April 12 2015
98:00:00:00
Dallas, Texas
After a nice long time in Canada, and finding it a bit boring with it just being hockey and maple trees. I decided to head back home and try to get back in my house, I think I remember where I left the spare key.
After reaching the house I lifted up the doormat to find the spare key under it, while I was told not to put the spare key under the door mat, but I left it there because I knew something like this would happen and I would be locked out of my own house.
With spare key in mouth, I opened the door and went in.
As soon as I entered I heard arguing. “-no Discord, I’m telling the Princess Celestia and that's final!”
“What has she ever done besides tell you where to go!”
And it kept getting more petty from there, as I slowly made my way to the kitchen where it was coming from.
Then I saw it, a swirling vortex of violet in the middle of my kitchen right above where the tube full of H1P1 fell… And inside are two blockheads arguing over something about a princess.
“Um… I hope I’m not interrupting anything.”
They stopped arguing and looked in my direction, then the freak of nature got a wide grin. “See my dear Twilight, I told you we would be found eventually.”
“But it’s a pony, what kind of world is this?” Said Twilight I presume.
“Actually I wasn’t always like this, I guess you could say a tube full of disease actually did this.”
That got them both wide eyed. “If we caused this.” Said Twilight.
“Then we need to fix this.” Said presumably Discord.
“But first the portal.” Twilight said.
“Ms… Uh, what is your name?”
“Zero, Patient Zero.” I said proudly.
While Twilight seemed ok with this answer, Discord seemed confused by it. “Are you certain that's your birth name?”
I didn't know what he meant by that, then I remembered the odd question. “I don’t remember, it disappeared from my mind when this entire transformation finished.”
“Alright, I’ll see what I can do after we get the portal stabilized, speaking of which, that’s the reason we sent out the letter.”
After he said that he snapped his talons and suddenly I am garbed in a baseball cap, a soccer tee and in my mouth is a tennis racket, and none of it fits.
“Alright, now Twilight I need you to cast the stabilization spell I taught you.”
“Right!” Said Twilight as she cast the spell.
Then it went towards me and I instinctively ricochet it back through with the racket, Discord then swung his at the spell and sent it back through and it continued like this until it exploded in the portal.
After the rainbow light faded, I saw that there was now a solid crystal border around the portal and it was on the ground instead of floating in the air.
“I don’t think we introduced ourselves, my name is Twilight Sparkle,” She looked toward Discord with an unamused look. “and this is Discord, the reason this all happened.”
Looking toward the freak of nature I see he’s wearing glasses now, like he was blinded by the light, he even had a cane.
Twilight was unamused. “Drop the act, I know you can’t really go blind.”
He snapped his fingers and the cane disappeared, but not the glasses.
“And return Rainbows glasses!”
“Ugh… Very well.” *Snap*
After that there was one question left in my mind. “Why are you with a Q?”
“A what?” Asked Twilight.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
I was unconvinced but it seemed genuine from both, so for now, I’ll let it slide.
So then I got to explaining what I know so far, and asking if they can return me back to being human.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know why this happens, but I do know somepony who could help.” She said looking toward Discord.
“Unfortunately, I Pinkie promised Fluttershy to never under any circumstance change a pony’s species.”
“Forever!” Said the pink pony on the other side of the portal.
“Is that a common occurrence?”
“More than you can think.” Said Twilight.
After a while we started trying a different route.
“What if you two try and work it out with my friend Derrick, he kinda got the flu as well, but he understands it better, I can show you the way, it’s a two and a half hour flight from here to there.”
“Alright.” Said Twilight.
After that I started showing them the way.
April 12 2015
98:02:32:00
Atlanta, Georgia
I can’t work anything!
Without hands, I can’t use any of my important equipment, hindering my ability to research Pestis.
Then I heard something from the vents I look up to see Allen coming out along with a purple winged unicorn.
“And here is Derrick, the one I told you about.”
I looked over at my old friend and said. “Zero, who is that, if she’s infected I’d like her awa-” I was cut off by the sound of something coming through the vents.
