Moonlight poured down into Equestria illuminating Canterlot down below. The streets of the capital was silent for not a single soul made sound. A rainbow colored portal suddenly appeared as Fandom walked out with Asriel behind him. The portal vanished leaving the two in the silent streets of Canterlot.
"So this is it," said Fandom.
"Yeah but it's awfully quiet, I would've expected at least one Necro Beast to be wandering around," said Asriel.
"Let's go walk around to see if we can find anyone," suggested Fandom. The two began strolling around to see if they could find anyone but only silence filled the streets. They had encountered several fresh corpses of ponies with colorless grey coats with empty eye sockets and gaping mouths lying on the ground twitching as they moaned. "Geez they're like zombies," said Fandom.
"Perhaps someone already took care of them?" suggested Asriel.
"Yeah but who would have enough determination to stand up to these creeps?" asked Fandom. Asriel suddenly placed her paw over his mouth.
"Do you hear that?" whispered Asriel. Fandom listened closely and sure enough, somewhere n the distance the sounds of slashing flesh could be heard. "Let's go check it out," said Asriel. Fandom followed after her as she led the two towards the noise. The two raised their guards as they slowly approached the sound. They quickly hid behind a nearby building and peeked out to see a blue mare in black armor swinging a large scythe as a horde of Necro Beasts surrounded her. She had a white crescent moon mark on her flank and her mane and tail was the same color as the night sky.
"Is that?" asked Fandom.
"Yes, it must be the one that took down those Necro Beasts we ran into earlier," answered Asriel. Fandom watched as the mare dropped her scythe as she gasped. She had been badly injured and looked exhausted. "She needs to get out of there," said Asriel.
"Either that or we go out," said Fandom.
"Wait what?" asked Asriel. She watched as Fandom stepped out and walked over to the mare. She watched as Fandom approached the mare.
"Hey assholes!" Fandom called out to them. The mare and the horde of Necro Beasts turned their attention towards Fandom. "Why don't you go picking someone your own size?"
"A human!?" gasped the mare. Suddenly one of the beasts lost interest in the mare and began walking towards Fandom.
"Hmm nice try, but wrong answer," said Fandom. He held out his hand as a fireball ignited in the palm of his hand. The beast let out a deep growl and charged at Fandom. Asriel yelped and covered her eyes, but Fandom swiftly dodged the beast's clamping jaws and kicked it away knocking it back. He thrusted his hand forward as the fireball flew into the beast setting it ablaze. The beast growled as it tried to escape the flames but Fandom slowly picked it up using his telekinesis and hurled the beast into a nearby fountain. "Boom bitch," snickered Fandom. The horde immediately turned their focus on Fandom and slowly began approaching him avoiding the mare. "So that's how you wanna play it," Fandom got into battle stance ready to take on the horde when suddenly a shower of stars rained down on the horde sending them flying in every direction. Confused Fandom looked behind him as Asriel ran up to him.
"You didn't forget about me did you?" asked Asriel.
"I'm glad you're my friend," laughed Fandom. The dust cleared as the horde was found scattered around the area. "Geez trying to take my portion of fun?" asked Fandom.
"Sorry, guess I overdid it," apologized Asriel blushing.
"Hey uh thanks for that," said the mare walking up to them.
"Don't thank us, we're just doing what's right," said Fandom.
"I am Princess Luna, princess of the night," said the mare.
"Fandom, and this my friend Asriel Dreemurr," said Fandom. The three looked behind them to find the Necro Beasts slowly regenerating.
"Ugh these things," growled Luna.
"Princess do you know any place we can hide?" asked Fandom.
"Afraid not, these things are everywhere," answered Luna.
"Let's head back to the lab for now," suggested Asriel.
"Princess get close we're getting out of here," said Fandom. Luna looked as Asriel huddled next to Fandom and decided not to ask questions. Luna scooted up next to them while still facing the Necro Beasts. Fandom closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"Teleport to lab," said Fandom. Before she knew it, Luna found herself standing in front of a small building she didn't recognize.
'Where are we?" asked Luna.
"Somewhere safe that's for sure," answered Fandom. He waited as Asriel tapped on the keypad and opened the door.
"This way," said Asriel. Luna hesitantly followed the two into the building.
"Too early to be coming here don't you think?" asked Nexus. Luna looked over to see another human wearing a white lab coat over a grey shirt.
"Sorry Nexus, we had a Necro Beast problem over there," said Fandom.
"And so you came running back?" asked Nexus sipping tea from his cup.
"Look, we found someone and she isn't in good condition," said Fandom. "It wouldn't hurt to let her rest up,"
"Alright you've convinced me," said Nexus.
"Um sorry to interrupt but can somebody explain to me what's going on?' asked Luna. So Fandom, Asriel, and Nexus took turns explaining the situation to Luna.
"And that's pretty much the core of it," said Asriel. Luna leaned her Scythe against the railing as she wiped off a bead of sweat from her forehead with a handkerchief.
"This is hard to believe," said Luna.
"Hard to believe or not, it's the truth," said Nexus.
"So do you know where these remaining six souls are?" asked Luna.
"No, but we better find them fast before Zalgo decides to take this up to a whole new level," answered Asriel.
"We of course will be going back out there, but what about you?" asked Fandom. Luna thought about it for a moment. If what these three are saying is true, then this Zalgo is not a force to be trifled with. He may not be doing anything at the moment, but she couldn't just sit around and wait for someone to take care of this mess. Her sister was in trouble and if this Zalgo was behind all this then she certainly couldn't just stand around.
"Alright I'll go," said Luna.
"Well then I suggest you take a break before you go back out there," said Nexus. "You're going to want to rest up and nobody can fight on an empty stomach," Nexus walked down the ramp and onto the floor beneath them as Fandom, Asriel, and Luna followed after him. He was right, Fandom was starving and he couldn't fight without eating anything.