As I ran towards the window, I noticed a door open in the room. Somepony was by Sour's hospital bed. "Oh no..." I said as I jumped into the window. "HOLD IT!"

The pony looked at me. All I could see was a silhouette of a unicorn. Definitely a mare. She turned on the lights, and smiled. She was a shade of yellow slightly darker than mine, with an orange mane, and sky blue, slanted eyes.

"Oh, hello Lemon. I'm just here to give Sour her painkillers." She said. She was in a nurse's outfit, but I wasn't about to let her lay a hoof on my friend without proof that she was doing as she said.

"Before you do anything, let me see your cutie mark." I said. and in reply she lifted her uniform enough for me to see her flank. It was a medical needle. 'Dammit... That could mean anything from PhD to poison!' "Do you have any other proof?" I asked. She looked at me angrily.

"Why are you being so difficult miss Shine?" She asked. I instantly tackled her to the floor

"What did you just call me?!" I asked, slapping her in the face.

Her eyes widened as she realized her mistake. "Dammit! Why couldn't you just be an idiotic foal?!" She squirmed, but I kept my grip.

Sour woke up and saw me on top of the assassin and gasped. "MOM!" She yelled.

When nopony appeared, the nurse impersonator grinned. "Looks like my friend has already started talking to the city council mare.~"

I looked down at her with great anger. My horn began to glow. 'No... Sour is in this tiny room with me. I'll just have to control myself a bit more this time.' I stomped on her chest, trying to crush her ribs, only to hurt my hooves on some kind of metal under her uniform.

She quickly pushed me to the side and smiled. "The name is Altonette. My friend, Brown and I are going to be the end of you!" she said as she got back on her hooves.

I got up. "You guys should stop sending me notes before you attack." I said, as I threw a false punch, and grabbed her outfit, pulling it off to reveal a small plate mail armor, that was attached to a furtight shirt of some kind.

"You didn't think I'd be ill prepared to fight the pony who killed Rake? If you'd only killed Jack, I wouldn't have been impressed, but Rake was one of the best." She said, pulling a dart of some kind out of her armor.

I glared at her. She threw the dart and I caught it with my magic. "And what is happening to Mrs. Lime?" I pushed Altonette back down and pointed the dart at her after taking it from the air with my hoof..

"She's only being taken by Brown for a talking to. Boss says we're supposed to take you alive. But I think she'd understand. For all Karron knows, you're too powerful to let live!" She laughed insanely. The noise of the high-pitched laugh grated my ears until they bled. I glared at her angrily. The only thing keeping me from collapsing was my determination. My need to protect Mrs. Lime and Sour Candy.

I couldn't move though. I couldn't budge an inch. The two centimeters I would have to move to puncture her jugular were untraversable. "W-what did you do me?" I asked as beakers, bulbs, and windows all over the room shattered, cutting everypony except for the well-covered Altonette, who had me and a suit of metallic armor as cover.

"GRAAAA! IT HURTS SO MUCH! BRIGHT SHINE HELP!" I heard Sour scream.

"NO! SOUR!" I said as I got cut by the shards of broken glass that were now scattering across the room. My blood dripped onto my assailant, and when the glass stopped falling, she jumped out from under me as her laughter finally stopped. She jumped around the room, and just as I regained mobility, she lunged for me.

"You're dead!" She shouted as she punched me in the face.

Much to her surprise and my own, I was still standing. My horn began glowing, and I realized. 'Oh shit... I'm not in control... But maybe I can control myself just enough to take the fight elsewhere.' I glared at her as she stood just next to me. And with a wave of my head, she was flung out the door into the hallway. Where, as bad luck would have it, there were many dead doctors and nurses. I hadn't thought that she'd get rid of anypony who could help in the entire hospital. But I wasn't out here for help. I was out here for a battleground without collateral damage, and she'd set the perfect one up for me.

I watched as my body took over, a bone from a dead nurse was taken out of it's body, and sharpened with my magic. "DIE! HEARTLESS BITCH!" I yelled as she quickly got up, drew two blades from the sleeves of her outfit, and came at me.

"YOU'RE THE BIIIIITCH!" She screamed as she ran towards me, swinging blades with her magic. I took the bone with my hoof, and with one swoop... It was over... I watched as it pierced a spot between the neck and the torso on her armor.

She coughed up blood, and with her last breath, she wheezed out. "Brown... why?" as she slid off of my bone blade.

I didn't have much time to question it, as I saw a spike of some sort was dug into her back. It was crusty, and red. I couldn't believe my eyes. I hadn't killed this mare... this was somepony else's doing. I looked across the hall, to see a brown unicorn stallion with a blood red mane. He was around the age of Altonette. And he had Mrs. Lime lying down next to him, coughing and bruised. "You weren't even worth keeping alive if you were gonna get stabbed in the throat. Brown Sugar's gonna take it from here."

My eyes widened. I couldn't believe what I had just seen. "S-she said she was your friend!" I yelled as I regained control of myself. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER? SHE WAS YOUR FRIEND!"

