Bioweapon P begins in Ponyville
-An hour ago-
"So Twi, you ever hear of such a creature?" Rainbow Dash asked, watching as the tired Twilight looked around her new library, thinking.
"Are you sure it wasn't a minotaur? Or a Diamond Dog? Or the girls could have been mistaken, and not really seen anything," Twilight yawned, as she pulled book after book from the walls.
"The girls seemed to be rather sure of themselves. Plus Applebloom had a scar on her belly that looked like it was healed by a professional doctor," Rarity added.
Twilight looked over her books, before pausing on a certain page. "If the girls aren't lying, then it would have to be this creature. A human. But these ones are different than the ones I met in the other world." Twilight spun the book around on the desk, so the two other ponies could read it.
"Human? Isn't that the one creature from those old tales?" Rarity asked, noticing the garish figures of the humans in it, wearing barbaric clothes, and fighting each other.
Twilight nodded, yawning one more time. "Yep. They were known for being a warrior race a long time ago. Supposedly they loved war so much that they destroyed themselves in a single day, and ruined the world for hundreds of years, before the first pony was even born."
"How did they manage to do that?" Rainbow Dash asked, not interested in the history lesson, but still curious about what kind of power could wipe out an entire race.
"Nopony knows. But some scientists say it was a weapon brighter and more powerful than the sun." Rarity suddenly gasped.
"And Sweetie Belle was with one of those monsters?!" Rarity fell back, but her rapidly appearing fainting couch showed up, catching her.
"Well, it does say that not all humans are bad. There were many humans who helped others. The interesting thing is that they lived their entire life without magic. They only used technology, and theirs was centuries ahead of our own." Twilight's eyes sparkled at this interesting information.
"How can one survive without mag..." Rainbow was cut off by a pony bursting through the doors. All three mares looked over to see Mayor Mare with a panicked expression and what looked like a bright red blush between and under her eyes. Her coat seemed a little different than its usual tan shade.
"Princess Twilight! Something's wrong! Ponies are passing out left and right! And even the doctors are passing out! And....and..." The mayor fell down to the ground, her complexion becoming much more pale.
"Mayor!" all three ponies yelled, running over to the pony, whose breathing was already getting shallow and strange growths started to appear on her legs.
"I don't understand! What happened?!" Rarity exclaimed, putting some pillows under the mayor.
"She seemed to have contracted some sort of disease? I'm sorry, but I haven't read much on colds, flus, and diseases. But what was she talking...about..." Twilight trailed off, as she walked to the nearby window, and looked out, seeing the bodies of ponies laying on the ground. Some looked worse than others, as they were bleeding, and had massive swelling and various growths. There were several ponies running around, trying to help their neighbors, but many of them started to join the sick ponies as they fell down. "What in Equestria is happening!"
"I don't know, but this doesn't look good. Should we alert the princesses?" Rarity asked, walking over to Twilight.
"You're right. SPIKE!" There was a loud thump, and the sounds of running, as Twilight's dragon assistant quickly ran in.
"What's wrong, Twilight?!" ee yelled, noticing the passed out mayor.
"I need you to take a letter," Twilight said, trying to act calm for Spike, but was nevertheless still freaking out. Spike pulled out a scroll and a quill from his back. "Dear Princess Celestia. We need your help here in Ponyville. There seems to be some sort of disease spreading around rapidly, and ponies are dropping left and right. Please help! Sincerely, Princess Twilight."
Spike took a deep breath, and quickly exhaled, a green sparkling flame coming out of his mouth and burning the finished letter, where it turned into dust, and quickly flew away to Canterlot. When the letter was sent, Spike looked to the older mares, hoping for an answer to what was happening.
Twilight, seeing the young dragon who’s basically her brother getting worried, quickly trotted over to comfort him. “Twilight? What’s happening?”
Twilight looked over at her two friends with an unsure glance. “Well, we don’t know. We think it’s some kind of illness. Stay here, and we’ll go check it out.” Spike nodded, and the three mares walked over to the door.
