"Joseph, are you sure you want to do this?" Celestia asked Capelli shocked. He had seen so determined to keep this a secret.

"Listen, the whole reason I didn't want anyone knowing about this was to avoid panic and mistrust. Although it seems I managed to do just that." Capelli said. "Besides, everyone keeps asking why I'm an asshole, I think they deserve to know."

"Very well Joseph." Celestia said.

"Might I suggest we go somewhere a little more private?" Luna asked. Capelli looked around and saw they were in an open field. Perhaps it might be better if they did this in private so nopony else would see. Celestia nodded and closed her eyes as her horn ignited. Capelli felt himself glowing and the moment he blinked. He found himself in Twilight's library along with the others.

"W-what?" Capelli said confused.

"Teleportation spell." Celestia said nonchalantly. Capelli was impressed, not even the Chimera had mastered biological teleportation like that. The ponies all settled in a circle as Capelli stood in the middle. He saw Spike sitting on Twilight's back and decided the things they were about to see were too scary for a kid.

"Hey dragon, you might wanna leave." Capelli said.

"His name is Spike." Twilight spat. "And why does he have to leave?"

"Fine let him stay." Capelli said. "When he is never able to fall back asleep again, don't come crying to me."

"Spike?" Twilight asked.

"It's okay Twilight I can take this." Spike said in a tough voice to impress his crush, Rarity.

"Alright was is it you want us to see?" Luna asked. Capelli nodded to Celestia and she lit her horn. In an instant, the ponies, Spike, and Capelli found themselves in some sort of bubble.

"It all started forty years ago, I wasn't even born yet." Capelli said. "There was an explosion in a country called Russia, it flattened an entire forest and destroyed a shit load of trees. No one knew what caused it or how it happened. It became known as the Tunguska Event. A couple years later, The Great War A\N: The Great War is referring to World War One, since World War Two never occured in the Resistance timeline it would sound weird to call it World War one if it was the only world war. started." Capelli explained.

"Was this the war you fought in?" Pinkie asked.

"Fuck no, The Great War was between the world's most powerful countries. It lasted for four years and saw millions of casualties but that was a playground compared to what was to come." Capelli said. "After the war ended, Russia went dark. All communications and transport into and out of the country were severed. We initially thought the ruskies had made some big ass super weapon. How much I wish it had been only that."

"Was it the chimera?" Twilight asked intrigued at the history.

"You bet it was." Capelli said. "Now we come to my life." He said as the bubble they sat in transitioned to a run down home in a large city.

"JOE! DID YOU EAT MY FUCKIN SANDWICH!" A large and ugly man called out. He was tall and very overweight, he was wearing a white shirt with run down jeans. He had black hair and a long beard.

"Ugh who is that?" Rarity asked repulsed by the man's hideousness.

"That's my father." Capelli said gritting his teeth in anger. "I fucking hated him!"

"How could you hate yer own family?" Applejack asked appalled.

"Take a look." Capelli said as everypony continued watching. The ponies saw a little boy, no more than seven years old sitting in a corner crying. He had short black hair with blue eyes and was wearing just a pair of overalls. Everypony assumed this to be a young Capelli.

"I'm sorry daddy but you sent me to bed without lunch or dinner yesterday." The young Capelli said with fear in his voice.

"YOU LITTLE THIEF!" Capelli's father yelled as he struck Capelli across the face. Everypony gasped as the young Capelli fell to the ground.

"I'm sorry daddy! I was just hungry! I swear i'll never do it again!" Capelli said pleading with his father.

"Oh your damn right it will never happen again!" Capelli's father said as he pulled out a belt and whipped his son to the bone. "I FUCKIN WORK MY ASS OFF ALL DAY AND THIS IS HOW I'M REPAID?"

"STOP PLEASE!" Capelli yelled as his father continue to whip him.

"I didn't even want you! Your fuckin cunt mother wouldn't get the abortion!" Capelli's father roared.

