> Siblings of Blacklight and Nemesis (Remastered) > by Creative Paradox > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Opening Prologue > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Opening Prologue (Takes place during season 6) 3rd person POV Equestria a wonderful place of friendship and magic... at least it was.... now however an infection is spreading worldwide due to an accident from the Umbra Corporation. The infection had 2 strands now dubbed the C-Virus and the G-Virus and it's spreading quickly. But there is hope Princess Twilight and her friends had been discovered to be immune to both viruses and figured out that the chrystal empire was completely protected from the virus, so the princesses had forged barrier chrystals to protect the uninfected towns and cities like canterlot, the dragon Kingdom and ponyville. It has now been 3 years since the outbreak began and the mane 6 had gained some intel that there might be something that can help them end the infection. In Manehattan there is the Umbra pharmacy hospital but that is just a cover up for the underground facility at least 50 kilometers down and it's speculated that it's were both viruses were created. Now we begin to see if these 6 friends can stop the apocalypse. > Ch.1 Awakening To A World of Horrors > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- chapter 1: Awakening To A World of Horrors Equestria Manehatten Twilight's POV My friends and I along with about 15 other soldiers were in some helicopters flying towards our objective, the Umbra Farmacy. It was located in the center of Manehatten and we were going to get dropped off on the roof of the Farmacy and make our way down to the hidden research lab. It would've excited me if the lab itself hadn't been the cause for the outbreak. Luckily for me and my friends though because due to us being immune to the infection we don't have to wear any hazmat suits but those who are not immune to the air strain or other ways of infection have to wear the hazmat suits. We also have a "special" type of backup thanks to some surviving members of the Umbra facility. This backup is what the Umbra Corporation calls The Tyrants the ones we have are the t-103 one specific one is known as t-00 or Mr.X we are only bringing 3 of them for safety measures... for me mostly due to me being a princess.  And Mr.X is programmed to follow my command only, basically he is my protector and my special Tyrant. I guess I should explain who's my team right? Well if it wasn't obvious me and my friends are known as the strike force team: Harmony's Elements team. I'm the leader and scientist princess Twilight, my second in command is our support class Applejack, next is our assault class Rainbow Dash she also has a medal prosthetic left wing, a peace of her right ear is missing, and she has a scar over her left eye, then there's our tech expert Rarity, then there's our medical officer/assassin Fluttershy, and last but not least there's pinkie pie expertise... everything... in just a few simple words...it's just Pinkie being Pinkie. Next is my newly assigned 'protector' the T-00 or Mr.X for short (I'll have pictures of what they look like down below.) 'I wonder how Cadence and my Brother are doing right now?' I thought "hay Twilight" Rainbow called, looking up to her and she continued. "Do you think that we'll actually find something here that could help us stop all of this?" She asked, waving her hand towards the window showing the ruined city outside. I looked down pondering the question for a few seconds then I answered with a little depressed sigh "I...don't know Rainbow Dash we can only hope...I know we've suffered a lot these past 3 years since the beginning of the outbreak...but we can't give up hope because if we do then...we might as well just throw down our lives...but we can't we must move forward for those we've lost..." I paused to remember the lost before continuing "And for those who need saving. For those who can't defend themselves." After finishing my little motivational speech I finally answered Rainbow's question "I don't know what we'll find down there but if it can help us then I won't stop till I find it. Because as far as any of us know this could be our only hope at ending this apocalypse." I say with determination Rainbow and the others nod with hopeful looks in their eyes. Then the pilots called out to us as the chopper landed "Fireteam Harmony's Elements, the light is green. Good hunting out there." We all nod to him and begin exiting the helicopter along with the other soldiers and Tyrants. We begin making our way to the roof door, once we open it and look down the flight of stairs. We start popping glow sticks to light the staircase up and we start making our way down to the ground level with no issues. Once we reached ground level we went towards the elevator and went inside, there we found the hidden floor button and began heading down. I start telling everypony there orders "Alright team, we have approximately 1 hour to get back to the chopper so that means we have to be quick about this which means no dilly dallying. All we need to do is split up, find project Blacklight and project Nemesis and get out. Ok...no sacrifices...not if we can help it alright?" I say to them as everypony just says "yes, ma'am" and puts on a determined face "Ok, sargent dead eye." I say turning to said stallion as the elevator stops "Yes princess?" He asks "Take the other two Tyrants with your team and head down to the science lab and see what you all can find. Mr.X and the rest of Harmony's Elements will go with me to the testing labs to try and find projects Blacklight and Nemesis." I say to both him and my team "Yes ma'am." He says with a salute and they split up. We were making our way towards the testing labs when we started to see blood practically all over the place it kinda made my stomach churn a little bit 'if me and my friends saw something like this 3 years ago we would have lost our lunch and would have been scared out of our minds. *sigh* it just goes to show how much this apocalypse has affected us' I thought looking over at fluttershy 'especially fluttershy' I thought depressed a little but we kept on moving forward, no one noticing something moving in the darkness in the couradoor far behind them. We entered the control room for the testing lab and I see to big containers that resemble glass coffins, but there to