Rarity stopped in her tracks, before opening the door. “Wait, what’s preventing us from getting the illness as well if we go out?”
Twilight blinked in surprise. “Oh! I’ll cast a health bubble, so make sure to stay close.” The two mares nodded and stood by Twilight’s side as her horn glowed with a purple hue, and a bubble formed around the group. As soon as the bubble formed, several small purple crosses floated around the bubble, representing the widely known medical spell sign.
Twilight took a gasp of breath. “I don’t know how long I can hold this. I’m not used to casting medical spells, so let’s solve this problem quickly.” Rainbow Dash gently opened the door, her usual reckless personality replaced with a careful persona, as she did not want to get sick like these other ponies. Especially if she got growths on her wings, and couldn’t use them anymore.
The three girls gasped at the sight of the town’s state. It looked completely different than it did just a few minutes ago when Twilight looked out of the window. All the ponies were on the ground, clearly affected by whatever illness was spreading. All three mares felt sick in their stomach as they saw the pools of blood beneath many of the ponies. Pegasi laid upon the ground, their wings outstretched, as they throbbed with tumors. Every unicorn had a bright red rash on their horns, with several small bumps, and their faces were contorted in pain. Each earth pony’s hooves were black and shriveled, as if all blood has been removed from that part of the body. Several bodies of children laid upon the ground, crying bloody tears, as their bodies had various other symptoms.
Twilight couldn’t take it any more, and emptied the contents of her stomach, which luckily fell out of the bubble so the three mares wouldn’t have to wade in vomit. Rarity was close to imitating Twilight, when a thought popped into her head.
“Sweetie Belle!” she screamed, and ran out of the bubble, much to the dismay of the two remaining mares.
“Wait, Rarity! It’s dangerous!” Twilight called out, but to no avail, as Rarity quickly disappeared after making a sharp turn.
“Quickly, Twi! We have to follow her!” Rainbow got behind her friend, and started pushing Twilight forward, until she finally decided to move on her own legs instead of being pushed.
The two mares quickly followed their best guess of where Rarity ran to, and noticed all the fallen ponies along the way. It didn’t take long for them to arrive at the sobbing body of Rarity, standing over the ill Sweetie Belle, while a surprisingly fine Applebloom tried to help.
When the mares got closer, they saw Rarity’s body being wracked with illness. Her once pristine skin was developing rashes and cysts, and her horn was swollen. Applebloom quickly noticed Twilight and Rainbow and ran over to them.
“Applebloom?! What are you doing out! You’re going to get sick!” Twilight exclaimed, and tried to get the small filly into the health bubble, but she just bounced off of it.
Applebloom shook her head. “I don’t think I will get sick, Twilight. It feels like I’m only sick from that disease Doctor John tried to cure me of.” Applebloom blinked in surprise. “Maybe we should get Doctor John’s help! He’s a doctor who helps ponies who are sick like this, so maybe he can help?!”
Twilight looked at Applebloom. “Now’s not the time for myths, Applebloom, Princess Celestia should be showing up soon, and she’ll be able to take care of it.”
“But Twilight!” Applebloom tried to object, but Twilight shushed her, and walked over to Sweetie Belle along with Rainbow, but before she could get there, a scream was heard coming from the left of the group. Everyone looked over to see an orange and blue blur and the sound of fast moving wheels. The blur quickly turned into a pale-looking Scootaloo who was riding a scooter that had lost its handle.
The scooter got even closer, and Scootaloo tried to stop it, but instead caused it to tumble, and it sent the young pegasus flying into Twilight’s health bubble, where she fell to the ground, unable to enter. The same couldn’t be said about the scooter. Twilight was focused more on Scootaloo, and wasn’t able to dodge the scooter, which slammed into Twilight’s hooves, causing her to fall down, her hooves having been moved from underneath her.