“What is with some people making their ventilation unfit to fit a draconequus!”
“Discord, you can shrink.” Said the purple unicorn.
“You need to understand Twilight, I’m still getting used to this world, and I don’t want to mess with the chaos these fine humans have made for themselves.” He said as he came out of the vent revealing something that looks like mother nature just said screw it, and mix n matched a bunch of animal parts together.
After the initial shock of seeing such a creature I decided to ask Allen a question. “Who are these two?”
Allen then said. “You remember that letter I showed you, the one you said is impossible and never should have worked, well they came from the place that the letter lead to.”
I remembered that, I looked it over and never could figure out how it worked beside the fact that the ink slid across the paper somehow. I never could find out how it worked entirely.
After that we started making small talk, which ended with me saying.
“Magic, ruled by princesses, only known queen is evil. Either this is the most peaceful world, it's a Disney movie, or both.”
“Whats a Disney movie?”
“Please note that Disney is a trademark of Disney.” Said Discord to a random direction.
we didn't very well explain what it is, but neither of us cared for Disney besides Frozen, which we have gotten sick of.
But something came up when Allen said she heard that there was a summit happening at the UN in order to deal with this problem.
“If your leaders are hosting a summit I think I should go as well, I can at least try to help.” Said Twilight.
“Hold up, you can’t go to a UN summit, not without first doing something to prove you're not an infected and come in peace in some way.”
“That's good to know, I think I got the best way there is to prove I’m not like anypony else.” She said looking toward Discord like a predator to her pray.
“Now if you excuse me, I need to work out how to use my equipment with hooves.”
“Here let me help.” Said Twilight levitating the equipment I was trying to work with into place and adjusting them perfectly.
“... Can you explain to me how to do that?”
“Sure it’s easy.”
Two hours of levitation training later. Said the time card.
So now I can barely lift my tools, which is better than not being able to lift them at all, but still.
“So I suggest you try to get on national television and explain that it was your fault that this all happened and that it was an accident,” I said. “otherwise, kiss your chance to fix this at a political level good as gone.”
“Right!” they both said before teleporting out.
“Maybe we should have explained some more things to them.” Said Allen.
“Yeah…” I said.
5984486 ...... Pestis makes you Immune to all human Viruses!
5984557 If it makes ponies immune to human viruses,they still can get horse/pony diseases or human bacteria diseases?
5984564 Why don't I explain what Pestis is.
Pestis Incognitus are magic receptors, they allow for the safe travel of magic in and out of the cell.
If there is no Pestis, then magic gets in the wrong way and messes up the cell or virus that's entering.
For viruses and bacteria, this mangles there DNA beyond recognition.
5984616 Неизвестный вредитель?Well-done.And this P in H1P1 is Pestis?
5984645 Yep! Derrick named 42 antigens on H1P1 Pestis Incognitus, Which roughly translates to plague unknown.
5984689 Well, I hope what you have medical education or something like that,because I haven't.This means what my knowledge about viruses are bordered with Wikipedia (because I can't understand anything more diffuclt that Wikipedia with my level of knowledge of Biology,Virology and others).So yes,either with wikipedia,I still don't understand what is antigenes.
5984719 Well they are basically tags that allow for cells to recognize each other. They also are how viruses get into the cell.
Also I have zero medical education, I just know a lot about the immune system.
Anyway,if you really have medical education,I still have some questions about new chapter.
First:CDC biohazard defense (or something like that)
Seriously?I know what Derrick is a leading scientist,but hey.He is fully transformed,he can transmit the virus to other personnel without harm to himself.They have not moved him to other labolatory.They have not isolated his cabinet/labolatory (time to read these chapters again) or ventillation of it.
I think what 2 months is a large amount of time to check scientist which locked himself in a labolatory.It's just impossible for CDC to stay uniformated about transformation.
Second:This phrase
"Hold up, you can’t go to a UN summit, not without first doing something to prove you're not an infected and come in peace in some way."
