Dark Monarch's Rising

“Shit. Guys wake up.” Said Overwhelming light. I opened my eyes and arose from the seat to see a mountain range.

“McIntosh Mountains. Been here before. No really good way to take the carriage.” Said. Dr. Whooves.

“Should we try it?” Asked Overwhelming Light.

“If you think you can then do it.” I said eager to return back to my time. Truth is I missed Luna. She was truly the only one of my friends that I actually don’t mind being with. But now, I'm stuck with a gun lover and a scientist.

“Hold on!” He said as he gassed the throttle on the carriage heading up a path made for ponies to hike on.

“Couldn’t we have simply went around it?!” Asked Dr. Whooves.

“Now what's the fun in that?!” Yelled Overwhelming Light as he put his arm around Lilly. She giggled and smiled at him. I still couldn’t figure out if that was his kid or not and if so… where's her mom? I didn’t want to ask so I just held the fuck on.

“Grab onto something!”

“What?” I said as we hit a hill. It sent the carriage soaring through the air. I fell off but caught myself with my wings. I flew back onto the carriage’s gun mount.

“A little bit earlier of a warning would’ve been nice!” He just laughed at the fact I was scared out of my mind.

We then approached a bridge. Not a great looking one either. It was held together with ropes and loose wooden planks. We stopped in front of it.

“Now what?” I asked.

“Well. We are gonna have to find another way around.”

“Just hold on.” I said trying to remember how to do magic spells. I then tried to do a simple levitation spell on the carriage. I picked it up off the ground about 4 feet.

“Great thinking there Monarch!” Said Overwhelming Light happier than hell.

I then moved the carriage to the other end of the bridge. I decided not to walk across the bridge but fly over it instead.

“Your magic is pretty strong now!” said Dr. Whooves.

“Better than when I first started.” I replied getting back onto the gun mount. We then proceeded to Saddle Arabia this time, Down the mountain.

“Oh boy!” Said Overwhelming light.

“What?” I said.

“Huge fucking jumps!” He said as he pushed the gas pedal to the floor. This time I held on for dear life along with Dr. Whooves but Lilly, she just sat there smiling. We hit the first hill that probably sent us about 20 feet to the next one. This one was larger but at a sharper point.

“Oh Shit!” I yelled as the carriage was sent soaring over a small lake imbedded in the mountain. We landed on to the other side of the lake and he stopped.

“You girls alright?!” He asked.

“Are you fucking nuts?! We could’ve been killed!” Yelled Dr. Whooves as he shook in his seat. Overwhelming Light just laughed and got out of the carriage turning it off.

“Where are you going?!” Asked Dr. Whooves. He didn’t answer. He just walked over to the lake.

“Damn…”

“What?”

“The water supply was poisoned along with any trees that bare fruit.”

“What do you mean?”

“Those damn sand asses tried to kill us all!” Yelled Overwhelming Light scaring us all. “Look. Sorry but those Saddle Arabians are horrible ponies.”

Great I thought. A racist unicorn. This will definitely end well for him if he ever comes in contact with Saddle Arabians. He then came back to the carriage.

“Fucking sand suckers.” He mumbles as he drove off. I was getting really tired. I had trouble keeping my eyes open. I ended up falling asleep curled up on my seat. I started to dream about my life back in my time. I was back with Luna on my bed again. She was cuddling against me. I then thought what Sky said to me… I had to move on to another pony if she died or else I would be in eternal hell. Luna was the only pony I could think of in the dream. But when I looked back down it wasn’t Luna… It was Sky. She was looking up at me. Her face then went into sadness as she started to cry.

“Why did you let them kill me…” She said as I saw blood start to come out of her eyes and mouth as she turned into a infected. She then opened her mouth to let out a scream at me. I felt the spit hit my face as I flinched and tried to move away.

“Monarch! Get up man!” said Overwhelming Light as he shook the shit out of me. I got up and wiped the drool off my face. My heart was pounding in my chest.

“You okay there Alicorn?” He asked looking at me.

“Just… Just a bad dream.” I replied still thinking of how broken sky was in my dream… I looked at my necklace holding it in my hoof. I wish you could just come back I thought…

“Hoofston up ahead!” Said Dr. Whooves. I looked out to see the place. It looked just like pony ville. Crumbling and falling apart every minute of the day. We entered the place in the carriage.

“Here's a hospital. I'm gonna go in and look for supplies. Monarch, your with me. Whooves, you protect Lilly with your life. Got It?!”

“Y-Yes sir!” He stuttered as he pulled out his gun.”

“Lets move.” Said Overwhelming Light as we walked to the door of the hospital. He shot the lock and kicked in the door. He pressed a button on his gun witch turned on a flashlight. Mine had it too. I turned mine on to see a dead pony lying on the ground.

“Shit! Stay close, this place might still have infected inside.” Said Overwhelming Light as he led the way through the hallways of the hospital.

