“Why in the hell do I keep dreaming of horror games?!?” I think to myself, running from some zombie dogs through a police station.
I quickly opened a door on my left, slamming it shut on a dog's face. Taking a moment to catch my breath, I took a look around the room I was in, recognizing the room in an instant, the East Office. It was the big room with the multiple desks and the chief’s room over to the left corner in the back of the room.
Quickly locking the door behind me, I dash toward the chief's room, hoping for a shotgun to be in there. I shut the chief’s door behind me when I got in there, not risking any ‘rotting’ surprises. I quickly searched the desk, finding a decently sized handgun with a box of bullets and a combat knife inside. Finding the holster for the gun, I put it on and put the gun away, deciding to use the knife on the normal zombies I find.
“Sweet! A back pack.” I grab the pack from under the desk, throwing the ammo in and putting it on.
“Grrrrr!” A dog growled from behind the door I first shut, grabbing my attention for a moment.
“Gotta get outta here…… Maybe the safe rooms are here? I could ride out the dream until I wake up.” I mutter to myself, holding onto the knife with a death grip. “Let's just hope I don't run into any Lickers on the way. I freaking hate those guys!”
I took the back exit out of the room, the door leading outside to a fenced off enclosure and some stairs leading up to the second floor. Some zombies noticed me and started to bang on the chain link fence, making me feel a little nervous about what else is out there. I slowly climbed the stairs and went inside, intent on going to the interrogation room, seeing as I remember finding a shotgun once near there.
I was greeted with the sounds of zombies groaning when I entered, causing me to ready my knife in anticipation. Suddenly, a rip in the air formed next to me, a familiar blue alicorn walking out of it with a frown on her face.
“-Are thou alright? Thou seems to be experiencing a nightmare.-” She spoke up, gaining the zombies attention. They slowly limped around the corner of the hallway, Luna’s eyes widening in fear at the sight of them. “-U-Undead!?! Thou has seen such horrors?!?-” She screeched, a scythe appearing next to her, it decapitating the two in a quick motion.
“Oh, thank god! Come on, get me outta here with your dream sorcery!”
“-Alright, young one. Let's go.-” Her horn glowed, fizzling out seconds later. “-Hmm…. It seems we are trapped here, until we can defeat the source of thou’s nightmare.-”
“No, don't let your magic fail now! I don't want to be here when those two freaks show up! I know that the both of them are here!”
Luna wrapped a wing around me, cooing softly. “-It's alright, young one. Thou are under the protection of the night princess, no need to be afraid.-”
Sighing, I back away from her and walk in the direction the zombies came, Luna following behind with her scythe. After some wandering and zombie slaughtering, we came upon the S.T.A.R.S office, making me almost squeal in excitement. I opened the door….. Only to see Mr. Tall dark and scary himself staring right at me.
“Stars……”
“Nope.” I slowly shut the door on him and ran away.
Luna frowned and moved to open the door, only to get a solid boot to the face and get launched through the wall. Hearing the crash, I only ran faster, intent on leaving this place and escaping that monster.
“She’ll be fine, he's more interested in me.” I assure myself, taking a turn and ramming into something solid.
“Grrrrr……” A familiar monster stared down at me, the large eye on its shoulder blinking down at me.
“Damnit! It’s Birkin!” I scream, the mutated monster lifting me up with one arm. “Hey, uh, you aren't going to….. Do your whole ‘egg’ thing are ya? I'd rather not carry your young.” I say to him, the freak sniffing my face.
“Stars!” We hear Nemesis scream, tremors indicating how close he was.
“So….. Uh, how about you put me down and protect me?” I hopefully ask, Birkin growling in response. “I thought so…..” I rammed the knife into his shoulder eye, causing him to drop me in pain and cover my arm in eye goop and blood.
I quickly released the knife, running past him and into the foyer of the police station. I guess Luna was kicked pretty hard, to the other side of the recently broken statue, her scythe embedded into the wall next to her unconscious body.
“Stars!”
“Grrrraaaaaaa!”
I heard the two freaks fighting in the hall, the whole building shaking in the sheer epic scale of their fight. I quickly dashed over to Luna, intent on waking her up. With a few slaps to her face, I woke her up and dragged her outside, looking for the gun shop.
