I slowly opened my eyes on the cold metal floor. I slowly stood up as I stumbled to my feet.. my clothes were old rags on my body. I slowly looked around to find out where I was... I opened my eyes as I saw the Melody room. Everything was in disrepair. Panels were falling apart and rusting... sparks were flying every few minutes in random areas... large wires where hanging and lying around everywhere...

I looked down the hall and saw a hell if a lot of skeletons with weapons lying on them as well as rags. I began to walk past said skeletons as I held onto my right arm as I slowly went up the steps. Confusion all over my face as I walked through room after room. Each of them in horrible condition with vegetation. Soon I reached the command center and found many more skeletons. I crouched down and flipped a skeleton over and grabbed its metal name tag...

Japanese... this was their general... I dropped the name tag and walked over to the main center and taped on it a couple times. Finding it wasn't working was no surprise as I walked behind me and manually began to wheel open the blast shields. After a few minutes of grueling work, I stared into the outside world in confusion and fear... there was an entire city underneath and around the entire mountain. I grabbed a pair of rusty binoculars nearby and looked down into the city. I stared at these... cows and bulls walking around on two feet. All of the males beefed up while the females seemed to have amazing figures. If I compare them to my knowledge of ancient history they would be called... Minotaur's.

I quickly walked back over to the winch and released the pressure I set on it. Immediately closing the shields as I began to think of what could have caused all of this. Melody being an unstable reaction of many materials could have possibly created a wormhole effect... then how was the entire mountain base here?

Possibly a time warp? That's all I could think of but then how is everyone else here skeletons and how is the base looking like it was here for centuries?

I had no time to think of any more answers as I walked into the armory and began to scrounge up what I could. Soon finding enough parts to make a few weapons from scratch.

I will be using weapons from games I know and play.

The first gun I had made up was the FAD with a Tracker sight and silencer attachments. I grabbed a belt with about 10 holsters for armor piecing for it and quickly loaded extended mags into it while making a few adjustments to it.

This was my preferred weapon for in the field. I was extremely accurate with it and was better than at least 75 percent of the base's snipers with it at long range.

Finding enough parts for two pistols I grabbed two holsters for both. One is a .44 magnum with a muzzle break and the other being a P9 with a silencer. Setting those to the side I grabbed two tactical knives and put them in the pile. I then put together an L115 with a Variable Zoom Lens and a silencer. I was lucky enough to find many extended magazines with armor piercing rounds in it.

I walked into the armor part of the armory and looked around. Thanks to my small time work with technology and assisting other agents with their equipment I quickly put together a suit with some regular gadgets I was able to fix. Bringing it over to the other room I began to attach the weapon holsters onto the suit as well as attached a metal backpack that I also found to its back. Putting a hell of a lot more ammunition inside of it as well as a canteen. I then began to quickly put it on and looked at myself in a half broken mirror. The suit was a primary black with a silver secondary. The helmet I was able to fix partially so only the night vision mode would work at the moment as I put it on.

EVA helmet

the visor was also silver which went well with the color scheme I already had. Standing up I walked back to the command center and searched the commander's office until I found a map. I picked it up and put it into my holster with my magnum. Walking out of the room with my two weapons hanging on my back with my backpack I ran through the halls until I reached an entrance. I made sure to disassemble the weapons in the armory as well as smash the weapons from the Japanese skeletons. Soon I made it to an exit as I stood in front of it. I took a few deep breaths and clenched the end of the door and began to very slowly pull it open. Once I had a crack open I looked outside... seeing that I was in a small cave I quickly opened it up and closed it while pulling rocks over to create a small wall of them to hide the door. While I would have blown up the base it would have potentially left behind some technology for the Minotaur's to find.

After an hour of moving rocks, I had hidden the doorway and I slowly crept out of the cave. Looking around I found no one as I began to move through the shadows. Hearing that the Minotaur's spoke my language. As I moved throughout the city I heard a loud booming voice that made me stop. "AS OF TODAY! ALL PONY PRODUCTS ARE OUTLAWED! WE ARE NOW AT WAR WITH THE PONY RACE WITH THE GRIFFONS AND ZEBRA'S AS OUR ALLIES!" ponies? That stroked my interest as the movement was heard everywhere. I looked at what appeared to be anthro ponies running around everywhere as I watched as stalls were destroyed and ponies were killed that were in the city. I grimaced as I heard a scream behind me soon followed by pleading to spare his daughter.

Cursing my sense of justice I ran through the streets avoiding being seen until I reached a house with crying inside. Walking in I handled my magnum as I slowly pulled it out of the holster and stepped inside. I saw a large red Minotaur with an ax standing over two ponies bodies. A third one, a filly I believe, was on her back crying as the large Minotaur lifted his ax. I immediately pointed my magnum at him and spoke. "lower the ax..."

"don't you know. All ponies in the city are to be killed." he said not looking at me. "so wander back to your clan head young bull..."

"that's the thing..." I pulled back the hammer. "I'm no Minotaur." I fired into the back of his head as a loud bang echoed... I quickly rushed over to the young filly and found the father still alive as he looked at my helmeted head.

"please..." he coughed up blood. "watch over my daughter... she doesn't... deserve... death..." he slipped away before I could say anything. She began to cry harder as I picked her up she began to fight against me and yell as I rushed out of the home. I holstered my gun and held her mouth shut as she fought against me. I soon heard yelling at me as I shoulder rushed a door and broke through it. Rolling on the floor I quickly close it as I heard the loud thumping in the streets before they passed the building. The filly was still struggling as I looked at her.

