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My Little Pony - 1992 Edition

2/3)
> Unicorn 1:
>
- There, she's ready for treatment.
>
> Both unicorns exit the room, close + lock the door and return to the hospital main area.
>
> 15 minutes later Applejack's unconsciousness has transitioned into deep sleep. Throughout the 4-hour treatment, she sees dreams where she has a 3rd-person view on an Earth pony mare who doesn't have any colors, genociding entire villages of similar-looking ponies, zebras, Changelings, and griffons, among many others. The world looks real, but has nonsensical glitches and changes.
>
> Despite all the horrors, spectating this madmare doesn't give her any reactions way or another, instead she's intrigued to see what comes next. After what felt like days of bloodbath, Applejack finds herself lowering down to the ground, 5 meters away from the madmare. Applejack's heart starts beating over double the normal speed and her blood pressure rises to uncomfortable levels.
>
> The madmare, calmly, while still facing the other way, without moving her mouth:
>
- Well, it's finally over.
>
>
Applejack with a scared voice:
>
- Wh-what in tarnation that means ?
>
>
Madmare turns her head to the right side, her voice starting to change to Applejack's:
>
- \"Equestria 'course, silly\", the last part with Pinkie Pie's cheery dismissive voice.
>
> The madmare's existence starts to glitch very badly with a corrupted sound while she slowly walks towards Applejack.
>
> Applejack tries to jump backwards, unable to even feel her muscles. Madmare's face transforms into a creepy, vague copy of Applejack's, but Applejack recognizes it as hers, her expression changing to horrified.
>
> Madmare stops and says:
>
- <unintelligible> Oh yeah, I <unintelligible> Alicorns.
>
> Applejack and the madmare are suddenly indoors at High Command, in front of the front blast doors that had been busted inwards, massively mangled.
>
> Madmare:
>
- Aaah, we're here. Now to finish the <unintelligible>.
>
> Applejack's wondering how she's gonna stop this mad clone who just recently genocided entire villages. She notices she can move just fine now. Quickly checking her immediate surroundings she finds a fire axe on the wall to her right. Without hesitations she quietly takes it into her front hooves.
>
> Applejack:
>
- Not if've somethin' to say 'bout it !
>
>
Madmare:
>
- \"Whadda just say ?!\". She turns around to face Applejack.
>
> The world started to glitch heavily. Applejack swings the axe from her left at the horrified madmare's right neck, getting lodged, Applejack loses the grip, and the force throws the madmare to the wall on her left.
>
> Madmare, in Applejack's full voice after recovering from the initial shock:
>
- What'n tarnation was that for ?!
>
>
Applejack:
>
- I'm stoppin' ya right 'ere, right now.
>
> Applejack pulls the axe from madmare's neck with an angry \"You fucked with the wrong pony this time\" expression, causing an uncontrollable bleeding.
>
> Applejack raised the axe. Twilight Sparkle puts her right hoof on Applejack's left shoulder.
>
> Twilight Sparkle, with a smile:
>
- \"That won't be necessary, dear Applejack. She's already finished\". Applejack's expression changes to a neutral \"If you say so, princess\".
>
> Madmare still lays on the floor. 10 seconds later the bleeding has become beyond fatal. Madmare sighs with a smile \"Good work\".
>
> Applejack, surprised, raises the left eyebrow:
>
- \"Whadda mean ?\" Madmare slumps over. Applejack drops the axe.
>
> Unicorn 1 and Pinkie Pie, complete with her signature party cannon, appear behind Applejack, who she notices. Madmare's corpse disintegrates with a corrupted sound.
>
> A machine voice echoes in the HQ halls, to which Applejack raises her head:
> - STATUS:
> - PATIENT 'Applejack':
> - GENERAL ANESTHESIA AT '5.9 hours' IN EFFECT.
> - 'Red Break' TREATMENT COMPLETE.
> - NO FURTHER TREATMENT REQUIRED.
>
> 4 seconds later the same voice:
>
- ANTI-ANESTHESIA INJECTION DETECTED. ACCELERATED ANESTHESIA CLEAR-UP IN PROGRESS.
>
>
14 seconds later the same voice:
>
- PATIENT 'Applejack' BOOT-UP IN PROGRESS.
>
> Applejack turns around to face the duo.
>
> Unicorn 1:
>
- Congratulations, you pulled through.
>
>
Pinkie Pie, very cheerily:
>
- \"Party time !\". She blows her party cannon.
>
> The world finished disintegrating, Applejack drops unconscious. The dream ends.
>
> Back in the Madness Box, just a couple minutes short of 4 hours after the start of treatment. The cage has been raised, unicorn 1 and unicorn 2 are sitting around Applejack, straightjacket and helmet has been removed, placed onto the floor to her left.
>
> Unicorn 1:
>
- Welcome back.
>
>
Applejack:
>
- Wha- ... Where am I ?
>
>
The tablet's machine voice:
>
- PATIENT 'Applejack' BOOT-UP COMPLETE. 'Zepto Bot 1' OFFLINE.
>
>
Unicorn 2:
>
- Hotel 1 Madness Box.
>
>
Applejack:
>
- Th- ... Madness Box ? What happened ?
>
>
Unicorn 1:
>
- You were at the frontlines, right flank. Foxtrot-Lima-1-Bravo with Pinkie Pie, remember ?
>
>
Applejack while failing trying to get up:
>
- Did I ... ? Red Break, right ? I remember nothin' after the explosion.
>
>
Unicorn 1:
>
- Indeed, your memory didn't receive data to store due to the explosion mangling up the enemy so badly your brain wasn't able to function correctly after experiencing the horror. Add to that the still-lingering black magic in the air. You did attack Pinkie many times but she kept dodging while radioing for Romeo-Bravo medevac and helping restrain you without hurting you, beyond the K-O injection. While you were under, Pinkie Pie asked to speak to you through radio, which is why you saw her during the last seconds of the dream.
>
>
Unicorn 2:
>
- How're you feeling ?
>
>
Applejack:
>
- Somewhat stiff and somewhat tired. Mind helpin' me get up ?
>
>
Unicorn 2:
>
- The accelerated anesthesia clear-up injection. Stupidly strong stuff, that.
>
> Both unicorns stand up and unicorn 1 uses telekinesis to put Applejack on her legs. Everyone leaves the building. Unicorn 1 uses telekinesis to hold and switch on Applejack's radio and straps it back onto her.
>
> Unicorn 1's radio spell:
> - Hotel 1 confirms Code Romeo-Bravo treatment uneventfully successful, victim Alpha-Juliett largely online. Out.
>
> Hotel 1 HQ on radio:
> - Hotel 1 HQ copies.
>
> High Command on radio:
> - High Command copies. Excellent. Out.
>
> Pinkie Pie on radio:
> - Eek ! Welcome back ! Oh yeah, the frontline has been quiet for the past hour, and has been cleaned. Out.
>
> Strawberry Cocoa's radio spell:
> - Sierra-Charlie on standby to teleport Alpha-Juliett to Foxtrot-Lima-1. Out.
>
> Applejack:
>
- Ah'm going to the cafe.
>
> Around an hour later Applejack has eaten and recovered. She walks to the teleporter.
>
> Teleporter handler's radio spell:
> - High Command, this is Hotel 1. Do you want Alpha-Juliett to return to Foxtrot-Lima-1 ? Over.
>
> High Command on radio:
> - Affirm Hotel 1.
>
> Teleporter handler's radio spell:
> - Roger that High Command. Out.
>
> The handler uses a spell to activate the teleporter, now glowing in white, sending a signal to Strawberry Cocoa. Applejack is teleported in a flash shaped like a mushroom cloud.
>
> THE END.

