Unknown Location, Unknown Time since Rarity Incident
P.O.V Delta Hooves
Falling.
It wasn't a feeling you'd expect to bother a Pegasus but when you take away the ability to fly away and catch the wind you're falling through, one cannot help but feel terror. At least that's how I felt as I was unconscious, kinda reminded me of the time that RPG nearly got me back in that mountain, now that I think about it… why couldn't I remember anything before that? Sure, I tried to come up with a solution before but every time I would simply draw up a blank. Why was I so different from everypony else? Why did I know everything in the ways of combat and survival yet I cannot recall my past since my first battle?
What happened to me?
I felt cold, numb, tired, alone as feelings slowly began to return to me, the heavy thumping in my head returning with a painful throbbing where the butt-stock had left it's mark upon my face, drawing open my eyes as I felt the strain in my hooves as I realised what way was up and down. I was chained to a wall, a single, low light illuminating the cold hard floor of what appeared to be a dungeon cell and considering how dim it was, the light was truly doing a piss poor job. Groaning in my pain I looked up to greet my captors and there she was, Rarity. Yet she didn't look as I had expected; she had just set me up and gotten me captured by Luna-know-who, probably for a hefty reward, and yet her expression looked… unsettled… guilty even?
"Your property has been returned, your highness." 'Your highness' was all the words I had needed to piece together who had been the silhouette in the shadows that was beside Rarity. And the familiar voice that carried a calm, feminine giggle I would recognise anywhere.
"Thank you Royal Duchess, you may leave us and take the guards with you, I would like a word alone with him." Nodding to her word, the white Unicorn and a pair of guards armed with Assault Rifles had left the room, leaving me and the White Alicorn in the room as she stepped into the light.
"Welcome Home Delta…"
"Celestia… known you'd be after me, why though would be a good answer, what do you mean home?"
"Oh? Do you not remember? You were my little secret, my needle in the haystack of thousands of straw. The one pony in my program to actually make it."
"I have no idea what you're talking about…" I may have found stockpile after stockpile of evidence over the years as to what happened in my past, but if I played dumb here, maybe she would reveal more.
"Then allow me to jog your memory." With a sudden flash of Alicorn levitation magic, a flash of Silver found its way from her side to greet my side, I couldn't help but yelp out in pain as agony burned through my slashed side, it didn't cut too deep but I didn't need to be a medic to know I was bleeding. Once my clenched eyes reopened I saw her bring the now crimson coated blade to her muzzle, her tongue giving a single lap on the blood that now stained it. The cold steel stained my green chest as she brushed off the remainder of the crimson coating on my chest.
2"Even after all these years I can still taste the progress in your blood, everything; the augmentations, the strength and the pain you endured through where many other subjects fell. These subjects had convinced me more and more to shut down the program… but then I found you. Even as I just began to inspect the flash near the Everfree Forest I felt hope, which enhanced tenfold as I came across you, the perfect warrior and such promise you showed in the training you underwent."
Well that was one big monologue of info that told me what I already knew but what shocked me was what had happened, now I remembered everything in the training exactly, especially the ones that brought me to the edge of my life, each session more excruciating than the last. That's what killed off the other subjects.
"Ahhhh… So you do remember? Well I opened that lab personally years ago, your training was almost complete, I was so close to having you combat ready, but then as you remember, the base came under attack, I sent in my best to get you out but in the end, they were not enough. However somehow, you survived! No, not just that, you became so much more-" Ok, that broke my nerve, who did she think she was?!
"For what!? All your program did was bring death to thousands of foals who used the word Mommy and Daddy more than anything else! That's right, I know the figures, 10,00 foals kidnapped, their lives taken away the second you brought them here and for what good?!"
My expression she could clearly see was absolute fury, and I'm sure that behind that stern face she knew that if I wasn't bound by Iron shackles I would have beaten her to within an inch of her life right there and then, yet she kept her response calm and stern as her nerve, I gotta give her one thing, the mare, no, genocidal freak, knew how to hold a straight poker face.
"Law and Order, I regretted their loss more than anything, but it was necessary. Tell me Delta… what brings peace?"
"A whole ton of things that sure as hell ain't happening now." I swear her laugh at that point was so evil she's make Nightmare Moon look like a kitten.
"On the contrary, Law and Order. You see; this applies to a single nation under a single ruler, a nice strong one they can look up to in hopes they will bring prosperity to their lands. However, this changes when two countries stand side by side, border by border. With each country can come a mainstreamed culture, but if two have different ideals, you can guess what happens next."
"War?"
"Correct, they may try but it always resorts to conflict, in a way though, it helps to determine who is a good leader and who is not. But when something happens that throws the leader's reign in question; soon the law will be questioned and fall, once that fails, order fails. But anyway, that's why I created you, a soldier who would hold up our kingdom and make me seem as the good and deserving leader I am." Pfft… Deserving, my flank…
"However, it did not go that way, once you became stronger than my royal guard, ponies began to question MY rule, that it was appearing lesser than others in other countries. But I will show them power… power they never anticipated, besides, why have so many countries, when you could overrule them all?"
Wait? Overrule was an invasion!? Ok, I needed to know more about this before she left "You're planning to take over our neighbouring countries? Are you mad?! You barely won a war with Revolutionaries and now this? This war is going to your head Celestia."
"Is it now? Ha! Coming from you. Well, obviously you are blind or do not know the way, you see, the light has only brought us to this stage, but now… the darkness has shown me the way." Looking back towards me I saw a sight that send a chill down my very core, even in the dark shadows I could see her body change into a darker, more sinister black instead of the hope-inspiring white. Those innocent eyes turning into nothing but a rage filled red. "Oh and don't get your hopes up of me letting you join us, nopony must know about your origins. Hence why you are getting executed at dawn… farewell Delta."
And with that, her sword levitated through the air as it smashed the light, it's contents falling to the ground as darkness plunged into the room, then I felt yet another blow to the face, this time, I was unsure of if I'd even wake up.