Epidemic

-Canterlot; Outside Celestia's residence-

Labor comes out of Celestia's room. He has already told her how close to the cure they are. Now it'll just take a couple hours before employment can begin.

Suddenly, from around the corner, Luna approaches. Labor watches her come his way. When Luna reaches him, she nods, and Labor nods back, before walking away. Luna passes him, and enters Celestia's room. Labor takes a deep breath, and walks off to the lab.

-Ponyville; SugarCube Corner-

Pinkie takes a bite out of an apple. A clean one. Everything down in her basement is clean. It must be. For her very survival depends on it.

That is of course, if surviving is really worth it. No one is dying up there, and that's good. There is still time to find the cure. It's only a matter of time before they start to drop.

One question remains though. Back a couple days ago. How did Pinkie know of Celius? Twilight was surprised of her knowledge, but why? What does Pinkie know?

She has read that book before. The one in Twilight's library. You know, the Celius book. From cover to cover. She had found it in the Everfree, when she visiting Zecora.

That was a couple years back, though. She had kept it. Her job was to keep everypony happy, and this book was the exact opposite of it. So she kept it hidden in her closet. No one went in there anyway, so no one would find it.

But then something peculiar happened. Her friend; Lyra Heartstrings, started coughing. After a checkup stating that Lyra had an unidentifiable disease, Pinkie soon realized what was afoot.

Which is why she snuck the book into Twilight's library. If anyone could fix this mess it was her. Not Pinkie. She knew her expertise of party hats, and balloon animals was no match for Twilight's knowledge of these things.

She could've been wrong however, they might've made a mistake at the hospital. This stopped Pinkie from saying anything. She didn't want to cause panic over a little dud.

And now here we are. With probably the only uninfected pony in Ponyville. Downstairs in her basement. Locked in, hoping the cure would make it. She wouldn't want all her friends to die. It would kill her.

-Canterlot; Laboratory-

Twilight watches the rats, waiting to see any lethal symptoms approach. Nothing. Atleast, nothing yet.

Labor walks into the room, and straight to his hazmat suit. Twilight shifts between watching him put it on, and making sure the rats don't die off. There were seven, so the death rate out there was slow. She hopes her friends aren't in the small amount of ponies that are dying.

Labor finishes putting the suit on, and proceeds to the cure. Twilight now watches him, breaking her trance from the rats.

Labor works quickly, but to Twilight, not quickly enough. Labor catches her annoying fidgeting, but chooses to ignore it. Twilight stares at Labor do his work, [url=http://www.fimfiction

hoping that maybe he can just work just a little bit quicker.

Twilight bites her lower lip, and rubs the back of her neck, watching the doctor carefully mix around the-

"Tvilight, stop staring at me. You're making me uncomfortable." Labor finally speaks up.

"Oh! Sorry, I was just uh..."

"I don't care vhat you vere doing, just notify me of zhe rats, yes?" Labor asks of her. Twilight rubs her left arm with her right hoof.

"Uh, sure. Again, I'm sorry." Twilight repeats, and turns to the seven up-and-running rats.

-1 hour 30 minutes later-

Cure progress; 99%

Labor sweats a bit in anticipation as the final piece of the cure is just about ready.

Drip. "Success!! Zhe cure is finished!"

As stated above.

Cure progress. 100%

Labor laughs out loud, and Twilight jumps around with glee. The blue liquid filled test tube was the cure, finished, and ready for deployment. So far we have come, and the cure is finally finished!

Then Twilight tumbles it, and it falls to the ground and shatters.

Im just kidding, this is a happy ending!

It is filled with glee!

To conclude this segment. All ended well!

The next day.

-Ponyville; Twilight's library-

The cure deployment started as soon as the cure was found. Spreading around the world, it cured countless ponies. They made national announcements that the cure was waiting at a local hospital, to which every pony rushed, and waited to get vaccinated.

Twilight sits here, hugging her friends and crying happy tears of joy. Labor stands next to Celestia with a smile on his face, along with Dr. Whooves and his family. Safe and sound.

Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy stood in line at the hospital to get vaccinated. Rainbow Dash had to be vaccinated in her own home, for she refused to move. Pinkie was convinced to come out, after Twilgiht called for her.

And all was well! With the exception of a couple hundred dead bodies. Now they are on the road to rebuilding!

The town helps out, building new houses, planting trees, and lending a hoof to restabilize ponykind.

Twilight is happy. Labor is proud. Dr. Whooves is just glad it's over, and Celestia is relieved to know that this time, Celius didn't win. Not a single town lost.

And so we reach the end of our tale. Knowing that everything is finally back to normal for good old Ponyville. May something like this never plague the land of Equestria again!

Hehe, get it? Plague the land? Cuz it's a Plague Inc crossover. And it makes it-

You know what, screw you guys, I don't need you to laugh at my jokes. My mom laughs at my jokes, and that's all I need.

Assholes...

-5 years later-

Twilight reads happily in her library. After so long, Ponykind is up an running again.

But another particular book catches her eye.

But it wasn't on viruses like Celius. This one...

Is on a worm.