# EXPLANATIONS (SPOILERS)
> Used terms
> - Radio codes/lines
> - `Foxtrot-Lima-1-Bravo` = `Frontline 1, right flank`, aka `Frontline 1 B`. Pinkie Pie's team's location.
> - `Sierra-Charlie` = Strawberry Cocoa.
> - `Bravo-Mike-Alpha` = \"Blademaster Alpha\".
> - `Alpha-Juliett` = Applejack.
> - `Hotel 1` = Hospital 1, the closest hospital to frontline 1. Used when hospital personnel speak.
> - `Hotel 1 HQ` = Hospital 1 leadership headquarters. Used for high-profile administrative purposes, so under most circumstances they don't speak.
> - `High Command` = Equestria military leadership headquarters. At the time of the war this is Celestia and Luna, whoever gets to speak.
> - `Zepto Bot` = At this point in time, Equestrian medical services are highly computer-assisted to reduce the need for medical personnel, and very advanced in general. Zepto Bots are the most advanced medical tool, smaller than Nano Bots while more energy-efficient and with more features (such as the ability to augment their internal power storage with the body's electricity, which is why they're injected right under the skull), but in Applejack's case only used for realtime monitoring just in case something goes south, and while listening to the tablet's output they can notify High Command to fix faulty info.
> - \"`Foxtrot-Lima-1 DANGER CLOSE: munition two-zero-three Halo-Echo count 1, distant unsafe impact 7 !`\" = Simplified way to say \"`Attention frontline 1 ! Take cover ! Single 203-millimeter artillery shell of type High Explosive impacting in 7 seconds at a dangerously close non-safe distance !`\". Non-safe in the sense that while you could survive the shockwave from a distance you could've a bad time when the fragmentation hits (hence 'danger close'), and the explosion itself could make you permanently deaf or at least get hearing damage (also hence 'danger close').
> - \"`Code Romeo-Bravo`\" / \"`Red Break`\" = Official Equestria-wide military/medical names for the mental breakdown Applejack suffered. Explained later below under `The Red Break`.
> - \"`Code Romeo-Bravo medevac`\" = Usually each frontline flank has a dedicated Pegasus, sometimes a unicorn depending on availability and the necessity of unicorns in combat.
> - The Pegasi are trained in
> - fast-speed precision handling of the patients
> - getting to them ASAP (helped by their shortish distance of 200 meters)
> - in the case of Red Break dropping them unconscious for easier handling and to pause the mental breakdown using a special injection that causes convulsions that prevent movement and eventually lead to unconsciousness
> - quickly getting to the designated hospital without colliding with something.
> - Unicorn ones are trained in semi-augmented longer-range teleportation (the hospitals have a magical circle which helps augmenting the teleportation spell so the receiving/sending magic user doesn't need to use as much mana), they only need to spawn steel cuffs onto the patient to prevent them from moving, then teleport them to the circle, no need to teleport along with the patient. Alicorns are rarely used for this due to their combat abilities.
> - Others
> - `epipill` = Epinephrine, aka adrenaline, in a smaller pill form, hence not as strong, but far easier to use without someone injecting you or you using telekinesis to inject yourself. Used to partially eliminate blockage in nerves in a hurry, or if nerves are unblocked, force muscles on a small overdrive, increasing movement speed by 1.15x. Multiple pills stack.
> - `epipen` = Same as epipill but in injectable form. Near-instant. Used to force muscles on overdrive and partially eliminate blockage in nerves, increasing movement speed by 1½ times. Multiple injections stack.
> 1) \"`Ruckin' sucks for them`\" = Blademaster Alpha's way of saying \"Real fucking sucks for them\". The \"Ruck\" part is pronounced like \"ruck\" in \"rucksack\".
>
> 2) \"`__two zero three he__`\" / \"`munition __two zero three__ Hotel-Echo`\" = The underscored parts pronounced as written (without the dashes), it's a 203-millimeter 100-kilogram high-explosive howitzer shell. These are the most destructive gunpowder munitions shot from a mobile field howitzer in both Equestria and our world (bigger mortars were always stationary and the railway guns don't count as mobile field artillery due to their extreme slowness and being enslaved to the railway). The howitzer used by the zebra anarchists and Changelings barely works due to their insufficient engineering (the howitzer usually never survives the shot, and rebuilding takes stupidly long), making their usage exceedingly rare, although not unheard of. As a result, Strawberry Cocoa has a spell which instantly detects any artillery shells right after a launch has been confirmed or suspected, tells her the size, composition (in this case High Explosive), trajectory, and impact time. The shot that did the zebra mare and the Changeling in who fought Strawberry Cocoa and Blademaster Alpha was done by the impatient anarchists who didn't know how to calculate the trajectory correctly (were very stupidly lucky to get that close), and that Changeling was already in the know about all of that, so when he saw the shell in flight he was disappointed to realize his allies are risking the fighters' lives with a barely-working super-heavy howitzer just cuz they're impatient and hoping they could easily eliminate the pony opposition that was giving them so much trouble despite not knowing how to use the thing.
>
> 3) \"`E-transmission online`\" = The radios have a big button for emergency transmissions, mostly medical. This is merely a formality from the radios so the User knows what they just hit; the button can be hit again to manually terminate the transmission if it was an accident. Emergency transmissions override priority and normal traffic through the other radios cutting a pre-existing traffic on the spot and the radio machine voice saying \"`NOTE: Transmission aborted: e-transmission in progress`\", and hospitals, High Command, Army Commander, Army Co-Commander, Battle Commander, and Battle Assistant hearing \"E-transmission in progress\" from theirs, in addition to the transmission itself.
>
> 4) \"`E-transmission complete`\" = The radio waits a few seconds after 'Over' is said so it doesn't cut the transmission before the message is finished (in case there's something else to add to the message). Until then the transmission's still going.
>
> 5) \"`E-transmission exit 0`\" = Reference to the process exit codes in Unix-style operating systems (such as Linux) where 0 means the process ran perfectly fine until the end, while >0 means something went wrong, and the specifics are defined by that app. In this case, Pinkie Pie's emergency transmission was sent successfully, all the messages were processed successfully, and the transmission auto-terminated successfully after High Command acknowledged the emergency, anything else woulda indicated some other cause for the termination. An 'exit -1' would be manual termination by User.
Reason: Fixed formatting.
Edited by rautamiekka
rautamiekka
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Magical Inkwell - Wrote MLP fanfiction consisting of at least around 1.5k words, and has a verified link to the platform of their choice
Speaking Fancy - Badge given to members that help with translations
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition

2/3)
>

 
`
Unicorn 1: There, she's ready for treatment.
>
> Both unicorns exit the room, close + lock the door and return to the hospital main area.
>
> 15 minutes later Applejack's unconsciousness has transitioned into deep sleep. Throughout the 4-hour treatment, she sees dreams where she has a 3rd-person view on an Earth pony mare who doesn't have any colors, genociding entire villages of similar-looking ponies, zebras, Changelings, and griffons, among many others. The world looks real, but has nonsensical glitches and changes.
>
> Despite all the horrors, spectating this madmare doesn't give her any reactions way or another, instead she's intrigued to see what comes next. After what felt like days of bloodbath, Applejack finds herself lowering down to the ground, 5 meters away from the madmare. Applejack's heart starts beating over double the normal speed and her blood pressure rises to uncomfortable levels.
>
> The madmare, calmly, while still facing the other way, without moving her mouth: Well, it's finally over.
> Applejack with a scared voice: Wh-what in tarnation that means ?
> Madmare turns her head to the right side, her voice starting to change to Applejack's: \"Equestria 'course, silly\", the last part with Pinkie Pie's cheery dismissive voice.
>
> The madmare's existence starts to glitch very badly with a corrupted sound while she slowly walks towards Applejack.
>
> Applejack tries to jump backwards, unable to even feel her muscles. Madmare's face transforms into a creepy, vague copy of Applejack's, but Applejack recognizes it as hers, her expression changing to horrified.
>
> Madmare stops and says: \<unintelligible\> Oh yeah, I \<unintelligible\> Alicorns.
>
> Applejack and the madmare are suddenly indoors at High Command, in front of the front blast doors that had been busted inwards, massively mangled.
>
> Madmare: Aaah, we're here. Now to finish the \<unintelligible\>.
>
> Applejack's wondering how she's gonna stop this mad clone who just recently genocided entire villages. She notices she can move just fine now. Quickly checking her immediate surroundings she finds a fire axe on the wall to her right. Without hesitations she quietly takes it into her front hooves.
>
> Applejack: Not if've somethin' to say 'bout it !
> Madmare: \"Whadda just say ?!\". She turns around to face Applejack.
>
> The world started to glitch heavily. Applejack swings the axe from her left at the horrified madmare's right neck, getting lodged, Applejack loses the grip, and the force throws the madmare to the wall on her left.
>
> Madmare, in Applejack's full voice after recovering from the initial shock: What'n tarnation was that for ?!
> Applejack: I'm stoppin' ya right 'ere, right now.
>
> Applejack pulls the axe from madmare's neck with an angry \"You fucked with the wrong pony this time\" expression, causing an uncontrollable bleeding.
>
> Applejack raised the axe. Twilight Sparkle puts her right hoof on Applejack's left shoulder.
>
> Twilight Sparkle, with a smile: \"That won't be necessary, dear Applejack. She's already finished\". Applejack's expression changes to a neutral \"If you say so, princess\".
>
> Madmare still lays on the floor. 10 seconds later the bleeding has become beyond fatal. Madmare sighs with a smile \"Good work\".
>
> Applejack, surprised, raises the left eyebrow: \"Whadda mean ?\" Madmare slumps over. Applejack drops the axe.
>
> Unicorn 1 and Pinkie Pie, complete with her signature party cannon, appear behind Applejack, who she notices. Madmare's corpse disintegrates with a corrupted sound.
>
> A machine voice echoes in the HQ halls, to which Applejack raises her head:
> - STATUS:
> - PATIENT 'Applejack':
> - GENERAL ANESTHESIA AT '5.9 hours' IN EFFECT.
> - 'Red Break' TREATMENT COMPLETE.
> - NO FURTHER TREATMENT REQUIRED.
>
> 4 seconds later the same voice: ANTI-ANESTHESIA INJECTION DETECTED. ACCELERATED ANESTHESIA CLEAR-UP IN PROGRESS.
> 14 seconds later the same voice: PATIENT 'Applejack' BOOT-UP IN PROGRESS.
>
> Applejack turns around to face the duo.
>
> Unicorn 1: Congratulations, you pulled through.
> Pinkie Pie, very cheerily: \"Party time !\". She blows her party cannon.
>
> The world finished disintegrating, Applejack drops unconscious. The dream ends.
>
> Back in the Madness Box, just a couple minutes short of 4 hours after the start of treatment. The cage has been raised, unicorn 1 and unicorn 2 are sitting around Applejack, straightjacket and helmet has been removed, placed onto the floor to her left.
>
> Unicorn 1: Welcome back.
> Applejack: Wha- ... Where am I ?
> The tablet's machine voice: PATIENT 'Applejack' BOOT-UP COMPLETE. 'Zepto Bot 1' OFFLINE.
> Unicorn 2: Hotel 1 Madness Box.
> Applejack: Th- ... Madness Box ? What happened ?
> Unicorn 1: You were at the frontlines, right flank. Foxtrot-Lima-1-Bravo with Pinkie Pie, remember ?
> Applejack while failing trying to get up: Did I ... ? Red Break, right ? I remember nothin' after the explosion.
> Unicorn 1: Indeed, your memory didn't receive data to store due to the explosion mangling up the enemy so badly your brain wasn't able to function correctly after experiencing the horror. Add to that the still-lingering black magic in the air. You did attack Pinkie many times but she kept dodging while radioing for Romeo-Bravo medevac and helping restrain you without hurting you, beyond the K-O injection. While you were under, Pinkie Pie asked to speak to you through radio, which is why you saw her during the last seconds of the dream.
> Unicorn 2: How're you feeling ?
> Applejack: Somewhat stiff and somewhat tired. Mind helpin' me get up ?
> Unicorn 2: The accelerated anesthesia clear-up injection. Stupidly strong stuff, that.
>
> Both unicorns stand up and unicorn 1 uses telekinesis to put Applejack on her legs. Everyone leaves the building. Unicorn 1 uses telekinesis to hold and switch on Applejack's radio and straps it back onto her.
>
> Unicorn 1's radio spell:
> - Hotel 1 confirms Code Romeo-Bravo treatment uneventfully successful, victim Alpha-Juliett largely online. Out.
>
>
Hotel 1 HQ on radio:
> - Hotel 1 HQ copies.
>
>
High Command on radio:
> - High Command copies. Excellent. Out.
>
>
Pinkie Pie on radio:
> - Eek ! Welcome back ! Oh yeah, the frontline has been quiet for the past hour, and has been cleaned. Out.
>
>
Strawberry Cocoa's radio spell:
> - Sierra-Charlie on standby to teleport Alpha-Juliett to Foxtrot-Lima-1. Out.
>
> Applejack: Ah'm going to the cafe.
>
> Around an hour later Applejack has eaten and recovered. She walks to the teleporter.
>
> Teleporter handler's radio spell:
> - High Command, this is Hotel 1. Do you want Alpha-Juliett to return to Foxtrot-Lima-1 ? Over.
>
>
High Command on radio:
> - Affirm Hotel 1.
>
>
Teleporter handler's radio spell:
> - Roger that High Command. Out.
>
> The handler uses a spell to activate the teleporter, now glowing in white, sending a signal to Strawberry Cocoa. Applejack is teleported in a flash shaped like a mushroom cloud.
>
> THE END.


