A fluke of nature, and a monster is born. This creature of darkness must learn if it is to survive in the Anti-Evil world of equestria.
Evolution: A theory in which all life started from one organism. Evolution becomes proof and things begin to change.
Sweetie comes down with a sickness while adventuring in the Everfree, when they return to Ponyville Twilight discovers that the sickness was really a virus and was eating Sweetie alive. Twilight removes the virus but instead of getting rid of it, her curiosity gets the better of her.
Also for anyone that was wondering this story is a crossover from the game Prototype. Yea yea i know i know there are alot of stories that are crossovers with this game, but i decided to take a different view of this and make it to where the Blacklight evolved in equestria. Cash me ouside how bou dah?
this story is more of an experiment than anything. But if it gets a lot of views i’ll continue it. I found an amaizing song online and most of you have heard it but for those who haven’t its in this Link. Enjoy this experimental read!
An atom of carbon floats lonely is vast void of the quantum realm. Empty and alone, the atom just sits there and occasionally lets of a particle of energy. Another atom comes into view, another Carbon! The other carbon atom floats towards the first and the fly extremely close to each other, and at the very last moment they connect with a strange force that binds them together. As time progresses this continues until a chain of carbon floats in the void.
With an unexpected slam a Hydrogen atom joins the chain. Creating what most would call a simple chain of DNA, and with the DNA. Life. As more hydrogen joins the DNA the chain becomes larger and larger. SLAM goes a random atom and damages the DNA beyond repair. The now forever crippled DNA gathers proteins and forms a shell around itself to prevent more random atom assaults. The DNA no longer holds everything required to be called life and a virus is born in its place.
The virus, shaped like a ball with sharp spines covering the outside, floats aimlessly through space. Waiting.
The new virus sits there. Waiting. Withing the hour a random pink cell shaped much like a football with two holes on each end comes into view, Carelessly swimming along. The unlucky cell swims to close to the Virus and the Non-living Organism the attaches itself into the pink cell and injects its DNA. The pink cell begins to twitch uncontrollably until, suddenly, it stops. The membrane of the cell begins to change, it becomes harder and turns black, the viral cell then resumes its journey, but with a deadly payload and an insatiable hunger for other cells. The cell swims in a straight line, randomly changing direction. Eventually the Infected cell comes across another similar pink cell, and with a sudden burst of speed impales it. It injects its now multiplied DNA into the new cell and binds its membrane with the newly infected Single-Cellular organism, creating a Multi-cellular organism. The now arrowhead shaped creature begins to swim along, with slightly more intellect. With this new-found brainpower the organism learns to store water inside of itself to use when impaling other non-viral cells. The double-celled creature swims up to a group of pink cells and instantly begins to attack.
It quickly shoots forwards and stabs throught the first cell, injecting DNA and fusing with it, before using the new cell to impale the next one. It then changes shape to more resemble an line with an arrow at the end than an arrowhead and uses the back end of itself to impale a fleeing cell, fusing with it and making itself larger. This madness continues until all 12 of the cells were impaled, stabbed, cut, or jabbed and joined the viral organism. The organism now resembled a ball its new intellegence allowed it to activly seek out Prey cells. Which would be all cells.
“Are you sure about this?” Scootaloo asked Applebloom.
“Ah’m sure as hay!” Applebloom smiled at the small orange pegasus, maybe a little too big of a smile, because it only served to make Scootaloo more nervous.
“O-okay. If you say so”
“There you go!” Sweetie belle spoke happily. The Crusaders were currently exploring the Everfree. They decided to try and get their Cutie marks in Exploration. But Scootaloo was wisely having second thoughts about their decision.
“Ah’m sure we’re gonna be fine. Not like some manticore is gonna come up and eat us.” The yellow filly reassured. They continued to drag their cart through the Unusual woods, the cart was slapped full of different maps and tools normally used for Cartography.
“Hey uh, Sweetie did you ever mark the path back to Ponyville?” Scootaloo asked.
“Yea! It should be right over-“ Sweetie belle stopped when she realised that the bag she was holding had a hole in it. “Oops”
“Oops what?” Applebloom then chose this time to pop up in their conversation.
“oh no. Ohnononononono.”
“Calm down Scoots. Why she actin’ like that?” Applebloom stared at Scotaloo for a moment before turning to Sweetie, whom had the same fear-stricken look on her face.
“What’s wrong with y’all?”
“SWEETIE DROPPED THE MAP!!!!” Scootaloo shouted before panicking.
“WHAT!?!” Applebloom stared at Sweetie with a hard look.
“I DIDINT KNOW THERE WAS A HOLE IN THE BAG!!” Sweetie shouted back.
“Okay okay okay calm down. Yer gonna get some monster to come after us with yer yellin’”. Applebloom said, making the rest of the CMC stop and think.
“You’re right”
“Yea. And that would be bad.”
“Good. Now lets try and figure out how we’re gonna git home.” Applebloom reached into the cart and grabbed a compass and aimed herself north. “Ah think we were comin’ south when you went an’ dropped the map. So we gotta go north.”
“How’ed you?” Scootaloo stared at Applebloom with wide eyes until she shook her head. “Nevermind.”
“OW!!!” Sweetie randomly shouted.
“What?” Scootaloo and Applebloom asked in unison.
“I don’t know. My hoof hurts now.” Sweetie looked at her hoof before looking up at Applebloom. “Are we going to sit here or are we going to get back home?”
“Ah’m workin’ on it ah’m workin’ on it” The yellow Earth-pony said to Sweetie. They began to drag the cart back towards where they believe Ponyville was. And in a lucky one to one billion shot they managed to aim themselves in the right direction. But unbeknownst to any of them. The viral creature entered Sweetie’s bloodstream when it attacked her hoof, and is now slowly but surely making it’s way to her heart.
The virus was in an new environment. It was mainly yellow with massive red disk-shaped cells here and there. The viral organism immediately swam after the first and closest cell, which unluckily for the cell was a white blood cell. The virus swam straight for it and the white cell did the same, they collided in the middle and the white defense organism swallowed the virus in one bite. In turn the virus punctured through the vacule holding it and injected its DNA, the white blood cell twitched uncontrollably for a moment before becoming a black-red color. The virus with the far larger cell in its possession was instantly bombarded with commands from an unkown source. Telling it to head to the liver for cleansing, the virus knew what this meant but ignored it for its own safety. And as soon as ot did the unkown source designated it as a bacterial infection and told a large amount of white blood cells to head to the foreleg. Meanwhile the virus watched as red blood cells began to dissipate and slowly dissapear, the viral organism saw this as running away and began to persue rhe cells. It then stopped at the sight of a massive wall of cells that just stayed there. The virus swam forward and called upone the knowledge of the white blood cell but came up empty on this ‘wall’ of cells. It struck the wall but it did nothhing as the pink cells it attacked with were not hard enough, so the being began to swim around for harder cells to join with and return to this living wall. ———————————————————— ‘Sniff’
“Sweetie are you sick?” Scoots asked.
“No. Well not that i know of.” ‘Sniff’
“If yer not sick then why are ya snifflin’?”
“I don’t know.” Applebloom watched her with concern before turning back to the direction they were headed.
“We’re gonna git home and then Ah’m taken ya to a docter.”
“But!” Sweetie whined.
“No buts! Yer gonna go to the doctor.”
“Okay” Sweetie hung her head in defeat.
“Good.” Applebloom looked towards the hill they were approaching and smiled. “We’re almost there! C’mon girls!”
“Yes!” Scootaloo shouted.
