Internment
So here I was, propped up on a bed with some very comfortable goose feather pillows, being tended to by Equestria's finest Doctors and nurses and probably getting several minor diseases I'd picked up over the years cured along with all the regular vaccinations and tests put on me, being prepared for the real Doctors I guessed.
Probably the biggest crime they'd done so far was to shave off my beard, reducing my face to that of a young stallion instead of the old hobo I was supposed to be, sure my hair was still grey but now I looked like some fresh colt straight out of University, something I would have probably liked had the years not taught how immature I once was and full of spunk for the nation.
I had been groomed everywhere else additionally as well, my mane had been basically styled, my coat had been de-mucked, my hooves tended to and generally I felt good, yet not limber, how could I relax when I knew they were simply fixing me for their wicked experiments.
Celestia hadn't come by yet but then I'd only been awake for a few hours and according to one of the good Doctors I had been asleep for about a day, didn't feel like it but then how are you supposed to get any real sleep when you're in a den of lions, unconscious or not you just wouldn't be able to feel safe.
I saw guards everywhere around me, they guarded the doors, patrolled the ward and occasionally eyed me from afar, never saying a word to anypony and always with that same regal and downright stone-faced stance that gave them their fierce if not widely known reputation.
I bet that some of them were actually nice stallions but I knew that the ones in here would likely be the same that guarded and beat me back in the days with the Doctors, they had done other things as well, despicable things and although it was long ago I bet that these guards were descendants.
I coughed a little, my throat very sore as one of the nurses stopped by to check the machine I was hooked up to. "When will I be allowed to leave?" I asked her, a question I'd asked everypony about 20 times now only to receive the type of answer that I was about to receive now.
"Oh silly you need to rest a bit longer, you're in safe hooves now and Celestia will be around in a while to check up and personally thank you for your bravery", she said in a very kindly tone but it was safe to assume that she wasn't part of Celestia's Death Doctors… at least that was what I called them and with the things I'd seen the name fit the bill.
"I should have never stayed in Canterlot" I thought to myself as the mare went away again, whistling a catchy tune with a nice spring in her step as if the world was her oyster. "I should have stayed in exile in Stalliongrad forever, returning to Canterlot was a mistake."
I was supposedly good at seeing future crises and problems but it seemed by some sad design of fate that I was never able to predict my own future unless I was in it with somepony else doing the dying or the maiming.
I didn't need magical powers to be able to tell that I was about to go back to hell though and with all the years that had passed it was unlikely they would slip up in the way they had last time and allow me a window of time to escape with my life.
Well when I said escape it was running in blind and bloody panic, falling through the window to my supposed death as I remembered it, "I still don't know how I survived that night bu…" I stopped mid-thought as I heard the clip clop of shoes much louder than any guards and with the sudden change in the vibrance in the air I could tell that my time had come.
I swallowed and laid back in my bed as Celestia came into view, trotting casually across the marble floors with a smile on her face. "Total bitch" was the only thing I thought as she stopped at the foot of my hospital bed and in the span of a few seconds she seemingly analysed me, there wasn't any drastic change in her face but she'd had 1000 years to perfect the art of not smirking it triumph.
"It is very nice to meet you properly kind sir" she began in that cheery, regal bullshitting way she probably always used when speaking to everypony but I wasn't in the mood for this little game and promptly cut through her words.
"Shut up Celestia and get this mandatory victory speech over, y-you've won alright? You've found me after all these years, maybe I should have not come back but can you blame a stallion from wanting for his hometown? You're sick you know that!? You're regime is so perfectly worked out, boy I wish ponies could see what you do behind closed doors but I guess you have extermination squads and spies to help deal with any leaks. What's the matter? Manticore got your tongue?" I raged with a controlled temper.
Well it certainly shut her up as she did in fact seem lost for words and shuffled from side to side, her expression became one that would be best described as confused as she asked me "I… I'm not sure what you're getting at sir, I was about to ask your name but… I'm sorry are you under the impression that we have met before?"
I blinked and stared at her, she was not serious was she? I mean I bet she was a good actress but right now she was doing a severely good job at seeming clueless.
I swallowed and licked my muzzle as I rasped "You cannot be serious? Stop toying with me Celestia and remember me, let's just get this over with, hopefully your Doctors will screw up and push a scalpel into my brain, anything that will save me from the nightmare you want to inflict upon me…"
Celestia was lost for words now, her jaw hanging open and and stance becoming more shifty as an uncomfortable silence descended. She excused herself for a moment as she motioned to a Doctor to come over, they pulled the curtain closed but I heard whispering from the otherside, murmurs of brains and insanity were the primary words that were used but after two minutes her golden magic hue pulled the curtain back and after regaining her composure asked "Can you tell me your name sir? We don't have you in our record of births, are you from Canterlot?"
I sighed and slumped in my bed and stared dumbly at her. "You don't remember hmm? Well I may as well jog your memory, who cares anyway it's not like I have anypony else to talk to at this point."
I cleared my throat again and kept a level eye with the Princess who seemed more concerned than smarmy but then what did I know about her mind, she was a sick twisted mare who only cared about keeping control over her populace.
"Once upon a time in the magical land of Equestria… about 200 maybe 300 years ago there was a pony who had just graduated from the University of Canterlot with Merit in Divinity and a mysterious aptitude to tell small details of the future, nothing major just like what weather it would be tomorrow or whether sudden accidents were about to occur you know bland stuff but rare amongst non-Unicorns.
So he did his two year military service as at that time for he was proud of his nation and so his abilities were noticed and he along with 15 others with similar abilities were selected for a special project and brought before their ruler Princess Celestia.