"Don't call mommy bad names!" Capelli yelled as he punched his father in the groin. Capelli's father responded by grabbing his son by the hair and shoving his head into a wall.

"GET THE FUCK OUTTA MY HOUSE YOU PEICE OF SHIT!" Capelli's father screamed he threw Capelli outside into the snow. Everypony held their hooves to their mouth upon seeing this. Such things NEVER happened in Equestria.

"How could a father treat their child like that?" Luna asked angered.

"He is probably the only thing I hate more than the chimera. Hopefully he's dinner for some chimera." Capelli said as the memory shifted to his days in the military. The ponies watched as Capelli got into many fights and was subject to many punishments. His severe insubordination cost him his rank several times.

"If I hadn't gotten demoted so many times, I'd probably be a general by now." Capelli said. One of the things that stuck out ponies, particularly Pinkie, was that never in any of the memories was Capelli with a friend.

"He's never had any friends ever?" Pinkie thought. To her, that was a fate worse than death. All the ponies looked at Capelli and did feel sorry for yelling at him. Mostly Applejack because family was core to her and to be treated like that by your own father was terrible.

"Enough of that shit." Capelli said as he explained the progress of the chimera. "A couple years later, all of the continent of asia went dark. Cities were found demolished and millions were either dead or missing. The continent of Europe had built a long and tall wall separating it from Russia. One day out of nowhere, the Chimera launched a full out assault on Europe and within four weeks the entire continent had fallen."

"Only four weeks?" Fluttershy said disturbed.

"Yep. In response the last free country in that part of the world, Great Britian, prepared for the invasion. When the chimera attacked, not even the preparations were enough to hold them off and the Chimera conquered most of Britian in two weeks. Let me tell you something, those brits were fuckin tough and even they were getting their asses kicked. Getting desperate they contacted my country, The United States for support. The government knew about the chimera but the public was kept in the dark. We realized that the chimera were just to superior to fight the way we were so we created them."

"Who?" Rarity asked.

"The Sentinels." Capelli said. "Even the strongest humans were physically no match for even the most standard chimera species. Candidates were selected and injected with the chimeran virus, this project was known as 'Project Abraham'."

"Chimeran virus?" Twilight asked.

"I'll get to that later purple." Capelli said. "The chimeran virus granted the candidates the abilities of the chimera. Including super strength, speed, reflexes and recovery time. This program was classified above top secret and was so secret that the families of the candidates were told that they were killed in action."

"How awful." Fluttershy said.

"Wait, if it was so secret how do YOU know about it?" Rainbow asked.

"Because I am one of them." Capelli said. "You all have noticed how fast I heal. That is not natural, that is due to the chimeran cells within me." The ponies saw Capelli getting injected with the virus and lashing out. "I was lucky, not everybody survived."

"What happened?" Fluttershy asked.

"You really want to see. I watched as Gennaro went and I remember what happened." Capelli said as the memory shifted to Gennaro's injection. WARNING! This video is EXTREMELY gory and graphic, do not watch if you are disturbed by gore.

"AHHHH!" Rarity screamed as she threw up. Fluttershy and Pinkie began crying as Spike hid behind Twilight's shoulder. Even Celestia was disturbed by this. She had not seen THIS when she looked into Capelli's mind.

"H-h-how did that happen?" Luna asked as she gagged.

"The virus had diverse effects depending on the amount in the body. Guy's skull began to malform and his body temperature rose. In his state of hystria he cut open his stomach trying to cool himself down. Good thing I got mine before he did or I what have NEVER agreed to this shit, poor bastard." Capelli said. "The survivors of Project Abraham pretty much became super soldiers. We were part chimera and part human."

"Umm Twilight? I'm gonna go outside for a bit." Spike said holding his stomach with a sick look on his face.

"It's okay Spike." Twilight said hugging the dragon as he slowly walked outside severely traumatized by what he saw.

"Anyway, the brits were desparate so they contacted the U.S and in exchange for intel and a chimeran species. The U.S sent twelve thousand of its best troops into York. Only one of them survived."

