Dark Origins: Research notes

[Tom Snyder 4,113]

I've been doing this for a bit and thought they would add some detail and give an idea of what Dark Mist had gone through before coming to Filly Hills. These are Rosa's written notes, but serve as a reminder of where Dark Mist got her dark magic from. So here they are:

 

Subject #25: Day 1

 

Subject 25 doesn't appear to show any sign of corruption, but further precautions will be taken. Observing the subject reveals her personality has not changed, but she doesn't seem to remember her own name. No matter how many times we ask, she draws a blank each time, past subjects have remembered their names, but this is the first time this has happened.

 

Magic seems to be used with no problems, only a few minor headaches from dark magic use. A report will be filed along with a profile of the test subject. We must sedate Dark Mist again, but she resists every attempt; had to resort to knocking her unconscious. Such means were never intended; but given the circumstances; we had no choice.

 

 

Subject #25: Day 2

 

We have awoken the subject and she appears to have calmed down after yesterday's events. I've asked her if she can cast a spell at the targets in the room, Dark Mist seems reluctant to do so; fear maybe? She is told that nothing will happen to her as long as she cooperates and does as her superiors tell her. This seems to encourage her as I expected, subject 25 casts a dark spell at one of the targets; its destroyed with in seconds. I am pleased to see much progress after our funding was cut down, bu this successful test might make Luna change her mind.

 

 

Subject #25: Day 3

 

Subject appears to have had nightmares last night, she was observed thrashing about in her bed; almost like she were being attacked and screaming for help. Further analysis shows nothing wrong, unusual behavior; it will be further looked into. Subject appears to have some drowsiness, but passes after a short break.

 

Given another set of targets, the subject yet again surpasses our expectations by destroying all three in rapid succession. The magic has weakened the subject, but insists she's fine and continues to show her abilities; one example being shadow manipulation. Subject appears to move them towards a live subject, surrounding it a cloud of darkness. We could not see what was happening, as the subject seems to torment the victim relentlessly.

 

Trying to stop her has resulted in two deaths, it's unknown where the victims were sent; but subject appears to be suffering the effects of fatigue. I have isolated her from the remaining subjects, hopeful that this phase will pass soon.

 

 

Subject #25: Day 4

 

One day left before Luna makes her judgment, we must speed things up with the subject if we are to make the deadline. Today has bared no real progress as the subject refuses to cooperate, I even ask her what could be the problem and subject says she has night terrors; a problem to take note of. When asked to use the magic again, she reluctantly does, probably remembering what we did the other day to make her do it.

 

Now subject refuses food or drink and just asked us to end her life, she can't bear the nightmares anymore; even tries to end it herself, but we had to restrain her to prevent such a thing. Subject is angry and demands that we release her, a threat we didn't take seriously and payed for it dearly. During a training exercise, the subject turned her magic on us, killing two to four guards that try to restrain her again. Subject told us that if we do not listen to her, everypony in that room and facility might die. But ignorance has its price and we ignored her warnings, considered it a bluff and proceeded to get the subject to cooperate again; but yet again she refuses to even cast a spell.

 

This project must succeed at any cost, I don't care anymore; if I must force it to happen I will. Sedating the subject has made things easier for us, subject follows orders after an experimental serum in introduced into her system; and the experiment can continue as planned. Making the targets numbers larger, we ask the subject to destroy the thirty five targets; which she does without question or resistance.

 

The only time she speaks is when we ask if she needs anything, subject s eating again and needs some time alone in isolation. The other subjects stay clear from her as the fear of what they heard happened to one of the victims is still fresh in their minds. There is nothing saying we can't force the subject to perform the tests; even if she was unwilling to.

 

 

Subject #25: Final Report

 

We lost control of the subject this morning, she managed to destroy most of the facility before Princess Luna stepped in to stop it. I have no excuses for our failure, I will take full responsibility for it. It was my decision to force the subject into cooperating and put all staff in danger. Princess Luna doesn't seem to be angry like she usually is when this sort of thing happens, instead she asks for the subject to be brought before her and Princess Celestia.

 

Subject is brought to the throne room and awaits her fate, as for the project? Project Dark Mist is hereby terminated and will no longer exist. What will become of the subject has not yet been announced to us, for now all we can do is move on to other facilities and find something that will aid us in the future.

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So what this entails is that Dark Mist was the pet project of a facility hoping to understand Dark Magic's influence, and Rosa is at the head of it all, but now hides herself under the guise of a flower shop pony, also becoming Dark Mist's friend; this method of deception works to cover Rosa's other job as an agent for Luna, don't have a name for it yet, but i hope to soon. I had the idea to use this as a trigger for her turning corrupted, but figured it won't work like that alone.

 

What i want to do is have dark Mist sink gradually into madness at the voices she hears. Some saying things like: "She lies...", You feel it". 

 

These things will influence her actions, but dark Mist will still show resistance to their call. Now you may question why the princesses allow this to happen, my answer is, because this isn't the universe you all know, its an alternate timeline, a completely different world than the one twilight and her friends are from. In this world everything is gained through greed. So the princesses in that world are not the same; they care more for themselves than the ponies in the world. 

 

This will be the dark side of Canterlot, the side nopony ever gets to see. This world will be one that i envisioned after looking through my notes and writing idea down, so yes, i have put a lot of thought into this fic and i don't plan to give up on it.

Edited February 21, 2015 by Candy Star