Spitfire slamed a hoof into the wall leaving an indent in the plaster, she had just had her first real loss in her entire carrer and she had never felt so helpless.

Stonewells explosive demise had blocked the way they had come meaning that they couldnt even go back to gather his remains, the Stalion has no family back in Equestria and had spent most of his life insolation so he had no friends.

Spitfire felt a hoof on her shoulder and looked up to see Celestia staring down at her.

"There was nothing that you could have done" she told her "...that any of us could have done"

"But why?" Spitfire asked "your ths princesses... your ment to be able to do anything!"

Celestia sighed regretfuly "No my little pony... we can't "

Spitfire was taken aback by this "Me and my sister are powerfull, that is true but in the end we are just like anyother pony, we have limitations and that go's triple here"

"What do you mean princess" Maria who had been listening in on the conversation asked.

Celestia made sure everyone was listening before begining "as any pony would know, magic is an energy field created by all living things, it surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the Galexy togeter"

"Equestria had an abundance of this energy, Alicorns and certain powerfull unicorns are able to use this energy to its fullest, that is how me and Luna are able to raise the sun and moon, though we are actualy rotating the planet"

"But while in Equestria we are goddesses" Luna continued "here we can not use our magic to the same degree an are as such weakend and are are powerfull as a normal unicorn"

Solar Flame frowned "but Princess I dont feel diffrent and I can use my magic just fine"

"Your case is entirely diffrent my student" Celestia said as she picked up her discarded weapons "come on, there's nothing we can do for Stonewell now, but heatrazor, featherweight and the others back at the Bullfrog are still relying on us" The Alicorn stood by the peared through the bars.

Spitfire didn't need to be a smartpony to know that the Princess had just dodged the question, opting not to reveal anything about her students abilitys.

The wonderbolt picked up her ml5's and followed everyone out, glancing at Solar Flare, what was Celestia hiding about her student that she didn't want anypony to know.

"What is your secret" she mutterd as they left the safe room in silence.

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"Somthings not right" Maria said to herself as she stared at the dark and silent outpost, she was on a rooftop overlooking the park and Wisky outpost.

*Noooo, a dark completly deserted base isnt creepy at all* Red commented *How many people are ment to be stationed here anyway*

"20 or 30" Maria said as she scaned the base through the scope of Applejack's sniper, She had gone up ahead alone to scout the area and check on the base after it hadn't responded to any of their radio messages.

Wiesky outpost was made up of five buildings, four of the five surrounding the fith larger tower building, how the survivors had been able to build it with the amount of zombies in the area.

"Probably magic" Maria thought.

With a sigh she got up and walked over to the over end of the roof where a absaling kit lay, she had, had to climb the outside of the building because shear number of infected within, after what happend to poor Stonewell Maria didn't fancy her chances against them, granted she had still retained some of the enhanced strength from Red's time in control.

Maria hoked herself up and without a second thought leaped off the edge with Red screaming in her head.

The woman landed softly on the concret walls abd clutched her head "Damit girl what was that about!" Maria hissed angrly.

*Sorry But I've had some bad experiances with falling off building lately* the former witch said, making both of them wince, remembering the fall that started this all.

Maria absailed down the building avoiding the windows as much as she could, not wanting to get the attention of the infected within.

Once her feet touched the ground she unclasped her harness and wiped up her p90 and scaned the street, it was quiet.

She re-slung her P90 and pulled ou her sidearm, making sure the silencer was on tightly, Maria silently sliper through the shadows, taking out any infected that too close.

*You want me to put on some traveling music?* Red asked, earning a raised eyebrow from Maria.

"Sure, why not" Maria thought back, wanting to findout how her companion would pull this off.

For a few moment nothing happend, then almost like she had a mp3 player in her head, music started blaring out.

WHAT IS LOVE, BABY DON'T HURT ME, DON'T HURT ME, NO MORE!

Maria smiled as Red played one of her favorate songs "how did you know and why haven't you done this sooner" she thought at Red.

*I have a lot of spare time on my metaphorical hands* she joked *and I was waiting for a good time*

Maria continued along her way, sibging the words in her head, almost forgeting where she was... almost.

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Meanwhile in another fanfiction...

Applebloom (now a young mare of her 19s) and the Zoid Jeager Fury, were on their way back to New Cantralot.

The young mare yawned, and started searching through her music selection "hey how about some music, eh Jeager?"

