The Things One Does

I had arrived in the dusty, cobwebbed old abandoned hospital basement that had kind of been turned into a storage area for what looked like medieval rugs which had long since been eaten away.

I was tired but I rubbed my eyes and shook myself awake when I saw five body bags on a freshly cleaned table. I noticed three were black and two white so I guessed that the white ones contained those scientist ponies and the black ones the assassins.

I grabbed a rickety nearby small table and put Red along with all my equipment down on it. "What are you going to do Asimov" she asked. "I'm going to first take all their gear and then I want you to fully scan them and see If I need to get my knife, then I'm going to put them all in a large basin and fill it with water which I will then dissolve with a green Emerald crystal and if I can get some alcohol which should turn the water acidic and melt them and any equipment that I believe unfit down into splotches of gunk" I said trying to stay as emotionless as possible.

Red's hologram looked at me quizzically before asking "by pony standards wouldn't that be considered sick"? "Yes Red but I am not a pony I am a soldier I do what I must with none of the bullshit in between" I said unsure fly. "You seem to be reassuring yourself somehow" accused Red. "Don't be ridiculous I am simply stating a fact" I said firmly turning away and unzipping the first black body bag.

Red imitated a thinking expression and said "your voice shows signs of lying and putting that and the fact you've been having violent mood swings recently adds up to something is wrong".

I sighed and put down a necklace that I had found on the female assassin which contained lethal acid poison. "It's very complicated Red". "I don't care Asimov, of this affects mission objective then I am obliged to ask and receive a worthy answer" she stated plainly.

I walked over to an old wardrobe suddenly not feeling well, suddenly a vein popped on my forehead and I felt really hot and sticky. Red began to say something but the words were blanked out as I began to hear bought but the thudding of platoon marching in my ears getting louder and louder until the noise became unbearable.

I couldn't help myself anymore and I lashed out with a cry at the wardrobe, breaking into the doorway with my hoof and ripping them off their hinges with a snarl.

I looked at the wardrobe and then Red and saw the shock on her little filly holographic image of a face which made me stop and slow my breathing. It was a further five minutes before I felt calm enough to respond.

"I…I'm sorry Red I… have a problem, I may be developing a strong secondary personality in the back of my head and I have been communicating with him like he was alive which he is". "He wants to get out and he can only do that if I use emotions I've never used before like anger, jealousy, malice all the lovely ones and I can't seem to stop it!" I shouted out frustrated.

Red was silent for a long time and the eeriness of the basement just added to the long silence affect. "You are a soldier of the U.E.R, you fight when told to and die when told to and currently you are expressing overactive emotions" "technically you were showing overactive emotions for weeks but for mission purposes I let this pass however if you are emotionally unstable and may prove a danger to the Princess then as article 657B states you are ordered to turn yourself over to your superior officer, however if you are in the field then orders are to stay put until any member of the U.E.R appears which we know won't happen" said Red in a monotone voice.

I looked at her and slowly slid to the floor my head in my hands "what am I going to do?" I asked sullenly. "As unfit for dug as you are a lot of the future rides on you succeeding in the protection of Princess Luna so since I can't report this I have no choice but to let this one slide however you need to bridge the tide of emotions flowing through you and become the old soldier you used to be". "Disciplined, cold and above all else without fear or anger". "You told me to shape up or ship out and I did, now I'm ordering you Captain Asimov no more fooling around" she told me in a strict voice.

I sniffed once and stood up shaking my head and clearing my thoughts. I strode over to the table with the bodies on it and sighed "your right Red, from now on no more fun or anger, I will become what I was created to be… a soldier".

She was silent now as I began to undress the assassin and analyse the clothes. "These fibres are covered in microscopic mirrors which can be rotated to Make the user invisible, sadly you seem to have Broken the stitching rendering it slightly visible, however I believe that you could still use it to be hard to see" Red said after a moment. I nodded and moved it to one side.

Next I picked up the male assassins invisibility armour and let Red scan it. "Poor luck here Asimov, looks like you severed a main power conduct rendering this suit a billion bits piece of junk" she said with a snicker. I ignored her and moved it to one pile whilst picking up a couple of small tracking devices and other things. "Why didn't they bring weapon?" I asked as I looked through the meagre amount of supplies they'd brought with them.

Red though a moment before saying "maybe they wanted it to look like a pony from this time killed the Princess, maybe they're equipment didn't survive the time jump who knows"?

I then grabbed a large spear which I had been stabbed with, this was certainly very different and I hadn't known that the guards had kept it. "Shining Armour seems on the ball" remarked Red. I nodded as I examined the fine craftsmanship of the spear obviously from my time.

"It's made of the same metal as your Armour Asimov, probably why it cut through you as well" said Red. It was a good weapon to have in close combat anyway so I put it to one side with some other things.