I think what she can be INFECTED with virus and if she finds it too late,we've got some new infected...
5984844
Funny thing for me to know,actually.
"Learn large amount of things about viruses with H1P1!"
5984846 First. they kinda did, they locked his door and had him working from his lab.
Second. Twilight is actually immune since she had it on day zero, she no longer has H1P1.
5984930
Then I hope what ventillation has cleaning systems. and Allen with his team didn't broke it..
Ok,let's just say what H1P1 is seasonal in Equestria.Or not?
This can sound a little stupid,but I think what H1P1 is not just the seasonal flu.
5984940 He's only infectious for two weeks!
5984940 H1N1 is a seasonal flu. Why not its counterpart?
5984950 I'm going to accept this.
But what about behavior of the virus?I'd like to discuss about it.
5985019 Here is every thing you need to know. (In a very old documant)
Documentation of the pony flu (by doctor Derrick Kenderson)
That's a huge time jump from before. Almost 3 months that Patient Zero was talking a "short" vacation in Canada.
What did she eat? Did she have a hard time? Isn't she supposed to be more sociable? I find it difficult to believe she was by herself for almost 3 months.
Are transformed walking around a thing at this point? Or are they mostly quarantined? Are they working at the same jobs as before? Or living off aid for the moment?
I find it difficult that Derrick over a couple of months didn't have a lot more written about the virus, or specifically what they transformed into. I would have expected at least one of the transformed into unicorns (must be thousands, or tens of thousands fully transformed at that point) to have stumbled on using magic, and for Derrick to learn about it and realize the potential of telekinesis a lot sooner.
It feels like the time jump should be shorter, like around 1 month or less, with how it's written honestly.
5985584 Crap I forgot to note the entire trip. Alright lets start working on that.
Zero first went to Mexico (And made jokes about Mexican food)
Then to south america (made jokes about whatever is down there)
she went to Hawaii (made surf jokes)
Then to Canada (made jokes about Canada)
She ate anything she found which appetized her. Besides all the angry Canadians, no. Yes, but whould you socialize with people who are trying to hug you to death? She wasn't, she had all the people in Canada and Mexico who have changed.
The changed are being allowed to go around as they please as long as they are clean of the virus. There are quite a lot in the US Canada and Mexico where the epidemic has spread across the northern hemisphere. There are also some reported cases in the UK.
First, Derrick has been locked in his lab without the ability to work the computer in any way for 3 months, he also couldn't work any of his other equipment for the same amount of time. As for the other thing, there only human... turned pony but still, for them magic didn't exist till recently, and even those who got rewired where not taught how to use there bodies (Zero is a case where she got a bit lucky and learned to fly in a matter of hours.)
The problem is that I decided to skip to the point in the simulation where the epidemic has spread across the US, Mexico, and Canada.
5985906
Angry Canadians?
Zero went to South America and back to Canada? In 2 and a half months? A one way trip for a migratory bird can last between a few weeks to 4 months. I wonder if she could speak Spanish, else going that distance would seem odd, to me. Unless transformation gave everyone the ability to suddenly speak English.
I'm amazed Derrick hadn't gone mad if he was locked up for 2 and 1/2 months in his new shape without making any progress. I'd have expected him to act like an Earth Pony at the very least -- And been used (or driven) to using his mouth and a stick/pencil to do things like operate the computer, a smart phone (Stylus Pens), and other equipment where that could have worked. At the very least, if there existed a griffon, some attempt to recruit one as the 'hands' (talons) for use by the Doctor. He doesn't exist in a vacuum, they wouldn't have let him be that 'useless' for that long provided he could still function and wanted to. And I'd have expected the test subjects to have been released after a bit too.
As I said, it just seems like it would have fit better if only a few weeks had passed instead of 2 and a half months. I would not have expected Twilight not to escalate something beyond a month at the very latest, she would have completely lost patience. Her friends would have lost patience. And those two standing on one side of the portal, all available time, for almost 3 months? It's not believable.
