A Week after Sunsets Death

I'm not sure how long I've been here like this, I've tried to wake up, move, do something but for nothing, my body seems to like being a waste of space.

My mysterious hosts come in now and again, mostly the same doctors and nurses in to check my vitals, and a few visits from that Mistress lady.
I'm sure my hosts are equine in nature as I can hear hoof steps.

I'm still being kept in the dark about this procedure I'm meant to be going through, though I've managed to pick up a few scraps of information from the nurses that gossip near me, I seems that whoever my hosts are, they have been under constant attack by the Arachnids and it was not going well.
Also I've heard them refer to illness people their talking about by ling, using words like, Someling, and others along that line, who are these guys?

Today something seems different though, the nurses and doctors who came to check in on me were unusually quite and I felt most of them staring at me with pity. This quite understandably had me worried.

An hour later I heard five sets of hoof steps as five persons entered my room. I felt my legs and arms being strapped down to the bed by two strong pairs of hooves.

Then a voice that I did not recognize spoke "Wake her"

"But that's dangerous" it was the doctor from the first day "We don't know what state she is mentally, for a-"

"I did not ask for you opinion Doctor Goodwill" this new woman spat (She sounds like a real bitch) "Wake. Her. Now!"

Doctor Goodwill hesitated, but with a sigh he seemed to relent "Yes my queen" I felt an off ticklish sensation all throughout my body that was followed by a dull ache and a grogginess that wasn't there before.
And slowly but surely I felt my eyes start to creek open.

Ay first I couldn't seem much other then a big bright light and I had to close my eyes and squint until my eyed adjusted to seeing again. When they did I had a tough time believing what I saw, and after I accepted it, I wondered wether I really had died and gone to hell as standing before me... Were Changelings, and one I particular filled me with dread "Chrysalis" I said, my distaste evident.

The Changeling queen raised an amused eye brow "Ah, so you know who I am" It wasn't a question.
"Twilight told me about you a few weeks ago" I said glaring at the fanged leech "Said you were a nasty piece of work"

The queen let put a errie chuckle "Oh did she now, well you shouldn't judge a book by their covers you know" she said in an innocent tone "I'm sure that If we get to know with each other

Not interested in pleasantry's I got straight to the point "What do you want Chrysalis, and more to the point how the hell and I still alive" Really? Am I the only one wanting to know this?

The Female Changeling next to Chrysalis spoke up before Chrysalis said anything "If I may?" it was that mistress lady from before, one of two apparently Changelings who actually seemed to be concerned about me, she was taller and more slender then the drones Twilight had described, just a head under Chrysalis, I wondered if maybe she was royalty, a princess maybe, but dismissed this as I doubted would stand an hair.

"You may proceed Doctor" Chrysalis said, annoyed that the spotlight had been taken from her, the changeling in question paid the queen no mind.
“When I and a drone brought you in a week ago, you were definitely in a critical condition but alive” she started to explain “We were surprised that you were even alive, at the time I had assumed that it was because of your armor that your survived, but your body was fully healed after 2 days”

Bullshit, there is no way I could have healed that fast, I'm not a superhuman..... I think....
"We searched the area and found a strange white-ish blue flower growing where you landed, we found it had regenerative property's"

White'ish blue flowers... I bloody love those things! "Those were Curatio flowers" I told them "We used them to supplement our low medical supplies.... But they never healed wounds that bad before, even in large amounts" I mused.

"I have a hypothesis for that, the flowers we found were in the middle of some sort of pollen distribution cycle, I believe you landed in the flower bed just during a time when that entire area was saturated in this pollen and a large quantity got into your bloodstream creating a more potent effect then before"

So I was saved by alien pollen... Huh... What is with this planet, one minute it wants you dead and the next it dumps you in a load of life saving pollen.

"As to what I want of you" Chrysalis said ending the Doctor's explanation"It is very simple... I want you as a weapon"

I couldn't help it, I broke out into laughter "Y-you wah-want me as 'Ha!' a weapon?" It was so absurd, what did she expect me to do? Face the who arachnid army on my lonesome?

Chrysalis wasn't amused "If I didn't need you I would slay you where you lay" she spat venomously "But as I do I shall graciously let it slide" Wow she really thinks the sun shines out of her ass doesn't she?

"As I do hate all this technical talk, I shall take my leave of you" she turned to the two Doctors "Doctors, I'll leave you explain the details” She left taking her guards leaving me and the two doctors alone.

Both wasted no time and got to introductions, the short male doctor was named Goodwill while the tall slender female doctor was called Sela, they started to explain what exactly the queen wanted of me.
I Couldn’t believe what I was told.

