees. "Where'd everypony go?" Suddenly a low growl meets her ears as rustles sound from behind her. "Oh no..."
She spun on her hooves to face the beast as it emerged from the bush. Its green and glowing eyes, its hollow wooden insides. It was a timber wolf. "Hey you leave me alone!" Its growling grew harsher at her attempt to intermediate the creature. "Rainbow dash will have your hide if you lay a paw on me!" Not caring much for her idle threats the wolf finally stopped circling her and dove in for its free meal.
"AHHH!" Scootaloo let loose a scream as she awaited the pain. But it never came. Her eyes opened to see a small light blue wolf pup with white paws. A floating blue branch sat in the timber wolfs jaws just barely holding it back.
"Stay behind me!" He yelled out with his eyes trained on the jagged form of the wooden wolf. "I'll keep you safe!"
The stick started wagging around till the wolf got thrown back from it. The stick hovered close to smaller wolf in a circle around the two of them. "W-who are you?" Scootaloo finally spit out from her mixture of surprise and fear.
The timber began to circle them waiting for its opportunity to pounce. "I'm Mimic, and i'm not scared anymore!" He yelled out as he grit his teeth and started to growl back at the wolf. Mimic's eyes lit up with the flame of courage as he stared at the wolf. His mind was a race with thoughts and ideas in just how exactly he was gonna get out of this. 'All I need is just I one piece of it and i'll be able to transform. Just one piece!'
The timber wolf finally stopped its circling and leaped at Mimic only to get batted a few feet away by the hovering branch. A small and barely noticeable chunk was knocked off from the wooden wolf. Mimic dropped the branch from his telekinesis and dove for it only to be intercepted by wooden jaws crushing down his midsection. "Agh!" Another timber wolf had appeared from the bushes and taken Mimic by surprise.
*Crunch!
A sickening crunch echoed through the air as it bit down on him. "AHHH!" He let out a scream no longer focused but crying for help as his vision started to fade while he was being thrashed around by the wooden wolf. Just out of sight the second one came from behind trying to wrap its fangs around him next hoping to rip him in two.
"Mimic!" Scootaloo yelled out to her savior in vain. She was forced with no choice but to watch as her savior was ripped piece to piece by the fangs of the feral timber wolves.
But luckily that didn't happen and a glass bottle filled with a green substance flew straight into the wolf's jaws. It shattered on impact sending a small green mist cascading over the wolves. They quickly drop the now unconscious Mimic and sprint off whimpering with their tails tucked in between their legs.
"Scootaloo!" Screamed Applebloom and Sweetie Bell as they hug tackled their friend. "Are you okay? Did those timber wolves hurt you? How did you lose us?" They asked in a barrage of questions.
"What about Mimic! He's hurt!" Scootaloo explained to her friends panic in her voice. She ran over to Mimic to see Zecora already patching him up to the best of her abilities. "Is he gonna be okay Zecora!?"
"That I do not know, but his wounds are not for show." She gently placed the small pup on her back. "And here I did not think I would see this pup again. Come we still must hurry from the everfree, so come now and let us flee." With the small, bloodied pup cradled on her back Zecora led the cutie mark crusaders from the new danger of the everfree to the now unsafe ponyville.
But a shadow stalked them just always out of sight and curious to its new prey.
The Golden oaks Library was quiet per usual with the purple unicorn known as Twilight peacefully enjoying her morning book with a lovely cup of tea. Spike was near enjoying a comic he had picked up the other day as his chores were done. It was a time of peace and relaxation. At least until a loud boom shook the entire town and made a few books fall down.
"Augh!" Spike moaned as he was knocked clear over with few books piling on top of him. "Mmf MMMF mmf!"
"What in Celestia's Mane was that?!" Yelled Twilight as she struggled to stand as to tremor continued to shake the town for a few seconds. Not a second after it stopped several, smaller booms shook the ground. Then the screams started.
Not wasting a second more Twilight burst through the library doors and a seen of chaos met her lavender eyes. Fire. It covered a crater, in which had been where a water fountain used to be found, was nothing more then molten stone and darkened flames. A massive figure rivaling Princess Celestia peered out from the flames as they seemingly slowed down.
It's eyes glowed a menacing red as they met hers. With a snarl it step passed the flames staying as low to the ground as it could get. She could only stare as it reared up and looked down on her.
"And what are you?" It growled outlooking down on her. Twilight knew exactly what to say to the towering beast in front of her.
"W-what?" Twilight stammered out in surprise. "Y-you can speak?"
"As can you? This day is getting weirder by the second. If falling out of the sky wasn't bad enough now talking multicolored horses." Stammered out the wolf taking a step back in surprise. "Hello there, small pony creature?" It's eyes had gone wide now carefully scanning over Twilight.