“Yay-ow.” Sweetie said, making the other crusaders look at her in concern.
“Applebloom we gotta hurry or else Sweetie might get even more sick and more sick and-“ She gasped. “What if she DIES!???!”
“I DON’T WANNA DIE!” Sweetie yelled before crying. Applebloom slapped Scoots across the head.
“Now ya done did it.” Scootaloo looked down at her feet. “Go apologize to her!” Applebloom scolded her friend.
“Sorry Sweetie, your not gonna d- whered she go?” Scoots looked up to where Sweetie was standing a second ago. Applebloom flipped out.
“OH NO OHNO OHNOOHNOOHNOOHNO!!! SWEETIE COME BACK!!! SHE DIDIN’ MEAN IT!” Applebloom yelled.
“I REALLY DIDINT! I WAS OVERTHINKING STUFF!!”
“Oooh.” Groaned Sweetie from behind Applebloom. “Guys now i think I’m sick.”
“Why did you do that?” The other crusaders asked in unison.
“Well i was gonna hug you guys but i think now that not doing that was a good idea. Is it just me or is it cold?”
“Oh. Wait you have a cold. Theres no way you could die from that.” Scootaloo stated. Making Sweetie smile. “Maybe though don’t disappear like that.”
“Okay.” Scoots smiled. “But i have a headache and i wanna get home.” ———————————————————— The virus has been at this for forever, to it at least. It had been going around, infecting cells that attacked it and now it was 12 white blood cells strong. The virus was now aware enough to be able to sense the passing of time and time flew by very slowly. The being swam past another red blood cell, but ignored it. As the viral creature was far too focused on the living wall to notice the other cells. It eventually arrived at the living wall and stopped. It then shot one of its white-cells after shaping it like a spear, and the cell impaled the one in the wall. It absorbed the cell and began to attack more of them. Adding them to the already large microscopic being. After gaining enough intellect to begin to gain knoledge and remeber things the virus noticed that the white-cells only attacked it, it also noticed that they were to co-ordinated to be just living here. The virus stopped attacking the cells and followed along the flow of liquid and spotted a new thing, what it discovered was another living wall. The wall was different, it moved. It pulsed and made a very loud thump noise. Much like this; Thumpthump. Thumpthump. Thumpthump. The virus moved towards an entrance into the wall and swam through. Immediately it was ambushed by small, grey cells that numbered in the hundreds. The grey cells assaulted the viral being and managed to hurt it, the virus noticed this and decided enough was enough. It impaled all of the little grey ceeatures on it and absorbed them. The other grey cells backed off, and with the new intellegence that the virus gained from eating the grey cells it knew they were commanded by something. But what? ———————————————————— “TWILIGHTTWILIGHTTWILIGHT!” Rarity shouted, fear clear in her voice.
“What?” Twilight looked at her, fully expecting it to be some fashion emergency.
“I CANT FIND SWEETIE!”
“WHAT?!” Twilight jumped from her spot at the table and ran towards Rarity. “How long has she been missing??!?”
“EVER SINCE SHE LEFT ON ONE OF THEIR ADVENTURES!” Rarity was on the verge of tears and looked at Twilight with a defeated face.
“Oh no.” Twilight stared out the window. “I think i know where they went.”
“Where?!?”
“The Everfree forest.”
“WHAT?! WHY DID THEY GO THERE!?!?!” Rarity was about to bolt out the front door when it slammed open and Applejack stomped in.
“When i find that filly she is gunna Git It!”
“Applejack! We need your help!”
“Ah know ya need mah help and Ah’m gunna give it to ya. And when we find her she is gunna regret goin’ in that there forest!”
“Oh thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!” Rarity pulled Applejack into a hug before letting go of her and turning towards the door. “Lets go get my sister!” ———————————————————— Unknown location
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Is this thing on? Yea? Good. Okay this is captain Mark five of the Tagent guard. Its been over a year since the first outbreak and the, well, Things have gotten restless. Im not sure how to say this but the when this pod will be sent is- What? Uh-huh. Okay. So i guess im running out of time. ‘Sigh’ we all have. We are going to send this pod back in time with the hopes that the DarkFyre will be stopped. That things will be put in place to prevent the first outbreak and a cure will be developed before it even begins. Now, The DarkFyre is a Virus/Zombie combination in which hosts are horribly mutated. The first symptoms can be mistaken for a common cold. PLEASE, READ THIS AND HELP THE FUTURE. ‘Sighs’ “its finished.”
“Good. Now bring it here so we can send it back.” ‘Footsteps’ ‘Clink’ “Get in position.” ‘Footsteps’ ‘Sighs’ ‘BOOOM’ “THEY GOT THROUGH!!!!”
“Hurry, we must warn them.” ‘Humming’ ‘Humming gets louder. Louder. Shaking of books and other items.’ ‘Roar in the background’ ‘Sound of gritting teeth’ ‘VVVHHHOOOOOOOOM’ “We” ‘huffs between breaths’ “did. It.”
“Ahhh how good it feels to crush you beneath my feet.” I stated.
“Your a monster and always will be!” The alicorn under me spat.
“Isn’t it funny though? A long time ago it was the other way around. Oh how times change for the better!” I exclaimed. Causing the alicorn to look at me like I’m crazy.
“You really are insane aren’t you?” She asked.
“Is it that obvious? Oh well.” I said. Adding more weight to the foot atop her.
“Grrh get off of me!” She said. Jumping up and sending me flying into a nearby building. I crashed through the wall amd landed on my back but got back up shortly afterwards.
“BRAVO! BRAVO!!” I cheered. Clapping and walking back to her.
“AHHH!” She screamed as i grabbed her with an extended tendril.
“Do you believe me when i say that i want you alive?” She shook her head. “Oh? Too bad because i want to know why you were hiding here? WHY?” She flinched when i yelled.
“Die in hell!” She spat back.
“Hehehehe did you not hear? Hell belongs to me! How could i die in my own kingdom?!” I laughed. The smell of burning bodies and singed fur along with pretty much any other smell with burning things hung in the air.
“You are a psychopath and a maniac!” The alicorn insulted.
“Aren’t they the same thing? Nevermind.” I set her down lightly and stepped up to the royal. “I have a proposition. If you tell me what you did, i will dig your sister out of this rubble and revive her if she is dead. Then, you will both try your best to undo whatever you did alright?” I stated. She growled but sighed in defeat.
“Fine.” She said venomously.
“Good. So what exactly did you do?” I pressed.
“I sent something back in time.”
the virus came across a new cell it. The new cell was long, and occasionally sent electricity bouncing along it. It would start up at random intervals and stop at random times. The virus was intrigued by the new cell so it swam up to it. It saw that the new cell was attached to a long string of the new cells and they all had electricity traveling down them. It saw that there were at least three cells next to one another at any given location so the viral being decided that taking one of the cells could not hurt. It jabbed throught the cell and immediately was bombarded by the commands from before, only this time far stronger and almost enought to overwhelm the virus. Almost.
The virus was almost as quickly as it withdrew smashed by a wall of hard and smooth cells. The virus did the only thing it could do and absorb the offending cells. Thus gaining more biomass and gaining more processing power. It began to realize that there was some sort of high authority and that this authority was a threat.
So the virus attacked more and began to absord every cell it touched. Thus beginning the terribly painful and quick process of becoming a virus to whomever was unlucky enough to get the virus in the first place.
“AH SEE IT!!!” Applebloom shouted to the fillies behind her.
