Author's Notations: I am officially neutral on the fact of everything going on with the show. Please do not question me about it, unless you're just asking my favorite pony or something of the like.
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Having watched the doctor go through all of the tests, with the creature in the capsule staring at me the whole time had been chipping away at my nerves. Even after what had felt like a good forty-eight hours passed by and the doctor was leading me back to my room, I still had to check over my shoulder to make sure that the creature wasn't still looking at me.
The light when we had exited the 'sick wing', as the sign on the wall I hadn't noticed said, was little comfort seeing as how I was ushered to my room so quickly and the lights went out signaling that it was time to rest. I laid there in my bed for what felt longer than any time I had ever had to stay still, the pillow covering my face, but eyes wide open.
I dared not close my eyes, afraid of seeing those staring colorless eyes. Though I had never heard it's voice, or even move beyond it's eyes, I could almost hear it laughing at me, mocking me.
After a while, I felt the plea from my side to turn over, but my mind stopped me; 'What if somepony's standing there? Looking at you? Just waiting for you to see it so it can kill you?'. The thought almost paralyzed me, thinking instead to just roll over without moving my head from under the pillow.
Too afraid to close my eyes, I just rolled over, only to think I had seen something. Curiosity started to well up in my head until I finally threw the pillow off my head and looked around.
The only thing out of ordinary was the face of a small digital clock had come out of one of the panels on the wall revealing it was three in the morning. Rubbing my eyes with my hooves, I noticed the messages from my abdomen telling me I needed to use the facilities, or in this case the disposal unit in the corner.
Getting out of bed and trotting over to the waste disposal unit was easy, my tired eyes not registering much beyond the goal. When I turned around and angled myself in the right position, I noticed a familiar pair of eyes staring at me from the far wall, not a foot above my bed.
My eyes shot open and my bowels opened up, but I was frozen, fixated on those pair of eyes. Slowly I noticed that they started moving around the room, looking over it only for the lids to fall halfway, almost in boredom.
Looks almost as bad as mine. I heard. Only difference is where your bed would be there's the stasis tube hahaha! The laughter echoed off the walls and bounded about in my head.
I opened my mouth to say something, but found that my voice had vanished. Barely audible wheezes came out instead only for the eyes to show amusement.
Oh come now, I'm not that scary am I? No, no, no, the ones in the cells around me, those are the scary ones! The voice said. Hay, there's this one not three doors down from me that has an extremely thin pony, but he's really tall! I've tried to talk to him, but he never says anything beyond 'Foals, I love foals' It's really odd, and this is coming from the pair of eyes on your wall!
"W-what do you want?" I asked, finally finding my voice, only to be met by another chuckle.
I want out, just like you kiddo.
The lapse of time passing was only shown by the lights going off and the doctors telling me it was time to sleep. Testing had become monotonous, little more than sitting in the room with the different doctors as they ran tests on the creature lying in the tube. Once in a great while they would take me out topside and let me sit in the sun for a while or run around the top of the complex a few times before testing my heart rate.
Discussion while it was tested on was normal for the creature, though I was unable to answer back beyond nods or a shake of the head. Nighttime visits were common though, often not much was conveyed though as the scientists seemed to of put microphones in the room which had made them go nuts when I had said the simple 'what do you want' to an empty room.
I noticed quickly that I seemed to be the only one able to see the changes in the creature along with hear it's voice.
"Alright" The blue stallion said as he opened the door leading outside. "Today we'll need you to push yourself. Your goal is a twenty laps. I know that your previous limit seemed to be around sixty, sixty-five on a good day, but you'll be testing something for us" the doctor said pulling out a syringe filled with a clear liquid that I noticed had no bubbles in it. "Now I recognize that look in your eyes, but don't worry, this will only stimulate your amygdala, or the part of your brain that processes fear"
The scientist's words did little to help calm me, but I nodded anyways, knowing the test was going to happen anyways, if I agreed with it or not.
"Okay, here we go" the stallion said walking up to me before stabbing the needle into my neck making me jolt. "It may take a few seconds to take effect, but when you start to feel afraid, I want you to start running"
I turned around and watched as the stallion walked back into the laboratories and the door shut behind him leaving only the small camera on the top of the building to show what was going on.