When Twilight hit the ground, she lost concentration on her spell, which quickly faded, and Twilight collapsed next to a sick Scootaloo, which quickly transmitted the same illness to the unicorn. The illness infected Twilight quicker than should be possible. Her horn became swollen, and she coughed up blood, as her organs started failing. Her body grew tumors, and her hind legs lost all blood to them.
Rainbow Dash quickly reacted once the bubble faded, and flew into the air, making sure to stay away from the sick ponies, no matter how much her instincts told her to help them. “Twilight! Come on! Get up! We need your help to save everypony! Twilight!”
“She’s not going to be able to get up, we need to get Doctor John!” Applebloom exclaimed, trying to get Rainbow Dash to listen to her.
Rainbow Dash looked down. “But even if what you’re saying is true, how do we know this ‘Doctor John’ will help? Twi said humans cared only about hurting others. And they have no magic, so how can this human help?”
“He just can! He helped me when I needed it. He’s got some strange control over stuff like this! He’s one of the nicest creatures I’ve ever met! Of course he’d help!” Applebloom tried to convince the pegasus.
Rainbow looked unsure for a few seconds, but when she heard the pained moans coming from her adoptive sister, she quickly made up her mind. “Where can I find this Doctor?”
Rainbow Dash was quickly flying over the Everfree Forest, looking for where Applebloom described. As she got deeper and deeper into the Everfree, she noticed a huge shimmer in between some trees near a bunch of destroyed ones. She decided to check it out, but before she could put on some extra speed, she had to stop in midair, and have a small coughing fit.
When she was done, she flew back over to where she remembered the shimmer was, and saw a dirty looking creature next to a giant dark fox. Hoping that this was the figure Applebloom described, she flew down, and the creature turned around, revealing a face with two blood red eyes.
The creature was surprised, and took a step backwards as it tried to process the flying pony. Rainbow snapped him out of it by asking a question. "You're the one who helped out Scootaloo, Applebloom, and Sweetie Belle the other day, right? The doctor?"
"Yeah..." the creature said, taking another step backwards.
Rainbow sighed. "I need you to come with me, Ponyville needs your help. Ponies are getting sick and falling all over."
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WHELP, this is where I quit. Shame, before you shoehorned that it I was looking forward to what happened next.
6598699 Your seriously leaving just because of that? I mean for fucks sake its bassically true xD
6598699 it was basically saying that Equestria was once Earth, but the humans had world war 3, nuking themselves, and the irradiated animals eventually became what is know known as Equestrian citizens, and the other countries' citizens as well. The reason why it's written down, is because they only have a vague idea of what really happened. I got the idea from Diaries of a Madman.
So, why are you quitting at that point?
6598780
Great, another misanthrope. Grow up you edgy teenager; I can have my own tastes and I happen to dislike the trope 'Earth all along'.
6598795
I hate the Earth All Along trope and misanthropy. Nothing against you, you seem like a decent writer.
Also, RADIATION DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
6598699 I hate to admit it...but it's really stupid for you to quit on a story just because they get a part of humanity's aspects right....
keep in mind I said part because
1)Only a part of it is mentioned here
2)Ponies are far from innocent themselves
3)We all know this guy is going to help
4)Historically Applebloom immunity could be associated to a similar stunt to how modern vaccines were originally created where a disease called cowpox ended up granting an immunity to smallpox...which just happened to be one of the hugest killers in the pre-industrial revolution and early industrial revolution era. Solving this should be no problem for someone who can manipulate microscopic organisms to such a goddamn fine control and has a fucking medical degree to boot.
6598780 My friend here does have a point. This is nothing to leave over, besides it probaly will never be mentioned again.
6598800 Oh. Well, in light of that evidence, I'm sorry if my other comment seemed rude. I should have considered the possibility that some people may not like that trope. If it's any consolation, that should be the only time it shows up. It's not a major or minor factor for what I have planned.