"Only one? Out of twelve thousand?!" Applejack said horrified.

"They were sent in to fight an enemy they knew absolutely nothing about." Capelli said. "Not only that, the fuckin chimera somehow knew we were coming and ambushed them."

"What happened to the survivor?" Celestia asked.

"His name was Nathan Hale." Capelli said as a picture of Hale appeared. He too, like Capelli, had golden eyes. HIs face was one of courage and determination.

"This son of a bitch single handedly took down the ENTIRE chimeran army in Britian! He was unkillable, he went on the most dangerous mission so often people thought he was suicidal. Some religious groups even thought he was Jesus Christ coming back to Earth."

"Jesus?" Celestia asked.

"I'll get to that later." Capelli said. "Hale was a sentinel like me. When the Chimera finally invaded my country. He and I were on the same team with two other Sentinels, Ben Warner and Aaron Hawthorne." Capelli said as images of the chimera invasion appeared before the ponies.

Upon looking at these scenes. The ponies saw how outmatched and outnumbered the human race was against the invaders.

"And here are the asshole responsible." Capelli said as an image of a chimeran hybrid appeared.

The ponies all gasped as they saw the monster appear. It was the most horrifying thing any of them had ever seen! Fluttershy squeaked in stark terror as the creature bore its fangs. The ponies all looked at Capelli with a newfound respect. He truly did live in a living nightmare.

"Those were only Hybrids, they are weakest chimera." Capelli said.

"THOSE are weak?!" Rainbow said. Those things were freakin huge!

"There were Steelheads." Capelli said. "Their Auger Rifle could fire through walls making cover useless. Your only hope was to keep moving."

"Then there were Ravagers, I fuckin hated these things!" Capelli said. "Fifteen times stronger than a human, I saw people get torn limb from limb by these things."

"And Titans." Capelli said.

"You think that was big, you should have seen the Leviathan." Capelli said.

"Were did such horrid creatures come from?" Rarity asked terrified.

"Do you know what the word 'Chimera' means?" Capelli asked.

"A chimera or chimaera is a single organism that is composed of two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells." Twilight said. "Basically, it is two beings within one body."

"You're not as dumb as you look." Capelli said.

"What does that have to do with where they come from?" Twilight asked.

"Remember how I said there was a chimeran virus?" Capelli asked.

"Yes." The ponies all said.

"They used that to infect people." Capelli said. The ponies out two and two together and realized the awful truth.

"No! Were they-" Twilight asked.

"Humans were infected by the chimeran virus were taken to conversion centers where they were put in cocoons. Inside, they were slowly broken down cell by cell and rebuilt as a chimera." Capelli said. "That is why we call them Chimera, they have two beings in one body."

"You mean all those alien things used to be h-human?" Rainbow asked.

"Yeah. I always asked myself if there was a fate worse than death. Well there it is." Capelli said. "Their human self is still alive but they are trapped in the chimeran body."

"I cannot imagine a more foul fate." Luna said crying. All those innocent people being forced into becoming a monster. The ponies realized the severity of the situation. That mean that each human casualty only increased the chimeran numbers.

"I'm sorry Joseph." Luna said again. "I have misjudged you greatly. Such horror is unheard of in these lands. I admit I would never have the courage to continue to fight as long as you have.

"Save it Blue." Capelli said "You haven't see the worst yet."

"Theres MORE?" Applejack asked wondering what could possibly be worse than what they had already seen. They continued to watch as the Invasion on San Francisco occured, than the firefight in the Chimeran Battleship. The hordes of grims in Twin Falls.

"Here were some of my closer calls." Capelli said as the memory bubble shifted to a high tower. Capelli was running up the stairs when a large insect like chimera appeared from the outside.

"SHIT!" Capelli yelled as he unloaded rounds from his Wraith into the creature. The insect like creature lunged forward and grabbed Capelli in between its mandibles and dragged him down. Capelli screamed as he felt the teeth and acid dissolving his body. He could hear Hale's voice over his comm. He pulled out his magnum and fire bullets into the chimera's face. Suddenly, the chimera stopped attacking him. It looked at him and left leaving Capelli on the ground heavily wounded.

