Sugarcube Corner. Ponyville, Equestria. May 5th, 2341. 8:15 AM...

The monster charged at Pinkie Pie, who shrieked in horror and tried to get out of the way. Twilight's horn started to glow, at first dimly, and then it grew brighter as she charged the spell. She pointed her horn at the creature, and released the spell, which hit the monster, and vaporized it. Leaving only a small pile of black dust.

"What..." Pinkie said, catching her breath. "What was that thing?"

"I don't know. But I think we should find the others in case there are more of them." Twilight replied.

"Good idea." Pinkie agreed. "Let's go."

Marker Research Area. Near Ponyville, Equestria. 9:45 AM...

Sharp Shooter walked along the perimeter of the research area, where a bunch of egg-heads were busy studying the artifact which was dug up two weeks ago. The scientists had decided to call the thing "The Marker", since they had no idea what else to call it. He sighed inside his helmet, which was built into his standard issue security suit. The job was boring, but it paid well enough. Not that many security jobs out there for pegasi, but ever since the Marker was dug up, there were a lot more job openings.

He had seen the result of some of the incidents. Blood everywhere, strange symbols on the wall written in blood, heavily mutilated corpses, it was disgusting no doubt. But Sharp had seen worse. At least, that's what he told himself. And the ponies who had killed their colleagues, they were completely crazy, rambling on about how "they want our bodies" or "we must all be made whole" or some other shit like that.

He sighed again, and the small metal arms that were both under his health meter as inside the holoprojector on his chest came out of their homes, attatched themselves to either side of his helmet. His helmet then split apart, the front and back halves folding down to a smaller size, and retreating to their containers in his health meter and holoprojector.

From his now exposed head, it could be seen that his coat is bright red, his mane dirty blond and his eyes are very blue. He sat down, and stretched his wings, which were cramping up due to lack of use. He thrned his head to see his longtime friend and colleague, Rainbow Dash, approaching him.

"Hey Dash." He said as Rainbow sat down next to him.

"Hey Sharp." She replied.

"How are things?"

"Good."

"AJ doing ok?"

"She's fine. What about Night Rain?"

"She's... Not so good."

"What's wrong?"

"One of her buddies, he started going nuts. It was around the same time as the Marker was dug up, he just started rambling on, and started killing everyone he could see."

"Shit..."

"Yeah, he was heading right for her, and that's when I stepped in. Pinned the fucker down in about two seconds."

"Is she alright?"

"Yeah, Night's fine. Just a bit shaken up. But she keeps waking up, screaming from nightmares about that day."

"Man... I hope she can get over them."

"Me too. It's not right, seeing her like this."

"I know what you mean."

A light blue mare walked up to them. She was an earth pony with bright purple eyes and a black and purple mane which was somewhat in disarray, but in a way that helped to bring out her eyes. Rainbow and Sharp new her, and greeted her warmly.

"Hey Blade." Rainbow Dash said.

"Sup." Blade replied.

Her full name was Blade Cutter, but she preferred Blade.

"This is it." Sharp said dully.

Blade looked at Rainbow. "What's wrong with him?" She asked.

"Night isn't doing so well, he's... taking it kinda hard." Rainbow said.

"That's awful. Is she alright?" Blade asked.

"She was almost killed by one of her co-workers and has been having nightmares about it ever since." Sharp explained, his voice monotonous.

"Who?" Blade asked.

"I don't know, wasn't really concerned with 'who' at the time. Only that he was trying to hurt Night Rain, and that was enough for me." Sharp said, his voice grim.

"Oh... Okay." Blade said. "Well, I hope she gets back to normal soon."

"Me too." Sharp said. He stood up, and his helmet reassembled itself over his head. "Well. Best get back to..."

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The scream caught them all off guard, and they turned simultaneously to investigate it. About twenty meters away, a light pink earth mare was running from... something. It looked like a pony, or what was left of one. It's hind legs were missing, and all that remained below the waist was a long, flexible tail that looked like it was made out of the pony's entrails, muscles and bones, with a long, curved lade at the end of it. It's mouth now had four long teeth protruding from the upper and lower haws, and the skin where it's cheeks were had split open, allowing it to open it's mouth wider.

The creature leaped at the mare, bringing her down and landing on top of her. it opened it's jaws wide, and wrapped them around the helpless mare's head. She kept screaming for somepony, anypony to help her, but Sharp, Rainbow and Blade were too dumbstruck to do anything but watch in horror. The creature locked it's mouth around the mare's head, and pulled. It pulled and pulled on her head, stretching her neck until. Pop! Her head broke right off of her neck, blood spurting from the stump of her neck where her head had once been.

Blade was the first to react. Pulling out her plasma cutter, a small, mouth held tool that could cut through rock like a knife through butter, and turned it on. She aimed the three lasers used for precision cutting at the creature's neck, since it was howling into the sky, and pulled the trigger. The bolt of plasma connected with it's intended target, and tore through the creature's neck, sending it's head a few feet away.

The rest of the monster, however, was still alive, and turned to "face" in the direction of the trio.

"What the fuck?" Blade said in disbelief.

The creature started running at Blade, who aimed the plasma cutter at one of it's legs. She shot the limb once, twice, three times, and finally separated it from it's owner. The creature, however, kept coming. Using it's other leg, it dragged itself in Blade's direction. She aimed for the other leg, switcing the plasma cutter to it's vertical firing mode, and shot it once, twice, three more times, finally stopping the monster in it's tracks. She stared at the now immobile body of the necropony, waiting for it to continue it's assault, but it didn't.

"What the hell was that thing?" Sharp said.

"I don't know." Rainbow said. "I need to find AJ, in case there are more of them."

"Yeah, I need to get Night, I don't want her to be alone if there are more of... whatever the fuck that was." Sharp said.

"I'll go find the others." Blade said. "We'll meet up at Sugarcube corner in one hour, tops."

"Agreed." Sharp and Rainbow said together.

Sugarcube Corner. Ponyville, Equestria. 11:00 AM...

"We need to find out what is causing this." Twilight Sparkle said to the eight other ponies in the room. "Whatever it is, it's making any dead ponies come back to life as mutated monsters that seem to attack anything they see on sight."

"And they don't go down easy." Blade Cutter added.

"That too." Twilight said.

"So... what's the plan Twi?" Applejack asked.

"Well, even though this doesn't exactly seem like his style, I think that Discord might have some idea of what's going on here." Twilight said.

"Hmm..." Rainbow said. "It would make sense, seeing as this is pretty chaotic."

"It's settled then. We summon Discord, and demand an explanation for what is going on." Twilight said with an air of finality. "Now, let's go get the Elements of Harmony."

Author's Note

So, yeah. My OC Blade Cutter makes a comeback after her grizzly death in "The Dead of Night: The Final Showdown" (which, if you haven't read, fucking do so, as it is the third in my original trilogy of stories). I hope you can see why I added her in this, as with her talent, it should be obvious. Also, if anyone is complaing that they're still using the Elements of Harmony in the future; they're still a key element (lol) to the story, and will be used anyway. Hope you don't mind this taking so long, I was just busy with other stuff.

-Devastation

P.S. The necrompony that Blade killed was a Leaper, and the one that Twilight killed was a Slasher. Although with the descriptions I gave, it shouldn't be too hard to have already determined that.