"Hello huge canine creature!" She said a little loud almost shouting at the wolf. "You seem... intelligent?" Twilight mentally slapped herself at the obscene comment but it was all she could come up with seeing the surprise of what had happened in the span of about a minute.
"Yes I am." The wolf itself scaled to be just a tad larger than Celestia and was covered in crimson; she sincerely hoped it was just fur color. They sat peering at each other for what had seemed like hours. With each second she grew less scared as it was starting to become apparent he was just as confused. It didn't take long for the situation to deescalate to awkwardness. "So... Nice weather huh?"
"Yes... What exactly are you by the way?" Twilight had grown curious about him as he seemed peaceful. Well at the very least he hadn't tried to hurt her yet. "And that fire thing how did you do that?"
He stared at her in surprise faintly shifting his eyes between her in the village. Suddenly they widened and panic filled them. Finally they settled back on her as the flames seemingly cooled and started making there way back into the recesses in his fur. By some miracle it appeared as if the flames had effected nothing but the ow molten fountain. Even then the damage on the it was still relatively low. "I'm sorry purple one, I had no intention of letting my flames loose here. Thankfully they were set to friend rather then foe."
"Friend? Foe? What are you talking about... Um Mr. Wolf?" They had been talking this whole time not realizing they had never been introduced. "I'm Twilight Sparkle by the way. Pleasure to meet you!"
He froze for a second. Could he trust this creature with his name? What if the Corporation tortured the information out of her? Eyes locked onto hers once more and he brought himself down to her level. "DawnBreaker, but please call me Dawn Ms. Sparkle. It's a pleasure to meet you as well."
"Twilight will be fine. Now about that comment you made with the flames. As well as the flames themselves. How did you do that?" Twilight began to think about harder now that she was sure that she wasn't in complete danger. Her horn lit up testing the magic in the air and she detected something very cleverly hidden in the air around her. It felt ancient compared to the normal magic that radiated around, not immensely strong or anything just... old. "What... is that? I can sense it all over you and around you but it just feels... wrong." All types of magic had a different feel to them. Changeling magic was ever changing and shifting while dragon magic pulsed outward with power. Dawn's magic felt much more like Celestia and Luna's. It was old, different and was from a bygone age but despite this the only close representation of his inner magic was that it was similar to that of the Princesses.
The giant wolf lifted itself to its paws at the sight of her horn lighting up. He gave a curious glare and began to sniff the air. "And you smell... different. The other experiments in the chemical X in them had an alerting scent about them but yours is calmer, comforting even." He closed his eyes and threw in slightly closer to her causing her to slightly flinch back. She didn't know whether the movement went unnoticed or he just didn't care. "Twilight you have X in you... You're like us?"
"Wait 'X'? What's 'X', do you mean my magic?" She asked confused. "You call your magic 'X'? Must be a cultural difference but your magic is definitely foreign?"
"Twilight how did you escape the Corporation? Is this a whole village of escapees? What about containment teams and hostile experiments? How did you manage to fend them off?" He looked erratic and his eyes frantic. "Twilight please tell me everything you know about them! I still have friends in there I need to get out!"
"w-What? Corporation? Escapees and experiments? I don't know what you're talking about Dawn." The whole calm demeanor of the wolf was gone in an instant. Replaced by a more attentive persona he asked questions rapid fire not giving her enough time to process the information he was throwing out. "Dawn calm down! What's this about containment and corporations?"
Dawn stared at her with no clear expression printed on his face. "Your heartrate is normal and I detect no acetylcholine on you. Then again I wouldn't expect a creature such as you to have sweat glands." He sat down bringing his head to her level. He let out a sigh and closed his eyes before he spoke again. "This is going to be a long story Twilight. Just how long do you have?"
"I'll start some tea..."
"Now, lets get started." After a little some of the ponies that had fled had come back of their own violation. They were hesitant to go anywhere Dawn but they were curious enough to watch Twilight and Dawn from the distance. Just far enough away that most of their conversation had remained personal. "First off tell me about your magic. It feels very strange compared to everything else."
"I was never one to question where my powers came from or just how they came to be. One day I was just a pup then the Corporation found me and injected me with Chemical X. Next thing I knew I could summon flames from within and cause them to combust with deadly force." He closed his eyes and let out a 'huff' before some parts of him ignited. No heat came from them but they held a perfect representation of fire. "With time and my teachers advice I learned how to control different aspects of my flames allowing me to change temperature and even use them to form semi solid surfaces."
"Interesting." Twilight had soon summoned a notepad to get all the information down. Satisfied with her notes on Dawn she moved to the next topic. "Chemical X, you keep mentioning this in several ways. Just what is it and how does it all relate back to you?"
