-- Ohh... --
-- How could I let this happen. --
-- The ponies are right to hate me. --
-- I'm the one that let Velvet get away. --
::pipbuck feedback::
-- Velvet... --
-- Why... Why did you go? --
Narrator: On the PipBuck radio, the Overmare's reassuring voice is heard.
We are all feeling this loss...
but I want to remind everypony that Velvet Remedy choose... to do this.
She choose to leave her home. To abandon us, her family.
She betrayed my trust and she betrayed yours.
Just as she betrayed the trust of the pony who she tricked into removing her PipBuck...
insuring we could not find her.
I know many of you are angry... or hurt.
I urge you to direct that anger where it truly belongs.
::click::
Narrator: It is then that an encrypted file
Narrator: in Velvet's Pipbuck catches Little Pip's eye.
::beep::
What the...
-- Its an audio recording... --
-- Maybe its one of Velvet's new songs? --
::click::
The override code for opening the door to Stable 2 is...
C M C 3 B F F
-- The stable door override code! --
-- Where did Velvet get this? And why... --
I'm not sure what's going on or why Velvet...
but I'm sure of what I'm going to do.
Narrator: The decision was made, there and then.
Narrator: To leave the stable and find Velvet.
Narrator: To leave the Stable that nopony had ever left before.
-- Final check. --
--Apples, water, extra stable barding, book of arcane sciences... --
-- All set and ready to go. --
Narrator: The time arrives. Little Pip, with supplies in hoof and of set mind
Narrator: faces the massive door that separates Stable 2 from the outside.
Narrator: what stands between Little Pip and the door's control panels
Narrator: are two earth pony guards.
Ahem... uh...
Excuse me. If... if you would let me by.
This port is off limits.
::harp strum:
No exceptions.
-- Here's hoping my little speech is good enough to get me through. --
I'm a certified StableTec technician.
The Overmare has specifically requested that I check
that the stable door panel is working correctly.
Prove it.
Um... Ah....
Didn't think so. Now beat it, Pip Squeak.
-- Apparently not. --
-- Time for Plan B... --
Hey... Aren't you the filly that let our Velvet get lost outside anyway?
Why yes... yes I am.
::magic charging::
::thud::
And I'm also the one who's gonna bring her back.
-- Oh earth ponies... --
-- They never see that "levitating something up behind you" trick coming. --
Alright. Now to business.
C M C 3 B F F
-- Please work. Please work. Please work! --
Overmare: Stop!
Overmare: I order you to stop this instant!
Overmare: Guards!
I want every guardpony at Stable 2 door!
Stop that filly!
-- Ah crap! --
Here it goes!
::click::
::alarm sounds::
It's time.
Overmare: You don't have to do this.
Overmare: Little Pip... isn't it?
Overmare...
I'll bring her back. I promise!
Overmare: No. You. Won't!
Overmare: If you leave here, you'll NEVER be let back in!
Guards: There she is!
::galloping::
Now or never.
I'm not stepping out there!
Quick! Seal the door!
Narrator: With a hiss and a bang
Narrator: Stable 2's door closes irrevocably behind Little Pip.
Ugh, I can't see a damn thing...
::electric thrum::
Gasp!
Narrator: The hallway is filled with the skeletons of ponies
Narrator: that had died desperately trying to get into the stable...
Narrator: As the land of Equestria was burned alive...
Celestia's mercy...
Narrator: The light of the PipBuck lamp reveals
Narrator: a cellar door that leads to the outside world.
-- So the entrance to the outside --
-- is cleverly disguised as the door to a humble apple cellar --
-- because that ponies who had built it had been building an apple cellar... --
Sounds legit.
Narrator: And with that, Little Pip threw open the cellar door
Narrator: and took her first steps into the outside world.
::strong winds::
Ughh!
Ugghhh!
Dark! Dark! Ohhhh its so dark!
I should have thought this through better!
Somepony save me!
::thwack::
Huhhh, okay... okay okay.
Get.. get a hold of yourself Pip.
You can do this... but...
Why do I have to be alone?
I hate being all alone...
Sigh...
Its me from here on out.
::wind blowing::
::thump::
::magic charging::
::soda shaking::
::drinking noise::
::fire popping::
::crack::