6598812
Yeah no. We're not a warrior race and we are not intentionally self-destructive. The point is, I'm quitting it because I can no longer enjoy this story, that's it. Honestly, what is your guy's problem with me having different tastes? I'm not asking him to change anything, I'm just expressing my displeasure and bowing out.
6598836 Well, that's your choice, and your opinion, and I respect that. Not everyone has to like the same kind of story.
6598821
It's alright, I can understand how my original comment may have looked; I'm probably not going to continue though. I'm the kind of reader that can't put that kind of thing out of my mind, even if it is only for that one line.
6598843
Thank you for understanding. You're actual lying being far more cordial than a lot of authors on this site.
I would note that two events one being "Able Archer 83", and "1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident" could have caused world war 3. No intention of destroying humanity required. One of them was, I think Russia expecting the US to use nuclear weapons and being prepared to press the button. The other was a malfunction in the detection equipment giving a false positive on such a launch. We are extremely lucky that bug didn't happen during that state of alertness.
There was no need for humans to be evil and violent and deciding to nuke the world, since we came terrifyingly close as is, in reality, with both sides, thinking they were launching retaliatory nukes
I read about this in another fanfic, and had to do some research. It is rather horrifying.
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As for warrier race, well, I find it hilarious how people treat the ponies as nonviolent and peaceful, then get offended when humans are stated as violent, when it clearly is a comparison. That this also frequently ignores the show itself which clearly shows them to be roughly equal in temperament to humans, is also amusing. Also you all ignored, like rainbow dash, the part where she stated that was more a generalization, and plenty of humans were peacful as well.
Warrior race is generally a relative term. You can only state it as a comparison to another race. Ponies, if portrayed as excessively peaceful and nonviolent, while absolutely view Humanity as a Warrior race. However, in something like common DND worlds, that won't be the case, because pretty much every race there are similarly warlike. The simple fact that Humanity has a history and is actively warlike to a larger extent than the race observing them qualifies them as such. Also, note that that is a historical book written about before a nuclear war destroyed humanity. Hence, any information would have to have been gained from remenents, which causes loss of accuracy. Worse, you might well conclude from the known fact that they used nuclear weapons to wipe themselves out (which is a common and misleading term, it should be wipe each other out) meaning that you start from the idea that they would end up doing that eventually. That would skew your view significantly.
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6598812
I note the disease attacks the primary magic channeler for each pony race.
This suggests that the disease is magical in nature, and that might well reduce the effectiveness of his power.
Worse, plagues can spread rather quickly, and frequently magical plagues in fiction (or this local reality) are even worse. Especially those that are easy to spread and take years to incubate, meaning they can spread to the entire population before they manifest.
We don't know if his powers would be fully effective on this possibly magic-based plague. We don't know if he will have fatigue issues. He seems to be able to prevent reinfection, so he would be able to go around and cure everyone one at a time, but that could cause a new problem. Being that he is a Plague master, and that one... Can't recall who tried to kill him, his... Spellcaster class... Might well be publicly known. More importantly, as one or more known entities who spread plagues in the past. That he is curing the plague, and based on the immunity addition, that might well cause people who are aware of others with that ability, would be suspicous.
They might think he caused it and is curing it to get goodwill, in order to do something evil later.
They might think whatever is is doing to make them immune is a trojan horse of some kind.
There might be another plague master around who created the bloody thing.
6598836 Ehh to be fair we kinda are...your comment just kinda sounded comparatively naive about what humanity is in fact capable of and actively trying to brush it off and well...it's not much your taste I'm calling into question here...I'm just don't like it when some quotes a reasonable description of humanity as a reason to stop reading a story.
6598800 im not a misanthrope :p
6598957 okay, the reason why the books say that humans were a war like race, was because there wasn't much evidence. I don't want to go into detail in my story, so kinda imagine it like archeologists found some ancient human journals (or maybe something like a book talking about all of our wars) that mentioned a lot of wars and they assumed from the limited evidence. This version of humanity that blew itself up could be an alternate reality of our own and John's. Maybe they were more aggressive, and had some different events (like maybe Hitler never rose to power, but someone else did). And they could have nuked each other years into the future, like around 2277 instead of 2015. I'm just saying these because the ponies have limited knowledge of whatever version of humanity was once on Equestria. They could have been complete monsters. I don't intend to flesh it out.