“YES!” Scootaloo cheered. Sweetie simply groaned and reminded them why they were in a hurry. “oh... C’MON!!! FORGET THE MAPS AND LETS BOOK IT TO TWILIGHTS TO SEE IF SHE CAN FIND WHATS WRONG!!!!!” The pegasus barked.
“RIGHT!” Applebloom shouted back in response.
“Could you stop yelling please?” Sweetie asked quietly. The other two ‘Crusaders looked to their fallen brethren before nodding to each other, getting a point across without the shouting.
A moments travel found the CMC at the doorstep of Fluttershy’s cottage.
“Should we go in?” Scootaloo asked Applebloom in concern. “I mean i have never been in here before and i don’t think Fluttershy would be happy if we barged in there without asking.”
“If its the only way to save Sweetie then I’ll do anything.” Applebloom stated with a grim look and seriousness.
“APPLEBLOOM GIT YER RUNAWAY FLANK OVER HERE RIGHT NOW!!!!”
“Uh oh.........” Applebloom looked at the ground for a moment before looking up at Sweetie Belle.
“SIS WE NEED YER HELP!!!!” Applebloom shouted to her older counterpart.
“AH WONT BE DOIN’ NOTHIN’ ‘TILL YOU GIT OVER HERE!!!” Applejack yelled back, anger causing her words to hold actual heat.
“Woah.... your sis is mad Applebloom. I would run if i were you.” Scootaloo commented.
“Ah have ‘ta do this. Even if it means gettin’ in trouble for Sweetie.” Said filly looked at the cow-pony.
“Noooo don’t go get in trouble because i had a dumb idea.” Sweetie reprimanded. Applebloom shook her head.
“This is as much mah fault as yers.”
The trio heard angry hoofsteps and awaited the shouting to come because of their poor choice. But nothing came.
Applebloom was the first to open her eyes and saw Applejack standing over them. More specifically Sweetie.
“What on Equis happened? How’ed she get so sick?” She asked, concern leaked into her voice as she spoke.
“We don’t know. Thats why we came all the way back, to see if Twilight or somepony else could help us find out.” Scootaloo answered, having opened he eyes not long aftet Applebloom did.
“SWEETIE OH MY GOODNESS!!!” Rarity shouted as she bolted from Godesses knows where into the little area in front of the cottage. “What happened and where have you all been?! I was so worried about you!” She stated as she frantically looked over her sister.
“Everypony move!” Twilight stated as she rushed over to see what was wrong. “She is sick, but to what extent i don’t know.” Twilight fortold, only worsening everyones fears.
It was at this moment that they now realized, a crowd was beginning to develop.
“C’mon girls we need to take her to the castle.” (Takes place after season five) Twilight told them. The group then trotted off to the castle with haste and made it to the entrance un-inturrupted.
“Nuuugh, wha. What’s going on?” Sweetie asked as she woke up. “Uuugh I feel like I hit a brick wall with my hoof.”
“Sweetie please be careful.” Rarity advised. She then gained an angry look and stared the CMC down. “WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?! GOING IN THE EVERFREE! THAT WAS NOT SMART AND I KNOW THAT YOU THREE KNOW BETTER!” Rarity fumed.
“Rarity, we haven’t even got inside the castle yet. And your yelling in my ear.” Twilight commented.
“Sorry. You three are in serious trouble.” Rarity warned. Scootalooo and Applebloom flinched. Sweetie sniffled and Rarity turned to her to see her crying. “I, I’m sorry sweetie i didin’t mean to upset you.” Rarity replied melancholically.
“It’s not that, my chest hurts.” She said, weakly putting a hoof to her chest for emphasis.
“Hold still please.” Twilight stated. She cast a spell and immediately cast another one. Sweetie grunted and shifted in discomfort as the spell lasted for a couple more seconds. Then with a sudden jolt a almost unnoticeable blob of black popped into existance next to Twilight. “I think I found what was making her sick.” She informed. “It looks like some kind of black goo.”
“Eewwww, that was in my sister?” Rarity asked.
“Yes, th-“
“What did it do to her?” Rarity asked grimly.
“I think it might have been eating at her.” Twilight said. She turned back to the blob. “I am going to figure out what this is. And then i am going to run some tests and see how this, this, thingy reacts to them.”
Rarity huffed and stuck her nose in he air. “As long as it is away from my sister and i, i will be content.”
“Ah think that goes fer all of us.” Applejack said. Rainbow dash, Rarity, and Fluttershy nodded along with her.
“Alright, i will stick it in a testing tube down in the basement so It cant get away.” Twilight began to bounce on the spot. “Oooh what if it is resisant to acid? It could be heatkilled and made into a-“
“Twilight, honey, i know it is interesting and all but maybe you should avoid experimenting with it before you find out if it is dangerous. And you said it was trying to eat my sister, i do not think safe things eat ponies.” Rarity inturrupted.
“Right. SPIKE!” Twilight called,
“Yea I'm comin’ give me a second” Spike said from somewhere in the castle.
“Hurry up please!” She commanded nicely.
“Okay!” Spike popped up from inside on of the hallways leading from the entrance. “Whatcha want?” He asked.
“Spike i need you to go get a test tube from downstairs.” She stated.
“Alright. Anything else?”
“Nope!” She said happily.
“Okay” Spike turned and walked down into a new hallway.
“Alright, you guys go on ahead and go home. I will take care of this blob.”
“Okay. See ya Twi!” Rainbow dash waved before flying out the doorway.
“Bye Sugarcube.” Applejack said before turning to Applebloom. “And don’t you think yer out of the woods yet missy!” They walked out.
“Come on Sweetie lets go get you cleaned up.” Rarity told her sister.
“I never thought i would be so happy to hear those words.” Sweetie Belle commented.
“Oh okay..... um bye Twilight.” Fluttershy said meekly before trotting out the door.
“What are you?” Twilight asked the blob. When she got no answer she smiled. “Just as i suspected!” Spike stepped from a hallway and walked up to Twilight.
“I have the testi- eww what is that?” He asked, disgusted.
“I don’t know but we are gonna find out!”
The virus was somewhere new, and it did not like it. While it was attacking the cells, a strange sensation washed over it. It was absorbing an insane amount of cells by this time and was about close to being able to consciously change its form when the sensation grew incredibly strong and it suddenly was no longer anywhere near any cells. The Creature did not like what was going on, at all. The creature could barely see a massive purple structure off in the distance and another one that had green, but was smaller.
The viral being suddenly had an idea. As it was about to extend a massive tendril straight down a strange substance was stuffed around it, this new substance was invisible and the virus did not like invisible things due to experience. So the virus, now angry, began to jab at the substance when a booming loud noise erupted from nowhere. The creature froze.
The creature was shocked when it saw the massive purple structure move closer, and was even more so when it saw that it was covered with fur. The creature then realized that this ‘structure’ was actually alive, and therefor made of cells. Meaning it was prey.
The virus was now eager to break the strange barrier and eat this massive creature. That changed when a large white wall appeared between the purple and the virus, and another purple wall appeared but it was part of the white and could move incredibly fast. Confused, the viral creature moved closer to it to get a better examination. And upon doing so the booming noise reappeared, but was much louder and closer. It was loud enough to hurt the virus and make it unhappy. Then something unexpected happened and the purple wall started to move, bringing the strange barrier and the creature with it.
After some time they ended up in a slightly darker room, but that made no difference to the virus, and it was filled with all kinds of things. The virus didn’t understand when it was able to see so far but ignored it and watched the purple wall. Which, now that it was able to see farther, realized it was not a wall but a massive group of cells that lived and worked as one organism. The virus decided that the cells that it used to gain its current size were part of one of these creatures. It eventually was no longer moving and was removed from the barrier.