"I'm sure you are all wondering why it didn't finish me? My guess is that once it tasted the chimeran cells in my blood it must have thought I was chimera. Regen kicked in just in time seeing as half my skin was dissolved." Capelli said. The memory shifted to what looked like a large dusty canyon. They saw Capelli sitting in some sort of aerial vehicle talking with some other humans.

"I can't fuckin believe that moron!" Capelli yelled.

"Get over it corporal." One of the other humans said.

"Where is this son of a bitch?" Capelli said as the vehicle landed. The ponies saw the man known as Nathan Hale walking with a more elderly looking human.

You look like hell Lieutenant! Was he worth it? Capelli screamed as the VTOL carrying him and the rest of Echo Team landed on the pad. "Cause there ain't no inhibitor stations where we're going! You just made yourself a walking timebomb!"

"Drop it Corporal!" Benjamin Warner, a fellow Sentinal said as he helped Dr. Malikov onto the VTOL. Capelli went up to Hale and pushed him.

"When you do turn, and it won't be long now. I'LL be the one who pulls the trigger! Do you hear me? I won't hesitate! Not even for a sec-"

"Offer accepted!" Hale said as he grabbed Capelli by the throat. "Now until that time comes. Lets consider this case closed!" Hale growled as he threw Capelli to the ground. Fluttershy stole a glance at Capelli and noticed something different. All the other memories he jut shrugged off but this one was different. She could see feelings of regret in his eyes.

"What did he do that was so bad?" Rainbow asked.

"Like I said before he was a sentinel meaning he was infected with chimeran virus. The only thing that stopped us from turning were viral inhibitors. Hale chose to rescue the man Dr. Malikov over getting his inhibitor treatment and then deciding to get to Chicago to shut down the Chimeran tower there. In doing so, he pretty much fucked himself." Capelli explained as the memory shifted to the streets of Chicago which were littered with dead bodies. Endless waves of grims attacked relentlessly.

"By the time we got to Chicago, the Tower had reactivated by another Tower in Iceland, My team was sent in to deactivate anti air cannons so we could send in reinforcements. The whole attack was shot. Within minutes of all our troops were shot down and killed. We were ordered to pull back but we decided to continue after Daedalus.

"Who or what was he?" Rarity asked getting queasy again.

"Daedalus used to be a man named Jordan Shepherd. At Project Abraham he had a freak mutation that turned him into this." Capelli said as an image of Daedalus came up.

"He was the supreme commander of the chimeran armies. We thought that if we killed him we could screw up the chimera's chain of command and give us some breathing room but again that plan was fucked before it even began." Capelli explained. The memory continued as the four humans entered the alien structure.

"I want fresh clips in every weapon. Nobody engages the enemy without backup!" Hale ordered. The humans stepped out of the elevator in a large room. The human Hawthorne stepped forward and saw brutally impaled by Daedalus who used his tentacles to rip Hawthorne in two killing him.

"Hawthorne! HAWTHORNE! FUCK!!" Warner screamed upon seeing his dead comrade. Many ponies shed tears upon seeing Warner's reaction.

"Command we got a friendly down, its Hawthorne." Capelli said somberly.

"Understood. Stay focused Echo, remember the mission." Commande replied.

"Yeah." Capelli said as he ended the transmission. "Warner you got anything?"

"Negative this ways clear." Warner replied. The remaining humans continued forward and they decided to split up. After encounters with hordes of grims. Capelli gave Hale covering fire with his Wraith from above.

"Good timing." Hale said reloading his weapon.

"I have my moments." Capelli responded.

"Echo come in, I got him! I found Daedalus!" Warner said over the radio.

"Warner do not engage! Wait for backup!" Hale ordered.

"SHIT! We gotta move NOW!" Capelli cried.

