//------------------------------// // Enter the Mad Zone // Story: The Last Human in Equestria // by XxSkullCandyxX //------------------------------// Chapter 48: Enter the Mad Zone Morgan was getting his weapons ready in the main room of his apartment. He loaded his guns as he knows that the royal guards of Celestia will come back. He straps himself with a sun machine gun on his right side of his back, a shotgun on the left side of his back, two hand gun strapped on his laps, and two large combat knives strapped on his waist. He looks at the reflection of shattered glass to see his own tired face with armor on his upper body. He begins to wonder when this will stop. His moral has slightly change of hating certain ponies instead of all ponies. He never had thought he would survive for more than three years, yet here he was with pony and changeling allies after he battling them, timberwolves liking him after he battle them just for food, and slowly becoming sane. Not only that, but finally found a way to cure any humans who has become ponies thanks to research resulting in Lily. There has been many time he would often lose his mind and thought of a dark idea. Yet, he was still stand for all mankind. "Morgan, are you alright?" asked Natalie, who was slowly approaching her husband. "I'm good, but I never thought I got to see you again," he response with a tear in his eye. "Not only that, but I have allies that would have been enemies if they didn't give me a chance to explain myself. These princesses have fooled everyone and alter their reason for erasing the humanity." "But now we are getting strong," Natalie hugged him for comfort. "We have striven after what they did and now we will get them back." "You're right my dear. We have hidden from them and survived, but I want to live a normal life as I can. I want to feel peace before I'm gone, not alerted." Morgan face his wife again before he places a hand on her cheeks and lean forward for a kiss. Natalie allow his lips to touched hers, feeling eased and enjoyment she remembers before chaos has arrive from the ponies three years ago. They release their kiss after a few seconds and look at each other with love and care. "Natalie," Morgan whispers. "Yeah Morgan?" she answered with a calming tone. "Do you know how to transfer magic on to a living subject?" he asked. "I don't know Morgan. I haven't tried that. Why you asked?" "Celestia and Luna are too powerfully for an individual to face. Their magic and power are far beyond strong, but I can figure out how to harness equal power. I already the speed of a pegasus, so if I tried to practice using it to do more than just going fast, then I could find a way to use magic by getting a sample." Natalie looked at her husband in disbelieve. She has never heard or seen a normal human using magic from ponies before. Maybe it was a stretch, yet she believes Morgan knows what he's doing. She has seen him use the powers of Rainbow Dash, but using other powers from different type of ponies might be too much. "You think it will work?" she asked him with some concern. "I know it will work. I need to use a sample and find a way to mix it so it will be safe for me to transfer its powers onto myself," he explains. Natalie look at him once again before she sighs and use her aura and give a small part of it towards Morgan. The former scientist uses a clear two-liter bottle to put the aura in. he looks at the color of his wife's power and smile in glee. This was getting him closer to be ready for the incoming war. "Thank you my dear, now I need to go with the ponies and the changelings to confront Lexington," he said as he places the bottle on to the chess table. "Watch this for me Caesar." Natalie felt sad that Morgan's company was a statue, but it kind of help him from keeping some sanity that was there. She walks to the statue and pet it on the head. Morgan chuckled seeing his wife getting along with his friend. "Make sure you gather everything from this hide out and then meet us at the Santa Monica beach. I have a location we can hide." "Alright dear, and be careful," she said as she forms a portal behind her husband. "I will," he answered before he enters the portal. He looks back to see his wife wave at him with her sweet smile before the portal closes. He turns back to see Twinkle Sparkles and her finds and Queen Chrysalis with her army and Lily besides her. They were located at the same hills the mutants were currently hiding based on what Morgan remembers when he was taken in. "Good job guys, you found Lexington hideout!" he cheered. "But we need to plan how to approach them." "What has happened to these mutants. I never seen them before," Queen Chrysalis asked. "They were the left over from the serum," Twilight answers, but she felt guilty. "Seeing them made me regret working with Celestia's plan. I thought this was for the greater good for our world." "It was a tragedy, but we can help them get better, although they seem out of it because of the serum's effect on them," Morgan warns them. "So I need Chrysalis to have a small squad to get info from the inside. I see how they can shape shift, so we can use them to see what they will do next." "It might seem good on paper, but my changeling need love energy from one of the mutants to allow them to change into them," the queen of the changelings explains. "Oh right, I almost forgot about that. I'm still trying to understand the function of a changeling," Morgan explained. "Still, we can use that to our advantage." "It might work, we can get the changelings to sneak up the defenses and then we can make our way in," Twilight agreed to the plan. "Now, I'll help them get to where they capture me," Morgan refers as he got ready to lead a small army of changeling. "I just hope Lexington hasn't done anything crazy." Morgan walk towards a small group of