Another not-so-loud booming came and the virus watched as the smaller purple and green creature had a portion of the top part of its body was moving. The creature attempted to re-create this movement but no noise came out. Another booming noise came, but this time was from the purple organism. As this was happening a small insect approached the virus. The virus heard a noise behind it and turned to see another cell cluster organism aproach it, this one was still large but looked more like something the virus could love inside as a tiny cosy home then anything.
The organism then made a chittering boise and approached the virus. The said virus became excited to eat and lunged at he creature, all the while Twilight and Spike watched the tiny black blob suddenly shoot forward at the cockroach. The spoken creature turned to run but the blob latched on its leg. Twilight gasped as the cockroach’s leg began to turn into the same substance as the blob.
“Oh my god.” She said as the ‘Roach slowly was eaten by the blob and the eaten cells were converted into more viral cells. She stared at the now noticably larger blob sitting on her desk. The virus was happy to have something to eat and it turned to the purple creature. Now it was able to control every individual cell in it’s body and formed something like that of a mouth. Twilight watched as the creature changed shape slightly before chirping.
“Did. Did you see that!” Twilight said happily as Spike stared at the creature in horror. “It can talk! Er.. Chirp! Maybe Fluttershy can understand it and talk to it back! I wonder what it knows! Oh oh oh oh what if-“ Twilight was stopped short by Spike putting a claw over her mouth.
“Twi. I don’t think that this thing is safe to have around. We need to remove it.” Spike said with a newfound seriousness.
“But Its intelligent! It can communicate! Which means that we can convince it to stop attacking things and be nice! Which means we could study it and learn all kinds of new things just because of this one smalle creature!” Twilight said, gesturing towards the virus with a hoof. Meanwhile the virus watched in curiosity as the purple creature communicated with the smaller purple green creature. Another chittering caught the viruses attention and it turned to the direction it came from. Another insect had approached, bit this one was larger and had eight legs and four eyes. Eyes. Thats what the virus needed! It needed eyes! It was happy about this revelation and began to change its shape to match that of the creature in front of it. Twilight had kept her attention firm on the creature and jumped in excitement when it transformed into a smaller version of the wolf spider infront of it.
“SPIKE LOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK LOOK IT CAN CHANGE SHAPE TO MATCH OTHER CREATURES!!! Thats better than any changeling could ever do! If this little creature grew large enough it could litterally become somepony! That- That- we could use this creature to spy on the changelings to what they are going to do next! Or better yet. The dragons! Or the griffins! This creature could change the world Spike!” She turned to her number one assistant to find that he was staring at the creature. Twilight turned to see the said creature larger than before, quite larger.
“Umm what happened? Spike?” She asked and he turned to her.
“We have to run.” He looked at her with a look of horror on his face.
“But why? Hold on let me talk to it.” She turned back to the virus. The virus watched as the purple being turned to it and approached. The virus smiled.
“Hey.” The virus jumped when it heard that and turned behind it to see another spider.
“Hey you!” The spider said. “I saw what you did, that was awesome! Hey spider dude come on with me.” The virus, able to understand what the spider said. Followed behind it but was grabbed by the strange sensation again.
“Oh. Wait hold on do you want me to translate for you? ‘Cause i think the pony wants to talk to you.” The virus nodded. “Don’t talk much do ya’? Alright.”
Then a sound echoed from many directions at once, but was slightly understandable.
“The pony said hello. The pony also asked if you could understand her.” The virus looked up to ‘The Pony’ and nodded. Twilight watched the spider-virus nod and jumped in excitement.
“Oh my god Ohmygodohmygodohmygod! It can understand me! It can learn! Spike. Look at the creature. Do you see something different?” She asked the baby dragon. Who shook his head. “The difference is not in the creature but whats around it. There is another smaller spider next to the shapeshifter and was not eaten. That means that his creature is capable of being nice!” She turned back to the spider-virus. “What are you?” After a moment the spider shrugged. “You dont know?” A nod. “Oh. Well do you think you could help us?” The spider looked at her for a moment before shaking its head. “I’ll find food for you.” Twilight bargained and squeaked when the spider-virus jumped onto her nose with a very eager nod. “Now that we have an understanding. Your gonna have to be bigger. But what could i give you?” She looked at the viral spider on her nose when it looked off to the side towards Spike. It pointed at him.
“No no no no no, not Spike. He is not food. He is a friend.” He spider looked at Spike before nodding. The spider then exploded in a tiny mass of black tendrils before reformig as a tiny version of Twilight. “Thats. Wow that’s pretty cool. I believe we might have a new friend Spike.” The said dragon turned.
“ARE YOU CRAZY? DID YOU NOT SEE WHAT THAT THING DID TO THAT SPIDER?! THAT THING IS JUST WAITING FOR IS TO GIVE IT ENOUGH FOOD THE WHAM!!” He slammed his fist into his open hand. “IT GETS US!! Im sorry Twilight but of this is not going to happen, you are going to go put this, this thing back into the Everfree where it vame from and NEVER go looking for it okay?” Spike demanded. Twilight sighed and looked at the spider.
“Your right, this creature is dangerous. We have to go put it back where it belongs. I think why we have never seen this creature before is that they perfer a specific form and stay in that form.” Twilight hypothesized before lifting it with her magic. The virus began to squirm and chirp. Twilight screamed when the viral spider lunged at her with an angry chirp, and right before it could land on her she grabbed it with her magic. “I, I think I see what you mean now Spike, C’mon lets go put this creature where It belongs.” They turned towards the door and began their trek back to the Everfree.
“You did WHAT?” I shouted, causing the alicorn to flinch. “You mean to tell me you sent something BACK THROUGH FUCKING TIME?!”
The alicorn growled at him. “Yes! And if you don’t help me find my sister and revive her, I WONT TELL YOU WHEN I SENT IT BACK NOR WILL I TELL YOU WHAT IT WAS!” She screamed.
“Shhhhhh!” I demanded her.
“DON’T YOU FUCKING SHU-“
“Shut the hell up!” I barked. She glared daggers at me as i stared into the burning horizon. “Somethings coming and it’s not mine.”
“I thought you des-“
“FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME SHUT THE HELL UP!” She backed away as i scowled at her, I sighed. “Please?”
“Fine.” She snapped back. A rumbling let itself become known as a loud whine whistled through the air. It was at that moment that i realised, I fucked up. I had brought all of my forces into one small area and had neglected to hunt down all of the ‘MTW’s or Massive Titan Walkers. And i freaked out when a Orion-Class MTW came up over the hill it had hid behind.
“Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.” I cursed my luck as the massive Bipedal machine began to fire massive explosive shells onto the forces below. “You planned this didn't you?” I sneered.
“Fuck i didn’t. I dont even command any Orions.” She added with a fearful look on her face.
“Then whos god damn Orion is that?” I questioned to no-one in particular.
“Shit.” The alicorn on my left swore.
“What?” She looked at me.
“That belongs to the griffins.” I looked back at the MTW laying waste to my forces.
“Fucking hell. Well i hope you can hold your breath for more than five minutes.” She gave me a confused look.
“What do you mean b-“ she was cut off as i grabbed her and ran straight for a large lake.
-[Program running ......................................................................................................... Connection established. Systems online and running at 100% Hyroglyph]-
So today i found something interesting, and i am rather exited to tell what it is, but, its going to have to wait like most of my “Great Discoveries” but this time it is truly great.
Anyway i actually found many things today, but as always, most of them blew up in my face or tried to attack and kill me. What luck. I really need to be more positive.