The Dinosur zoid growled in aproval.

"Ok then" Applebloom said as she selected her desired song.

WHAT IS LOVE, BABY DON'T HURT ME, DON'T HURT ME, NO MORE!

Applebloom bobbed her head up and down and felt Jeager's head do the same.

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Maria carfuly sprinted to where Celestia, Luna and the others were hiding, apart from the odd common infected the whole area seemed devoid of any life, and that trobled the hybrid greatly.

She was relieved to see Applejack waving her inside "Good ta see you, its been too quiet here"

Maria nodded "yea it was mthe same on the way back, Red could only sense a few, nothing compared to what we saw back at the saferoom" she gestured with hed hand for Applejack to lead the way to the others.

Celestia nodded as they walked in and waited for to to sit down before making her report.

"Somthings definetly not right" Maria stated plainly "me and Red scoped ou the oupost and it looks completly deserted, add that to the fact that almost every infected in the area seems to have dissaperd and you've got me very creeped out"

Celesyia nodded slowly "Red, did you sense anything?" She asked.

*Only the odd common infected* Red projected to everyponys heads *its like somthings driven the infected from the area, the onky large concentration of infected we saw was in the buildibg we used to scout out the outpost and I can't feel them any more*

"Bethat as it may" Luna began " we still need the part from that outpost"

"And we must investigate the outpost itself too" Celestia insisted "If it has been overun then I we must inform Fort Novas of so"

They all hear the distinct sound of Spitfire's MP5s being cocked "then let quit standing around and get this over with"

They set off straight away.

The trip was as uneventfull as Maria's one had been, not a single infected in sight, and where this would be a good thing for most people and ponies, it only filled Maria and Red with a sense of forbiding, as if somthing was about to go wrong at any moment.

In no time they were at the walls of the outpost, the main gates were closed and Celestia warned against having herself, Luna and Spitfire fkying over incase both the outposts atomated defences were online or a hord of infected waited in the shadows.

Luckly and surprisingly, Luna had studyed computer stystems and codeing, she had the gates locks disengaged and the gates themselves opend in 10 seconds flat.

Within the outposts coartyard were two vehicles, one was a military halftrack and the other, Maria recognised as a M-35 Mako from the mass effect games, aparently the techs at the SGC and Fort Novas where using any disigns they could get working.

Both vehicles looked in perfect condition, except for a large amount of blood splatter on tge side of the Mako and the floor... but no bodies.

They faned out around the coartyard checking every nook and crany, nothing.

Luna closed the gates and locked them "where is everone?" She asked, nobody having an answer.

*I can't feel any infected, but the outposts anti-infected shielding is messing with my senses* Red reported.

Celestia called them over, they didn't have to worry about any infected outside hearing them as the outpost had specile shielding at stoped noise from being heard from the confines of the base, it was whatever my have been in the base they had to worry about.

"We should head to the control room" Celestia said "Luna should be able to get into the sucyrity system and see what happend here"

"I agree"AJ said, rubbing her forleg softly "somethean about this place gives me a bad feeling"

"*Same here*" Maria and Red said at the sametime.

As they opend the doors to the command center tower, their nosies were assulted by a rotten smell, the smell of death.

It was dark, disputie the fact that the base still had power and it wasnt untill a they reached the stairwell that they found their first body.

The man wasn't in a good shape, having a very large cut almost cuting him in half, blood and his own guts littering him and the floor, they heard Solar Flare hearl.

But one thing dawned on Maria as they passed the body and moved upstairs, the cut was too large for an infected to have made it even a witch.

They found more another body leaned up against the wall next to the door leading into CIC, this time a woman, she was in worse shape then the man, cut into several peices.

The one of doors to CIC was semi open, half out at and angle sparks could be seen and heard inside the room.

As Maria grabed ahold of the left door, Applejack took the right and they slowly pided them open, inside was a picture straight out of hell.

There were bodys everywere, some not in that bada condition while others were barly recognisable as human.

Maria coverd her nosie with her sleeth and moved inside, checking the intact bodys, most of which were at the computer terminals. Many had huge,gaping holes in their chests and seats where somthing akin to a large spike mostlikely had been driven through.

"Ok buck!" Luna utterd as she enterd after her sister "It looks like a demon was let lose in here"

"Looks like they tride to put up a fight" Spitfire oberved as she pointed at a number of shell casings and weapons littering the ground.