6599038 Indeed. I gave two different things that could have happened. It was fully possible, in real life, for us to have had a nuclear war in 1983, so it is rediculous to think that humanity isn't able to have a full scale nuclear war.
Second, Historical data has extreme limitations, so yea, that is quite possible.
Also, I was most certainly not objecting at all to the portrayal. If anything, I object to the portrayal of ponies as excessively peacelike when the show clearly shows otherwise.
6598962
And there's where we differ, I am a humanist and an optimist. My opinions on humanity are formed via my research and life experiences, good and bad. In my opinion, that is not a valid description. I am many things, but I am not naive. I've seen our darker side, I've lost friends to that darkness, but I've seen far more good in us as a species.
6598983
Then you come across as one.
6599055
Well, this is just my two cents, but to cause a nuclear apocalypse it doesn't matter if as a whole humanity is good or bad. If enough "bad"s get into positions of power it won't matter if the city that they nuked was more good than bad. It is a little like that phrase "A single rotten apple spoils the whole bunch," or however it goes. In the end, it only takes one whacko with access to nuclear launch codes to make a huge dent in the worldwide population. And if we talk in hypotheticals, what if multiple countries have this happen, or all the countries have this happen?
I understand that this all comes down to what your personal preference for the story is, but I feel that I have to weigh in on this.
6599338
If a nuclear war was going to happen, it would have happened during the Cold War. It's just not worth it to go nuclear, especially since the bulk of the world's stockpiles are nearly 50 years old. Which just so happens to be when nukes become unreliable to use.
6599379
All I am saying is that you NEVER know how crazy people can get. For all we know a year from now a super popular religion starts up that gets the entire world to believe that the only path to heaven is to be atomized by a nuclear blast.
Of corse, that sort of thing happening is virtually impossible, but if one person in power really gets it into their head to kill a bunch of people, it doesn't matter if it is nukes, or napalm, or an army of well armed followers. People will die. One truly evil person in power can kill a lot of people before they are stopped.
6599432
What you're saying would require SO much to go right and wrong that I would say that it is statically so improbably that for all intents and purposes it is impossible. Despite what you see on the news, we live in the most peaceful and progressive period in human history.
I will never understand doomsday views and people that believe we are heading for a dystopia. They just don't make logical sense with the facts before me.
6600032 did you read the full description of the story? The first two chapters were me trying to figure out what character the audience wanted compared to the more Gary stu (or is it sue? I keep forgetting) character from the next three chapters.
6599713 may I ask what you mean? Do you think I'm doing something wrong? Because it would make sense for the story to be turning darker as it progresses due to the nature of the Plague Inc game.
6599055 Humanity has its faults but it has also done really great things, such as after Nepal we all banded together to help the survivors.
Huh. So, there aren't going to be any diseases from earth showing up like the Black Plague, or the "disease" called The Rot, or measles, or E. Coli? Just the occasional bout of anarchobacteria which survive in places nothing else can? Alright. Any way, I prefer the interpretation of us nuking our selves to death to have some accuracy. We can irradiate the entire planet to lethal levels fifteen times over. As in, nothing bigger than a virus and cockroaches survive on the entire planet, then life begins anew. They can find remnants, sure, but nothing detailed beyond fossils, a few incredibly durable pieces of tech, and maybe a buried book wrapped in plastic in a rust resistant metal box covered by a layer of lead then a layer of reinforced concrete then another layer of lead.
6600307 I didn't say that there aren't going to be earth diseases. The disease attacking ponyville in an equestrian disease, but there might be some of our diseases showing up.
