Back again? Well, I would hope so! Anyways, today we dive into THE THIRD CHAPTER! Also Sorry it took me awhile to get this up. I was away on vacation for 2 weeks and they didn't allow me to use my laptop. But, I'm complaining for nothing. I'm here now and that means you get a story!

Disclaimer: I do not own MLP: FiM. I make a lot of changes if I did.

(Vanessa)

Vanessa slowly walked down the hall, her hoofsteps echoing against the walls. Her foster brother, Blake, walked with her. Blake was taller than she was, even though he was only 1 year older. Blake and Vanessa shared the same coat color, complete with the black muzzle, but his hair was more maroon than her gray-blue. When they reached the end of the hall, they sat and Blake said "Do not think, even for a second, that I am going to let them do anything to you that you don't want to do or don't feel comfortable with."

Vanessa lifted her head up,"Anything for the Republic."

Blake ruffled her mane and she swatted him away playfully. "That's my sister."

A few moments later, a nearby bookshelf pressed into the wall and moved to the side. A pony in a white radiation suit was on the other side of the door. He motioned for them to come in. The brother and sister walked through the small opening, the bookshelf moving into place behind them. Inside was a ginormous lab, filled to the brim with computers, testing chambers, and… cryo pods?

A maroon female unicorn walked up to them, wearing the same radiation suit just without the helmet. She greeted them like she would an old friend.

"Just one thing. You can't tell anyone, even Luna. Especially Luna."

Blake seemed puzzled. "Why?"

"The operation we run here is… not enthusiastically accepted and tolerated. In fact, normal ponies would burn us to the ground if they found out we were doing what we do. But then, there are ponies like you," she pointed at Vanessa "who see our true potential! Though, we would have liked if you had waited until adulthood, but war does not wait, sadly." She seemed depressed for a moment, then perked up and exclaimed, "Let us begin the process!"

The Process was living in the G.M.P. Lab and going through tests to build up their resistance to things. Vanessa was placed in Lab group number 100435627038649. Blake was placed in 100435627038648. Those groups did most things together, but there was one thing that set them apart: how much they were going to be modified.

The last day, Vanessa was separated from her group and pulled through a bookshelf, which was a "ghost" bookshelf. Vanessa was surprised to see a whole another, (much)smaller, lab. There was a glass wall in the back with a password-blocked door. Inside the glass containment was two tubes again with password-blocked door. Inside the left one…was a Changling.

Vanessa suddenly realized why ponies wanted to burn down the facility. Somepony started to walk her to a small circular pad on the floor. Vanessa started sweating, hard. Stepping onto the cool steel, machinery whirring underneath her feet, Vanessa screamed at herself to calm down. But she did that in her mind so no one heard.

The pad was separated into three circles and was split in halves. She stood so that two hooves were on each side, the left side behind her. The outer left semi circle lifted until it was over her back. Mechanical arms came down from the circle, each holding a piece of metal. The two middle semi circles came next the outer one. They too sprouted arms. The smallest and innermost ones stayed put, but grew arms as well. The right outer semi circle laid out a floor in place of the missing pieces. Together using the arms with metal pieces and a few with blowtorches, they fashioned her a metal suit.

The suit stopped just before her neck. It also let her tail hang free. The suit has weird little indentions where there would be something like a crater in the metal with a spike in the middle. Their purpose, she didn't know but she couldn't help glancing at them occasionally.

"Do not think even for a second that I am going to let them do anything to you that you don't want to do or don't feel comfortable with." Blake's words echoed in her mind. She felt very uncomfortable with this. She wanted to scream his name until he came barging through the door to save her. She wanted to run away with him. But he couldn't hear her. And even if he did, he would get killed if he stepped out the lab door without permission. So they couldn't run. They definitely couldn't hide. There was no where to go. Except… She considered it. There was a spike on the part of the suit on her shoulder and if she jerked it quick enough and high enough, it might pierce her neck. She looked around then she spotted a medbot. The little red and white robots floated around the G.M.P. Lab healing ponies with their built-in medgun. She sighed in exasperation. They had thought of everything.

The same pony who put her on the platform came and took her to the glass containment door. Punching in a code the door released some steam, then opened. The pony shoved Vanessa inside. She looked back and was horrified to see the door had disappeared and that she could only see through a portion of the ginormous window. The changling turned it's head towards her. It studied her with unblinking eyes.

Mechanical arms came down with needles. The needles went into the little spikes, then pierced her skin, injecting whatever they had in them. Disposing of the needles, they unlocked the right tube and pushed her in. Vanessa was becoming frantic. Its a dream, she told herself, I'll wake up with Blake and we'll go and report to Luna about this mad project.

An emotionless mechanical voice boomed, "Beginning procedure in 5.."

Vanessa was full out panicked now. "BLAKE!" she screamed.

"4..."

Vanessa was banging on the glass, screaming and sobbing.

"3..."

She ceased banging and instead curled up into a little ball.

"2..."

She began thinking of her family. Her mom and dad her divorced and dead. Her pet dog Mickey and her cats Chloe and Mama.

"1..."

And Blake...Her foster brother. She had never liked his family but she had immediately loved him. When they adopted her, he showed her around, let her play with his toys. Now that was all going away.

She looked up. She saw the logo on the scientists' suit. G.M.P.

"Beginning Procedure"

"Wait! Something's wrong in the programming! The machine's gonna blow! ABORT MISSION!"

A large BOOM sounded through the lab. She figured it out. Genetically. Modified. Ponies. She blacked out.

I woke with a start. My bed was wet with sweat. Blake was already up.

"You were twitching." He stated flatly, "The Lab haunting you again?" I nodded, still too shocked to speak. I had been getting the nightmare ever since me and Blake had escaped the burning lab. I just hoped it didn't affect my up-coming mission.

Well...I will be honest, writing this chapter actually made me depressed. But I hope it met your expectations! At first the dream Vanessa has was supposed to be the start of the chapter where my mane six prepares, but the more I got into it, the more I realized this is its own chapter. But now, I must leave you! Follow so you know when we meet again!