Maria nealed down and let Reppy down "hack the camra fotage" she told the replicator "find out what the hell happed here"

The Replicator climbed up onto one of the intact terminals and connected wirelessly, a loading bar came up, showing that he needed a minute to get into the system.

Maria letf him to it and crouched down next to a man, his face frozen in a look of terror, the remains of his uniform suggested he was a vetren of the Stargate program, whatever it was that left him to die in absaloot terror was not somthing she wanted to meet.

She found herself starting to collected every dead man and womans dogtags and sliping them into one if her pokects.

Spitfire steped beside her as she closed the eyes of the last man "you alright?"

Maria shook her head "The people here were vetrens of the Vorsoth wars" she said as she pointed at a badge on the mans uniform and then her own "we saw some pretty scary shit then. For whatever killed them to inspire such fear in someone who went through what we went throug..." she didnt need to say anymore.

A loud wearling from Reppy anounced his completion and they all rushed over.

"Looks liks he found some fotage" Solar Flare said as she tride to not look at the bodys.

The video showed the dead people busy working and talking when someone ran in.
"Seal the doors!" The man cryed as he let off a torrent of fire back into the hallway.

"Harry what the hells going on?" And elder man asked.

"We're underc attack, somthings just cappered out of noware, riped Billy and Kira apart and killed 5 others"

Someone outside screemed followed by something slaming into the doors.

"Shit! What was that!"

"Oh god, their here!"

The doors didnt last long as they gave way, leaving them in the state that they had found them in, then somthing nightmareish sqeezed through, a nightmare Maria had hoped to never see again.

Standing there with ripped in half body of another man, was a Vorsoth Night terror, in all its obsine glory. In moments it was on the staff, rending and tearing while the few people with weapons tride in vain to bring the creture down, more smaller creatures, Flesh tearers, swarmed through the door, the shoe sized cretures tearing anyone they got their teeth into to bloody shreds.

In the end, all they could hear was screaming and Maria turned it off.

Silence decended upon the group and Maria felt her hands shaking but not from fear.

"W-what was that thing" Luna said not at all princesslike "It looked like it came striaght from hell"

*I think Maria knows* Red said making everypony turn to face Maria *I can't get into a large portion of her memorys, and the way she's shaking isnt because of shock*

Maria gritted her teeth "Yes I know what that monster is" she growled and in one fluint motion she spun arund and slamed her fist into the empty consol and shatterd the screen making everypony back away in shock.

"Why couldnt they just stay in that hell hole that they belonged" She said, her voice driping with pure unbridled rage.

*Maria... calm down* Reds voice said frightend, she hadn't seen this kind of rage since she was witch.

"No Red! You don't know about these things and I hoped that you never would"

In the corner of her eye, Maria saw Reppy diging its legs deeper inti the screen he was perched on, he rememberd too.

"Maria Santiago calm down this instant!" The commanding goice of Celestia made her turn around and look at the frightend ponies, expt for Celestia who wore a cool, unfazed look "Now tell us slowly and calmly what that creture was"

Maria closed her crimson eyes and took a deep breath "Ok your highness, that... HELLSPAWN was a Vorsoth Night Terror"

Red gasped as the memorys of the Vorsoth war were unlocked *dear Celestia...*

Celestia frowned "the Vorsoth wars? Your SGC staff didnt tell us of this"

"Thats becuase they can't, not many of the poeple who fought in the war are still around, thats how costly the war was"

"It lasted two months, and cost thousands of lives of both us, the Jaffa and the Aguard aswell as almost 200 ships. We only stopped them after we forced the system that they were coming from's star to go supernova"

Maria found herself thinking back to the last days of the war from the disasturus withdrawl of the Sigma site to the U.S.S George Hammon's suicide run into the star.

These memorys were interupted by an urgent sounding cherp from Reppy who had brought online the outposts internal sensors on a hunch was pointing one leg at the screen, on it there were 14 signals, 5 ponys and 1 Infected in the control room, that was them, and 8 human signitures in the basement levels.

"There are survivors"

Author's Note

Refrences FTW!
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, now that I've got some traction on the fiction I may have time to work on two other fictions, Aliens Equestrian Marines and a secret project.

As always leave a like and a comment and thanks for staying with this fic so long.

Also i have just rewrite the last bit of this chapter so tell me what you think
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