The Four Ponies of the Apocalypse

by JebtheDBAGpony


Pestilence and Death

Twilight drew back the curtain at the hospital to reveal the long lines of sick people, vomiting into buckets, coughing up blood, or just plain passed out.

"What the heck is going on here!?" Twilight asked.

"We dont know..." Nurse Redheart said highly concerned. "All of a sudden we just get a bunch of call from random locations saying that people were coming in extremely sick."

Twilight walked through the corridor looking at all the sick people laying in the beds, nurses and doctors rushing to see if they can find some way to ease their pain.

"Do you know where it came from?" Twilight asked Nurse Redheart.

"Unfortunately no..." She walked over to one other person who was passed out in the bed, her breathing was very forced and hard. "The disease just came out of nowhere, and a large amount of Ponyville has been needed to be shipped out to other hospitals...."

"How many exactly?" Twilight asked.

"Well...." Nurse Redheart hesitated. "About 50%...."

Twilight's jaw dropped. "50%?!"

Redheart nodded, looking at the other people in pity. "I just don't understand how such a large number of people could all just get sick at once....."

Twilight thought for a minute. She remembered about the tale of Pestilence. How when pestilence rode into city they were suddenly struck with a plague that would kill thousands of people. It seemed ridiculous at first but now she was wondering... Twilight excused herself from the hospital and ran home to her tree house to pick up the Book of Revelation. She quickly grabbed the book and looked for any specific symptoms of Pestilence's disease but it was hopeless. Pestilence could create any type of disease any time she wanted, there was no way of telling if it WAS her.

Twilight sighed, closed the book and walked outside. Once outside she saw a green haired woman sitting on a white motorcycle waiting for her on the street.

"Hey twilight!" The woman shouted to her.

Twilight raised an eyebrow and wondered how this woman knew her. She took a close look at the green haired woman as she walked up. As Twilight approached she could smell something awful coming from the girl. She saw flies whirl around her and a centipede crawled across her gut next to a cockroach. The woman grabbed the cockroach from her body and popped it into her mouth. Twilight could here the crunching as she got closer.

"Yes?" Twilight asked, resisting the urge to vomit.

The woman just grinned at Twilight, pulled a crossbow out of her brown leather jacket and pointed it at Twilight's gut.

"Get well soon~" The woman pulled the trigger and the arrow buried itself in Twilight's stomach.

Twilight gasped as the arrow flew into her and stumbled back, falling to the concrete. She coughed blood which spilled onto the pavement and looked up at the woman who had just shot her. She grinned as she started up her white motorcycle and drove off, leaving a trail of stench along her path. A man quickly made his way over to Twilight and called out for somebody to get help. Just as twilight was hauled away, she saw a woman dressed in a black robe, her hood up, glowing white eyes, and a scythe, sitting on a pale motorcycle. She looked at the man who had earlier saved Twilight, went up and touched him on the shoulder and walked off. The man didn't seem to notice her touching his shoulder, but he sure as hell noticed when the truck bashed into his side, killing him almost immediately.