# EXPLANATIONS \(SPOILERS\)
> Used terms
> - Radio codes/lines
> - `Foxtrot-Lima-1-Bravo` = `Frontline 1, right flank`, aka `Frontline 1 B`. Pinkie Pie's team's location.
> - `Sierra-Charlie` = Strawberry Cocoa.
> - `Bravo-Mike-Alpha` = \"Blademaster Alpha\".
> - `Alpha-Juliett` = Applejack.
> - `Hotel 1` = Hospital 1, the closest hospital to frontline 1. Used when hospital personnel speak.
> - `Hotel 1 HQ` = Hospital 1 leadership headquarters. Used for high-profile administrative purposes, so under most circumstances they don't speak.
> - `High Command` = Equestria military leadership headquarters. At the time of the war this is Celestia and Luna, whoever gets to speak.
> - `Zepto Bot` = At this point in time, Equestrian medical services are highly computer-assisted to reduce the need for medical personnel, and very advanced in general. Zepto Bots are the most advanced medical tool, smaller than Nano Bots while more energy-efficient and with more features \(such as the ability to augment their internal power storage with the body's electricity, which is why they're injected right under the skull\), but in Applejack's case only used for realtime monitoring just in case something goes south, and while listening to the tablet's output they can notify High Command to fix faulty info.
> - \"`Foxtrot-Lima-1 DANGER CLOSE: munition two-zero-three Halo-Echo count 1, distant unsafe impact 7 !`\" = Simplified way to say \"`Attention frontline 1 ! Take cover ! Single 203-millimeter artillery shell of type High Explosive impacting in 7 seconds at a dangerously close non-safe distance !`\". Non-safe in the sense that while you could survive the shockwave from a distance you could've a bad time when the fragmentation hits \(hence 'danger close'\), and the explosion itself could make you permanently deaf or at least get hearing damage \(also hence 'danger close'\).
> - \"`Code Romeo-Bravo`\" / \"`Red Break`\" = Official Equestria-wide military/medical names for the mental breakdown Applejack suffered. Explained later below under `The Red Break`.
> - \"`Code Romeo-Bravo medevac`\" = Usually each frontline flank has a dedicated Pegasus, sometimes a unicorn depending on availability and the necessity of unicorns in combat.
> - The Pegasi are trained in
> - fast-speed precision handling of the patients
> - getting to them ASAP \(helped by their shortish distance of 200 meters\)
> - in the case of Red Break dropping them unconscious for easier handling and to pause the mental breakdown using a special injection that causes convulsions that prevent movement and eventually lead to unconsciousness
> - quickly getting to the designated hospital without colliding with something.
> - Unicorn ones are trained in semi-augmented longer-range teleportation \(the hospitals have a magical circle which helps augmenting the teleportation spell so the receiving/sending magic user doesn't need to use as much mana\), they only need to spawn steel cuffs onto the patient to prevent them from moving, then teleport them to the circle, no need to teleport along with the patient. Alicorns are rarely used for this due to their combat abilities.
> - Others
> - `epipill` = Epinephrine, aka adrenaline, in a smaller pill form, hence not as strong, but far easier to use without someone injecting you or you using telekinesis to inject yourself. Used to partially eliminate blockage in nerves in a hurry, or if nerves are unblocked, force muscles on a small overdrive, increasing movement speed by 1.15x. Multiple pills stack.
> - `epipen` = Same as epipill but in injectable form. Near-instant. Used to force muscles on overdrive and partially eliminate blockage in nerves, increasing movement speed by 1½ times. Multiple injections stack.
> 1\) \"`Ruckin' sucks for them`\" = Blademaster Alpha's way of saying \"Real fucking sucks for them\". The \"Ruck\" part is pronounced like \"ruck\" in \"rucksack\".
>
> 2\) "\"`_\_two zero three he\_\_`\" / \"`munition \_\_two zero three\_\_ Hotel-Echo`\" = The underscored parts pronounced as written \(without the dashes\), it's a 203-millimeter 100-kilogram high-explosive howitzer shell. These are the most destructive gunpowder munitions shot from a mobile field howitzer in both Equestria and our world \(bigger mortars were always stationary and the railway guns don't count as mobile field artillery due to their extreme slowness and being enslaved to the railway\). The howitzer used by the zebra anarchists and Changelings barely works due to their insufficient engineering \(the howitzer usually never survives the shot, and rebuilding takes stupidly long\), making their usage exceedingly rare, although not unheard of. As a result, Strawberry Cocoa has a spell which instantly detects any artillery shells right after a launch has been confirmed or suspected, tells her the size, composition \(in this case High Explosive\), trajectory, and impact time. The shot that did the zebra mare and the Changeling in who fought Strawberry Cocoa and Blademaster Alpha was done by the impatient anarchists who didn't know how to calculate the trajectory correctly \(were very stupidly lucky to get that close\), and that Changeling was already in the know about all of that, so when he saw the shell in flight he was disappointed to realize his allies are risking the fighters' lives with a barely-working super-heavy howitzer just cuz they're impatient and hoping they could easily eliminate the pony opposition that was giving them so much trouble despite not knowing how to use the thing.
>
> 3\) \"`E-transmission online`\" = The radios have a big button for emergency transmissions, mostly medical. This is merely a formality from the radios so the User knows what they just hit; the button can be hit again to manually terminate the transmission if it was an accident. Emergency transmissions override priority and normal traffic through the other radios cutting a pre-existing traffic on the spot and the radio machine voice saying \"`NOTE: Transmission aborted: e-transmission in progress`\", and hospitals, High Command, Army Commander, Army Co-Commander, Battle Commander, and Battle Assistant hearing \"E-transmission in progress\" from theirs, in addition to the transmission itself.
>
> 4\) \"`E-transmission complete`\" = The radio waits a few seconds after 'Over' is said so it doesn't cut the transmission before the message is finished \(in case there's something else to add to the message\). Until then the transmission's still going.
>
> 5\) \"`E-transmission exit 0`\" = Reference to the process exit codes in Unix-style operating systems \(such as Linux\) where 0 means the process ran perfectly fine until the end, while \>0 means something went wrong, and the specifics are defined by that app. In this case, Pinkie Pie's emergency transmission was sent successfully, all the messages were processed successfully, and the transmission auto-terminated successfully after High Command acknowledged the emergency, anything else woulda indicated some other cause for the termination. An 'exit -1' would be manual termination by User.`
Reason: Fixed formatting.
Edited by rautamiekka
rautamiekka
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2/3)
 
` Unicorn 1: There, she's ready for treatment.


@[== Both unicorns exit the room, close + lock the door and return to the hospital main area.

15 minutes later
Applejack's unconsciousness has transitioned into deep sleep. Throughout the 4-hour treatment, she sees dreams where she has a 3rd-person view on an Earth pony mare who doesn't have any colors, genociding entire villages of similar-looking ponies, zebras, Changelings, and griffons, among many others. The world looks real, but has nonsensical glitches and changes.

Despite all the horrors, spectating this madmare doesn't gi
ve her any reactions way or another, instead she's intrigued to see what comes next. After what felt like days of bloodbath, Applejack finds herself lowering down to the ground, 5 meters away from the madmare. Applejack's heart starts beating over double the normal speed and her blood pressure rises to uncomfortable levels.

The madmare, calmly, while still facing the other way, without moving her mouth
: Well, it's finally over.
Applejack wit
h a scared voice: Wh-what in tarnation that means ?
Madmare turns her head to the right side, her voice starting to change to Applejack's: "Equestria 'course, silly", the last part with Pinkie Pie's cheery dismissive voice.

The madmare's existence starts to glitch very badly with a corrupted sound while she slowly walks towards Applejack.

Applejack tries to jump backwards, unable to even feel her muscles. Madmare's face transforms into a creepy, vague copy of Applejack's, but Applejack recognizes it as hers, her expression changing to horrified.

Madmare stops and says: \<unintelligible\> Oh yeah, I \<unintelligible\> Alicorns.

Applejack and the madmare are suddenly indoors at High Command, in front of the front blast doors that had been busted inwards, massively mangled.

Madmare: Aaah, we're here. Now to finish the \<unintelligible\>.

Applejack's wondering how she's gonna stop this mad clone who just recently genocided entire villages. She notices she can move just fine now. Quickly checking her immediate surroundings she finds a fire axe on the wall to her right. Without hesitations she quietly takes it into her front hooves.

Applejack: Not if've somethin' to say 'bout it !
Madmare: "Whadda just say ?!". She turns around to face Applejack.

The world started to glitch heavily. Applejack swings the axe from her left at the horrified madmare's right neck, getting lodged, Applejack loses the grip, and the force throws the madmare to the wall on her left.

Madmare, in Applejack's full voice after recovering from the initial shock: What'n tarnation was that for ?!
Applejack: I'm stoppin' ya right 'ere, right now.

Applejack pulls the axe from madmare's neck with an angry "You fucked with the wrong pony this time" expression, causing an uncontrollable bleeding.

Applejack raised the axe. Twilight Sparkle puts her right hoof on Applejack's left shoulder.

Twilight Sparkle, with a smile: "That won't be necessary, dear Applejack. She's already finished". Applejack's expression changes to a neutral "If you say so, princess".

Madmare still lays on the floor. 10 seconds later the bleeding has become beyond fatal. Madmare sighs with a smile "Good work".

Applejack, surprised, raises the left eyebrow: "Whadda mean ?" Madmare slumps over. Applejack drops the axe.

Unicorn 1 and Pinkie Pie, complete with her signature party cannon, appear behind Applejack, who she notices. Madmare's corpse disintegrates with a corrupted sound.

A machine voice echoes in the HQ halls, to which Applejack raises her head:
STATUS:
- PATIENT 'Applejack':
- GENERAL ANESTHESIA AT '5.9 hours' IN EFFECT.
- 'Red Break' TREATMENT COMPLETE.
- NO FURTHER TREATMENT REQUIRED.

4 seconds later the same voice: ANTI-ANESTHESIA INJECTION DETECTED. ACCELERATED ANESTHESIA CLEAR-UP IN PROGRESS.
14 seconds later the same voice: PATIENT 'Applejack' BOOT-UP IN PROGRESS.

Applejack turns around to face the duo.

Unicorn 1: Congratulations, you pulled through.
Pinkie Pie, very cheerily: "Party time !". She blows her party cannon.

The world finished disintegrating, Applejack drops unconscious. The dream ends.