“Gonna need a more than a shotgun for this crap.”
“-Uuuhhhh, what hit me?-” A groggy Luna asked, following me with a noticeable limp. “-That……. thing was no undead.-” She muttered to herself as I lead her around some slow zombies, keeping an eye out for anything that might be faster than a standard zombie.
I spotted some lickers hanging near the rooftops, seeming to wearily observe us, their tongues hanging out as they hissed in our direction. Luna wisely kept her mouth shut when she saw them, only sparing a moment to stare back before stomping a crawling zombie’s head open with a hoof, the lickers running away in fear.
It took seemingly forever until I found the shop, the arsenal inside being visible through the front window. I opened the door and ushered Luna inside, a curious expression on her face. She sat down behind the counter, taking a few deep breaths to calm herself.
“-Thou are lucky…. Thou can't be hurt physically in the dream realm, we can.-” She spoke up, looking at her injured leg with a frown. “-And, thanks to whatever reason, we can't leave until the source is gone.-”
“Here, take these.” I passed her a grenade launcher and whatever shells I could find, it loaded with acid rounds. “That'll do some damage, just pull the trigger.” I motion to the trigger, miming an explosion and something dying.
“-Some kind of bomb launcher? No need, we have or faithful blade; Moonshine.-” She passed it back, her scythe appearing next to her in a flash. “-It cuts through nightmares like they are smoke.-”
I shrug and pack the launcher and shells. “More ammo for me.”
A few dream minutes later.
I had packed the backpack with pretty much everything it could hold, about three packs of shotgun shells, a grenade launcher with six packs of explosive rounds and three packs of acid rounds, and the rest of the space was filled with assault rifle ammo.
I pretty much made myself a walking arsenal, an M16 strapped across my chest with a shotgun bandolier, a Lightning Hawk in its holster on my left thigh, and a fully loaded Striker in my hands. Luna watched me get prepared with a curious stare, having patched up her leg with some magic.
Strangely, no zombies were present outside, not even a corpse. I spared Luna a questioning glance, her nodding in response and levitating her scythe. Slowly opening the door, the noise of crackling fire greeting us, I hesitantly shuffled outside, the shotgun pointing at any would be threats.
“Stars!” I hear the big guy roar from a rooftop, causing me to push Luna back inside, an explosion painfully launching us into a wall.
I dimly heard him jump down from his spot, a heavy thud and heavy breathing the only indicators of where he was. I looked back at a terrified Luna and mutter one word. “Nemesis!” I pick up the dropped shotgun and meet the him outside, him having dropped the rocket launcher.
“Stars….”
“Dude, say something else! It's getting kinda old.” I yell at him, pointing the gun at him and cocking it once.
“Stars!” He roared back, a horde of Hunters dropping down from the building behind him.
“You know what! Screw! You!” I start firing into the horde, backing away slowly as they approached, me having a musical moment and singing as I had my stand, not questioning why I was singing in a language I didn't know and why there was music coming out of nowhere.
The hunters dropped one by one, the few that tried to pounce on me were swiftly ended by a barrage of shells, ending up a twitching pile on the ground. My shotgun ran out of ammo pretty quickly, leaving me scrambling for the assault rifle. One hunter slammed into me, knocking me onto my back. He raised a claw and I quickly pulled out the magnum, firing three rounds into its face, it dropping dead in an instant.
I looked back at the dwindled hunter horde, only five were left. It seemed that Nemesis wanted in on the action, him leaping over to me in one bound and roughly grabbing me by my face. He squeezed my head, trying to crush it like a grape, causing me to scream in pain, it feeling very real.
Suddenly, I was dropped, a silver blade protruding out of his chest. I took a peek behind him, seeing the remaining hunters as piles of mincemeat. Luna smiled at me from her position behind him. “-Thou hath fought valiantly, let me finish this foul beast for yo-!-” She was cut off by an elbow to her face, Nemesis ripping the blade out from his back and throwing it away.
“STARS!” He roared, punting Luna into the gun store window.
Taking my chance, I grabbed the assault rifle and pointed it at him. “Say hello to my little friends!” I unloaded into his back, him hunching over in pain for a second. I ran a good distance away from him, switching over to the grenade launcher and firing a round into his face, it burning off the trenchcoat.