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Present day

I was awoken to howls and agitated clicking, my eye's shot open as I shot out of bed and grabbed my cloak, ammo belt and rifle, I knew that those sounds could be one of two things, 1 was that we were under attack by the bugs, but as I heard no screaming or weapons fire this probably wasn’t it. So I went with option 2, that the prisoner I had just acquired was lose and probably trying to escape now.
Moving quickly I reached where I knew Rex would have placed the prisoner, by the door lay two unconscious Diamond Dogs, by the looks of it they didn’t even get the chance to put up a fight, inside the cell wasn’t any better, the cell contained a table, bed and chair, all of which were flipped or toppled over.c

A single Diamond dog lay unmoving on the floor, the chair leg embedded in his skull... I knew he was dead from the moment I laid eyes on him... such as waste of life... but where was Rex?

“Rex!” I called out looking frantic for the Neodog.

A small whine drew me to the over turned table “I'm over here, the table has me pinned” rushing over I took the edge of the table and pulled it to the side, sure enough my K-9 partner shakily stood up and shook himself “Thanks Sunset, that thing weighed more then a tone”

“You alright?” I asked as I crouched down and looked him over “What happened”

“I'm alright, just got pinned” Rex assured me “And what happened is that the bastard took us by surprise, I don't know what he is be he ain’t human, broke his cuffs and killed poor Caesar and took out the guards in a few seconds”
“Think he's an infiltrator bug?”
“Not a chance, you know they are as strong and fast as a regular human in human form, this bastard.... he's something else”
If that's the case then he was too dangerous to let live, I couldn’t risk trying to capture him again.
I'm going to have to kill him.

Getting up I took off the safety on my weapon “Lets go, he's probably heading for the exit”
“Right behind you”

Taking off running I headed through the twists and turns of the tunnel network, along the way we saw the bloody trail of the prisoner, bodies and wounded littered the way, their wounds getting worse and worse, where the one's closer to the cell were mostly blunt force, the one's further away had what looked like either blade or claw marks, just what the hell was he?

I had to skid to a stop as a group of changelings rushed up to meet us “Have you seen the prisoner?” I demanded to the groups leader.
“It is heading towards the main entrance” The lead Changeling answered quickly with agitated buzzing from it's wings “Brothers and sisters tried to stop it, but we were nothing but an annoyance to it”

“Ok, head to the hospital and get medics” I told them as I ran past them, weapon ready for whatever monster I was about to face.

A lot of running later and we found ourselves outside to the scene of carnage, the bodies of wounded or dead Changelings and Diamond Dogs lay scattered across the ground, the Skimmer I had commandeered was still sat where I had left it... why didn’t he take it? “You got his scent Rex?”
The Neodog sniffed the Air for a moment but recoiled as if he had been struck “Egha! Yes I smell him” he said disgusted “Smells like Death... and beetroot?”
I raised my rifle “Lead me to him”

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We found him in a clearing, crouched over and feasting on remains of a Dead Changeling, If this had been a man once... he certainly wasn’t now, his body had expanded with muscle and a hard shell that cracked and split his power suit, his arms now resembled curved blades and his legs were bent back resembling that of the diamond dogs I worked with and a pair of insect wings sat messily on his back, his face registered barley as human as it was mostly covered in a shell and his jaw had split down the middle like a pair of lower mandibles, but it was his eyes that got me the most... they were as black as this... monsters soul surly was, there was no hint of the humanity this man once had or any intelligence at all... just primal Rage.

I wasted no time and opened fire on the abomination, not taking my finger off the trigger until my weapon ran empty, but even after emptying an entire clip into the monster, he was unharmed, he looked away from his meal and turned to me, mandibles spread wide in a growl.

“So that's how it's going to be” I muttered as I dropped the spend weapon “Rex.... Get back to the tunnels“ I told him without taking my eyes of the monster “get backup”

Even without looking I knew he didn't like the Idea, but he didn't say anything, he knew just as much as I did that this was the only way, Probably would be over before he got back.
So off he went, leaving me and the abomination alone.

Reaching to my ammo belt I grabbed the odd object hanging from it, it was a bladeless hilt that fit my hand like a glove, a bar went over my knuckle like and old of knuckle duster, the bar ended steep triangular tip.

Taking a wide stance I activated the device.

With a flick of my wrist twin pulsating Red and yellow blade burst to life, the two oval shaped blades were as long as my entire arm and ended in twin tips that stood side by side with a slight gap between the two.
I began to circle my opponent, by blade raised over my head with it's tips pointed at the monster who did the same, it's grotesque blades mimicking my actions...

Not wanting to let him have the first strike I charged, skipping across the the foliage with the speed and skill of a trained swordsman I stopped abruptly in front of the beast and spun, using the momentum of the action to improve the effectiveness of my strike... it worked as the twin blades of hot magic sliced through the monster's shell where my bullets bad just bounced off harmlessly, but unfortunately while I had hurt him I had not done any serious damage as, as soon as he had felt the blades cut his shell he had bounced back bellowing in pain.