Back in the Madness Box, just a couple minutes short of 4 hours after the start of treatment. The cage has been raised, Uunicorn 1 and Uunicorn 2 are sitting around Applejack, straightjacket and helmet has been removed, placed onto the floor to her left.

Unicorn 1: Welcome back.
Applejack: Wha- ... Where am I ?
The tablet's machine voice: PATIENT 'Applejack' BOOT-UP COMPLETE. 'Zepto Bot 1' OFFLINE.
Unicorn 2: Hotel 1 Madness Box.
Applejack: Th- ... Madness Box ? What happened ?
Unicorn 1: You were at the frontlines, right flank. Foxtrot-Lima-1-Bravo with Pinkie Pie, remember ?
Applejack while failing trying to get up: Did I ... ? Red Break, right ? I remember nothin' after the explosion.
Unicorn 1: Indeed, your memory didn't receive data to store due to the explosion mangling up the enemy so badly your brain wasn't able to function correctly after experiencing the horror. Add to that the still-lingering black magic in the air. You did attack Pinkie many times but she kept dodging while radioing for Romeo-Bravo medevac and helping restrain you without hurting you, beyond the K-O injection. While you were under, Pinkie Pie asked to speak to you through radio, which is why you saw her during the last seconds of the dream.
Unicorn 2: How're you feeling ?
Applejack: Somewhat stiff and somewhat tired. Mind helpin' me get up ?
Unicorn 2: The accelerated anesthesia clear-up injection. Stupidly strong stuff, that.

Both unicorns stand up and Uunicorn 1 uses telekinesis to put Applejack on her legs. Everyone leaves the building. Unicorn 1 uses telekinesis to hold and switch on Applejack's radio and straps it back onto her.

Unicorn 1's radio spell:
Hotel 1 confirms Code Romeo-Bravo treatment uneventfully successful, victim Alpha-Juliett largely online. Out.
Hotel 1 HQ on radio:
Hotel 1 HQ copies.
High Command on radio:
High Command copies. Excellent. Out.
Pinkie Pie on radio:
Eek ! Welcome back ! Oh yeah, the frontline has been quiet for the past hour, and has been cleaned. Out.
Strawberry Cocoa's radio spell:
Sierra-Charlie on standby to teleport Alpha-Juliett to Foxtrot-Lima-1. Out.

Applejack: Ah'm going to the cafe.

Around an hour later Applejack has eaten and recovered. She walks to the teleporter.

Teleporter handler's radio spell:
High Command, this is Hotel 1. Do you want Alpha-Juliett to return to Foxtrot-Lima-1 ? Over.
High Command on radio:
Affirm Hotel 1.
Teleporter handler's radio spell:
Roger that High Command. Out.

The handler uses a spell to activate the teleporter, now glowing in white, sending a signal to Strawberry Cocoa. Applejack is teleported in a flash shaped like a mushroom cloud.

THE END.


EXPLANATIONS \(SPOILERS\)
Used terms
Radio codes/lines
- Foxtrot-Lima-1-Bravo = Frontline 1, right flank, aka Frontline 1 B. Pinkie Pie's team's location.
- Sierra-Charlie = Strawberry Cocoa.
- Bravo-Mike-Alpha = "Blademaster Alpha".
- Alpha-Juliett = Applejack.
- Hotel 1 = Hospital 1, the closest hospital to frontline 1. Used when hospital personnel speak.
- Hotel 1 HQ = Hospital 1 leadership headquarters. Used for high-profile administrative purposes, so under most circumstances they don't speak.
- High Command = Equestria military leadership headquarters. At the time of the war this is Celestia and Luna, whoever gets to speak.
- Zepto Bot = At this point in time, Equestrian medical services are highly computer-assisted to reduce the need for medical personnel, and very advanced in general. Zepto Bots are the most advanced medical tool, smaller than Nano Bots while more energy-efficient and with more features \(such as the ability to augment their internal power storage with the body's electricity, which is why they're injected right under the skull\), but in Applejack's case only used for realtime monitoring just in case something goes south, and while listening to the tablet's output they can notify High Command to fix faulty info.
- "Foxtrot-Lima-1 DANGER CLOSE: munition two-zero-three Halo-Echo count 1, distant unsafe impact 7 !" = Simplified way to say "Attention frontline 1 ! Take cover ! Single 203-millimeter artillery shell of type High Explosive impacting in 7 seconds at a dangerously close non-safe distance !". Non-safe in the sense that while you could survive the shockwave from a distance you could've a bad time when the fragmentation hits \(hence 'danger close'\), and the explosion itself could make you permanently deaf or at least get hearing damage \(also hence 'danger close'\).
- "Code Romeo-Bravo" / "Red Break" = Official Equestria-wide military/medical names for the mental breakdown Applejack suffered. Explained later below under The Red Break.
- "Code Romeo-Bravo medevac" = Usually each frontline flank has a dedicated Pegasus, sometimes a unicorn depending on availability and the necessity of unicorns in combat.
- The Pegasi are trained in
- fast-speed precision handling of the patients
- getting to them ASAP \(helped by their shortish distance of 200 meters\)
- in the case of Red Break dropping them unconscious for easier handling and to pause the mental breakdown using a special injection that causes convulsions that prevent movement and eventually lead to unconsciousness
- quickly getting to the designated hospital without colliding with something.
- Unicorn ones are trained in semi-augmented longer-range teleportation \(the hospitals have a magical circle which helps augmenting the teleportation spell so the receiving/sending magic user doesn't need to use as much mana\), they only need to spawn steel cuffs onto the patient to prevent them from moving, then teleport them to the circle, no need to teleport along with the patient. Alicorns are rarely used for this due to their combat abilities.
Others
1)- epipill = Epinephrine, aka adrenaline, in a smaller pill form, hence not as strong, but far easier to use without someone injecting you or you using telekinesis to inject yourself. Used to partially eliminate blockage in nerves in a hurry, or if nerves are unblocked, force muscles on a small overdrive, increasing movement speed by 1.15x. Multiple pills stack.

- 2) epipen = Same as epipill but in injectable form. Near-instant. Used to force muscles on overdrive and partially eliminate blockage in nerves, increasing movement speed by 1½ times. Multiple injections stack.

31\) "Ruckin' sucks for them" = Blademaster Alpha's way of saying "Real fucking sucks for them". The "Ruck" part is pronounced like "ruck" in "rucksack".

42\) "\_\_two- zero- three he\_\_" / "munition \_\_two- zero- three\_\_ Hotel-Echo" = The underscored parts pronounced as written \(without the dashes\), it's a 203-millimeter 100-kilogram high-explosive howitzer shell. These are the most destructive gunpowder munitions shot from a mobile field howitzer in both Equestria and our world \(bigger mortars were always stationary and the railway guns don't count as mobile field artillery due to their extreme slowness and being enslaved to the railway\). The howitzer used by the zebra anarchists and Changelings barely works due to their insufficient engineering \(the howitzer usually never survives the shot, and rebuilding takes stupidly long\), making their usage exceedingly rare, although not unheard of. As a result, Strawberry Cocoa has a spell which instantly detects any artillery shells right after a launch has been confirmed or suspected, tells her the size, composition \(in this case High Explosive\), trajectory, and impact time. The shot that did the zebra mare and the Changeling in who fought Strawberry Cocoa and Blademaster Alpha was done by the impatient anarchists who didn't know how to calculate the trajectory correctly \(were very stupidly lucky to get that close\), and that Changeling was already in the know about all of that, so when he saw the shell in flight he was disappointed to realize his allies are risking the fighters' lives with a barely-working super-heavy howitzer just cuz they're impatient and hoping they could easily eliminate the pony opposition that was giving them so much trouble despite not knowing how to use the thing.

53\) "E-transmission online" = The radios have a big button for emergency transmissions, mostly medical. This is merely a formality from the radios so the User knows what they just hit; the button can be hit again to manually terminate the transmission if it was an accident. Emergency transmissions override priority and normal traffic through the other radios cutting a pre-existing traffic on the spot and the radio machine voice saying "NOTE: Transmission aborted: e-transmission in progress", and hospitals, High Command, Army Commander, Army Co-Commander, Battle Commander, and Battle Assistant hearing "E-transmission in progress" from theirs, in addition to the transmission itself.

64\) "E-transmission complete" = The radio waits a few seconds after 'Over' is said so it doesn't cut the transmission before the message is finished \(in case there's something else to add to the message\). Until then the transmission's still going.

75\) "E-transmission exit 0" = Reference to the process exit codes in Unix-style operating systems \(such as Linux\) where 0 means the process ran perfectly fine until the end, while \>0 means something went wrong, and the specifics are defined by that app. In this case, Pinkie Pie's emergency transmission was sent successfully, all the messages were processed successfully, and the transmission auto-terminated successfully after High Command acknowledged the emergency, anything else woulda indicated some other cause for the termination. An 'exit -1' would be manual termination by User.

8) "injects a high amount of anesthetics into her spine" = Aj is given a general anesthesia way longer (standard is 28 for baby foals, 20 for foals under preteens, 18 for preteens, 16 for teens, 10 for mares (which is 8 hours more than it takes for the 4 minutes old madness to be fixed), 8½ for stallions) than the treatment process takes cuz if she awoke ahead of time her madness could potentially progress into a permanent one, at which point nothing can be done to help her, and the anesthesia further prevents movement. The anesthetics at such doses are perfectly safe, and the Zepto Bots will warn far ahead of time.

9) "not even her exceptional Earth pony strength can damage" = Aj is exceptional even for an Earth pony in that she's physically much stronger than another Earth pony mare her age and her stamina's a match for an Earth pony stallion her age, making her a very considerable force to be reckoned with. Therefore, the straightjackets are orders of magnitude stronger than in our world, used to prevent escaping and damage should the treatment somehow fail.