"you need to calm down kid... or else I might just leave you to them." she instantly shut up as I felt guilty for lying to her about that. She was about to cry as I held her in my armored arms. "now... we need to get out of this city..." I muttered as I looked out of a crack in the door. If they were going to war I would be able to hide within their convoy for war. From what I have seen they are in the medieval age. I then began to hear yelling as I looked around through the crack until I spotted the disturbance. It was a large female cow throwing a human-sized one onto the street. "you have no respect for the clan! You are hereby banished from this house!" the smaller one began to cry as I looked in sadness. The bigger one began to throw stuff at her until she started to walk in this direction. She was dressed in rags and had an hourglass figure and a human face. She was a white cow with black spots. I looked on the streets before I slowly opened the door. And grabbed the filly and ran to hide in the next room as she walked in and closed the door. She looked outside as I held my armored hand over the anthro filly's mouth.

She then leaned her back against the door... and began to cry. She slid her back down the door, no doubt getting lots of splinters into her back, she held her eyes as I watched her. Glad that the door opening itself I turned around and put the filly down as she looked at me in fear. "stay here..." she was shaking but gave me a slow nod. Nodding at her with a smile on my face I slowly took the FAD and L115 off of my back and leaned them against the wall while watching her to make sure she didn't hear me. I watched as she pulled out a knife and held it in a reverse grip.

I watched as she held it up to her neck as my eyes widened in shock. I quickly jumped out of our hiding spot and dashed over to her. Her surprise allowed me to knock the knife out of her hands and clatter to the floor about 5 feet away. "why the hell would you do that?!" I yelled at her. She held her arms up over her face out of fear as I breathed heavily under my helmet. Glad that it had filters to let out hot air so I could still see. "I'm not going to hurt you miss... just get an understanding..." I crouched onto a single knee. "of why. You would kill yourself when you got a full life ahead of you."

"you don't know clan customs... do you?" she asked in a voice that was so sweet I could get diabetes from it.

"clan customs?" she nodded.

"the mother or father... throw out the one they wish out of the clan if they dishonor it. The only way they could gain forgiveness from the clan... is by killing themselves near the clan home..." she burst out into tears as I put my right arm around her to comfort her. "if my body isn't found... I would be hunted for sport..." she began to cry into the chest of my armor. I looked at her sadly as I held her in a kind embrace. "all because I refused to renounce the ponies who had once been my friends..." she continued to sob into my armor. I then heard loud amounts of yelling. When I turned up my audio I found it resembled yelling but I still couldn't understand them. I grabbed the anthro cow and quickly threw her into the back room. She yelped as she hit the floor as I quickly grabbed her and pulled her around the corner. I held her with my hand over her mouth as I heard shuffling in the other room. I heard loud yelling in a different language before I heard a shatter... pieces of wood flew past the large open doorway as the young filly yelped.

Cursing myself for not taking precautionary methods with her I grabbed my FAD which had fallen down when I pulled myself and the anthro cow into cover. I slowly lifted it up as talking was heard before heavy footsteps were heard coming towards the doorway. "stay down..." I stated sharply. "and for god's sake... stay... quiet..." she nodded as did the filly as I jumped to my feet in the doorway. Seeing 3 Minotaur's. Two males and one female.

One Minotaur hefted a large blade towards me as he yelled in a different language. " I don't even know what you're saying, sir..." I lifted my weapon at him. "but I highly suggest you lower the blade."

"what is your name... pony..." he asked in broken English

"I'm not a pony," I stated. "I'm a different species entirely called a human."

"very well... 'human' what are you doing in our lands?"

"I appeared in the town unconscious. With only my wits and equipment I started to go around the town until I started to watch the ponies become slaughtered so I hid out in here."

"can you prove your accusations of not being a pony?" the female Minotaur asked as I recognized her being the one who threw the anthro cow onto the curb. Letting my weapon fall to my side as it hung by my strap I lifted them up to my helmet and pulled it off. They stared at me in surprise as they saw my face.

"your not a pony?" the first Minotaur stated surprised.

"I said I was a human. Think of me as an evolved ape." he only stared into my eyes as he gave me a stern nod.

"have you seen a young calf at all then?" I shook my head.

"if calf means the same thing in my world no. I have not seen anyone other than myself in here. I've come into contact with quite a few males and females though but none recently. I heard the yelling and hid in the back room in case your kind mistook me for a pony." I lied partially. He nodded.

"stay out of sight... human... as what you said I do not wish harm to befall a fellow warrior?"

"warrior?" I then asked confused.

"You stand as a warrior... warriors are highly respected here until they dishonor a clan." I nodded as the three of them walked out. "maybe we will see each other again... human..." I heard as they went to the right of the street. I stayed there standing as I put my helmet back on and gave a sigh of relief. I walked back into the back room as the anthro cow looked at me with surprise as tears were still in her eyes.

Now that I had a better look at her, even though I did earlier, she had to of only been around the age of 19. I looked at the anthro filly to find she looked no older than 10 years old. A pained look came over my face as I picked up my L115 and put the strap back on me.

"OK, you two... I looked to my right and found a large amount of forest green cloth as an idea came to my head. " let's get out of the city..."