fogged up to see what's inside but luckily for us the containers were labeled and both labels read Project: Blacklight and Project: Nemesis I go to the computer that has the locking mechanism for the containers and I happily tell everypony what's in front of us "Everypony, overhear I found them." I say with some excitement "Now all I have to do is open them." I say, more to myself than anything and after a little bit I finally found the defrost button and the unlock button for both containers. Once I pressed the button to reanimate them and unlock their containers I am able to get a better look at them. The one known as project Blacklight was bipedal like us ponies, it had no fur except for what it had on top of it's head, it didn't have a muzzle or a tail it's eyes are a hazel with the colors green, blue, and brown, and for its clothes it wore black shoes, dark blue jeans, a grey Hoodie with what looks like a black skull spray painted on the front of it, and what looks like a black leather jacket with 2 white circles drawn around both arms and thanks to it falling on all fours just now i can make out some kind of red tribal symbol on the back of the jacket. Project Nemesis on the other hand… (I can't really describe him so here's a picture) I look over to my team...my friends who have stars in their eyes "Now that they're free, let's go greet them and get to extraction" I say before we begin walking into the testing lab. POV change Blacklight 'Ugh what the hell happened w-were am I?' I thought about trying to open my eyes only to close them immediately after due to the bright lights in the room. 'The last thing I remember is...' *gasp* 'Eric...my brother...and what they did to him... and what I did to help him...hmm I wonder' I began to concentrate on the hivemind I created 'Hey Eric... are you there?' I was starting to get a little worried for a second there before I heard his 5 year old mental voice 'hey big bro... what happened? the last thing I remember was us fighting some weird frog like monster?' He says over the hivemind 'I don't know but I think we're being rescued?' I replied with equil confusion but once I opened my eyes again I looked up to see my little brother standing over me holding his hand out to help me up. Grabbing his hand he helped me up onto my feet, taking a look around I eventually spotted them. The main 6 from the MLP show on the outside, I look calm with a neutral look on my face but on the inside I'm cheering yes over and over again. Because I'm actually meeting my favorite ponies from the show but then I get a closer look at them and I become concerned and a little sad because they are dressed in soldier uniforms and look like they've been through hell. Which means something must have happened and it looks like me and my Brother are about to find out, and it seems we're getting involved with it. Twilight walks up to us and says with a pleading look in her eyes "We don't have much time to explain right now but we really need your guys help. You both need to come with us." She says looking over to my brother, he looks back at me waiting for my decision and not long after that I made up my mind. "Ok, lead the way." I say to her she seems a little shocked that I could talk which kinda confused me for a second until I see... Fucking Mr.X is with them... and suddenly it makes sense why she thought I couldn't talk. Because she thought I was like The Umbra Corporations Tyrants which never speak. Anyway me and Nemesis start following them back the way they came until we heard gunfire. "Shit." Twilight cursed under her breath and put two fingers to her earpiece and tried to contact the other team. "Fireteam Alpha report, report." She says through the communicator a few tense seconds pass before... "This is sergeant dead eye reporting in ma'am...sorry about the delay we had a few hostiles and...*sigh* we lost 5 soldiers." He said somberly "I-i see, anything else." Twilight said with some sadness in her voice "Yes ma'am we found written documents detailing everything about the C-Virus, G-Virus, T-Virus, and The Blacklight Virus as well as some samples of them. We burned everything else as per our orders and we're now waiting for your team in the elevator." He said which got me curious as well as a little worried due to the viruses that were mentioned. After about 15 minutes of walking we finally made it to the elevator and went in, it started going back up to the surface. This time instead of it stopping on the ground level it stops on the top floor, we make our way towards the staircase and finally the roof where our evac helicopter is waiting. Once everyone was on the helicopter began making its way towards the base in ponyville. They told me that it was protected from the viruses by a barrier crystal from the crystal heart and that they were going to put a spell on me and my brother so we could pass without getting harmed. letting them, pretty soon we came within sight of ponyville and it seems the barrier covers the Everfree Forest apparently. Once we passed the barrier which felt weird by the way. The helicopter landed near Twilight's castle and let me tell you something seeing it in a cartoon is nothing compared to real life. I then noticed twilight trying to lead me and my brother to the castle so we followed and well once we got inside she and her friends led me and Nemesis to what I presumed would be the map room. A few minutes later and it turns out I was right they were leading us to the map room and so here we are. They spent the next hour and a half telling us about how the outbreak happened and how long it had been going on for. "3 years... my God I can't imagine what you all must have been through." I say with sincerity twilight just nods while the others just look down "Hey Blacklight can y-'' she was going to ask before I cut her off "David" I said she looks at me a little confused "My name, when it's just us around and nopony else. My name is David Mercer and this is my little brother Eric Mercer." I clarify they looked a little shocked that Nemesis was my brother. I don't really blame them, I would have acted the same way in their shoes. The first one to snap out of it is twilight "...Right well I was going to ask if you could tell us how you came to be or something like that?" She asked me with a hopeful look and curiosity in her eyes. I closed my eyes and thought about her question… *To Be Continued*