"HE'S HERE HALE! GET OUT OF HERE BOTH OF YOU!" Warner screamed as gunfire could be heard over the radio. Capellli and Hale sprinted towards Warner's position. Right as they arrived they saw Warner firing his gun.

"Hale! I need help over here-AHHHH!" Warner screamed as Daedalus impaled him through the chest with his tentacle and stabbed him numerous times throughout his body. Hale walked out and saw Warner's corpse with massive holes in the chest and stomach. Capelli looked as well but was stuck behind glass that he could not break through.

"Come on g*ddammit!" Capelli said as he fired his gun at the glass but it refused to give. He looked through the glass as Daedalus stabbed Hale through the chest. Capelli's fire eventually broke through the glass and he jumped onto the ground where Hale's body lie. Capelli could see that somehow Daedalus had not torn any vital organs and that Hale was still alive. Capelli picked up Hale and got out of the tower with him. The next memory shifted to what looked like a forest.

"After I got Hale out of there, I brought him to Dr. Malikov who put him in a come for six weeks while Malikov searched for a cure but the virus had progressed to far." Capelli said as the memory showed Hale walking outside. His hair had all fallen out, incuding eyebrows and eyelashes. His skin was so sickly pale one could see the veins underneath his skin.

"After Iceland their ships rolled over SRPA bases coast to coast. They dug up towers we didn't even know about. Then two days ago the fleet started moving south. Command tracked it down to Mexico. Whole fleet just hovering their near the Gulf. Nobody know what to make of it." Capelli said.

"Did the Perimeter hold up?" Hale asked.

"Pfft the Perimeter. Perimeter's gone, all we have left now is the Baton Rouge Protection Camp." Capelli said.

"Pardon me for interrupting but what was this perimeter?" Luna asked.

"The Liberty Defense Perimeter was a chunk of land built in the inner United States. It was a large fence with gun towers every mile. It was designed as a safe haven in the event America fell. Damn chimera rolled right over it." Capelli said.

"How many people were there?" Twilight asked.

"Eighty million." Capelli said. "All dead or turned into Chimera." This earned a gasp.

"E-e-eighty million?" Pinkie said. There weren't even that many ponies in Equestria! The memory continued.

"Three millions refugees who haven't seen so much as a supply truck in weeks. It's only a matter of time before they starve to death, or worse." Capelli said. "So are you gonna make your last hours count? Cause if not, Id like to know it advance."

"Let's go." Hale said as the two moved. After numerous battles with endless waves on enemies. They finally met up with some other humans carrying what looked like a large bomb.

"What is that?" Applejack asked.

"Fission bomb. Bomb so powerful it could wipe out everything in a six mile radius." Capelli said. The ponies awed at the destructive power. After more battling, the humans made their way to a chimeran shuttle which was docked. They saw Hale suddenly fall down and grip his head. Capelli pulled out his M1911 and aimed at Hale's head just in case.

"HOLD YOUR FIRE!" One of the other humans ordered.

"I'm fine!" Hale said getting up. Capelli reholstered his pistol as they made their way to the shuttle. They flew up to one of the large Chimeran ships. As they entered Hale and Capelli went one way while the other humans and the nuke went the other. After more intense firefights and battles. Capelli and Hale were informed that they could not enter the engine room and that it was blocked. Capelli and Hale continued trekking through the ship to find a control room to open up the door to the engine room. Capelli found a map of some sorts and used it to guide Hale to the engine room. Hale finally found his way to the control room and opened the door.

"Manual override is activated." Hale said.

"Roger that, Echo. We have activity. She's opening up, Helluva job." Major Blake replied over the radio. Capelli looked at the map and saw numerous bleeps closing in on Blake and the bomb.

"Shit! Major, you have multiple inbound hostiles! I REPEAT, heavy inbound force closing on your position! Sir, light the candles and evac A-SAP!" Capelli cried.

"We got contact! Hold them back! FIRE! Echo, move to the blast doors!" Blake yelled as the transmission cut off.