10) "she's ready for treatment" = In the Madness Box no treatment is done per se, it's all passive magical: Madness Box is custom-built of Dark Stone and Dark Steel, naturally appearing magical dark silver rock and steel (technically not steel by itself, but a rough mix of iron and coal with very low strength that needs to be smelted and properly mixed to produce the actual steel) with a total black magic silencing effect, thus blocking all black magic influences both ways, enabling all Madness Box patients to heal up in peace. The helmet is custom-built from Dark Steel and specially treated to convert black magic into good magic, eventually clearing the madness. The metal cage is also made of Dark Steel, meant to assist the helmet, and prevent the patient from escaping. The anesthesia, straightjacket, helmet, and the cage are a multiple points of failure strategy.
<-- End "Others"

The lore
Non-specifics
1) Yes, all the radio call signs are NATO alphabet, and intentional direct equivalents to the names to make it a little easier to remember, and also as a bit of a gag; the names don't have a much deeper pattern (except for Blademasters), but if there's overlap the call sign refers to different parts of the name like in the case of 2-part names (for ex. Strawberry Cocoa) the 1st letter of each word or in the case of 1-part name (for ex. Celestia) the 1st 2 or 3 letters. Individuals with a high combat usefulness are given a call sign. I was thinking about giving Pinkie Pie the call sign Papa-Pie (Papa-Papa doesn't sound good, and horrifics like Papa-Papa or Papa-India-Papa-India are simply outta question), but figured she's not worthy of it, and on the other hand she doesn't need it at this point.==]@
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Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Magical Inkwell - Wrote MLP fanfiction consisting of at least around 1.5k words, and has a verified link to the platform of their choice
Speaking Fancy - Badge given to members that help with translations
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition

2/3)

@[== Aj with a scared voice: Wh-what in tarnation that means ?
Madmare turns her head to the right side, her voice starting to change to Aj's: "Equestria 'course, silly", the last part with Pinkie Pie's cheery dismissive voice.

The madmare's existence starts to glitch very badly with a corrupted sound while she slowly walks towards Aj.

Aj tries to jump backwards, unable to even feel her muscles. Madmare's face transforms into a creepy, vague copy of Aj's, but Aj recognizes it as hers, her expression changing to horrified.

Madmare stops and says: <unintelligible> Oh yeah, I <unintelligible> Alicorns.

Aj and the madmare are suddenly indoors at High Command, in front of the front blast doors that had been busted inwards, massively mangled.

Madmare: Aaah, we're here. Now to finish the <unintelligible>.

Aj's wondering how she's gonna stop this mad clone who just recently genocided entire villages. She notices she can move just fine now. Quickly checking her immediate surroundings she finds a fire axe on the wall to her right. Without hesitations she quietly takes it into her front hooves.

Aj: Not if've somethin' to say 'bout it !
Madmare: "Whadda just say ?!" She turns around to face Aj.

The world started to glitch heavily. Aj swings the axe from her left at the horrified madmare's right neck, getting lodged and the force throws the madmare to the wall on her left.

Madmare, in Aj's full voice after recovering from the initial shock: What'n tarnation was that for ?!
Aj: I'm stoppin' ya right 'ere, right now.

Aj pulls the axe from madmare's neck with an angry "You fucked with the wrong pony this time" expression, causing an uncontrollable bleeding.

Aj raised the axe. Twilight Sparkle puts her right hoof on Aj's left shoulder.

TS, with a smile: "That won't be necessary, dear Applejack. She's already finished". Aj's expression changes to a neutral "If you say so, princess".

Madmare still lays on the floor. 10 seconds later the bleeding has become beyond fatal. Madmare sighs with a smile "Good work".

Aj, surprised, raises the left eyebrow: "Whadda mean ?" Madmare slumps over. Aj drops the axe.

Unicorn 1 and Pinkie Pie, complete with her signature party cannon, appear behind Aj, who she notices. Madmare's corpse disintegrates with a corrupted sound.

A machine voice echoes in the HQ halls, to which Aj raises her head:
STATUS:
- PATIENT 'Applejack':
- GENERAL ANESTHESIA AT '5.9 hours' IN EFFECT.
- 'Red Break' TREATMENT COMPLETE.
- NO FURTHER TREATMENT REQUIRED.

4 seconds later the same voice: ANTI-ANESTHESIA INJECTION DETECTED. ACCELERATED ANESTHESIA CLEAR-UP IN PROGRESS.
14 seconds later the same voice: PATIENT 'Applejack' BOOT-UP IN PROGRESS.

Aj turns around to face the duo.

U1: Congratulations, you pulled through.
PP, very cheerily: "Party time !" She blows her party cannon.

The world finished disintegrating, Aj drops unconscious. The dream ends.

Back in the Madness Box, just a couple minutes short of 4 hours after the start of treatment. The cage has been raised, U1 and U2 are sitting around Aj, straightjacket and helmet has been removed, placed onto the floor to her left.

U1: Welcome back.
Aj: Wha- ... Where am I ?
The tablet's machine voice: PATIENT 'Applejack' BOOT-UP COMPLETE. 'Zepto Bot 1' OFFLINE.
U2: Hotel 1 Madness Box.
Aj: Th- ... Madness Box ? What happened ?
U1: You were at the frontlines, right flank. Foxtrot-Lima-1-Bravo with Pinkie Pie, remember ?
Aj while failing trying to get up: Did I ... ? Red Break, right ? I remember nothin' after the explosion.
U1: Indeed, your memory didn't receive data to store due to the explosion mangling up the enemy so badly your brain wasn't able to function correctly after experiencing the horror. Add to that the still-lingering black magic in the air. You did attack Pinkie many times but she kept dodging while radioing for Romeo-Bravo medevac and helping restrain you without hurting you, beyond the K-O injection. While you were under, Pinkie Pie asked to speak to you through radio, which is why you saw her during the last seconds of the dream.
U2: How're you feeling ?
Aj: Somewhat stiff and somewhat tired. Mind helpin' me get up ?
U2: The accelerated anesthesia clear-up injection. Stupidly strong stuff, that.

Both unicorns stand up and U1 uses telekinesis to put Aj on her legs. Everyone leaves the building. U1 uses telekinesis to hold and switch on Aj's radio and straps it back onto her.

U1's radio spell: Hotel 1 confirms Code Romeo-Bravo treatment uneventfully successful, victim Alpha-Juliett largely online. Out.
Hotel 1 HQ on radio: Hotel 1 HQ copies.
High Command on radio: High Command copies. Excellent. Out.
PP on radio: Eek ! Welcome back ! Oh yeah, the frontline has been quiet for the past hour, and has been cleaned. Out.
SC's radio spell: Sierra-Charlie on standby to teleport Alpha-Juliett to Foxtrot-Lima-1. Out.

Aj: Ah'm going to the cafe.

Around an hour later Aj has eaten and recovered. She walks to the teleporter.

Teleporter handler's radio spell: High Command, this is Hotel 1. Do you want Alpha-Juliett to return to Foxtrot-Lima-1 ? Over.
High Command on radio: Affirm Hotel 1.
Teleporter handler's radio spell: Roger that High Command. Out.

The handler uses a spell to activate the teleporter, now glowing in white, sending a signal to SC. Aj is teleported in a flash shaped like a mushroom cloud.

THE END.


EXPLANATIONS (SPOILERS)
Used terms
Radio codes/lines
- Foxtrot-Lima-1-Bravo = Frontline 1, right flank, aka Frontline 1 B. Pinkie's team's location.
- Sierra-Charlie = Strawberry Cocoa.
- Bravo-Mike-Alpha = "Blademaster Alpha".
- Alpha-Juliett = Applejack.
- Hotel 1 = Hospital 1, the closest hospital to frontline 1. Used when hospital personnel speak.
- Hotel 1 HQ = Hospital 1 leadership headquarters. Used for high-profile administrative purposes, so under most circumstances they don't speak.
- High Command = Equestria military leadership headquarters. At the time of the war this is Celestia and Luna, whoever gets to speak.
- Zepto Bot = At this point in time, Equestrian medical services are highly computer-assisted to reduce the need for medical personnel, and very advanced in general. Zepto Bots are the most advanced medical tool, smaller than Nano Bots while more energy-efficient and with more features (such as the ability to augment their internal power storage with the body's electricity, which is why they're injected right under the skull), but in Aj's case only used for realtime monitoring just in case something goes south, and while listening to the tablet's output they can notify High Command to fix faulty info.
- "Foxtrot-Lima-1 DANGER CLOSE: munition two-zero-three Halo-Echo count 1, distant unsafe impact 7 !" = Simplified way to say "Attention frontline 1 ! Take cover ! Single 203-millimeter artillery shell of type High Explosive impacting in 7 seconds at a dangerously close non-safe distance !". Non-safe in the sense that while you could survive the shockwave from a distance you could've a bad time when the fragmentation hits (hence 'danger close'), and the explosion itself could make you permanently deaf or at least get hearing damage (also hence 'danger close').
- "Code Romeo-Bravo" / "Red Break" = Official Equestria-wide military/medical names for the mental breakdown Aj suffered. Explained later below under The Red Break.
- "Code Romeo-Bravo medevac" = Usually each frontline flank has a dedicated Pegasus, sometimes a unicorn depending on availability and the necessity of unicorns in combat.
- The Pegasi are trained in
- fast-speed precision handling of the patients
- getting to them ASAP (helped by their shortish distance of 200 meters)
- in the case of Red Break dropping them unconscious for easier handling and to pause the mental breakdown using a special injection that causes convulsions that prevent movement and eventually lead to unconsciousness
- quickly getting to the designated hospital without colliding with something.
- Unicorn ones are trained in semi-augmented longer-range teleportation (the hospitals have a magical circle which helps augmenting the teleportation spell so the receiving/sending magic user doesn't need to use as much mana), they only need to spawn steel cuffs onto the patient to prevent them from moving, then teleport them to the circle, no need to teleport along with the patient. Alicorns are rarely used for this due to their combat abilities.
Others
-1) epipill = Epinephrine, aka adrenaline, in a smaller pill form, hence not as strong, but far easier to use without someone injecting you or you using telekinesis to inject yourself. Used to partially eliminate blockage in nerves in a hurry, or if nerves are unblocked, force muscles on a small overdrive, increasing movement speed by 1.15x. Multiple pills stack.
-
2) epipen = Same as epipill but in injectable form. Near-instant. Used to force muscles on overdrive and partially eliminate blockage in nerves, increasing movement speed by 1½ times. Multiple injections stack.

13) "Ruckin' sucks for them" = Blademaster Alpha's way of saying "Real fucking sucks for them". The "Ruck" part is pronounced like "ruck" in "rucksack".

24) "__two-zero-three he__" / "munition __two-zero-three__ Hotel-Echo" = The underscored parts pronounced as written (without the dashes), it's a 203-millimeter 100-kilogram high-explosive howitzer shell. These are the most destructive gunpowder munitions shot from a mobile field howitzer in both Equestria and our world (bigger mortars were always stationary and the railway guns don't count as mobile field artillery due to their extreme slowness and being enslaved to the railway). The howitzer used by the zebra anarchists and Changelings barely works due to their insufficient engineering (the howitzer usually never survives the shot, and rebuilding takes stupidly long), making their usage exceedingly rare, although not unheard of. As a result, SC has a spell which instantly detects any artillery shells right after a launch has been confirmed or suspected, tells her the size, composition (in this case High Explosive), trajectory, and impact time. The shot that did the zebra mare and the Changeling in who fought SC and BA was done by the impatient anarchists who didn't know how to calculate the trajectory correctly (were very stupidly lucky to get that close), and that Changeling was already in the know about all of that, so when he saw the shell in flight he was disappointed to realize his allies are risking the fighters' lives with a barely-working super-heavy howitzer just cuz they're impatient and hoping they could easily eliminate the pony opposition that was giving them so much trouble despite not knowing how to use the thing.