6600327 Most of those diseases are species specific. Namely, humans. Other species can be carriers, but few are similar enough to catch the disease. For example, I am not worried in the slightest about mad cow disease. Not when there is a disease we can get from mussels that literally erases your memories until you die. Hence why I say there are three professions you don't upset, doctors, bartenders, and cooks.
and then after he helps, they will think he caused it and be chased out of ponyville and villainized for ever!
more please!
i like this story keep it up ninja
Wouldn't it be horrible if the doctor learned that by curing applebloom he caused a new sickness? With her as a carrier for it.
6598821 You don't worry about if people don't like a trope, people have different tastes and you can't cater to everyone.
6599470 To me, people are afraid, and the public has just enough of an understanding on the subject to know that the security theatre propaganda they pushed during the cold war ain't worth jack shit(besides atom ant, gotta love the little guy[and those short on boomerang they used to play about atom ant, the one where they use that magazine cut out style and clips from the black and white education videos]) but not enough to know that the chances of a nuclear war is a lot lower relative to cold war times. Not to mention the globally felt fear of when WWIII was an itchy finger away, that was passed down the ages as we are rightfully adamant to never forget. Than theirs this,
which is more or less accepted as fact. I'll be the first to admit, man ain't morally clean, but their morals we set in the first place. People aren't misantropic, they're trying to act selfaware cause they think it makes them look smart. They accept this^ but seem to forget about this,
and the fact that the only thing stopping other animals from doing the exact same thing is that they aren't smart enough and we got to it first. Man has it fucks ups, but we're still at the top of food chain.
6598795 I'm with the red shirt on this(I wish to never say that again.) That is not how radiation works. And it's not how it works in the story you were inspired by They were actively created by the last humans, who went the fallout route and started living underground. It ended as well for them as it did for most of the people in fallout shelters. They were created by advanced science and a healthy load of spite towards the one out for them. Hence civilization 2.0, and then more Discord.
And even in Diares of a Madman, we didn't just off ourselves, it was caused by the literal embodiment of Conflict and his damn drawn out plan that led to the last great war. I know you kept it vague but I would really like to know where the hell they got this information from. If things are going how you explained it then their honestly shouldn't be anything left of our records to point to that. The only thing I can think of is a biased witness that couldn't care less about the surface monkeys. (I'm looking at you Spike!)
6601589
I didn't say that most people were misanthropic, nor did I mean to imply it.
Look, I honestly didn't expect my original comment to become a such big deal. Can we just move on? This whole thing started because I stated an opinion that was apparently controversial and someone with a contrary, and from my perspective misanthropic, opinion replied.
6601589 I'll think about perhaps having John question that logic later. He'd probably not buy it that humanity offed itself.
6601629 Yeah sure
6601394 probably not he made a thing only for helping ponies not killing
6600327
maybe he saw this chapter as a bit rushed
which it is, but we are talking about absurd diseases here, so it can be excused
maybe try with longer chapthers?
6601846 also im pretty sure thats not how logic works plauges cant realy control shit but randomnly evolves like somtimes in plauge inc. but thats your doing
6599379 Honestly, there would probably be enough working still that it wouldn't even matter if some didn't.
6602083
No one knows for sure which ones still work because the best way to test them is also illegal.
Short and cruel, hell, I'd have trouble even thinking about writing something like this. It's human, and it makes you feel as pressured as the event, I say good work powering through it.
6601714 When is the next chapter coming out.
6603370 I dunno. Whenever I write it and get it edited I guess.
6601599 There is a vast difference between irrational anger and murderous hatred.
6602201 But if nuclear war breaks out, enough will be launched that it won't even matter.
6611652
Kid, the probability of nuclear war breaking out can be expressed as the limit as time approaches infinity equals zero.
6611758 I know that nuclear war will probably never happen. I'm saying if it breaks out.
6614346
Ugh, then what is your damn point? You've dragged this damn thing out long enough.
6614373 Sorry about that. We can leave it now.