changelings. They were with Lily, who was trying to make them happy, yet they weren't focusing on her. When he looks closely, some kind of look afraid. It was strange to see something like that based from his perspective of surviving one of the darkest moments in his life. He can relate to them in a way. Maybe it was the fact that their world has change from his arrival, just like how his world was changed when the ponies came o existence. It was like everything was coming in full circle, for it was in a way ironic. "It's alright," he spoke with sincerity as he stands besides Lily. "No matter what happens after this, I'll make sure nothing bad will happen to you or Chrysalis. We could live together and have a functional society that doesn't discriminant other species. We can fully understand one other and finally make sense in this twisted world. It may look grim, but there is some happiness to this. And when we get there, it will be gorgeous." The changelings were starting to feel much better. Morgan's words were inspiring and care free. And in a way, it sounds like he actually does care for them. Like he was doing this out of... love. They start to feel a power within them to gain confidence. The rest of the group were in awe of this human's words. Fluttershy felt like a human's compassion was not like anything she has ever since. Applejack and Rainbow Dash was respecting this human more than ever after their first terrible encounter. And Rarity knew there was some class from Morgan. Twilight and Chrysalis understand that Morgan was giving the changelings what they needed to move forward with their plan. Lily clap her hands seeing her father figure making everything better. "Now, let start to move. We can't time any longer." Twilight pointed out, with Morgan nodding in agreement. "Before we do, I need Lily to come with me." "Me?" Lily asked, being unsure why Morgan needs her at this very important matter. "But why father?" "You see Lily, Lexington needs to see you to believe," Morgan explains. "He doesn't understand a person like me can create a person like you. That's why you are going to be important to what we are going to do from here on out." "O-Okay dad," Lily reply as she stood next to him. When Morgan lead the group of 5 changelings and Lily with him to the hole he crashes in to, they enter one by one. He was the last to enter looking back at the ponies he made allies with, the queen of changelings and the rest of her subjects. He was going to be the one to confront Lexington with Lily by his side. The changelings will sneak their way to let the rest of the group get in the underground they could conceive the mutants to join them one last time, for better or for worse. He can still help them from their lost touch of reality and possibly cure them from their mutation. He might be over thinking this, but when he saw Lexington, he can see a person who has lost everything. Similar to Morgan, Lexington has plan and move his way to survive. But now, Morgan will help Lexington to live instead of survive. "Alright you guys, let's stay hidden and make sure you don't get caught," Morgan whispers. "We will meet back here in 10 minutes. From those minutes, observe what they are doing and what plans they have in mind. We can't look away what action they might take next." The small group split up, with Morgan now holding a hand gun to be ready to face a man who may have lost all sense of sanity. Lily was behind her surrogate father, feeling a bit afraid for Morgan to walk in through the dark ground. It wasn't bright and warm like up where ponies and Morgan live. This place was cold, shallow, and dark like a void. This was not the world she was born in, so in her perspective this was no place for anyone to live in. This was sad to her knowing there much more things out up in the world she was born in. "D-Dad?" Lily asked with a whimper. "What is going to happen with people that looks like mom?" Morgan pause for a bit before he answers, "Well Lily, they're sick. They're sick with a twisted believe in a bomb. A bomb is a bad thing we humans were too power hungry to think of the consequences. So, I want to help them get better so they don't cause any problems." Lily nods her head in agreement. By the way Morgan was describing this bomb thing she was hearing now, it does sounds dangerous. Too dangerous to exist, yet her human guardian has been here in the world longer than she has. She knows that he wouldn't lie to her. He was trustworthy and kind to her. The two humans continue to move forward, not know what was going to take place. Meanwhile Lexington observed his fellow mutants to get the bomb ready. He uses his power to levitate a glass of old wine in front of him. He took a taste of the liquid that was bitter but natural to numb the madness he and everyone else in the underground has suffer. It was insane to use what was once consider the most powerful weapon human has ever created. This was the same weapon that causes many lives during the last days of World War II. But what else can Lexington can do at this point. The human that he thought was going to help them has pony allies. The world he used to remember is now gone. What he got to lose? "Sir Lexington, where should we send this bomb?" asked one of the members. "We should send it to the major pony location. That's where we will weaken those monsters and take them out without their acknowledgement," Lexington explains before taking another sip of his wine. "Then they will understand how terrified and confused we were from their betrayal." "Yes sir!" said the member before he went off the assist the rest of the magic users to levitate the bomb. Lexington continues to watch as his army was preparing their own attack on the ponies they once thought was harmless. This was going to be their comeback to take their righteous home back.