So i found out that there was this pony named Golden Sprocket and apperently her special talent is messing with these things i keep finding, and with her luck they don’t blow up in her face. I might get her help with some of this stuff i have here.
Also the princess asked me to clear my data storage with anything to do with Diamond Caligraphy. Apperently she is a deadly criminal or something like that? Nevermind. I for one never knew her personally although i did have some info on her, weirdly, so the news about her did not really affect me. I feel bad for whoever knew her as a friend or, better yet, Marefriend.
This got way off topic. But do i really need a topic for my personal journal? I think not. Anyway a new kind of device popped up a week ago and i have yet to see it in the newspaper or newscast. But from what i have heard it does some weird shit. Sorry sorry sorry i need to watch my language.
Ahhh fuck it its my journal. Heh-heh-heh fuck. Why do i find that funny? Pssh nevermind all that. I nee-
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NO! Sorry. No i don’t have anything to do with that. You know this.
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I don’t care if your trying to get intel get the hay out of my bedroom.
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I said get out!
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UGH! Fine but you wont find anything of interest.
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Nothing of interest you say?
I-i swear i didn’t know that was there!
Really?
Yes! I swear!
Im watching you.
Y-y-yes sir.
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Sorry about that. The boss decided to, and i quote “Search for intel.” He found my private stash of mare magizines and he took some. That Celestia damned moth- sorry thats strong language even for me.
I think i should wrap this up.
Study Scope signing off for tonight.
Study Scope sighed and clicked his recorder shut.
“Shits about to get real huh?” He said to no one in particular. “I really need to find something. Something big, something powerful, something, something.” He smiled. “Something deadly.”
Twlight stared glumly at the Animorphous creature she held in her magical grasp, unwillingly setting it down on the ground.
“I’m sorry but it has to be this way, your dangerous and I don’t want somepony to just come up and harm you. Or worse, you harm them. I’m truly sorry but it has to be this way.” She stated sadly before setting the being down and walking off with spike towards Ponyville. The virus simply stared at them before turning to face the imposing woods ahead of it. It knew something was wrong with the large purple creature but could not tell what. So, knowing that it no longer had easy food or biomass, the Viral being tred forth towards the Everfree forest, in hopes of finding something to eat.
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After about thirty minutes of searching to no avail, the Virus stopped and did its impression of a grumble. It had to find something.
The Creature walked up to a large wooden object and grabbed it, the Virus smiled(?) as it realised the object was living, therefor edible. The virus began to devour the tree and grew exponentially, eventually equaling the size of the purple creature. Using it’s knowledge of the creature it knew that it would bot be accepted the way it was, so it had to find a form to take.
The Virus originally decided to go AS the purple creature, but changed it’s mind as there was already one there. So it had to do something different. It needed more knowledge.
The Viral Being shrunk down to a almost unnoticeable size and snuck it’s way back into Ponyville, ready to pounce.
The virus slowly crept up to a small cottage full of creatures of many sizes. A large brown one seemingly guarding the building with an intimidating look on its face, had the virus been able to feel fear it would have, in it’s small state anyway.
The black ball of death rolled up to the corner of the small encampment and crawled up the wall in haste to reach the roof. As soon as it foot atop the building it rushed to the edge to land down on top of the brown animal, but stopped right at the edge. What was it doing? It needed a body, not something to devour.
It moved back towards the center of the roof and thought about a plan. The virus needed something to base it’s diguise off of and it already chose the purple creature as one of the two bases. It also needed to learn the language and the history of where it was and what these creatures were. Since they are able to buld things the virus assumed that they were the dominant species and moved onto making a disguise.
It sat the for a moment longer before voices caught its attention.
“But are you sure she’ll be able to keep it safe?” One voice said although the virus was unable to determine the meaning, it still listened in. “She could get scared of it and run or something.”
“But why would Fluttershy do something like abandon a poor little animal like that?”
“Touche”
‘What did all of this even mean?’ The virus thought. ‘I can think?! I could use this to my advantage.’ The virus then dropped off the roof and into a hole near the doorway. It watched as a familiar figure walked(trotted?) up towards the door an knocked.
“Fluttershy are you home?” Twilight asked. Doubting that said Pegasus was since she did not say anything about going somewhere.
“come in.” A quiet voice sounded from inside.
“Thanks!” Twilight happily trotted inside, unknowingly leaving the door open so the virus could follow. “Fluttershy I was wondering if you could take care of an animal I found?” She questioned. The timid Pegasus peeked her head from around a corner and nodded.
“where is it?” She asked.
“Weeeeeelllll........... i had to put it in the everfree.” At this Fluttershy rushed Twilight and yelled(Quietly) in her face.
“YOU DID WHAT?” She shouted. Although to others ot would seem as if she where talking normally. “WHY WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING!?”
Twilight took a step back. “I’m sorry but i had to, it was dangerous. It ate a whole spider without any kind of problem.” Fluttershy’s jaw fell slightly. But then she picked it back up and re-inserted it into her skull. “It was smaller than the spider.” Jaw meet china, china meet jaw, china jaw, jaw china.
“B-b-but why m-me?” The pegasus stuttered.
Twilight gave her a smile. “Because you can easily care for animals and you’re the only one who can speak to animals.” Twilight stated.
“Oh.”
Twilight turned to leave. “Dont worry we will begin searching tomorrow okay?” Fluttershy gave her a weak smile in response. “Good, well bye!” And with that Twilight let the cottage. The virus immediately snuck up to Fluttershy and was about to absorb her when the said Pegasus turned and her eyes landed on it.
Fluttershy stared at the virus for a moment before opening her mouth to speak. But she could not form words. ‘Hello?’ It thought as the pegasus kept staring. ‘Heh, must’ve broken her.... pity.’
“H-hello there l-little guy.” She finally stated. she was afraid, That much was certain. The Virus decided to speak to her the only way it knew how.
Click! It sounded off. Fluttershy frowned.
“.. you don’t speak much do you?” She asked. ‘Was my accent really that bad?’
Click click tick.
“Oh... i see... well your w-welcome to stay here if you like.. i’ll help you fix the way you speak.
‘Now thats a plan.’
Click! click click tick click.
"You need somewhere to stay?" she said as she walked to the other room, and began doing... something with the items in there. "You could stay here. I always have room for new animal friends." 'Animal friends huh? Okay, i'll roll with that.'
Click click!
"I see." The Viral spider than bounced up to the top of a large flat surface next to her and sat down. "Do you prefer anything to eat? are you hungry? I have meat in here if you need it." Fluttershy began to shuffle through some items in a storage container near the ceiling and pulled out a small container. "What is your name?"
'Oh, well, looks like I have to make something up. Umm........'
Click! 'Yes, that'll do.'
"Okay, well Nemesis, if you need anything tell one of my other friends and they'll help you. I have to go talk to a friend of mine, but i'll be back soon. Don't worry." she then took the small container she held? in her hoof before walking out of the cottage. Nemesis looked around before setting it's eyes on a small, circular, soft looking object. 'I wonder.' Nemesis hopped onto the the object and immediately went wide-eyed. 'Oh my, its so soft! I love it!' it nestled into the object more before closing it's eight eyes and drifting into the Web of intrigue.