I stood there for a moment not really paying attention to anything around me until I looked strait up into the air. The clear blue sky shown back down, but the old feeling in my gut was telling me I needed to get away from it. I looked around only for almost everything else to create the same reaction, I started backing up until I bumped into the building that served as the top of the laboratories. Whirling around I only found that the small stone building had changed. Shadows that had once barely been noticeable stood out almost as if they were reaching for me.
I felt bile rising up in my throat and before I could stop myself I vomited up what little of the lunch that I had managed to eat before the testing started. Without a second to spare, I whirled around on the back of my hooves and started galloping. A small siren wailed in the distance, but that only made more of the hairs on my back stand up on end.
Shadows were coming from everywhere, horrifying me more with every hoof beat. A low booming noise came from underground, almost laughter, reverberating multiple different times before I halted trying to turn around again, trying to flee from the horrifying noise.
As I turned though I saw a group of ponies, the small tails of their coats trailing behind them as they rushed after me. A hazel unicorn lead the charge a small syringe floating above her head.
My eyes grew wider at the sight of the small item floating above her head 'No, no, they're not coming near me with that thing!' I shouted inside my head galloping off to the right of the group, only for another group of unicorns I hadn't seen to grab me with their magic and lift me into the air. I was powerless, only able to look at it in horror as the hazel unicorn put the needle of the syringe in my neck and pushed the clear liquid into my bloodstream.
For a few seconds nothing changed, my heart with still beating almost fast enough to pop out of my chest, and my mind still going off on how I could get away. As I started trying to struggle again, my vision started to dim and I quickly found my limbs heavier and heavier. Before I blacked out I noticed that the unicorns were lowering me onto something.
Darkness surrounded me, accompanied by an unnatural silence. I slowly tried to get up, only to find that my pony body was unable to.
Rolling onto my side and onto my hooves, I stood up looking around. Nothing shown through the dark, and not a sound echoed back to me, even my own breathing sounded muffled. I took a step forward only for nothing to meet my hoof making me topple forward. Nothing was felt as I drifted, spinning slightly.
I opened my mouth trying to call out, but the sound of my voice was almost inaudible even for me to hear. I attempted to scream, this time for it to completely be cut off.
Growing annoyed of the spinning and the lack of sound, I started to wave my arms at random trying to stop, but found it to little use. Unable to think of anything else I let out a heavy sigh which propelled me backwards. Giving up on my attempts to get stable, I just floated on, thinking about what had happened in my life.
'Heh, wish I could've been better friends with Twilight and her friends, too bad. After what happened, however long ago, they'll probably be frightened of me. Well, maybe I could move up north, wonder if there's something up there...' I thought floating through the darkness. 'Not as if they're the only interesting ponies in this world, maybe some of those... what were they? Zonies? Bah, whatever'
I closed my eyes, ignoring the empty world around me.
Slowly opening my eyes, I realized I in some unrecognizable place, with a loud humming noise coming from around me. Looking up from where I was lying I found that I was in some kind of machine.
"Please calm down, we are only scanning your body to make sure that there's nothing wrong with you. Please don't move" A voice said over the intercom, only wanting to make me crawl out. "We were almost finished when you awoke so this should only take... Alright done!"
A few seconds after the mare on the intercom stopped talking, whatever I was lying on started moving out of the machine slowly, the bright florescent lights above practically blinding me as the only shade was from a silhouette of a unicorn standing over me, a few strands of hair from the pony's mane touching my face.
"Alright, come, you seem to be fine, thought going outside might be a bit frightening for you for a while" The mare said before backing up away from the table.
I started trying to get up, but noticed that the table slowly started turning sideways allowing me to simply fall onto my hooves. I rubbed my eyes for a moment, trying to get the afterimage off my eyes. When I opened them again, the hot-pink unicorn mare was staring at me. Her long violet mane hanging over her shoulder, blocking her ID that was hanging on her labcoat.
"My name is Violet Jewel, I'll be with you for the next few weeks!" Violet said a large smile that almost seemed contagious. "I hope we can become good friends!"
I returned the mare's smile, though a bit less enthusiastically, and she proceeded to skip out of the room humming something to herself. Shaking my head and facehoofing I followed her, hoping that we were returning to my room shortly.
Ending Notations: having off weeks for the writing. I found that having friends IRL does that...