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// Epilogue 
// Story: The Resurrectionists 
// by Captain_Hairball 
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The screen flickers with static, then the view solidifies into a view of the floor of a dark laboratory. Puddles of water and blood glisten on the floor, Skanky’s corpse lies in a corner, peaceful in its repose.



“It’s on! It’s on! How do I move it? Do I just…”

“I think we can manifest protoplasm.”

The camera’s view jerks, showing the ceiling, then a stool, then settling on to show the far wall of the room. Two pale figures wait there — a pegasus and an earth pony, flickering and pale, but visible.

“Got it!”

“Can they really see us on this?” asks the pegasus.

“Wait I’ll flip the screen around so you can see,” says a voice from off-screen.

“Whoa,” say the earth pony and the pegasus.

“Hi, mom!” says the earth pony, waving her hoof. “Wait, that’s in really bad taste. I’m sorry I died. I didn’t want to!”

“Yeah. Mom. Dad. I miss you!” says the pegasus.

“Don’t get too sentimental. We can swing by and haunt them later,” says a unicorn with bat wings, trotting into the frame. “Okay. So. I don’t know how much of what happened is going to be covered up by the government, or the school, but we wanted to say goodbye. We also wanted to tell whoever finds this that all my videos about Eternal Enigma’s experiments are on my laptop and some USB drives in my room. My password is ‘G0REL0VER666’, all caps, with zeros instead of ‘o’s. If you don’t release it to the press, I will haunt you, your children, and your children’s children. Just so you know. Oh, also, while you’re in there, if you could do me a solid and delete all of the porn, that’d be great.”

“Like, We don’t want to be jerks, but we’re serious about the haunting thing,” says the earth pony. “Also we wrote up some notes about what happened to us in the afterlife and manifested them on Skanky’s hard drive. Being a ghost is kind of cool.”

“Luna told me that technically we’re ‘eternal dreamers’,” says the pegasus.

“I don’t know about you, but I’m a Death Goddess,” says the unicorn.

“Anyway,” says the earth pony, waving them both down, “manifesting, even for the camera, is really hard, so we’ve gotta go soon. But we really are sorry about dying. Seriously it’s not that terrible for us, but I know it’s gonna suck for the ones we’ve left behind.”

“Yeah,” says the unicorn. “We miss you all. But we’re gonna go look for Hearth’s birth mother now.”

“See you arond,” says the pegasus, waving.



One by one, the ponies get up and walk through the wall behind them.

The video continues running until the camera runs out of batteries.