He laughed a low chuckle. "Friend? She was my weapon. My tool. She worked for me. I took priority over everything for her, and I was the one to kill her. I was her everything, and she was nothing to me. She would have been useless to me as a vegetable, so I killed her. It's that simple. Oh, but you're a naive little brat aren't you?" He said as I trembled in a mix between relief, sadness, fear, and anger.

"SHUT UP! SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!" I Screamed as I used my magic to pick up her blades and start swinging wildly as I ran towards him.

He caught me with something about half way there. Something had my hind hooves, and I was down right terrified. I looked behind me to see that not only had the spike disappeared from Altonette's back, but so had a lot of the blood on the bodies around me. And around my hooves, were crusty red shackles. 'W-What is this?!'

He walked towards me and I felt something take my horn, covering it. And the swords fell to the floor. I looked at him with what can only be described as a look of pleading. I was asking for mercy with my eyes, and he was laughing. He was laughing at me as he took a blade and cut open my cheek.

The blood crept upwards and I realized what was happening. 'He had control over blood? T-that's not normal magic...'

The blood created a solid edge that cut my face more as it traveled upward. And without my magic, I was helpless to stop Brown from killing me slowly. I whimpered as he slowly ran the liquid blade around my body. He truly took his time when it came to this. I squealed, screamed, and groaned, as I couldn't help but feel like he was getting off on my pain.

I glared at him as tears rolled down my face, onto my cuts and scars from the previous days. The pain became unbearable, my eyes grew heavy, my legs grew weak. I was fading out of consciousness. "Most ponies don't stay awake this long. You've lost a lot of blood. Let's see how much more you can lose before you finally pass out!"

I closed my eyes. Everything went silent except for one thing... -Ba-bump!- I heard the sound of a slow heartbeat. -Ba-bump!- It was becoming faster and faster. -ba-bump-ba-bump-ba-bump!- I opened my eyes, they were no longer something my brain used to see. They were windows out of a body that my lifeforce barely held onto. But as I held on, something snapped. I felt the power surge through me more than ever, and I realized... 'I'm not in control... FUCK YEAH!'

Never before was I so happy to see the yellow glow of my magic as a bright yellow light broke through the crusted blood along my horn, and melted it around my hooves, as Brown's eyes began to widen. "W-what are you?!" He asked, trembling in surprise, fear, and anger.

"I don't know... But I LOVE IT!" I heard myself say. As I began fighting hoof-to-hoof with the strange unicorn before me. Every now and again he would try and attack with needles of blood, I would dodge most of them, but it wasn't enough to keep him from hitting me sometimes. I laughed maniacally, as the struggle to survive became a struggle to kill.

He attacked furiously whenever he got a chance. But it seemed as though we were evenly matched, despite the amazing power that I had feared in myself for so long. And while I felt no pain, I could tell that I was weakening. I used magic to enhance my physical attacks aswell as throw large objects at him. And yet, he would always use surrounding blood as a shield or a weapon. The much larger stallion in front of me was doing everything he could to stop my attacks, while getting his own through pretty well. I finally landed a punch in his face that sent him flying, but he caught himself in mid-air and flipped onto his hooves.

"YOU LITTLE BRAT!" He yelled as he sent a thousand tiny needles of blood hurtling toward me. I dodged them with little apparent effort and ran at him, when I realized what his plan was. 'NO! IT'S A FAKE OUT!' But my body wouldn't listen to my mind as I tried so desperately to get myself turned around. I kept running forward, and as such, I became victim to an impalement.

A massive needle of blood had gone right through my stomach and into the ground, suspending me on a pillar of dried blood. I coughed up blood, which was swiftly used as a way to pin my ears to my head in quite a gruesome display. I looked at Brown Sugar, realizing something. 'He has no weapon left. my legs are mostly free! And I have magic still!' But my body just stood there, hooves dangling above the ground, head hung down. Almost lifeless.

Brown drew closer, as I noticed one pony behind him. One nurse, still alive, and becoming conscious once more. She looked at the situation, grabbed a syringe, and quietly crept up behind him. "So, brat! How does it feel to be helpless? How does it feel to know that you died for nothing?! Lime Green is going to be our tool, or she's going to disappear. You're dead! And nopony can stop the Wolf Clan anymore!" He laughed, and just as the nurse got to him with the syringe, he drew the red out of his mane and stabbed her in the head with it. His real mane color was black... He was hiding blood in his mane the whole time as a backup... and now that poor mare was dead...

I quickly used my magic to take the needle from her hoof, and inject him in the neck with whatever was inside it. "GAAAAH!" He screamed. Whatever it was, it must've burned for a moment before taking effect. I took this time to take the blood spike from the nurse's head, and jab it into his with magic.

As he slowly silenced, all of the crusted blood around me, and in me melted into what it was when the ponies from whom it came were living. And I quickly ran over to Lime. "Mrs. Lime! Come on, we need to get Sour and you to a new hospital!" I said as I regained control, and unfortunately also pain.

I coughed up blood and picked up the bruised mare, taking her towards Sour Candy's room. "Tonight... Has been a bit crazy..."

Author's Note

Brown pulled a total Vegeta right there. Damn. Did I really just write that?