35) "E-transmission online" = The radios have a big button for emergency transmissions, mostly medical. This is merely a formality from the radios so the User knows what they just hit; the button can be hit again to manually terminate the transmission if it was an accident.

46) "E-transmission complete" = The radio waits a few seconds after 'Over' is said so it doesn't cut the transmission before the message is finished (in case there's something else to add to the message). Until then the transmission's still going.

57) "E-transmission exit 0" = Reference to the process exit codes in Unix-style operating systems (such as Linux) where 0 means the process ran perfectly fine until the end, while >0 means something went wrong, and the specifics are defined by that app. In this case, Pinkie Pie's emergency transmission was sent successfully, all the messages were processed successfully, and the transmission auto-terminated successfully after High Command acknowledged the emergency, anything else woulda indicated some other cause for the termination. An 'exit -1' would be manual termination by User.

68) "injects a high amount of anesthetics into her spine" = Aj is given a general anesthesia way longer (standard is 28 for baby foals, 20 for foals under preteens, 18 for preteens, 16 for teens, 10 for mares (which is 8 hours more than it takes for the 4 minutes old madness to be fixed), 8½ for stallions) than the treatment process takes cuz if she awoke ahead of time her madness could potentially progress into a permanent one, at which point nothing can be done to help her, and the anesthesia further prevents movement. The anesthetics at such doses are perfectly safe, and the Zepto Bots will warn far ahead of time.

79) "not even her exceptional Earth pony strength can damage" = Aj is exceptional even for an Earth pony in that she's physically much stronger than another Earth pony mare her age and her stamina's a match for an Earth pony stallion her age, making her a very considerable force to be reckoned with. Therefore, the straightjackets are orders of magnitude stronger than in our world, used to prevent escaping and damage should the treatment somehow fail.

810) "she's ready for treatment" = In the Madness Box no treatment is done per se, it's all passive magical: Madness Box is custom-built of Dark Stone and Dark Steel, naturally appearing magical dark silver rock and steel (technically not steel by itself, but a rough mix of iron and coal with very low strength that needs to be smelted and properly mixed to produce the actual steel) with a total black magic silencing effect, thus blocking all black magic influences both ways, enabling all Madness Box patients to heal up in peace. The helmet is custom-built from Dark Steel and specially treated to convert black magic into good magic, eventually clearing the madness. The metal cage is also made of Dark Steel, meant to assist the helmet, and prevent the patient from escaping. The anesthesia, straightjacket, helmet, and the cage are a multiple points of failure strategy.
<-- End "Others"

The lore
Non-specifics
1) Yes, all the radio call signs are NATO alphabet, and intentional direct equivalents to the names to make it a little easier to remember, and also as a bit of a gag; the names don't have a much deeper pattern (except for Blademasters), but if there's overlap the call sign refers to different parts of the name like in the case of 2-part names (for ex. Strawberry Cocoa) the 1st letter of each word or in the case of 1-part name (for ex. Celestia) the 1st 2 or 3 letters. Individuals with a high combat usefulness are given a call sign. I was thinking about giving Pinkie Pie the call sign Papa-Pie (Papa-Papa doesn't sound good, and horrifics like Papa-Papa or Papa-India-Papa-India are simply outta question), but figured she's not worthy of it, and on the other hand she doesn't need it at this point.==]@
Reason: Explanations fixing.
Edited by rautamiekka
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Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
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My Little Pony - 1992 Edition

2/3)

@[== Aj with a scared voice: Wh-what in tarnation that means ?
Madmare turns her head to the right side, her voice starting to change to Aj's: "Equestria 'course, silly", the last part with Pinkie Pie's cheery dismissive voice.

The madmare's existence starts to glitch very badly with a corrupted sound while she slowly walks towards Aj.

Aj tries to jump backwards, unable to even feel her muscles. Madmare's face transforms into a creepy, vague copy of Aj's, but Aj recognizes it as hers, her expression changing to horrified.

Madmare stops and says: <unintelligible> Oh yeah, I <unintelligible> Alicorns.

Aj and the madmare are suddenly indoors at High Command, in front of the front blast doors that had been busted inwards, massively mangled.

Madmare: Aaah, we're here. Now to finish the <unintelligible>.

Aj's wondering how she's gonna stop this mad clone who just recently genocided entire villages. She notices she can move just fine now. Quickly checking her immediate surroundings she finds a fire axe on the wall to her right. Without hesitations she quietly takes it into her front hooves.

Aj: Not if've somethin' to say 'bout it !
Madmare: "Whadda just say ?!" She turns around to face Aj.

The world started to glitch heavily. Aj swings the axe from her left at the horrified madmare's right neck, getting lodged and the force throws the madmare to the wall on her left.

Madmare, in Aj's full voice after recovering from the initial shock: What'n tarnation was that for ?!
Aj: I'm stoppin' ya right 'ere, right now.

Aj pulls the axe from madmare's neck with an angry "You fucked with the wrong pony this time" expression, causing an uncontrollable bleeding.

Aj raised the axe. Twilight Sparkle puts her right hoof on Aj's left shoulder.

TS, with a smile: "That won't be necessary, dear Applejack. She's already finished". Aj's expression changes to a neutral "If you say so, princess".

Madmare still lays on the floor. 10 seconds later the bleeding has become beyond fatal. Madmare sighs with a smile "Good work".

Aj, surprised, raises the left eyebrow: "Whadda mean ?" Madmare slumps over. Aj drops the axe.

Unicorn 1 and Pinkie Pie, complete with her signature party cannon, appear behind Aj, who she notices. Madmare's corpse disintegrates with a corrupted sound.

A machine voice echoes in the HQ halls, to which Aj raises her head:
STATUS:
- PATIENT 'Applejack':
- GENERAL ANESTHESIA AT '5.9 hours' IN EFFECT.
- 'Red Break' TREATMENT COMPLETE.
- NO FURTHER TREATMENT REQUIRED.

4 seconds later the same voice: ANTI-ANESTHESIA INJECTION DETECTED. ACCELERATED ANESTHESIA CLEAR-UP IN PROGRESS.
14 seconds later the same voice: PATIENT 'Applejack' BOOT-UP IN PROGRESS.

Aj turns around to face the duo.

U1: Congratulations, you pulled through.
PP, very cheerily: "Party time !" She blows her party cannon.

The world finished disintegrating, Aj drops unconscious. The dream ends.

Back in the Madness Box, just a couple minutes short of 4 hours after the start of treatment. The cage has been raised, U1 and U2 are sitting around Aj, straightjacket and helmet has been removed, placed onto the floor to her left.

U1: Welcome back.
Aj: Wha- ... Where am I ?
The tablet's machine voice: PATIENT 'Applejack' BOOT-UP COMPLETE. 'Zepto Bot 1' OFFLINE.
U2: Hotel 1 Madness Box.
Aj: Th- ... Madness Box ? What happened ?
U1: You were at the frontlines, right flank. Foxtrot-Lima-1-Bravo with Pinkie Pie, remember ?
Aj while failing trying to get up: Did I ... ? Red Break, right ? I remember nothin' after the explosion.
U1: Indeed, your memory didn't receive data to store due to the explosion mangling up the enemy so badly your brain wasn't able to function correctly after experiencing the horror. Add to that the still-lingering black magic in the air. You did attack Pinkie many times but she kept dodging while radioing for Romeo-Bravo medevac and helping restrain you without hurting you, beyond the K-O injection. While you were under, Pinkie Pie asked to speak to you through radio, which is why you saw her during the last seconds of the dream.
U2: How're you feeling ?
Aj: Somewhat stiff and somewhat tired. Mind helpin' me get up ?
U2: The accelerated anesthesia clear-up injection. Stupidly strong stuff, that.

Both unicorns stand up and U1 uses telekinesis to put Aj on her legs. Everyone leaves the building. U1 uses telekinesis to hold and switch on Aj's radio and straps it back onto her.

U1's radio spell: Hotel 1 confirms Code Romeo-Bravo treatment uneventfully successful, victim Alpha-Juliett largely online. Out.
Hotel 1 HQ on radio: Hotel 1 HQ copies.
High Command on radio: High Command copies. Excellent. Out.
PP on radio: Eek ! Welcome back ! Oh yeah, the frontline has been quiet for the past hour, and has been cleaned. Out.
SC's radio spell: Sierra-Charlie on standby to teleport Alpha-Juliett to Foxtrot-Lima-1. Out.

Aj: Ah'm going to the cafe.

Around an hour later Aj has eaten and recovered. She walks to the teleporter.

Teleporter handler's radio spell: High Command, this is Hotel 1. Do you want Alpha-Juliett to return to Foxtrot-Lima-1 ? Over.
High Command on radio: Affirm Hotel 1.
Teleporter handler's radio spell: Roger that High Command. Out.

The handler uses a spell to activate the teleporter, now glowing in white, sending a signal to SC. Aj is teleported in a flash shaped like a mushroom cloud.

THE END.