5986035 The Canadian jokes.
It doesn't, she just wanted to see the sites... And make jokes that may be slightly bad since like me, Zero has no understanding of other cultures.
Can you get more mad then a mad scientist? Derrick was just below Frankenstein on the mad scientist meter.
He also tends to not think things through at times as he's so focused that he will miss a few small details to focus on the bigger picture.
Oh she did lose patience, but Discord tied her down and left her next to the portal till she calmed down.
5986142
What bigger picture? He was described as completely useless for months. He has superiors, I doubt they would have just left him like that, especially as the disease kept spreading. I mean they were about to have a UN conference about it.
5986224 They know he's mad, they know he's infected, I think they don't want to go in his lab at floor B66.
5986234
Was infected. There is no way they'd be wary of him to the point of non-interaction while simultaneously allowing other transformed to move around freely.
Plus, he needs food and drink.
5986243 Yes but what about his lab, there's no telling how much of the virus is in that lab. And there is a food tray port at the airlock.
5985906
I'd like to talk about before this time-mark, the ability to use magic.
I highly doubt the fact that at least one Pegasi can fly would remain unknown to the world at large. And even if they don't know how to use their bodies, there will be experimentation at the very least, day to day living otherwise.
So Earth Ponies finding out they can get *really* strong, or they might have a green hoof, I expect to happen. Pegasi and Griffons figuring out they could fly and touch clouds, I also expect, within a few weeks of a few of them appearing, provided the transformed isn't living under a rock.
Using their hooves to grip things, I expect, if that feature is allowed, to also happen via experimentation.
The big question is Unicorns, and here is my thoughts on it: There are more than a few people in the world who strongly believe that mental powers are possible. Not necessarily magic, but certainly believe that telekinesis, among other abilities, is definitely possible. There is also everyone in the New Age school of thought, which preaches quite heavily in perception among other things actually affecting the world. Also spiritual people, or people just bored, or those who get really angry (recall Twilight Sparkle getting so upset at not getting Pinkie Pie's abilities she turned into a Rapidash)... I expect over time at least one of these Unicorns to learn their horn can actually do something.
But are you going with the idea that no one save Patient Zero, at the 98 day mark, could use magic, fly, or have a green hoof? It's an important question for any story that begins between there.
5986543 No! I mean that it took the pegesi, griffons, and earth pony's much longer then Zero to learn these tricks, and unicorns would have to do a lot of trial and error till they find out they can move objects with there mind.
5985318 I'm not talking about description of virus made by scientist.I'm talking about behavior of virus.Correctly,about transformation.
Crazy theorist mode on
"What causes transformation?" is the main question.H1P1 is seasonal flu for ponies.But what about humans?Humans are not ponies.This could mean what virus could work with humans in a bit different way than with ponies.I really don't know what virus can do with humans if transformation haven't started,but from your words I can think what this could be very lethal for humans.
But in other way virus could not affect humans in any way.He just couldn't survive in humans.
So our main question is still unaswered.But!We just have to realize what viruses and bacterias,from Earth or from Equestria,can't transform humans.They will try to adoptate to human organism instead of adoptating human organism to themself.This leads us to one answer - "H1P1 is actually a Bio-weapon from Equestria"
"But how!?It's just a seasonal flu!How could it be Bio-weapon!?" - somepony can say.Yes,you can be right.But remember WHO (not an orgatization) teleported tube with the virus to the Earth?Discord have done that.And Discord could do anything to the virus.So here is result:"Discord created Bio-weapon from seasonal Equestrian flu".How I come to this?Easy,actually.Remember my phrase:"They will try to adoptate to human organism instead of adoptating human organism to themself"?If virus adoptating organism to himself,this means what virus was programmed to do that.And the only living creature who can programm the virus is Discord.So I just have to find out one thing:"Is transformation a side-effect of virus or virus is just a cover for transformation?".
Crazy theorist mode off
P.S. I hope what my English is not very bad and author (or someone else) still can read my comments.