Oh she was radiant, so beautiful and wise and after a delicious meal and some hearty conversation she oversaw us sign contracts that apparently let us be subjected to standard tests for over a year, funny because the next thing that happened wasn't what they all expected.
They woke up below the castle, in the deepest darkest caves beneath the city where nopony could hear you scream. When I say they I guess I should just switch to we… we all awoke to these vicious guards which tormented and beat us and did… things to the mares particularly, these horrifying Doctors who one by one dragged us away and subjected us to torture and horrible experiments that left some of us deformed, mentally damaged and sometimes dead.
The lead Doctor was the Royal Medical Examiner to the state a Doctor Eugenic, a black stallion who had a heart blacker than the darkest night who told us that we would become the warning system of the state, that with his medical and scientific understanding of our brains he would implant our us with parasitic worms from the Mountains of the farthest reaches of the Empire that had psychedelic and hallucinogenic properties which would amplify a certain part of our brains to help us predict futures with such clarity we would see everything before it had even happened!"
I was getting angry now and began to sit up, Celestia staring at me with fright as she seemed to legitimately remember me and her evil fucking Doctor and probably all the reports she'd read about our progress. Even if she had legitimately not known about me personally I wasn't about to stop this tirade as she was the pony responsible as the good Doctor had liked to remind us.
"The worms would kill the host after a few weeks he discovered so naturally he went further and so we began to be fed with this horrible gruel that would strengthen our systems before being injected with some kind of derivative of your Alicorn blood mixed with divines know what that would pair with our cells and make us live forever.
Guess what? A new problem emerged as our bodies rejected it all and so I watched my comrades as they bled from their eyes, from their ears as they vomited bloody gruel all over me and cried for our captors to kill them, to end their lives and take the unbearable pain away."
It had been over a decade since I had thought about them, my fellow captives, my friends. We'd been held for over a year there gradually our numbers reduced to four of us, the ones who had been able to take the torture and the implantations and the serums and everything that came with it.
"The blood now in our systems made us immortal sure but still we were weak and prone to disease, the mixture not being enough to keep us healthy anymore. So Eugenic did his final move and tapped into some dark magics, and selected half of us to survive and half of us to die.
Myself and a mare called Violet, she was pretty once I bet, she mentioned she was a flower arranger but she was broken in body and mind by that time, the pretty ones were always the first to get dragged out by your evil fucking guards!"
I stopped as I tried not to burst in sobs over her when I remembered her screams, the laughter from them, from what they did to her, what Celestia had sighed off on to have done to her by members of her own special protection force.
"We were strapped down as he literally sucked the life out of my other friends, killing them painfully and embedding us with their vitality, they died for the sole reason that they were less likely to survive what came next. With little anaesthetic he opened up our heads, with his tools and assistants he implanted the parasite that still lives in my mind to this day and I saw it all, in the blink of an eye I saw everything so much that I couldn't quantify it and it nearly turned me insane.
He had to stop though as it was said that there was a serious problem upstairs in the castle and so he sewed us up, drugged us and left his scalpel on the bench telling us he would return in 20 minutes to finish us. Violet by some hidden strength broke through her bonds, grabbed the scalpel and cut the sole guard who was watching us across the throat, stabbing him until he was nothing but tenderised meat!
She nearly cut mine too, saying that we were monsters but she decided against for some reason, maybe some tiny sanity breaking through to let me live. She cut me free then she took her own life, running the blade across her throat as she babbled insanity."
I was crying now, tears soaking down my cheeks and against the green hospital gown I had been put into. I flapped my wings and suddenly I was off the bed and on my hooves as I realised that this was an opportunity, or at least this was a shot I could take at the Princess in the name of those who she and everyone had forgotten.
"I ran Princess, ran I don't know where the caves were endless, they turned from mines, to caves and into dungeons and eventually I was in the castle and there were guards, my mind get's fuzzy here" I smiled as I strode towards her, picking up a nearby bone saw and coughing as I continued "It was a while ago but I remember jumping out a window, flapping my wings to try and stop my plummet and hitting my head."
I was very close now but she didn't seem to be moving away from me or trying to stop me so I took the opportunity and said "I should have died but fate let me live, I woke up on a riverbank, I must have fallen into the river under Canterlot, I know why I'm alive though, why I have lived all these miserable year!"
I grinned almost maniacally as I stood straighter and with more vigour than I had, had for many years. "My name is Renovare Faithe, I am the only survivor of Project Foretell and I SHALL HAVE… MY REVENGE!"
With that I made my glorious move, lunging with saw in hoof, intending to cut her long neck and make sure that she remembered my name before she bled to death. I was truly mad with rage and she was truly paralysed with fear as I bore down upon her with fire and fury.
I was surprised when I suddenly felt magic surround me, and to the side I saw for a second a purple filly with a shocked expression staring fearfully at me, right before her purple magic slammed me across the wards and into multiple empty beds and curtains.
I hacked and coughed and felt my ribs, definitely a few broken and shivered as my head swirled with confusion and anger and sadness, "I am sorry friends, I have failed you, I tried to t-t-though… I tried to a-avenge you it was the least I could do" I sobbed aloud as guards surrounded me with spears and my vision began to swirl into a grand mess.
"Your ruler is a MURDERER!" I cried aloud with the last of my energy as the butt of a guards spear connected with my skull, knocking me out and sending me into my dreams where Doctor Eugenic was waiting for me with his assistants.
"The nightmare will never end for you my little pony. You are my property and you shall serve the cause of science whether you like it or not." His assistants grabbed me and began to drag me away, I couldn't struggle, I couldn't move I simply screamed bloody murder as they strapped me down, my tears turning to blood as the began their work and the nightmare truly began."
