Epidemic

Dr. Whooves walked over to the already set up microscope and took a look. Twilight intensively focused on him.

"This is absolutely astonishing! The virus cells are growing with an accelerated rate. The virus seems capable of mutating up to three times in one day!" Dr. Whooves explains as he departs from the microscope. Twilight looks in as she sees the same as Dr. Whooves.

"Does that mean that the virus is severe?" Twilight asks, afraid of the answer.

"Not only severe." Dr Whooves begins. "But also extremely lethal and immune. The cure must start immediately! If not, then the virus may soon become dangerous. Or worse." There is a suspenseful pause as Twilight looks up from the microscope.

"The virus may become completely immune to anything."

Twilight took a deep breath to relieve herself from any panic, and opened her book. She flipped over to the page titled 'Cure', and scanned through the ingredients. Dr. Whooves joined her, to read as well.

"The cure has incredibly rare ingredients." Twilight says, turning to Dr. Whooves. "How long do you think it will take before we discover it?"

"With only us two, it could take up to ten years to find it." Dr. Whooves says, keeping his eyes on the book. Twilight begins to worry.

"At that rate, Ponyville might go extinct before we even find the cure." Twilight says.

"Then we need to raise attention on Celius. We have to get more people on our side." Dr. Whooves suggests.

"How will do that?" Twilight intently asked. Twilight was prepared to do whatever it took to eradicate the virus.

"How about a 'Celius awareness day?'" Dr. Whooves suggests raising a hoof.

"But now many ponies know about it." Twilight begins. "How will get the message through if nopony notices it."

"Then we have to think of another way to spread the word." Dr. Whooves says as he looks out the window. "But for now, you need to rest. We will continue tomorrow." The light outside Twilight's library was quickly being overcome with the darkness of the night.

"Ok. See you tomorrow." Twilight says as Dr. Whooves leaves the library. He waves in respond.

Twilight slowly walks upstairs, yawning and bowing her head in exhaustion. She carefully opens the door, to reveal Spike snoozing soundly on his little bed. She silently walked over to her own bed. She laid down, and yawned once more.

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Twilight woke up, and looked around. There was something wrong with the outside. A mysterious red glow was emitting from the outside. She got up and looked over to where Spike should be, but wasn't. Just then, she heard a knock, and went downstairs to see who it was. When she opened the door, she saw Dr. Whooves standing there, but the condition he was in frightened Twilight.

Dr. Whooves stood there with bloodshot red eyes, and his skin invested with opens wounds. He was sweating around little bubbles that formed around the wounds. Twilight let out a shreik of terror when the doctor coughed, because when he coughed, blood splurt out.

"Twilight." The doctor began to speak. His voice was broken, and hardly recognizable behind the gurgled words. "You failed."

Twilight shut the door, and ran towards the book. She immediatly opened the book, but was shocked to find that no words or pictures were in it. Just empty blank sheets of paper. Twilight frantically flipped through the pages, trying to find anything in there. Until she found one page. The page had no title, only one word centered on the page.

'Celius'

The word was written in big red letters. There were no other words, or pictures. Just the one word boldy written on the book.

Suddenly, Twilight heard screamig coming from the outside of her library. She slowly opened her door, and saw tons of ponies outside throwing molotavs at buildings. Twilight teared up when she saw fillies and colts lying lifeless on the ground as their assumed parents furiously crying while hugging them tightly.

The ponies were all in the condition the doctor was in. Twilight was hyperventilating when she saw a couple ponies collapse to the ground, most likely dead. Flames engulfed ponyville as the angry ponies screamed out in pain.

Twilight didn't understand what was going on around her. The virus could not have possibly mutated and spread so fast overnight.

Twilight closed the door, and ran upstairs. There she rememebered something. Spike! She hurried back downstairs. She still had the medical mask given to her at the hospital. She put it on, and fearfully walked out. Twilight was baffled when she noticed that no one was looking at her.

"Spike! Spike where are you!" The frantic Twilight called out.

Twilight noticed a crowd forming a circle around something, and sobbing their eyes out. Curious, Twilight squeezed through the crowd in an attempt to see what's going on. What she saw made her join the crowd's sorrow as she cried in emotional pain.

It was Fluttershy. Her limp body was bleeding furiously from the wounds, and her bloodshot eyes were rolled back into her head. Twilight scooped her lifeless body, and hugged jer tightly. Her tears dripping from her cheeks, and falling onto the dead Pegasus.

"This is my fault." Twilight blamed herself for the chaos around her. She hugged the butter yellow pegasus tightly, and shut her eyes tightly.

"This is my fault. This is my fault. THIS IS MY FAULT!"

"Twilight!" Yelled out a familiar voice.

"THIS IS MY FAULT!"

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Twilight awoke to the brutal shakes of Spike.

"Twilight! Wake up!" The little dragon yelled.

"What?" Twilight rubbed her eyes and looked out the window. It was morning.

"You were *cough* screaming in your sleep." Spike explained. Twilight yawned and got out of bed.

"Spike. You need go get back to sleep. You're sick rememeber?" Twilight reminded Spike before yawning het again. Spike coughed, and walked over to his little bed. Then he fell back asleep.

Twilight walked downstairs thinking about the nightmare she had. The virus has been stressing her out lately, and she has been on it too much. But it had to be studied, no matter what.

Suddenly, Twilight heard a knock. She opened it, and was relieved to see the doctor in a healthy condition.

"Good morning doctor. Please come in." Twilight said as she stepped aside, giving Dr. Whooves a chance to pass by. He accepts the invitation and walks in.

"Good morning Twilight." He says as he walks in. "I think you'll be glad to know that I got us access into a laboratory. So we can continue our research there." Twilight responded with a nod.

"So pack your tools and supplies. We'll head over in an hour." The doctor says. Twilight nods, and heads over to get her things.