"As I previously stated the Corporation and their scientists used Chemical X to give us experiments unique aspects. However it was quite toxic to all known lifeforms but through repeated testing and conditioning we were able to survive. Humans had it the worse out of the bunch and small dosages could render them mad. Large dosages caused rapid mutations as scaring appeared all over their flesh. With in a week the chemical could turn a human into an infected monstrosity. X is nothing more than a naturally occurring parasite or at least that's what the Corporation tell themselves as they try to understand something outside their jurisdiction."
"I feel so bad for them. Slowly dying to the wonders of magic with nothing that could help them. Some ever so slowly becoming monsters as they fail to explain something they never encountered before."
"Don't feel sorry for them Twilight. The wretched humans brought this on themselves for all they wrought to their world. It decided to bite back for once and show them all the misery they caused it. But the humans ever so resilient wouldn't die off so easily. They clustered together and the remnants of their leadership formed the Corporation to stop the advance of the infected while searching for a way to save them all." The flames on Dawn slowly started to warm up and spread slightly across fur consuming more of him. "They tested us and used us to keep one another in check through 'endurance' training. They had us kill each other to inject more X into the loser hoping to 'boost' results. Hundreds of my species lie dead at their hands, and thousands of other awakened species find themselves trampled over without a chance to live their own lives. All for a failing goal that has yet to bare any positive results for them."
"But why? If nothing ever came why would they keep torturing others? Couldn't they have found a way to not hurt anyone and research safely." Twilight had abandoned her notes due to the sheer shock of the story she was being told. "How could they hurt so many living creatures..."
"Yes you would think that but all they cause is pain and misery. Take heed my advice Twilight. Never trust a human. Most are terrible and I have only ever met one who makes her species worthy. Yet still she is a bad person, just slightly better than the rest." The wolf looked down as he finished. He let out a slight whimper barely audible to Twilight before a rainbow blur slammed into him before darting off. "W-what was that Twilight?" Dawn looked around the skies doing his best to keep the figure in sight but it moved just too fast for him to keep track off.
"Oh no! Rainbow stop he's friendly!" Twilight yelled into the sky. "He's not a monster!"
"You know this thi-" The blur slammed into him once more causing him to stumble a little. "Damn... Reminds me of ranking fights with Cadisk. Just as fast and pesky as him except airborne." Dawn muttered under his breathe trying to find this 'Rainbow' before it could strike him again. He had taken much harder blows during his imprisonment across Corporation facilities but it carried enough force to annoy him. Memories of battles and challenges from Cadisk started to bubble to the surface and bring the X in his blood to come forth. 'Calm yourself Dawn. These ones are no threat to you.'
"Dawn I'm so sorry I should've told everypony about you before something like this happened!" Twilight's eyes had joined the fray hoping to catch her friend before she pushed the wolf a step too far. "Are you okay? She's not hurting you is she?"
"It's fin-" Another thump smacked against him. "I'm okay." Twilight could easily see the nerves on the wolf slowly becoming undone with each repeated attack. Yet he never made any attempt to harm Rainbow. Weather it was because he was unable or in control of his emotions was up for debate.
Just then a moment opened up as Rainbow stopped in her tracks facing the Everfree. Alarm dotted her face right before she was entrapped by Twilight's Magic. "Rainbow chill!" Twilight kept the Pegasus locked in place making sure she couldn't antagonize the wolf any further
"Ow what the- He's not?!" Rainbow turned to face her friend once more. "Twilight look!" She jabbed her hoof out towards the forest where a fatigued Zecora had emerged alongside the three Cutie Mark Crusaders. They were all frozen at the sight of the large wolf who instantly locked eyes on the small, bloody form of Mimic.
Everyone within a hundred feet of the wolf could swear they felt the temperature drop a solid twenty degrees. Slow billowing flames emerged from his back like a cape flowing in the wind. His eyes became entrapped in unyielding heat. "You have the next ten seconds to explain just why he is in that shape..."
The soft chirping of birds, howling of strange creatures as well as the scents of strange surroundings. It was shocking at first not being within the confines of one of the many prisons that held her. It was peaceful and made her wish to sit there and soak in all in. Her neon, glowing green eyes fluttered open taking in the dark crevice she was hidden in. She gazed around looking for one small ball of fur that should have been hugging her side. 'Strange. Guess I have something to do now.'
All of her previous wounds ached and burned as she stretched. She soon crawled out the cave and looked into the orange, overcast sunset. She turned her head to the sky and let out a mighty howl that echoed through the leaves and foliage. It was both a call to arms and a challenge carried in one bold message.
Night has arrived.
But just then she heard an explosion ring out much louder than any of her howls. Only one wolf she knew could do that. 'Wonder who got Dawn in a tizzy?' She stumbled through the forest slowly as the undergrowth practically carried her at times. 'Don't need to get there fast, he can handle himself against most both in and outside his weight class.'