EXPLANATIONS (SPOILERS)
Used terms
Radio codes/lines
- Foxtrot-Lima-1-Bravo = Frontline 1, right flank, aka Frontline 1 B. Pinkie's team's location.
- Sierra-Charlie = Strawberry Cocoa.
- Bravo-Mike-Alpha = "Blademaster Alpha".
- Alpha-Juliett = Applejack.
- Hotel 1 = Hospital 1, the closest hospital to frontline 1. Used when hospital personnel speak.
- Hotel 1 HQ = Hospital 1 leadership headquarters. Used for high-profile administrative purposes, so under most circumstances they don't speak.
- High Command = Equestria military leadership headquarters. At the time of the war this is Celestia and Luna, whoever gets to speak.
- Zepto Bot = At this point in time, Equestrian medical services are highly computer-assisted to reduce the need for medical personnel, and very advanced in general. Zepto Bots are the most advanced medical tool, smaller than Nano Bots while more energy-efficient and with more features (such as the ability to augment their internal power storage with the body's electricity, which is why they're injected right under the skull), but in Aj's case only used for realtime monitoring just in case something goes south, and while listening to the tablet's output they can notify High Command to fix faulty info.
- "Foxtrot-Lima-1 DANGER CLOSE: munition two-zero-three Halo-Echo count 1, distant unsafe impact 7 !" = Simplified way to say "Attention frontline 1 ! Take cover ! Single 203-millimeter artillery shell of type High Explosive impacting in 7 seconds at a dangerously close non-safe distance !". Non-safe in the sense that while you could survive the shockwave from a distance you could've a bad time when the fragmentation hits (hence 'danger close'), and the explosion itself could make you permanently deaf or at least get hearing damage (also hence 'danger close').
- "epipill" = Epinephrine, aka adrenaline, in a smaller pill form, hence not as strong, but far easier to use without someone injecting you or you using telekinesis to inject yourself. Used to partially eliminate blockage in nerves in a hurry, or if nerves are unblocked, force muscles on a small overdrive, increasing movement speed by 1.15x. Multiple pills stack.
- "epipen" = Same as epipill but in injectable form. Near-instant. Used to force muscles on overdrive and partially eliminate blockage in nerves, increasing movement speed by 1½ times. Multiple injections stack.
- "
Code Romeo-Bravo" / "Red Break" = Official Equestria-wide military/medical names for the mental breakdown Aj suffered. Explained later below under The Red Break.
- "Code Romeo-Bravo medevac" = Usually each frontline flank has a dedicated Pegasus, sometimes a unicorn depending on availability and the necessity of unicorns in combat.
- The Pegasi are trained in
- fast-speed precision handling of the patients
- getting to them ASAP (helped by their shortish distance of 200 meters)
- in the case of Red Break dropping them unconscious for easier handling and to pause the mental breakdown using a special injection that causes convulsions that prevent movement and eventually lead to unconsciousness
- quickly getting to the designated hospital without colliding with something.
- Unicorn ones are trained in semi-augmented longer-range teleportation (the hospitals have a magical circle which helps augmenting the teleportation spell so the receiving/sending magic user doesn't need to use as much mana), they only need to spawn steel cuffs onto the patient to prevent them from moving, then teleport them to the circle, no need to teleport along with the patient. Alicorns are rarely used for this due to their combat abilities.
Others
- epipill = Epinephrine, aka adrenaline, in a smaller pill form, hence not as strong, but far easier to use without someone injecting you or you using telekinesis to inject yourself. Used to partially eliminate blockage in nerves in a hurry, or if nerves are unblocked, force muscles on a small overdrive, increasing movement speed by 1.15x. Multiple pills stack.
- epipen = Same as epipill but in injectable form. Near-instant. Used to force muscles on overdrive and partially eliminate blockage in nerves, increasing movement speed by 1½ times. Multiple injections stack.
1
) "Ruckin' sucks for them" = Blademaster Alpha's way of saying "Real fucking sucks for them". The "Ruck" part is pronounced like "ruck" in "rucksack".

2) "__two-zero-three he__" / "munition __two-zero-three__ Hotel-Echo" = The underscored parts pronounced as written (without the dashes), it's a 203-millimeter 100-kilogram high-explosive howitzer shell. These are the most destructive gunpowder munitions shot from a mobile field howitzer in both Equestria and our world (bigger mortars were always stationary and the railway guns don't count as mobile field artillery due to their extreme slowness and being enslaved to the railway). The howitzer used by the zebra anarchists and Changelings barely works due to their insufficient engineering (the howitzer usually never survives the shot, and rebuilding takes stupidly long), making their usage exceedingly rare, although not unheard of. As a result, SC has a spell which instantly detects any artillery shells right after a launch has been confirmed or suspected, tells her the size, composition (in this case High Explosive), trajectory, and impact time. The shot that did the zebra mare and the Changeling in who fought SC and BA was done by the impatient anarchists who didn't know how to calculate the trajectory correctly (were very stupidly lucky to get that close), and that Changeling was already in the know about all of that, so when he saw the shell in flight he was disappointed to realize his allies are risking the fighters' lives with a barely-working super-heavy howitzer just cuz they're impatient and hoping they could easily eliminate the pony opposition that was giving them so much trouble despite not knowing how to use the thing.

3) "E-transmission online" = The radios have a big button for emergency transmissions, mostly medical. This is merely a formality from the radios so the User knows what they just hit; the button can be hit again to manually terminate the transmission if it was an accident.

4) "E-transmission complete" = The radio waits a few seconds after 'Over' is said so it doesn't cut the transmission before the message is finished (in case there's something else to add to the message). Until then the transmission's still going.

5) "E-transmission exit 0" = Reference to the process exit codes in Unix-style operating systems (such as Linux) where 0 means the process ran perfectly fine until the end, while >0 means something went wrong, and the specifics are defined by that app. In this case, Pinkie Pie's emergency transmission was sent successfully, all the messages were processed successfully, and the transmission auto-terminated successfully after High Command acknowledged the emergency, anything else woulda indicated some other cause for the termination. An 'exit -1' would be manual termination by User.

6) "injects a high amount of anesthetics into her spine" = Aj is given a general anesthesia way longer (standard is 28 for baby foals, 20 for foals under preteens, 18 for preteens, 16 for teens, 10 for mares (which is 8 hours more than it takes for the 4 minutes old madness to be fixed), 8½ for stallions) than the treatment process takes cuz if she awoke ahead of time her madness could potentially progress into a permanent one, at which point nothing can be done to help her, and the anesthesia further prevents movement. The anesthetics at such doses are perfectly safe, and the Zepto Bots will warn far ahead of time.

7) "not even her exceptional Earth pony strength can damage" = Aj is exceptional even for an Earth pony in that she's physically much stronger than another Earth pony mare her age and her stamina's a match for an Earth pony stallion her age, making her a very considerable force to be reckoned with. Therefore, the straightjackets are orders of magnitude stronger than in our world, used to prevent escaping and damage should the treatment somehow fail.

8) "she's ready for treatment" = In the Madness Box no treatment is done per se, it's all passive magical: Madness Box is custom-built of Dark Stone and Dark Steel, naturally appearing magical dark silver rock and steel (technically not steel by itself, but a rough mix of iron and coal with very low strength that needs to be smelted and properly mixed to produce the actual steel) with a total black magic silencing effect, thus blocking all black magic influences both ways, enabling all Madness Box patients to heal up in peace. The helmet is custom-built from Dark Steel and specially treated to convert black magic into good magic, eventually clearing the madness. The metal cage is also made of Dark Steel, meant to assist the helmet, and prevent the patient from escaping. The anesthesia, straightjacket, helmet, and the cage are a multiple points of failure strategy.
<-- End "Others"

The lore
Non-specifics
1) Yes, all the radio call signs are NATO alphabet, and intentional direct equivalents to the names to make it a little easier to remember, and also as a bit of a gag; the names don't have a much deeper pattern (except for Blademasters), but if there's overlap the call sign refers to different parts of the name like in the case of 2-part names (for ex. Strawberry Cocoa) the 1st letter of each word or in the case of 1-part name (for ex. Celestia) the 1st 2 or 3 letters. Individuals with a high combat usefulness are given a call sign. I was thinking about giving Pinkie Pie the call sign Papa-Pie (Papa-Papa doesn't sound good, and horrifics like Papa-Papa or Papa-India-Papa-India are simply outta question), but figured she's not worthy of it, and on the other hand she doesn't need it at this point.==]@
Reason: Explanations re-ordering.
Edited by rautamiekka
rautamiekka
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Magical Inkwell - Wrote MLP fanfiction consisting of at least around 1.5k words, and has a verified link to the platform of their choice
Speaking Fancy - Badge given to members that help with translations
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition

2/3)

@[== Aj with a scared voice: Wh-what in tarnation that means ?
Madmare turns her head to the right side, her voice starting to change to Aj's: "Equestria 'course, silly", the last part with Pinkie Pie's cheery dismissive voice.

The madmare's existence starts to glitch very badly with a corrupted sound while she slowly walks towards Aj.

Aj tries to jump backwards, unable to even feel her muscles. Madmare's face transforms into a creepy, vague copy of Aj's, but Aj recognizes it as hers, her expression changing to horrified.

Madmare stops and says: <unintelligible> Oh yeah, I <unintelligible> Alicorns.

Aj and the madmare are suddenly indoors at High Command, in front of the front blast doors that had been busted inwards, massively mangled.

Madmare: Aaah, we're here. Now to finish the <unintelligible>.

Aj's wondering how she's gonna stop this mad clone who just recently genocided entire villages. She notices she can move just fine now. Quickly checking her immediate surroundings she finds a fire axe on the wall to her right. Without hesitations she quietly takes it into her front hooves.

Aj: Not if've somethin' to say 'bout it !
Madmare: "Whadda just say ?!" She turns around to face Aj.

The world started to glitch heavily. Aj swings the axe from her left at the horrified madmare's right neck, getting lodged and the force throws the madmare to the wall on her left.

Madmare, in Aj's full voice after recovering from the initial shock: What'n tarnation was that for ?!
Aj: I'm stoppin' ya right 'ere, right now.

Aj pulls the axe from madmare's neck with an angry "You fucked with the wrong pony this time" expression, causing an uncontrollable bleeding.

Aj raised the axe. Twilight Sparkle puts her right hoof on Aj's left shoulder.

TS, with a smile: "That won't be necessary, dear Applejack. She's already finished". Aj's expression changes to a neutral "If you say so, princess".

Madmare still lays on the floor. 10 seconds later the bleeding has become beyond fatal. Madmare sighs with a smile "Good work".

Aj, surprised, raises the left eyebrow: "Whadda mean ?" Madmare slumps over. Aj drops the axe.

Unicorn 1 and Pinkie Pie, complete with her signature party cannon, appear behind Aj, who she notices. Madmare's corpse disintegrates with a corrupted sound.

A machine voice echoes in the HQ halls, to which Aj raises her head:
STATUS:
- PATIENT 'Applejack':
- GENERAL ANESTHESIA AT '5.9 hours' IN EFFECT.
- 'Red Break' TREATMENT COMPLETE.
- NO FURTHER TREATMENT REQUIRED.

4 seconds later the same voice: ANTI-ANESTHESIA INJECTION DETECTED. ACCELERATED ANESTHESIA CLEAR-UP IN PROGRESS.
14 seconds later the same voice: PATIENT 'Applejack' BOOT-UP IN PROGRESS.

Aj turns around to face the duo.

U1: Congratulations, you pulled through.
PP, very cheerily: "Party time !" She blows her party cannon.

The world finished disintegrating, Aj drops unconscious. The dream ends.

