Part of Nyx wanted to go back and tell Twilight about what had happened, or at least hurry to the post office to let Ditzy and Dinky Doo know about Chell's condition. However, if the situation was really as dire as Nurse Redheart had made it out to be, then somepony would already be on their way to do so. If she could find a clue about Chell's attacker by the time Twilight and her friends arrived, it could give them a chance to catch up with this GLaDOS before the trail went cold.
Taking a moment to think about how she had found Chell, Nyx recalled that for as battered as the orange pony was, there had been no signs of a struggle. Plus, she'd been bleeding from some of her cuts, but looking at the spot where she had been laying, the only trace of a blood trail was from Nyx carrying her away. It was as though she gotten wounded, then simply materialized where Nyx found her, but she was an earth pony, and even if she was a unicorn, teleportation was a rare magic.
There was too much that Nyx didn't know about the situation, and it was frustrating her to no end. She threw her head back and let out a confused sigh, which coincidentally allowed her to see it.
Nyx's jaw dropped open as she saw something she had seen before without ever realizing its significance. There, up on the ceiling directly above where Chell had been found, was a hole. Far from an ordinary hole, however, this one was lined with a sort of orange energy. Even stranger than that, though, was that instead of seeing the ceiling of the room above, she saw stalactites lining the ceiling of some sort of cave.
Nyx rubbed her eyes, but when she opened them again, the same bizarre sight greeted her. As no one had ever told the young alicorn about GLaDOS, neither was she familiar with Aperture's portal technology. Nevertheless, she had seen something like it during Dinky Doo's birthday party.
At that time, Nyx had never seen Chell's cutie mark before, as the mailmare was either behind the post office's service counter or kept it covered up with flaps of cloth over her flanks. To entertain the little ponies gathered there, she showed them a 'magic trick' by getting Ditzy to take a sharpened stick and stab it right through her cloth-covered flank. Everypony but Dinky immediately started screaming in horror as they saw the stick pierce right through Chell and out the other side. Nyx herself hadn't stopped sobbing until Chell reassured them all that she was alright, and proved it by showing them the round portals on her flanks.
Curious as she was, Nyx had pestered Chell, Ditzy and Dinky with questions about it once she got over her fright, but hadn't gotten any answers beyond them symbolizing 'problem solving' or something along those lines, and that they served as a reminder of a time Chell would rather prefer to put behind her. Being able to sympathize, Nyx had swallowed her curiosity until eventually she put it out of her mind.
Now, though, it was apparent that there was a deeper connection between Chell's strange cutie mark and what was happening now. With a leap assisted by a few flaps of her wings, Nyx launched herself up through the portal to scout out the other side. There, she found herself in a small cavern, the orange portal's blue counterpart on the floor of that cave. One end of the cavern narrowed into a tunnel that wound off into the dark underground while a crevice about half the size of an adult pony allowed a shaft of sunlight to illuminate the area where she stood.
Looking out through this crevice, Nyx gasped when she saw the castle she had just been standing in seconds ago, now off in the distance. If she squinted, she could even make out the window of the room where she had found Chell, and the orange glow of the portal there.
As Nyx processed what she had found, she looked over her shoulder at the tunnel. Drag-marks in the dust and flecks of dried blood indicated that this was where Chell had come from after being attacked. She had then dropped down through the portal on the floor and ended up in the castle. It was in that darkness that Chell's attacker would certainly be found.
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