"Major, we're inbound to your position! Major, come in! Major Blake?! X-Ray Squad, come in! All X-Ray units, respond! X-Ray, come in! Shit! Hale... we have to assume the Chimera have control of the bomb. Whether or not Blake got it armed you can bet the Chimera are gonna get it off their ship as soon as they can." Capelli said.

"Can you guide me to it?" Hale asked.

"Yes." Capelli said as he guided Hale throughout the ship. Capelli heard Hale shooting over radio. Capelli looked back down and saw the Hale was almost at the bomb.

"Your almost there!" Capelli cried when he saw the Hale had stopped and the bomb was still moving.

"The door's sealed! I can't follow 'em any further!" Hale panicked. Capelli lost it.

"Dammit, Hale, find a way! The bomb's almost at the chute! If you don't get to it right now the whole fucking human race is extinct! Now FIND A WAY!" Capelli saw Hale find an alternate route and approach the bomb. He felt a sigh of relief overcome him. The memory zoomed forward to Capelli being surrounded by the imploding ship.

"Capelli, Daedalus is down and bomb is armed." Hale said over the radio.

"Copy that. Command, how much time do we have?" Capelli asked.

"Four minutes." Command replied.

"Understood. Hale get to hanger, I'll prep the shuttle for evac. This is gonna be a close one." Capelli said as he began to activate the shuttle. After turning all the switches and activating the engines. He ran outside to look for Hale. Capelli saw him sprinting towards him and the shuttle. Capelli fired his Wraith at incoming Chimera as Hale arrived at the shuttle. The two ran inside as the bomb detonated. Suddenly the memory stopped.

"Joseph? Is something wrong?" Celestia asked.

"Sorry its just that what happens next was something not even you have seen." Capelli said sadly. Everypony in the room was either crying or too shocked to move.

"If you do not wish to share it then you don't have to." Celestia said trying to comfort Capelli.

"No, you all need to see this." Capelli said as the memory restarted. It showed Capelli and Hale escaping as the bomb detonated and begin to obliterate the chimeran fleet. The shockwave caught up to the fleeing shuttle and caused it rock.

"HALE PULL UP!" Capelli yelled.

"ITS NOT RESPONDING!" Hale yelled as the ship came crashing down hard into the ground causing Capelli to get knocked out for a moment. When he came too, Capelli's head was lodged into the controls.

"Fuck, just once.......I'd wish you'd try landing one of these things." Capelli said to Hale but noticed he wasn't there. "Hale?" He called out as he exited the shuttle. He walked outside to see they were in a forest and Hale standing a few feet in front of him.

"Hale? What happened? Where the hell are we?" Capelli said as he looked around.

"Can you hear them? They are calling to us, it's beautiful!" Hale said in a deep demonic sounding voice. Everypony in the room felt shivers go up their spine upon hearing the disturbing voice. They finally realized what had happened, Hale had become one of them!Capelli pulled out his pistol and aimed it at Hale.

"No! He is going to is he? Rainbow thought.

"Stay back!" Capelli said as Chimera-Hale tried to approach him.

"This is just the beginning." Chimera-Hale said.

"Forgive me sir. It was an honor." Capelli said as he pulled the trigger and shot Nathan Hale dead.

Everypony had tears going down their eyes at this point.

"I killed Nathan Hale." Capelli said. "I had no choice, he was one of them. He could have stopped me but I think he wanted to die. Atleast that's what I keep telling myself. He was........my friend in the end." Now everypony lost it. How horrible it must be to watch someone turn into the enemy and be forced to kill them.

"Joseph, I'm so sorry!" Celestia said as she went to put her wing around his neck but he snapped it away.

"I don't need your fuckin sympathy and I sure as hell DONT want your friendship!" Capelli said. "You know what the worst part is? Humanity has lost, for all I know I am the only human left and in three months-" Capelli said. "I'm going to become of them!" With that Capelli stormed out of the house and back to his shuttle leaving everypony more traumatized than they had ever been.

Author's Note

Damn this one took a while. Hope you liked it!