Back in the Madness Box, just a couple minutes short of 4 hours after the start of treatment. The cage has been raised, U1 and U2 are sitting around Aj, straightjacket and helmet has been removed, placed onto the floor to her left.

U1: Welcome back.
Aj: Wha- ... Where am I ?
The tablet's machine voice: PATIENT 'Applejack' BOOT-UP COMPLETE. 'Zepto Bot 1' OFFLINE.
U2: Hotel 1 Madness Box.
Aj: Th- ... Madness Box ? What happened ?
U1: You were at the frontlines, right flank. Foxtrot-Lima-1-Bravo with Pinkie Pie, remember ?
Aj while failing trying to get up: Did I ... ? Red Break, right ? I remember nothin' after the explosion.
U1: Indeed, your memory didn't receive data to store due to the explosion mangling up the enemy so badly your brain wasn't able to function correctly after experiencing the horror. Add to that the still-lingering black magic in the air. You did attack Pinkie many times but she kept dodging while radioing for Romeo-Bravo medevac and helping restrain you without hurting you, beyond the K-O injection. While you were under, Pinkie Pie asked to speak to you through radio, which is why you saw her during the last seconds of the dream.
U2: How're you feeling ?
Aj: Somewhat stiff and somewhat tired. Mind helpin' me get up ?
U2: The accelerated anesthesia clear-up injection. Stupidly strong stuff, that.

Both unicorns stand up and U1 uses telekinesis to put Aj on her legs. Everyone leaves the building. U1 uses telekinesis to hold and switch on Aj's radio and straps it back onto her.

U1's radio spell: Hotel 1 confirms Code Romeo-Bravo treatment uneventfully successful, victim Alpha-Juliett largely online. Out.
Hotel 1 HQ on radio: Hotel 1 HQ copies.
High Command on radio: High Command copies. Excellent. Out.
PP on radio: Eek ! Welcome back ! Oh yeah, the frontline has been quiet for the past hour, and has been cleaned. Out.
SC's radio spell: Sierra-Charlie on standby to teleport Alpha-Juliett to Foxtrot-Lima-1. Out.

Aj: Ah'm going to the cafe.

Around an hour later Aj has eaten and recovered. She walks to the teleporter.

Teleporter handler's radio spell: High Command, this is Hotel 1. Do you want Alpha-Juliett to return to Foxtrot-Lima-1 ? Over.
High Command on radio: Affirm Hotel 1.
Teleporter handler's radio spell: Roger that High Command. Out.

The handler uses a spell to activate the teleporter, now glowing in white, sending a signal to SC. Aj is teleported in a flash shaped like a mushroom cloud.

THE END.


EXPLANATIONS (SPOILERS)
Used terms
Radio codes
- Foxtrot-Lima-1-Bravo = Frontline 1, right flank, aka Frontline 1 B. Pinkie's team's location.
- Sierra-Charlie = Strawberry Cocoa.
- Bravo-Mike-Alpha = "Blademaster Alpha".
- Alpha-Juliett = Applejack.
- Hotel 1 = Hospital 1, the closest hospital to frontline 1. Used when hospital personnel speak.
- Hotel 1 HQ = Hospital 1 leadership headquarters. Used for high-profile administrative purposes, so under most circumstances they don't speak.
- High Command = Equestria military leadership headquarters. At the time of the war this is Celestia and Luna, whoever gets to speak.
- Zepto Bot = At this point in time, Equestrian medical services are highly computer-assisted to reduce the need for medical personnel, and very advanced in general. Zepto Bots are the most advanced medical tool, smaller than Nano Bots while more energy-efficient and with more features (such as the ability to augment their internal power storage with the body's electricity, which is why they're injected right under the skull), but in Aj's case only used for realtime monitoring just in case something goes south, and while listening to the tablet's output they can notify High Command to fix faulty info.
- "Foxtrot-Lima-1 DANGER CLOSE: munition two-zero-three Halo-Echo count 1, distant unsafe impact 7 !" = Simplified way to say "Attention frontline 1 ! Take cover ! Single 203-millimeter artillery shell of type High Explosive impacting in 7 seconds at a dangerously close non-safe distance !". Non-safe in the sense that while you could survive the shockwave from a distance you could've a bad time when the fragmentation hits (hence 'danger close'), and the explosion itself could make you permanently deaf or at least get hearing damage (also hence 'danger close').
- "epipill" = Epinephrine, aka adrenaline, in a smaller pill form, hence not as strong, but far easier to use without someone injecting you or you using telekinesis to inject yourself. Used to partially eliminate blockage in nerves in a hurry, or if nerves are unblocked, force muscles on a small overdrive, increasing movement speed by 1.15x. Multiple pills stack.
- "epipen" = Same as epipill but in injectable form. Near-instant. Used to force muscles on overdrive and partially eliminate blockage in nerves, increasing movement speed by 1½ times. Multiple injections stack.
- "Code Romeo-Bravo" / "Red Break" = Official Equestria-wide military/medical names for the mental breakdown Aj suffered. Explained later below under The Red Break.
- "Code Romeo-Bravo medevac" = Usually each frontline flank has a dedicated Pegasus, sometimes a unicorn depending on availability and the necessity of unicorns in combat.
- The Pegasi are trained in
- fast-speed precision handling of the patients
- getting to them ASAP (helped by their shortish distance of 200 meters)
- in the case of Red Break dropping them unconscious for easier handling and to pause the mental breakdown using a special injection that causes convulsions that prevent movement and eventually lead to unconsciousness
- quickly getting to the designated hospital without colliding with something.
- Unicorn ones are trained in semi-augmented longer-range teleportation (the hospitals have a magical circle which helps augmenting the teleportation spell so the receiving/sending magic user doesn't need to use as much mana), they only need to spawn steel cuffs onto the patient to prevent them from moving, then teleport them to the circle, no need to teleport along with the patient. Alicorns are rarely used for this due to their combat abilities.
Others
1) "Ruckin' sucks for them" = Blademaster Alpha's way of saying "Real fucking sucks for them". The "Ruck" part is pronounced like "ruck" in "rucksack".

2) "__two-zero-three he__" / "munition __two-zero-three__ Hotel-Echo" = The underscored parts pronounced as written (without the dashes), it's a 203-millimeter 100-kilogram high-explosive howitzer shell. These are the most destructive gunpowder munitions shot from a mobile field howitzer in both Equestria and our world (bigger mortars were always stationary and the railway guns don't count as mobile field artillery due to their extreme slowness and being enslaved to the railway). The howitzer used by the zebra anarchists and Changelings barely works due to their insufficient engineering (the howitzer usually never survives the shot, and rebuilding takes stupidly long), making their usage exceedingly rare, although not unheard of. As a result, SC has a spell which instantly detects any artillery shells right after a launch has been confirmed or suspected, tells her the size, composition (in this case High Explosive), trajectory, and impact time. The shot that did the zebra mare and the Changeling in who fought SC and BA was done by the impatient anarchists who didn't know how to calculate the trajectory correctly (were very stupidly lucky to get that close), and that Changeling was already in the know about all of that, so when he saw the shell in flight he was disappointed to realize his allies are risking the fighters' lives with a barely-working super-heavy howitzer just cuz they're impatient and hoping they could easily eliminate the pony opposition that was giving them so much trouble despite not knowing how to use the thing.

3) "E-transmission online" = The radios have a big button for emergency transmissions, mostly medical. This is merely a formality from the radios so the User knows what they just hit; the button can be hit again to manually terminate the transmission if it was an accident.

4) "E-transmission complete" = The radio waits a few seconds after 'Over' is said so it doesn't cut the transmission before the message is finished (in case there's something else to add to the message). Until then the transmission's still going.

5) "E-transmission exit 0" = Reference to the process exit codes in Unix-style operating systems (such as Linux) where 0 means the process ran perfectly fine until the end, while >0 means something went wrong, and the specifics are defined by that app. In this case, Pinkie Pie's emergency transmission was sent successfully, all the messages were processed successfully, and the transmission auto-terminated successfully after High Command acknowledged the emergency, anything else woulda indicated some other cause for the termination. An 'exit -1' would be manual termination by User.

6) "injects a high amount of anesthetics into her spine" = Aj is given a general anesthesia way longer (standard is 28 for baby foals, 20 for foals under preteens, 18 for preteens, 16 for teens, 10 for mares (which is 8 hours more than it takes for the 4 minutes old madness to be fixed), 8½ for stallions) than the treatment process takes cuz if she awoke ahead of time her madness could potentially progress into a permanent one, at which point nothing can be done to help her, and the anesthesia further prevents movement. The anesthetics at such doses are perfectly safe, and the Zepto Bots will warn far ahead of time.

7) "not even her exceptional Earth pony strength can damage" = Aj is exceptional even for an Earth pony in that she's physically much stronger than another Earth pony mare her age and her stamina's a match for an Earth pony stallion her age, making her a very considerable force to be reckoned with. Therefore, the straightjackets are orders of magnitude stronger than in our world, used to prevent escaping and damage should the treatment somehow fail.

8) "she's ready for treatment" = In the Madness Box no treatment is done per se, it's all passive magical: Madness Box is custom-built of Dark Stone and Dark Steel, naturally appearing magical dark silver rock and steel (technically not steel by itself, but a rough mix of iron and coal with very low strength that needs to be smelted and properly mixed to produce the actual steel) with a total black magic silencing effect, thus blocking all black magic influences both ways, enabling all Madness Box patients to heal up in peace. The helmet is custom-built from Dark Steel and specially treated to convert black magic into good magic, eventually clearing the madness. The metal cage is also made of Dark Steel, meant to assist the helmet, and prevent the patient from escaping. The anesthesia, straightjacket, helmet, and the cage are a multiple points of failure strategy.
<-- End "Others"

The lore
Non-specifics
1) Yes, all the radio call signs are NATO alphabet, and intentional direct equivalents to the names to make it a little easier to remember, and also as a bit of a gag; the names don't have a much deeper pattern (except for Blademasters), but if there's overlap the call sign refers to different parts of the name like in the case of 2-part names (for ex. Strawberry Cocoa) the 1st letter of each word or in the case of 1-part name (for ex. Celestia) the 1st 2 or 3 letters. Individuals with a high combat usefulness are given a call sign. I was thinking about giving Pinkie Pie the call sign Papa-Pie (Papa-Papa doesn't sound good, and horrifics like Papa-Papa or Papa-India-Papa-India are simply outta question), but figured she's not worthy of it, and on the other hand she doesn't need it at this point.==]@
Reason: Indentation error.
Edited by rautamiekka