He brought one of his bladed limbs down to try to take my head but I Parried it and planted a boot in his stomach and kicked off him, flipping in the air and landing on my feet a short distance away at the ready again, this bastard might be just a monster but he's not stupid, he was smart enough to back off when hurt and try to catch me off guard, I've got to end this fast.

This time the monster came at me but I was ready, deflecting when needed and jabbing when I could, his caused him to put more anger into his attacks making them sloppy and less coordinated, it was just a matter of time before one of us scored a hit.... and that honor went to me as he swung for my neck, I ducked under the strike and quickly brought up my blade taking his arm in one swift motion, as it bellowed in pain I pressed my attack, slicing and jabbing in quick succession cutting large chunks from the thing forcing it back one strike at at time, I was sure I could have finished him off, but I got careless.

Just as I was about to take his head the monster used his remaining arm to hit me hard in the side and send me flying into a tree, knocking the wind out of me.
Recovering quickly I looked for my blade, the good news was that it wasn't broken, the bad news was that it had been thrown to to the other end of the clearing and standing between me and it was a seriously pissed off monster.

I doubt I could get to it before being mauled and skewered to death, and all I had was my combat knife, and I doubted I could pierce his shell and kill him.... unless.... his eyes, If I can stick my knife in his eyes I might be able to end this, IF I could do so while avoiding his armblade.

Aw fuck it, I drew the knife and charged, as I expected he scythed in arm down towards me, at that point I was letting my body move on it's own, I didn't even know what was happening until...

Squelch! RRRAAAAAAAAAAGH!

I had dug the knife deep into the thing's eye, the monster was futilely trying to remove the blade from the now ruined organ, but still it didn't die, I rushed around it and dived for my Magi-Blade and re-ignited it, and rammed it through it's back.

But then something odd happened... as soon as the twin crimson and yellow energy blades pierced the monster's back, I was struck with what I could only call a vision.

It wasn't a clear one, just a jumble of images, feelings and sensations.

I saw fire, Pain, carnage and death.

I saw a city in ruins and fire and it's citizens falling one by one.

And then I saw the sky darken and fire began to rain from it.

And then I heard it, A sinister voice that struck fear in my very soul...

“WE. ARE. COMING.”

And as the vision ended I felt my blade go up and out of the monster, slicing it in half and ended it's life.

It slumped down before me, finally still, foul smelling blood spilled out over the foliage around the corpse, as if the Monster was making one last attempt to foul the world with it's presence.

As I stood there the Adrenalin that had kept me going wore off and pain hit me like a wrecking ball, I let my blade slip from my grasp, it's twin blades fizzling out and the hilt hitting the ground with a fain thunk, I dropped to my knees and clutched my side, I had hit the tree hard, not hard enough to do anything serious like break my ribs or something but god did it hurt... I'm starting to get really tired of being everyone's whipping girl.

“Sunset!” I looked to the direction of the voice, Rex, a number of Diamond dogs and Changelings were rushing towards me “I'm alright. Just bruised my side”

One of the dogs helped me up and handed me my blade hilt which I re-placed on my belt, everyone else was gawking at the dead monster that now lay on the ground “Don't get to close” I warned “I don't know If this man was infected by some virus or if this is what Patricks is doing to his men but I don't want to risk you lot getting infected” I crouched down over the remains of it's head and ripped my knife out and wiped the blood off it before sheathing it behind me and backing away from it and looking to the changelings “Burn it, I don't want anything left but ash” I didn't stick around and walked away, the sounds of jets of flames cremating the remains.

If today was any indication then I knew that I could no longer stay a ghost, With the information I had gathered and what had happened now I knew I needed to act, but I couldn't do so with the Diamond dogs and Changelings, sure they were experienced fighters but they just wouldn't cut it, I needed Men and women Train to fight bugs... I needed Zebra squad.

And they all think I'm dead.... No that's not true... one still Knows I'm alive.

“Tomorrow Lieutenant Sunset Shimmer Come's back from the grave”

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When the Pegasus Guard recon had reported that a whole supposedly abandoned SICON outpost, it was not something they could pass up.

Since arriving In Equestria the M.I Grunts had began to run low on almost everything from bullets to spare parts for the vehicles and just about everything, this outpost was their prayers answered.
And what was better was that the outpost had a large transmitter that if operational would allow them to hopefully pierce the interference and contact SICON for Reinforcements.
So here Zebra and Delta squads were, about to be dropped into the main courtyard of the outpost.
Rachel Doc, now Acting Sargent for Zebra Squad Checked over her gear one last time, Her Marauder suit had been left back in Ponyville as it would be useless in the close quarters interior of the outpost, As she was one of two remaining M.I medics Doc now had the lives of nearly 20 troopers to care for.

