Star Whistle awoke; she glanced around the small room she had been asleep in. She remembered nothing other than her name. The room consisted of walls made from glass apart from a single door sized wall - made out of what appeared to be concrete - and a radio on a white square cube. However the scenery outside of the glass room looked like a disaster had occurred, the walls were covered in a thick layer of vines and various other plant life. The walls had crumbled over time, allowing dirt to fill the gaps and spill into the floor, overall the room looked a catastrophe and there was no way to escape this glass room she had awoken in. The square lights in the roof were either broken or flickering and the small area of wall previously mentioned had a thin metal frame around the edge of it, where in Equestria was she? There was a sudden noise, the sound of static filled the room followed by the sound of an unfamiliar voice

"Welcome to the Neigh Science Laboratory" began the now obviously pre-recorded announcement "If you are hearing this then it is more than likely that there has been some kind of catastrophic event which has affected the staff of this Laboratory. If, however, there is no disaster of any proportion then ignore this recording and resume with your work" Star Whistle listened closely to the recording, maybe this could be some kind of indication to why she was here

"The Neigh Science Laboratory has assembled a large testing facility for future generations to resume testing even in such an event as this, testing will commence in 5" Continued the voice, Star Whistle began to panic. The recording had given her little to no information as to where she was or what had happened, quickly looking around the room she tried to find a way out

"4" Resumed the voice. Star Whistle tried to charge up an ample amount of magic to shatter the glass, however she found herself unable to do so

"3" Rang the voice, echoing off of the walls of the broken room. Star whistle panicked more, why could she not charge her magic? She quickly ran towards the glass walls and began try to break them

"2" Stated the voice, yet again intruding upon Star Whistle's thoughts. The glass had began to break, there was a slight crack. Star Whistle couldn't help but form a small grin at this, she may be able to avoid this "testing"

"On—" Began the voice but it was interrupted by further static and the recording seemed to rewind and fast forward.

Suddenly it stopped and all was silent again, frozen in fear Star Whistle looked around the room for the cause of this. Was it just a fault? Or was it some ponies idea of a sick joke? Suddenly a high pitch noise echoed through the room

"Hello, Star whistle" said the voice, a very deep voice began to speak

Star Whistle found herself unable to speak, what had happened while she was asleep?

"I see you've realised you can no longer speak" Continued the voice, slightly smug "We performed an operation to remove your vocal chords so you couldn't argue to testing" Star Whistle was shocked, further fear flushed through her

"There was no other way you see..." Resumed the voice "I say removed but I use the term loosely. We simply used a device of ours to disable them until you complete the tests we have set out for you, after that you will be able to talk again. Just like nothing ever happened" Star Whistle thought to herself

"Is this some kind of sick joke?" She thought "Does Princess Celestia know about this 'Neigh Science' Laboratory?"

"Here's an interesting fact for you, I have the controls to the device controlling your vocal chords right here" Ranted the voice, slightly grating on Star Whistle's nerves now, if she could speak after the tests were complete then she would hurriedly complete them so she could leave the accursed lab

"Now" the voice started again, as if he had never talked to her before "Please walk through the portal on that wall before you" there was the sound of flicking switches and pressing buttons followed by an echoed twanging sound. An orange outlined portal had appeared on the wall with the metal outline around it. Star Whistles eyes widened, portal technology? Like teleportation? Wasn't that a spell that a unicorn could learn? What was the point?

"Come on" Said the voice, in a mildly annoyed tone "Go through" Star Whistle closed her eyes and took a deep breath, she would only do this because she wanted to leave. As she stepped through the portal she appeared outside of the glass box, near one of the larger cracks in the broken wall

"Good... oh, but where are my manners" Resumed the voice "You may call me... well not really call me... but you may associate this voice with the name 'Dark Cloud'" Star whistle blinked in disbelief

"And no, that's not my actual name. Why in Equestria would I give you that? Wouldn't want you telling anypony who I am..." Stated the voice "Anyway, walk down the hallway that's about to appear. The first test chamber isn't for quite a way, and you need to receive the dual portal device before performing any tests" Star Whistle nodded and looked around for said hallway, there were more tapping of keys and pulling of levers and a few panel walls pulled back and out to reveal a large iron walkway over the deepest hole she had ever seen, it went beyond how far she could actually see and the room she had just walked out of was only one of thousands of others, each wall covered in rooms with walkways just like this each leading to other areas.

"I remember the last pony that I brought down here" Began Dark Cloud "She looked quite similar to you but sadly she wasn't up to the task of completing the tests I had set out for her. In fact, you're going to exactly the same chambers she went to; which to be quite honest bores me a great deal considering I've seen them solved before... excuse me, I went off on a rant there didn't I?" Star Whistle rolled her eyes and continued to walk down the walkway, still taken back by the surroundings. Suddenly a bridge from another room collapsed, falling into the abyss below

"Oh! There goes another one, let's hope that doesn't happen to you 'eh? It would be pretty embarrassing to die before the first test even begins!" Started Dark Cloud, Star Whistle sighed. She knew he was going to be as obnoxious as possible to try and distract her from the task at hand "Reminds me of this Pegasus I had down here, she didn't really react well to having a metal ring holding her wings against her... couldn't hold the portal gun either! That's why we've decided upon a Unicorn only policy" Ranted the voice "And then..." his voice trailed off as Star Whistle began to focus upon getting to her destination, it was going to be a long walk

Upon arriving at the entrance to the first test chamber Dark Cloud piped up once again, not that he ever piped down of course

"Before you enter the first chamber you'll need to get the dual portal device... as I mentioned before" He began "So! All you have to do is..." the sound of buttons, keys and levers being pressed hit and pulled began

"Get it from over there" Dark Cloud chirped, some panels moved and there amongst the rubble and cracked walls laid the body of another unicorn, lifeless beneath a chunk of rubble "About the rubble, turns out that using explosives to distract test subjects is not the greatest idea! Such a shame to! She was almost on the second set of tests!"

Hesitantly and cautiously Star Whistle approached the body scared, and saddened, about the situation at hand

"I've granted you enough magic power to be able to not only hold but also to OPERATE the dual portal device, aren't I nice?" Dark Cloud resumed tediously. And apparently he was telling the truth, Star Whistle was able to levitate the portal gun as well as fire it "Right then! Now you have the dual portal device you need only to test your advanced leg replacements" more buttons were being hit at the other end of the microphone. A claw grabbed Star Whistle, pulling her towards the roof

"Now, if they work you'll be fine!" Explained Dark Cloud "But if not... then... well let's just say I'll have to find another test subject" Star Whistle tried to scream, but she couldn't. She tried to struggle, but the claw held her tight. And then, the claw let go and sent Star Whistle plummeting towards the ground at full force.

My Little Portal; Testing is scientific advancement


What's up guys I'm uploading this fic from over at FIMFiction, the full story is avaliable there if you don't want to wait for new chapters to come out. Over there are a load of other stories (Some of which I will be uploading here in due time) and I'll be posting updates on story progression.

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- Skull