For anyone that hasn’t played Resident evil, that trenchcoat is a limiter keeping him from mutating too much. I panicked when it dissolved, firing all I had into the guy. I guess that I accelerated the mutation process, him skipping into the final form of his mutations. I kept on firing until I ran out of ammo, throwing the gun down and running towards Luna’s position, intent on dragging her away from the abomination.
“-Uhhh….. Why is it so strong!-” She yelled in frustration, slamming a hoof down and cracking the ground. “-My scythe should have finished it!-”
“Come on! We don't wanna be around when that guy gets over here!” I yell at her, doing my best to drag her to the back door. “I gotta find a rocket lau-!” I was interrupted by a tentacle ripping me out of the building by my throat, Luna screaming in fear.
The mutated mass lifted me close to its maw, some kind of gelatinous fluid was slowly leaking out. The tentacle holding me was severed, a scythe embedded into the side of the freak. I coughed and turned in the direction where the scythe came from, seeing a battered Luna staring down Nemesis.
“-Get Moonshine!-” She yelled, pointing at the scythe.
Getting the message, I ripped the scythe out of the beast and ran out of reach. The scythe seemed to ripple as I held it, the shape forming into a familiar sword, causing me to grin like a madman. I point the sword at the beast, another song coming from my mouth.
“This better work! Bankai! Senbonzakura kageyoshi!” I yell as I drop the sword, it disappearing into the ground like it was water. Within seconds, giant blades came out of the ground, them dissolving into beautiful pink petals that swirled around Nemesis like an angry swarm of hornets, tearing into him mercilessly.
He roared in pain, parts of him dissolving into smoke as they got violently removed from his body. When I heard no more from him, I called back the petals, them forming into a dome of pink blades around Luna and I. The only thing left of him was the puddle of blood and the few stray pieces of his trenchcoat, the whole area behind the mess was completely vaporized.
Luna stared at me with amazement. “-T-Thou…. Altered my blade! Even destroyed the source of the nightmare within minutes!-” She took a deep breath, regaining her composure. “-We think we will have a chat with our dearest sister about this development….. And hope we can return Moonshine back to its original for-!-” She was interrupted by a pipe to the side of her head, sending her flying a few feet away.
“Grrrr!” The mutated monster by the name of Birkin growled, staring at me with his regenerated eye.
“-Oh, come on! Can't we get a break! That attack almost killed us!-” Luna groaned, shakily getting up.
He was quickly destroyed by the multiple pink blades impaling him and pinning him to the ground, ripping him apart like a necromorph in Dead Space. We both stared at the mess he left behind, only the giant eye that was on his shoulder was there, blinking wildly at us before being stabbed by four glowing swords in the iris.
With a little huff at the anticlimactic demise of an old boss character, I shrug and sheathe the blade, the bankai dissipating into the breeze like a cloud of pink pollen. Luna slowly limped over to me, everything eerily quiet.
“-We….huff… Think we'll keep the blade…ouch….-” She gingerly took the blade out of my hands with a wing, almost afraid of its power. “-Though…. Thou really need to stop having these sorts of dreams…. The flower from the last dream was almost as bad as these two!-” She looked at me with a playful glare, before sighing. “-We can't deny that they are….. Exciting, to say the least.-”
A tear opened up in front of us, Luna limping into it before turning to look back at me. “-We think we'll just…huff... Put you in a dream less… ‘Nightmarish.’ Then we will turn in for the night and recover from this ordeal.-” She said, lifting me into the rip with her magic.
It didn't take her very long to find a dream to throw me in, seeing a restaurant inside of the purple crystal she brought me to. She threw me unceremoniously into the dream, before leaving the dream realm. Spoon was the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes, the feeling of entering the dream was dizzying. Spoon looked at me with dreamy eyes, my clothes changed into some kind of fancy suit that Viper would wear, my hair done up in a bun atop my head. We were sitting across from each other in a fancy restaurant, a small band in the center of the place was playing some romantic music.
My attention was quickly brought to the familiar form approaching our table, almost making me laugh at the sheer stupidity of the scene before me.
“Looks like Pyramid Pony got a new job……”