5987316 FIrst off while I can understand your grammar, it automatically sets the voice I use for you as a German accent.
Now for your little theory, Fluttershy was there when Discord teleported the tube.
So I can't truly prove or disprove your theory as of now, I can say that Discord wouldn't do something to anger Fluttershy.
I hope that helps clear things up.
5987680
Sounds like a compliment for me,actually.
Now about theory.
I really don't know what happend to H1P1 if this wasn't Discord.Just because there is no one who can programm the virus.And without programming virus will not transform humans.
And I've find one thing which allows me to the variant "Virus is a cover for transformation".
Jest think.If transformation is required,then 100% of unchanged infected would have a "bad case of flu".But we can see Allen and others going through usual simptoms of the influenza at stage I.And that's not all.
Stage II,the transformation.
Virus travels into various locations of the body in order to change the host.
Wait a minute.What?
Virus is not trying to keep reproducing.He is trying to change the host.
And if pony's organism is reqiered to keep reproducing so how the virus caused the syptoms of the first stage?
I have some more evidence to prove what H1P1 is a Bio-weapon which goal is to turn humans into ponies,but I'll add it later.
P.S. I'd like you to check my post on forum of the
diseaseH1P1 group.5988198
Remember before when I said Pestis mangles the DNA of bacteria and viruses without it, Animal cells also face the same problem, but on a much smaller scale, They get points changed as time goes on, but the only things that are set in stone are the ears and tail are first in line.
That would be a byproduct of improper magic intake.
And I'd like to hear these, I'm currently suffering writers block and need something to get my mind off of it.
5988318 Well,I'm a bit confused at this point.
In my understanding word "mangle" meams "malfunctioning" and I really don't know what could happen with malfunctioning DNA.I know what happens with malfunctioning protein,but what could happen with malfunctioning DNA I really don't know.
Improper magic intake?I can suggest what ponies are "positive" and humans are "negative" and virus working not correctly with negative and tries to make humans positive.Too clever for virus,I think.And again:"Before I will understand trick with malfunctioning DNA I still will suggest what someone have changed the virus and gave it ability to convert humans into ponies."
5988382 By mangle I mean rearrange the very design of the DNA, It kills bacteria and viruses by making them unable to properly reproduce, but in our bodies the changes are so small that the body can properly keep it under control.
Also mangle means to severely mutilate, disfigure, or damage by cutting, tearing, or crushing.
Hey Gamer love your story any chance this referenced to H1Z1 the game produced by Sony and sold on Steam. Its Pretty cool idea if you have the game we should play sometime. Talk Later Gamer. -Digital Brony
5990281 Never played it. Any reference is unintentional on my part.
5991691 Well I'd like to mention what H1P1 and H1Z1 have born from one idea - mutated strain of flu.
5988476 Ok.If I understand correctly,transformation is a byproduct of some sort of confusion of virus when he gets into human organism.I really trying to understand that.But if I can;t understand it correctly this way,I'll go another way.
What if virus will encounter with "magic inhibitor" or something like what?In that case our "magic blocker" do not give virus to deploy his magic and as a result,will block transformation.But I'd like to hear what "side effects" can apper when virus is not able to start transformation or to use his "magic" in any way. (Well I can sound stupid for you right,because you probably explained this before,but all this terms can be a little not understandable for me.)
5992050 Since it will be revealed how this is an accident in the next chapter, and I've already explained the best I can how the virus works. Wait for next chapter.
5992096 In next chapter?Really?So fast?I thounght about that for a week.It'll be interesting for me to learn about.
And I'm still hope to see paranoid France premier who decides to blow up Eurotunnel (or Channel tunnel,as it known on english Wikipedia,a tunnel under English channgel connecting France and UK).
And the most important question (for me,actually):Are my questions,well,bothered you?I mean what my comments with questions are probably 25% of all comments to the fic and you trying to answer to the every comment.
It's fine that he didn't change gender. Now he and Patient Zero can like each other silly.
Now would be a good time to head for my bunker and wait until the disease is dead.