'Now lets deal with this mess.' sorting through the memories, it found multiple things of alarm, mostly that the spider that Nemesis had 'Eaten' was venomous and deadly enough to kill most of it's natural predators. 'That's.. useful and slightly shocking.' continuing through the Web, Nemesis discovered that the spider it had absorbed was male. 'So i'm a guy? guess that works.' He frowned when he encountered a specific memory, the memory of another spider this one apparently had it's eyes on for some time. 'Sorry, looks like you won't be getting that Girl.' A loud noise drew Nemesis out of the Web and he jumped up, looking around quickly to see what was happening, and his eyes landed on a white... rabbit? 'what the hell?' the Rabbit continued to shuffle through the items in the container and throwing stuff out.
Click!
The rabbit stopped and looked at Nemesis before shrugging and returning to throwing things.
Click click tick!
The rabbit stopped, but this time hopped over to me before petting me on top of the head and hopping back. '... what was that about? I need to get this rabbit to stop making a mess.'
Nemesis stepped out the softness and onto the hard counter to crawl up to the Rabbit, where he then proceeded to click again. the rabbit turned and looked at Nemesis before shrugging and stomping its foot once.
Click!
The rabbit finally stopped and turned it’s attention to Nemesis and frowning. ‘Did i earn your ire? Little rabbit? How about you see the predator that stands before you?’ The Rabbit glared at Nemesis until the staredown became nothing more than Nemesis looking at the forehead of a white rabbit while said rabbit turned to mess with the drawer again.
Click clickclick click!!
The rabbit did its best inpression of growling and hopped over to Nemesis and kicked him off the counter.
‘Thats it!’
Nemesis crawled back up the counter and hissed at the Rabbit before lounging. The Rabbit swiftly jumped to the side and stomped on Nemesis before hopping backwards at Nemesis’ lounge. The Viral Spider hissed once more and lounged at the Rabbit and missed by a hair before spinning around sharply and biting it’s foot. The Rabbit let out a yelp and kicked wildly at Nemesis before hopping off into another portion of the house.
‘And stay out!’
Nemesis hopped up and down before clicking a few times in glee. ‘Now I need to remove the rest of the untrustworthy monstrocities that live here. Fluttershy deserves trusting companions for such kindness she displays.’ Nemesis crawled to the soft material on the counter and curled back up. Letting darkness overtake It’s vision.
When Nemesis awoke, there was nothing around, not a living soul in sight. Confused, he stood up in his arachnid form and began to crawl around.
'Huh, weren't there a bunch of creatures here before?' He stopped to ponder why before the sound of hoofsteps caught his attention. Nemesis turned to see a figure standing next to the counter, staring dead at him.
'Who the fuck are you mister happy go ninja?' Nemesis thought before the figure's voice cut through the silence.
"Looks like I missed one." The figure said before grabbing a bag from somewhere and shoving Nemesis inside.
'Oh hell no this is not happening.' Nemesis shot a small bladed tendril through the bag and stabbed the figure in the leg, causing itHim by the voice, to yelp and fall.
'Got you now bastard.' Nemesis began to consume the figure as fast as he could, causing said figure to attempt to scream. Nemesis covered his mouth with a tendril before he could so much as peep, and then proceeded to smile. He entered the figure's brain and learned Ponish, and with a smile said right into the figure's ear.
"Next time you try and rob a house, make sure the ultimate predator isn't looking." Nemesis smiled and turned his body to face the figure, who he learned was Dead Silence, and spoke again. "But there won't be a next time will there?"
Dead Silence only was able to shed a single tear before being wholly consumed by Nemesis. 'So you were going to kill Fluttershy? just to prevent the use of the Elements and overthrow Princess Celestia? how lucky I am to have been here when you decided to do so, or should I say how unlucky for you.' Nemesis exited the Web of Intrigue and made a decision right then and there.
'Whoever decided to do this is going to die.' Nemesis thought for a moment. 'Now that I think about it, this seems like the plot to a bad story... Bah forget it I'll think about existential crisis' later.'
[NEWS AT TEN] [REPORTS OF A BREAK IN AT A RESIDENCE AT PONYVILLE SPREAD FAR AND WIDE. THE PERPETRATOR WAS NOT FOUND, BUT REPORTS SAY THAT THE HOME BELONGED TO A PEGASUS NAMED FLUTTERSHY, WHOM IS SAID TO BE AN ELEMENT OF HARMONY. FLUTTERSHY WAS NOT FOUND AT HER HOME WHEN THE BREAK IN WAS REPORTED TO ONE TWILIGHT SPARKLE. ELEMENT OF MAGIC, AND STUDENT TO PRINCESS CELESTIA. MORE REPORTS SAY THAT THE ANIMALS WHO HAD ALSO TAKEN RESIDENCE ARE ALSO MISSING, AND EVIDENCE OF A STRUGGLE WAS LOCATED IN THE KITCHEN AREA. SEARCH FOR THE ELEMENT OF KINDNESS IS STILL ONGOING.]
Nemesis, AKA Dead Silence, sighed after reading the front page. 'Not even twelve hours and they've already found all that? They are fast.' He set the paper down on the bench he sat at during the night after wandering for some time, and stared at the daytime sky. He liked it, no matter how hard it was to look at, the sun held a place in his mind that he'd never forget. He had yet to still understand why, however. 'Maybe it was one of Dead Silence's memories?' Diving back into the Web, he noticed significantly more information there than before he consumed Dead Silence. He came across different memories, ranging from his childhood to adulthood, and found where Dead Silence ended up as a professional Hitpony.
He had to give it to himself. He was pretty good at this. Dead Silence stood over the pony beneath him, a stallion named Straight Shot. Both were good at what they did, even if it was not the prettiest thing in the world.
"Dang, it gets harder and harder each time to keep you off of me Dead, I'd think your taking steroids if I didn't see you training real hard every day." SS said, everyone called him SS because he said it sounded "cool."
Dead rubbed a hoof along the back of his neck, "Yea, I guess I want this job pretty badly huh?"
"You definitely seem like it." SS Laughed, "Are you going to get off of me or do you like being on top?" Dead began to blush and hopped off, "That's better." SS stood up and brushed himself off, smiling. "Maybe you should train to be a Pony Cage? You definitely could hold someone down even though your skinnier than a stick." SS Laughed again. before a voice cut through the air.
"Well done, it only took about 3.5 seconds for you to break through Straight Shot's block and have him on the ground, We'll make an assassin out of you yet." With a click the voice cut out. Dead sighed and looked at SS.
"How much faster do I have to break your block to be able to pass this stupid test?" Dead stomped the ground with his hoof.
"Who said you didn't pass already?" A new voice spoke, causing Dead and SS to turn sharply and salute.
A mare named Delicate Touch stood before them both, she ran the training program and paid all the bills. She asked you to do something, you'd do it without question. "I've watched your tests, and I have to say I'm incredibly impressed. Your doing better than most recruits do on their first test, and you remember how easy that was for you don't you?" She walked closer to him and spoke before Dead could reply. "Of course you do. you had to kill for the first time to get in after all. But, they were scum and deserved to die. Now," She dropped into an offensive stance. "Time to see what your really made of. Beat me, and you'll be a Hitpony as soon as you walk out the door of this room."
Dead dropped into the stance he had used so many times and waited for a second, he then shot of like a bullet, using his wings to propel him faster than Delicate could move, and slammed into something hard. He frowned when he realized it was a barrier spell, but smiled when he remembered that using a very small point and hitting the barrier incredibly hard would shatter even the strongest of shields. he grabbed a tiny blade from a pocket under his wing and threw it as hard as he could while maintaining a straight throw, the blade hit the barrier and shattered in instantly. he rushed forward and used his wings to launch into the air and slam down onto the Unicorn, only for her to sidestep and the last moment and slam a hoof into his chest.
