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// The End (Bad Ending) 
// Story: One Bad Apple 
// by The Blue EM2 
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There was no stopping them now. The portal was now open. General Harrison surveyed his work with pride. All those years of being regarded as a crackpot, finally redeemed. 

He turned to Brian. “Good. That’s one less loose end to worry about.” 

By the time anybody realised he had a gun in his hand, it was too late. 

The  bullets fired from said gun punched through Brian’s shoulder and  stomach. She was thrown onto the floor and lay there, bleeding. 

“What the fuck?” she gasped. “I was on your side!” 

Harrison  shook his head. “I guess you are more like the Apples than you  thought,” he said mockingly. “You’re so honest, you can’t tell when  somebody’s telling a lie.” 

He  stepped away. “I give Brian around 3 minutes to bleed out, which is  plenty of time for her to consider whether any of this was worth it.” 



Alex appeared suddenly, having escaped containment, and used her ki magic to blow open the containment chambers. However, her magic was unable to reverse the changes to Kurt. 

“That was no cure!” she said angrily. “It’s killing Kurt, and furthermore I cannot stop it.” 

“Ya mean?” Apple Bloom asked, her eyes watering. 

“Don’t you worry about that,” Kurt said. “We have your cousin to worry about.” 



They ran over to Brian’s dying form. She was heaving air in as best she could. 

“What...are you idiots...doing here?” she gasped. “Get...after him...and stop him!” 

Kurt put pressure on Brian’s wound, whilst Alex did her best to try and heal her. But it was no use. 

“The damage is too severe,” the mouse-like creature informed them. “I can’t save her.” 

Brian spoke one last time. “Keep going...and stop him. I am spent.” 

With that, her head rolled to one side, and all was silent. 



“What are we gonna do?” Big Mac asked. 

Kurt looked back. “We go after Harrison...and we kill the bastard.” 

The team set off, heavy of heart and intent on their purpose. But behind them, in the room, Dr Maynard was up to something. 



Kurt  had grabbed a pistol from a table nearby, and was sure he could use it.  They staggered into the control room, and found Harrison was busy  packing up everything and anything. 

Mac  set up with an LMG, and immediately opened fire. The soldiers opened  fire themselves, and fanned out in order to avoid being hit. 

Kurt pushed up the middle and fired upon Harrison, who returned in kind. They closed upon each other. 

There was the portal. Suddenly, a tendril shot out of it, filling Kurt with energy and restoring him to Ashley. 

“Well, that’s convenient!” Harrison laughed. “Talk about a deus ex-” 

Suddenly, he was hit by a shotgun blast. There, was Brian. 

“Brian, what’re ya doin’?” asked Ashley. 

The anthro looked at her cockily. “The name’s Babs,” she said. 

“Don’t kill him Babs, it won’t achieve nothin’,” Ashley told her. 

“Yes, that’s right, just go and obey orders. Do as your cousin tells you.” The general laughed. “Act as yourself.” 

Babs had two choices; follow her own heart, or do as she was told. 

It must have taken her all of 3 seconds to decide. 

She pulled the trigger. Harrison was sent flying and to his death at the bottom of the gantry. 

Ashley ran over to the computer and punched some buttons. No result. 

“Ah can’t shut the portal,” she said. “NATO is pouring through at an unstoppable rate. We’ve failed.” 

“Come on!” Ayumi shouted. “Extraction is waiting!” 

They  ran to another portal, and emerged in Australia, knowing that two  worlds were locked in a state of war, with nothing to end it all. Both  Earth and Equestria were doomed.