“We need to find the power.”

“How would you like to do that?”

“Well usually its in the basement. We should find our way to there.”

Great a fucking basement. Dark and scary as fuck.

“Hold up.”

“What?”

“Hear that?”

“What?”

“Infected up ahead.”

“Great.” I said as we headed towards the stairs. We went down one flight to see a pool of blood surrounding a dead nurse with a infected feeding on her.

BOOM!

Overwhelming Light shot it right between the eyes.

“Lets keep going.” He went down the stairs as I followed. We approached a door labeled: Power Room.

“Well I'll be damned. Found it.” He said as he opened the door. He fired a few times taking out a few infected. I walked in to see him taking guns off of them and putting them into his saddle bag.

“Well. Nice guns, ugly ass.” He said as he kicked the body over into the corner. He then walked over and pulled the power switch. The generators fired up, creating a loud grinding sound. Lights flickered on to reveal the interior of the hospital.

“Awesome! Still works!” I said.

“One of the only things that still work.” He said walking out of the room.

“Hello? Can anyone hear me?” A voice said over the intercom. “We are trapped in the laboratory on the 3rd floor. You made it to the power room, so you could make it to us. We can provide food, water, and medical treatment. Just please save us.” It then faded out.

“Well.” I said looking at Overwhelming light.

“Looks like were gonna play hero.” He said cocking his shotgun and walking up the stairs. Infected ran after us blood dripping from their mouths.

“Light em up!” He yelled as we fired countless shots into them. They each fell to the ground with a very audible thud.

We went up to the 2nd floor. The staircase to the third floor was at the other end of the hall.

“Lets run for it!” He said pulling out his pistol. I ran along side him as infected ran towards us. We dropped them to the ground firing bullets into their skulls. We then went to the doors of the staircase. We pushed but they didn’t move.

“Shit!” I said as I felt the ground shaking. Every time it shook it felt like footsteps. Something big was coming. I watched as it arose from the stairs at the other end of the hall. It was a mass of ponies held together by the fungus. Its head was the head of one of its victims, eyes wide open. The rest of its body were ponies morphed together to look like a giant pony.

“Holy Fuck!” Overwhelming Light yelled as he ran into one of the hospital rooms. I followed. He locked the door and pushed the bed up against it.

“What now?” I asked.

“We fight like stallions.” he said pulling out hand grenades and a grenade launcher. “Ready?”

“Ready.” I said scared as fuck. He moved the bed, and kicked down the door.

“Take this you fucking freak!” He said as he threw a grenade at it. It rolled to its feet as it roared through the corridor. The grenade went off with a load bang. One of its legs was blown off.

“Fuck yeah!” Overwhelming Light yelled.

“Uh… you might wanna look.” I said as the monster reattached it limb from the floor. It let out a roar as it charged to us.

“Its head! Aim for its head!” Light yelled as I raised the grenade launcher. I fired the grenade into its head as it charged. Its head exploded on impact along with the rest of its body. It didn’t seem to try and revive itself anymore so we decided to go look at it.

“This is fucking crazy… now they can fuse themselves together?” I asked.
“Apparently. Look! This must have been a janitor or a nurse here! It had keys on it!” Light said as he ran to try the keys on the door to the stairwell.

“Nope…. No… Fuck…. Ass…. Fuck…. Nipples….” He said as he tried each key.

“You want help with that?” I asked.

“Nope… damn… fuck…. Yes! Finally!” He said as the doors flew open.

We went up the stairs to see rooms on the right and a large blacked out room on the left.

“That has to be the lab!” He said running to it. He went to open the door, when a ceiling tile fell onto the floor scaring him.

“The fuck?” He said as a infected jumped from the ceiling along with many others. “Aww look Monarch, they wanna play some more!!” He then pulled out a tomahawk and threw it into the head of an infected as it ran towards him, he then pulled out a pistol, smacking the next infected with the handle crushing its skull. The next infected came running towards him, he pulled the pin from a grenade and shoved it into its eye socket, shoving it back into the crowd of infected.

“Get down!” He yelled diving down. I got down and heard the grenade go off. I looked up to see a blood splatter all over the ceiling, floor, and walls.

“Now, about that lab.” He said brushing off bits of the infected on him. He walked over to the door and started going through keys again.

“Nope… no… shit…”

The door then opened to reveal a nurse scared out of her mind.

“Other survivors! Come in! come in!” She said as we waved me in.

The lab was full of nurses, no doctors. Still there was food, water, and medical supplies.

“You guys aren’t hurt are you?” She asked.

“Well um… I don’t think so.” I said as I looked at her.

“M…Monarch?!” She said as she dropped to her knees and bowed.

“Um… I'm not exactly royalty but…”

“Boy. I think it's time you knew what you became before you died in this time.” Overwhelming Light said as he sat down in a office chair, shining his pistol.