Dead coughed and spun around, grabbing her hoof and yanking, Delicate used the force of the pull to hop into the air over Dead's back and land on top of him, jumping of while slamming him into the ground with the force of a small boulder. she then shot a couple spells which Dead rolled to the side to dodge, Delicate landed with not a sound and smiled.
"Try harder, I barely felt that."
Dead hopped up and rushed her again, he watched as she tensed up to jump into the air smiled, he knew exactly how to beat her. Turning at the last moment, he watched as she jumped up into the air and he quickly shot up to her using his wings to propel him. He spun around and just when he thought his hoof would connect with her chest she teleport-ed above him and elbowed him on the chest, thrusting him into the ground with a loud thud.
"You can do better than that, show me what you can do!" she shot down faster than he expected but Dead rolled to the side and threw a hoof into the side of her head, she went spiraling and he jumped up and shot after her, not letting up for a moment he lunged on top of her, held her legs down with his, he grabbed her horn and used his free wing to draw a blade and hold it to her neck.
"Is that good enough?" He said with a smile. something about this seemed off but he shook the thought from his head.
"Not quite." Delicate rolled away from the direction his blade faced, causing Dead to lose his balance and fall, she then hopped to her hooves and slammed one into his chest a couple times. "You know much, but not everything!" She sidestepped his lounge. "Keep your guard up! never let any or anything dissuade you from your target!" He jumped into the air and shot towards her. Delicate grabbed his body and spun around, using the force he put into his slam against him and tossing him back into the air. "Your target could have guards! they could fight better than you or be bigger and stronger!" she teleport-ed behind him and punched his back leg, making him collapse. he used his wings and grabbed her head and slammed his hoof into it, she lost her balance for a second but recovered faster than Dead anticipated. She hopped back out of his reach. "You must use everything to your advantage! Terrain! Items on the ground and around you! Use your body to it's fullest!!" As soon as she said that, and idea popped into Dead's head and he shot forwards, passing her completely and slamming into the wall of the room, he continued to do so back and forth between walls until he became a blur, adjusting the final jump, he twisted and slammed into her faster than a speeding train, causing a sonic boom in the process and slamming them both into the wall.
When the dust settled, Dead had two blades held against Delicate's neck in such a way that if she moved her head she would cut herself, and he could pull the blades and slit her throat at any time. She smiled.
There is nothing more diabolical, nothing more monstrous than this.
Before Nemesis was a cupcake. He had been invited to a "Hope Fluttershy Gets Found/Welcome To Ponyville Dead Silence," party and after talking with a few guests and learning that the other Elements all live in the same fucking place. he decidedwas forced to try one of the sweets after the one they call Pinkie Pie decided that he was not "Enjoying the party enough."
Dead Silence was not one for parties.
Nemesis had used Dead's skill in illusion to seem happy about it, but Pinkie Pie saw right through his facade like it was not even there.
'How the hell did I get into this mess?'
Nemesis stood up from his spot, the tree behind him giving a nice bit of shade and the hill sloping gently downwards towards the town and the Everfree. he turned, and began walking back towards the cottage when a gasp behind him made Nemesis turn and almost slice a Pink pony in half. she immediately went off on a tangent.
"Oh my gosh your new in town aren't you what am I saying of course you are what's your name where are you from do you like cake of course you do everyone does!" The pony said, and Nemesis blinked. She gasped again before jumping high in the air a shooting off so fast she left a dust pony behind.
'What.' She came back at almost the same speed and smiled before talking at thirty miles per hour again.
"Whoops I never introduced myself my name Is Pinkie Pie but can just call me Pinkie sorry about that It wasnicemeetingyoubye!!" She shot off like a rocket once more. 'I don't have the brainpower to try and decipher that, all I heard was Pinkie. Guess that's her name then.'
Nemesis sighed and followed her into town, stopping every now and then to look at the ground for clues as to where the Element of Kindness went, he knew where Dead was supposed to put her in the middle of the night, but afterwards where she went was a complete mystery. He needed to know, Nemesis in good conscience couldn’t leave her for dead. Even Dead was treated nicely, and he proceeded to take her to the meeting place somewhat against his will. He turned around to head out of Ponyville when he noticed something odd.
'Where is everypony?'
He spun around once and saw nopony, nothing even hinting they were ever there. 'Why do I get the feeling that Pinkie turned them all into cupcakes?' He shook his head and continued to walk around, peeking inside a cylindrical building that looked oddly like an amusement park ride, and when he saw nothing he sighed and went on towards the next building. seeing nopony. 'My goodness, Its like they all just disappeared.' He turned and saw a building made comepletely of... candy? What the fuck? Nemesis sighed and stepped forwards and stopped at the door, hearing something inside. He pressed an ear against it and could hear multiple ponies murmuring amongst themselves. Why were they here? What are they planning? Is this an ambush? Did they find out that Dead kidnapped Fluttershy and now they’re out for blood?
Nemesis decided against all of these when he heard a young voice asking when he’d come in, only to be shushed immediately afterwards. He took a breath in, something still new to Nemesis, and let it slowly out before stepping inside.
As soon as he opened the door, about thirty different voices all shouted, “SURPRISE!!” at him, causing Nemesis to nearly jump right back out. He steeled his nerves and fully entered the building. Pinkie Pie was immediately in his face.
“Were you surprised huh huh well maybe not but of course you were there was no waaay you’d know this was coming.” She took a deep breath in and smiled. “Hi, my names Pinkie Pie, whats yours?”
He smiled. “My name is Dead Silence, nice to meet you miss Pie.” Nemesis held his hoof out in greeting and Pinkie eagerly shook it.
“Oh good! You don’t have to call me miss though, thats for my mom. I’m super duper excited to see what your going to say about staying here! Are you going to stay? Are you visiting??” She gasped, “OH MY GOSH That means I’m going to have to make a goodbye Dead Silence cake! I gotta get started!” She turned to rush off but Nemesis grabbed her.
“Calm down, I’m doing something here and I’m going to have to stay for a few days.” Pinkie’s grin only grew when she heard that, causing Nemesis the re-think his wording. “Soo... what exactly is this party about?”
Pinkie smiled. “Its your ‘Welcome to Ponyville’ party silly!” She hopped off after that statement. And Nemesis sighed, He’d need to go somewhere that ponies aren’t, the longer he waits to find Fluttershy, the further away the chances of her living get.
With a sigh, he began to look around the “Sugarcube Corner.”
He glared at the cupcake with every fiber of his being. Such a monsterous thing like cupcakes should not be allowed to exist. These things taste like absolute SHIT!
But alas, the Pink Menace will not allow him to leave without devouring the evil that sits before him. How do Ponies even enjoy this nasty food?
Nemesis let out a sigh of defeat and grabbed the cupcake. If its the only way out, he’ll do it. And ate the cupcake.
He nearly melted at the sheer disgust that eminated from the purposely powerful pastry. And he got himself together and purged every piece of taste from his mind and body afterwards. When he saved Fluttershy, He’d go and summon an army to slay the master of these monstrous malicous so called ‘Masterpieces.’
Nemesis smiled when he saw Pinkie, a real smile as he thought of the many many ways to destroy the disgusting things glaring at him from the counter. Pinkie jumped for joy when she saw his actual smile.
“See! I knew you’d enjoy it once you tried it! Now you can go do what you were gonna do, because it sounded important! Good luck Deady!” Nemesis nodded, it was luck he’d need.
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Wait.
Deady?
He closed the door behind himself and took to the street, making good time to where Fluttershy was to be taken. And upon entering the old building he was greeted with a large group of spiders, all of which were sitting on the floor. Nemesis couldn’t quite understand what they were saying, maybe because he was so much larger than they were. He simply increased his hearing and listened in...