"Right Red I need you to scan both ponies and tell me if I have to get rubber gloves" I said praying I didn't have to. "I already scanned them Asimov and I'm afraid that the male has something metallic lodged in his throat which doesn't register as a steel plate or other pure metal but something technological" said Red.

I sighed as I got out my very sharp combat knife and properly looked at the male assassin's body. It was cut in many places but the head was mostly gone with only the jaw intact. I grabbed the back of his head with my hoof and made a slight incision on his throat. Some blood leaked out but it was small because of the lack of circulation. "It's a little above the cut Asimov" said Red as I began to slowly put my hoof into his throat.

I felt a solid object wedged into one side of the windpipe and quickly pulled it out, flicking my fingers free of as much blood as possible and wishing that that the basement had a tap.

I looked over the small bloody device and asked "what is it exactly"? "Well I don't know do I look like a scanner to you Asimov?" asked Red sarcastically. I wiped the device on the useless invisibility armour and looked at now noticing a tiny switch. I clicked it on and a poor holographic image of a small filly showed up with the male assassin and a mare. They looked like a family in this time by how happy they looked all smiling and cheerful.

I was silent looking at the face of the little filly and then at the assassin. "We should move along" said Red. I clicked the image off and tried to suppress the remorse I had for my enemy who had tried to keep the memory of his daughter with him.

I moved it to one side and now looked to the crazy unicorn assassin. This was fruitful and I found a lot of knives first, some I kept others I discarded. Some flash blinding grenades and what looked like a set of vials and syringes.

"Looks like some first aid gear" said Red as she scanned them. I then took off this pony's armour which was very heavy, heavier than mine and Red examined it. "Looks like the U.A have developed a way to convert magic into harmless energy" said Red as she and I examined it. "I pried open the middle of the armour and found and removed the device that seemed to do It all."Could I incorporate this into my backpack and it could stop magical attacks right Red"? "Maybe, but his armour also acts as one large resistor so he doesn't overload it, the device may work for a short time but don't expect to withstand an attack from Celestia because it'll cut out after it begins to overheat".

I set this with the other things I'd been keeping and put the body of the crazed assassin to the side with the others.

I moved the body of the U.A scientist pony with the extra limbs and once more a missing head and searched through his pockets. I was amazed the guards hadn't already done this but I guessed that they were squeamish since these ponies were so freakishly mutilated. I found however some pens, a small notepad completely burned through and a small scanner which could be used to detect substances.

I put his coat to the side and moved his body before moving onto his brother. "Captain I think that you should wait before opening that bag" said Red suddenly.

I looked at her holographic image In question. "Red I am not a squeamish pony I have just brushed down and opened up these ponies and now I'm about to do the same with this de limbed pony" I said opening the bag.

"It's not that Captain it's just, I'm detecting some very strange activity in his brain" said Red. I now looked back at her ludicrously with my boot still on the zip. "You're telling me that he is alive"! She shook her head confirm what I knew to be true "his heart has stopped and his blood it dry but there seems to be activity in his lower brain functions".

As she said this something moved inside the bag and suddenly a hoof grabbed my own and tried to pull me down. I reacted fast pulling my arm back and trying to break away. However the hoof of this so called dead pony held on to mine and I was under constant strain to remain away from the dead pony that was now slowly wiggling its way out of the bag. I tried to reach for my combat knife on belt next to Red but it was just too far.

"Captain there's an old sword behind you to your left!" shouted Red.

I kicked free of this walking dead pony and scrambled for the sword. Unfortunately when I kicked the dead pony away his body fell off the table and onto the floor allowing him to crawl out of his body bag surprisingly fast for a dead guy and come after me.

I reached the rusty, medieval sword wedged between some old furniture and pointed it at the dead pony who was advancing fairly quickly now and snarling.

Since he was missing a leg he was crawling towards me which made a mess as his wounds began to bleed again. However what got me bad were his eyes which were pure red and his face snarling and chomping as if he wanted to eat me or something.

"Stay back!" I shouted edging back as he got closer. He kept coming though now pulling himself up into a standing position with nearby furniture and clawing towards me. "I will kill you" I warned him with a wavering voice. He ignored me and I took action, sticking him through with the sword which lodged into an old wardrobe behind him and pinned him there.

That hit would have killed him if he'd been a normal pony bit this unreal, should be dead pony was still trying to get my flesh as he waved his arms in my general direction and snarled.

I edged away from him and picked up my sidearm. "Red what happened to him? He should be dead!" I said as I cocked my gun. "His brain is still active somehow but I have no idea why the rest of his body is up and more or less running" she said as we looked at the sad sight before us.

"Whatever he is he should be dead and I'm gonna help him out" I said as I pointed my pistol at his head. "Wait Asimov"! I looked round at her and she explained "take a blood sample to analyse later, this could come up again and we need information, he should be dead but he is up and running like nothing has happened except limb dismemberment"!

I looked at this sad wreck of a once great U.A scientist now a snarling monster and then at Red's pleading gaze.

"Ok" I said as I made my decision…

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