Dead Space: Contact

The group ran eastward towards Twilight's library, where the Elements of Harmony were being safely kept by she who lived there. There were necromorphs everywhere, but most of them seemed to be distracted by other citizens of Ponyville who couldn't get away as quickly. They were running in two single-file lines, Rainbow Dash and Applejack led the rows, then Night and Sharp, Pinkie and Twilight, Rarity and Blade, with Fluttershy and Ace, who they managed to pick up on the way, taking the rear.

Fluttershy, as usual, was terrified beyond belief. Applejack was trying to keep her cool, as was Rainbow Dash. Sharp couldn't help but keep looking at Night, unsure if she'd be able to keep up the pace at which they were running due to her weakened and sleep-deprived state. Twilight was keeping an eye on the group, making sure nopony got left behind. The others were just worried about whether or not they would get through this alive.

"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshomygosh! We're not gonna make it! We're not gonna make it!!" Rainbow panicked as several Necromorph ponies converged on the group, some of them were the two legged ones that had attacked Twilight and Pinkie at Sugarcube Corner, others were like the one that Blade had managed to kill, and others were completely new altogether.

One of the smaller ones began to sprint right at them, and then leapt through the air, landing right on top of Fluttershy. The force of the leaper's impact knocked Fluttershy to the ground, and the Leaper pinned her down using it's legs while it began to snap at her head. Fluttershy pushed back with all her might, trying to keep the necromorph's massive jaw from encompassing her head.

"Somepony! Help!" Fluttershy screamed, trying her best to keep the necromorph's massive teeth from wrapping around her skull.

Blade pulled out her plasma cutter and took aim at the Leaper's neck. "Hold still you little bastard..." She whispered, and pulled the trigger.

The bolt of plasma hit it's mark, and the Leaper's head came flying off, spurting blood in Fluttershy's face. The Leaper itself, however, was still alive. It brought it's tail up like a scorpion, and brought it down like a javelin at Fluttershy's head. Missing by a mere two inches as she moved her head out of it's path. The Leaper brought it's tail up again, but Blade shot several plasma bolts at it, tearing through the bone and muscle and severing the tail.

The Leaper finally got off of Fluttershy, and started for Blade, who simply took aim at one of it's arms and fired. She shot it once, twice, three times before the arm finally came off and the Leaper stopped moving. She walked up to it and kicked it for good measure, making sure that it was dead.

She held out a hoof to Fluttershy, who took it and shakily got to her hooves.

"You alright?" Blade asked.

"I think so." Fluttershy said, her voice shaky but strong.

"You sure?" Blade asked, her concern overriding any other impulses.

Such as the one to look behind you. The necromorph came out of nowhere, stabbing Blade several times right through her torso, splattering blood everywhere. She struggled against it, but the Necromorph was stronger. It picked her up and smashed her to the ground before pouncing on her and unleashing a maelstrom of slashing blades that tore through her flesh like a hot knife through butter. She screamed, but it was too late. She was already losin so much blood that she was guaranteed to meet with the Grim Reaper face to face.

Fluttershy simply watched in horror as her friend was butchered right in front of her, too terrified to do anything. She couldn't even scream for help. Luckily for her, however, the rest of the group had manage to finish off the Necromorphs attacking them, only sustaining minor injuries. Sharp ran right at the slasher attacking Blade and tackled it, knocking it off of her. He activated his plasma saw, which they had managed to find several of in a storage room, and started hacking away at the slasher's arms. Severing them one by one until the only thing left was a twitching torso.

After he dispatched the slasher, Sharp turned around to see Blade laying there, bleeding out. He knelt down next to her and took her hoof in his own. Her breaths were rapid and shallow, she didn't have much time left. She coughed up a mouthful of blood and looked at Sharp, fear and sorrow in her eyes.

"It's okay." He soothed. "They're gone, you're among friends." He tried to keep his voice steady. "Nopony's gonna hurt you."

Slowly, Blade reached for her plasma cutter, and pushed it into Sharp's free hoof. She looked into his eyes, and smiled slightly. Then, her hoof fell from his grasp and her head fell limp. Sharp could hear her RIG flat-lining, and he knew that she was dead. He reached up to her head and closed her eyes, which stared lifelessly up at the sky.

He stood up and slowly walked away, Blade's plasma cutter attached to his belt, and met up with the rest of the group, who had simply watched their friend die in his arms. Night walked up and hugged Sharp, followed by Rainbow Dash and Applejack. The others couldn't be bothered to say anything, for they were too caught up in their own sorrow.

***

The nine remaining ponies ran into the library and locked the door behind them.

"That won't be enough," Twilight said, "Rainbow, AJ, barricade the door."

"You got it." Rainbow Dash said, and they went to work finding anything they could to block the door. Five minutes and a lot of rearranging later, the door was barricaded with a couch, a table and a bookshelf.

"That should hold 'em." Applejack said, hoping she was right.

"And if not, nothing's getting past me." Rainbow proudly said, puffing her chest out.

"Rainbow, I don't think now's the time for your ego to take hold of you. People are dying out there and we need to stop whatever's the cause of this outbreak." Twilight said calmly.

"Twilight's right, Rainbow." Applejack agreed. "There's a time and a place, and Ah don't think right here right now is it."

"Fine. But even still they'll have to go through me if they want to get at any of you." Rainbow said defiantly. "Nopony messes with my friends."

"Alright, does everyone have their own element?" Twilight asked the five mares around her. Each wore her own Element of Harmony around her neck, and Twilight wore the Tiara. "Okay, let's do this."

The element crystals in the necklaces and Tiara started to glow, and then a multicoloured ribbon of light spread from one Element stone to the next, and a huge rainbow tornado formed in the center of them. The tornado then vanished, revealing the God of Chaos himself, Discord, standing there.

"So..." He began. "Having problems, are we?"

"That's a bit of an understatement, Discord." Twilight said.

"Oh? And how, may I ask, is that?" Discord asked, somewhat intrigued.

"We found... something... buried deep beneath the surface. Soon after that, these things, monsters started attacking out of the blue. We don't know what they are or why they're attacking us, but I think that it's related to the artifact." She explained.

"What kind of 'artifact'?" Discord asked, a change of tone in his voice.

"This." Twilight said as she projected an image of the Marker in front of her.

Discord's jaw practically fell off, and he stared at the projection in horror. "You fools! What have you done?!" He stammered.

"Do you know what that thing is?" Rainbow Dash prodded, getting eye to eye with him.

"Yes. But I thought it was destroyed! It shouldn't have been found and now you've doomed us all!"

"Care to explain what you mean?" Twilight asked him, getting impatient. "People are dying out there, and if you have any information on how we can put a stop to it, you better bucking tell us."

"Nopony knows where it came from, just that it isn't from here." Discord said.

"What do you mean 'from here'?" Rainbow Dash asked him.

"I mean, not of this world." He said. "It definitely isn't Equine and there's nopony on the planet who can determine it's origin. All I know is that it's alien and that it cannot be destroyed."

"We have the Elements of Harmony." Twilight said. "Can't they stop it?"

"Celestia and Luna tried that when it was first discovered thousands of years ago. It didn't work so they buried it where they assumed nopony would be able to find it."

"So basically..." Rainbow started.

"You're hopeless." Discord finished her sentence for her.

"Great. So what can we do?" Applejack asked.

"I don't think there's anything you can do except try to survive." Discord said. He then snapped his fingers and vanished.