“You know, I never did see that one spider you were talking about. The one who ate a ‘Roach whole?” The larger of the seven stated. The others nodded to a smaller spider, who looked obviously nervous.
“Y-yea... I don’t know where he went. He was with the Purple Pony... and then not with her. I think the Big Purple took him away because he ate the ‘Roach, ya know? They’re afraid of stuff like that.” The others all nodded in agreement, believing every word. The larger one, however, didn’t like this.
“Oh? Then were’s your proof? You got evidence? Where’s the rest of the ‘Roach that he didn’t eat hmm? Is it possible that your lying?” The larger spider said, clearly threatening the smaller one. The smaller shook his head quickly.
“N-no! Why would I lie about this?”
The bigger one smiled and pressed onwards. “Maybe because you wanted to get in our good books? Or maybe scare us with your ‘Super Spider?’ Well, looks like you failed, because I don’t see your friend anywhere and you yourself look terrified.” He said, now centimeters away from the smaller spider’s face. Nemesis frowned and shifted, taking the form of the spider he consumed all while shrinking down to their size. He strode up behind the smaller spider and cleared his throat. The smaller spider jumped and gasped when he saw me, while the larger one paled.
“Oh yes! Thank Ara! You arrived! I was afraid they were going to hurt me.” Nemesis simple nodded and turned to the larger spider, who was noticeably smaller than Nemesis himself.
“S-sorry! I didn’t realize you actually existed. We thought he was lying a—“
“Why?” Nemesis interrupted. The larger spider clearly wasn’t expecting him to talk, and started shaking slightly.
“B-because he’s small and weak a—“
“What do you have against the weak?” Nemesis pressed, looking dead at the spider. Said spider shook his head rapidly.
“Nothing! Nothing at all! I’ll be going now and not look back okay? Donthurtmeplease.” He said, speaking rapidly at the end and scittering off, the group following him. Nemesis turned to the smaller spider and almost immediately recognized him.
“Didn’t I see you at that place with the Purple Pony?” He asked, and the spider nodded.
“Yea! I didn’t know you could talk. You learn fast. Anyway, how did you get here and how did you know I was in trouble?”
Nemesis smiled as bet he could. “Lets say I had a hunch.”
“Oh! Well thank Ara for that Hunch then huh? I was sure I was dead meat.” The smaller spider seemed giddy, and Nemesis simply shrugged.
“Don’t worry about them now, okay?” He nodded and Nemesis smiled. “Right then, you got a name?”
The smaller spider nodded. “My name is Nias!”
Nemesis nodded, an interesting name. “Well Nias, I need to be going, but I will come back later okay?” Nias simply nodded and backed off, and Nemesis turned and shot through a doorway before shifting back into his Pony Form. “Now to find Fluttershy.” He moved forwards, avoiding any boards that looked unstable, or rotten. His gaze carefully scanning over every detail. A termite here, a broken piece of bark that was rotting there, a dust bunny there, a hoof print, a— wait hoof print? He moved closed and looked it up and down, smaller than his own hoof, but larger than anyone he knew. Nemesis looked around the area, and noticed faint, but there, hoof prints leading down a stairwell under another stairwell... stairception.
He moved into the small cubbyhole it was, and the smell of dank wood and mildew struck him hard. He coughed for a good second before waving away the dust that hung on the air and moving farther down. A few broken steps and what looks like dried blood on the railing. If they hurt Fluttershy he’d kill them all.
Nemesis examined his surroundings again, the basement was dark, and solid dirt packed down was beneath his hooves. A support pillar stood silently in the middle of the room, and other than an abandoned desk to the side, he saw nothing... that is, until he noticed that one of the walls was brick. Why would they make an entrance that supposed to be secret so obvious? Moving up to the wall, he pulled his hoof up and back and was about to knock the wall down when he spotted a brick laying a little further out than the rest, and he pushed it in, opening a secret pathway. ’Easy.’
He moved down the suddenly less horrible smelling stairwell and into what was clearly a very long way down... time to start walking, then.
Thirty minutes into the trip, and Nemesis was beginning to regret deciding to take the long way. ‘Why. Why did they make this so long? This is dull... then again, with a captive it might be less dull.’ His thoughts were morbid, but oddly accurate. And as Nemesis continued to walk, he barely noticed a hidden entrance into the wall to his right, and he stopped and examined it. It was a steel door, and a closer examination triggered slight memories, brief glances of the purpose of the door... it was an exit, into a large cave system that lead directly to the base of a mountain after a good three hour trek. Of course, Nemesis checked the door for recent use, and when he found none, he moved onwards.
‘This is going to be a long walk.’
‘This is going to be a long walk.’
Dead let his gaze wonder around the area, specifically a long hallway leading up to the center room of the Citadel. Apparently, His victory over delicate had spread far, and he had noticed the respect he gained from Hitponys and Assassins alike, both having not known him until he had locked Delicate in a position she couldn’t escape. However, when he was called up by the Overseer itself, to say he was terrified was an understatement. Nobody ever went to the Overseer’s office and came back out the same pony. Something always went down in that room that Dead just got shivers thinking about. As he stopped before the stark grey metal door, his only thought was ‘Please, Ornu have mercy on my soul.’ Ornu was the ancient God of Service and secrecy, and the most respected and widely accepted God of the Guild. Even if it wasn’t much to look at, the shrines of Ornu were expected to be seen in everyone’s room. Dead, however, was snapped from his musings when the door opened and he was greeted with a cold, dark room. Stepping in, Dead was scared pale, to the point where he expected Death... however, it never came, as a deep voice rumbled from within the darkness.
“Dead Silence... Pegasus Pony and newly appointed Junior Hitpony...” The voice was deep and gravely, but emanated from a single blue point directly ahead of Dead. “When I heard of your achievements... it was nothing new to me... however, I have only called you here for one reason.” Dead gulped, he was never going to be the same after this, he was going to be strapped to a table and have his skull torn apart as they stuck spells an—
“Congratulations. You are the first ever pony to have been promoted to Hitpony within a week of being recruited by the Guild of Taciturnitas... You hold much promise for us... Now, your have been overstaying your welcome...” Dead took this as the signal to turn around and leave, and that he did. When the door closed behind him, he let out a breath he didn’t realize he was holding and smiled slightly... Was he already notorious?
Nemesis shook his head, his brief glance into the Web of Intrigue over. He smiled when the end of the hall approached, as he had been walking for upwards of an hour, and didn’t want to have to wait any longer or gaze into the memories of who he had taken form of. As he approached a door, an eye peeked from within a small hole, and a moment later a face popped up. Nemesis didn’t recognize it, and simply watched as the face looked him over.
“Well?” The unknown pony asked, and the sound of a lock opening greeted Nemesis’ ears as the door opened. “Get in here!”
Nemesis was swiftly grabbed and shoved inside the room, and the door was locked a moment later. The pony turned and glared at Nemesis.
“Are you crazy? The Guild is looking for you Dead! If you show your face around Guild territory you’ll be skinned alive!” This lead Nemesis to more confusion... He needed to check the Web later.
“Sorry! I just needed to check this place out before heading off.” Nemesis said, and the other pony plopped down onto their rump. Now that Nemesis finally got a good look at the Pony, he finally noticed the cuts and bruises dominating his body, and the dirty brown coat and silver mane that lay cut atop the pony’s head.
“Dead... Do you realize how badly you fucked up by taking one of the elements?” The pony asked, and only now did Nemesis realize who it was.