“OK Ground ponders we're 5 minutes out from the target”

“Affirmative Pilot” Gauss Said over the coms “You hear the Flyboys you apes, I want weapons ready and boots on the ground in five!”

“Sir yes Sir!” The Squad replied.

Doc Picked up her Morita stood at the ready on the Cargo elevator along with everyone else, Gauss was in full command of the two squads as Delta Squads L.T was needed elsewhere, Five minutes later and The Elevator lowered giving doc her first look at the outpost, it was small compared to many she had seen in her carrier, but Doc guessed that most of it was underground, at least she hoped so.

The two squads dropped down from the Elevator platform and took defensive positions as the Retrieval Boat took to the air again and left us alone.

Minutes later we were spit into teams, Gauss too three of Delta's members along with Honeydew and Xephos, making Blue team who went to control, Doc took Franklen, Garrus, Lee and Dingo making red team tasked with searching for medical supplies while everyone else formed Green and Yellow Teams searching for Intel, ammo and other supplies.

“Radio checks every 5 minutes” Gauss reminded everyone as he opened the outpost doors, the interior was dark and devoid of any power which meant that the base was without main power, so Gauss ordered Green team to find the outpost's generator and get it back online.

Doc's team was forced to use their head lamps in the dark corridors which cast eerie shadows all about adding to the creep factor was their own foot steps which echoed all the way down the corridor.
“This if freaking me out” Lee stated, eyeing the shadows as if a bug was about to jump out at any moment “What's an outpost like this doing out here anyway?”
“Maybe it was on Tesca Nemorosa and got dragged here when we did” Garrus suggested.
“If that was is then why didn't the outpost we were in get taken too?” Doc asked, getting in the conversation “Not even the Equestrians know much about those Mirror portals, But I've got a feeling that this was originally built here”

“I've got a body Here”

Everyone looked over to where Dingo was looking, sure enough the body of a human in scientist overalls, Doc crouched down and examined the body “Definitely human, A male... I think” I was hard to tell with the state of the body, it was Cremated, decapitated and decomposing all at once “ugh, He's been dead for months”
“Any Idea what did this to him” Dingo asked leaning down.
“I looks like he's been hit by a Tanker” Garrus said “Though I find it hard to believe that one could fit in here”
“Firefrys?” Lee said out loud “God I hope it's not them, I know what they can do to a human”

“Stay focused” Doc told them as she radioed Blue team “Blue leader, this is red team”

“Go ahead Red team” Gauss responded “What's your situation?”
“Sir we found the remains of a human scientist, he's been cremated and what's left is rotting, I'd say he's been here for a few months”
“We're finding the same thing up here in control too” Gauss told them “What ever did this may still be around”
“Affirmative Blue lead, Red Team out” Doc cut coms, silently telling Gauss Be careful.

“Jesus Christ! Sarge you better get over here!”

Garrus's Shocked call got the team running over to the room he was staring into, what they saw there nearly made Doc throw up.
Beyond the door was a massive room filled with Tanks upon glass Tanks of green bubbling liquid, suspended within each were possibly hundreds of ponies and humans, each showed signs experimentation, while some were slight like discolored skin or malting fur, but some of the serious were horribly mutated, with bug appendages replacing normal limbs or just sprouting from random places on their bodies, there could be no doubt of what was being done at this outpost... genetic experiments to fuse Arachnids, Humans and Ponies.

Doc heard one of her team Throw up behind her, while everyone else looked on in disgust.

Forcing down her own bile Doc issued orders to her team “Look for a console to patch into, I want to know if any of these things are alive”

The team went about their gruesome work, moving between the tanks looking for a console trying desperately not to look at the figures floating in them, it was Dingo who found the console first, as luck would have it emergency power was keeping the console alive, what was displayed on it however both shocked and sickened Doc right to her core, all these poor things were being kept alive by advanced medical systems, and the brain reading on some showed that many were still conscious and in great pain.

“What Kind of monster would do this?” Dingo found himself muttering.
“A Monster Named General Patricks” Doc said pointing at the project leader's name “He's responsible for all this”

“Look...” Garrus said bringing up a map of the lab “There's a room here listed under priority research, Project AHP 14, maybe we should check it out”

“Might as well” Doc agreed “I want to see what sort of Fucked up shit Particks classes as priority research”

Again they moved through the lab once again, heading to the far end until they came across what they were looking for, a large blast door with the letters and numbers AHP-14, Garrus tapped at the door's key pad, but only to find it lifeless.

Cursing Doc Radioed Green team “Red to Green, you guys got the power going yet?”

“Almost Doc” Sjin Responded “Just give us a minute”

Almost a few seconds after that the entire room began to light up and the door keypad bleeped to life.
“Hows that Red?”
“Good, Thanks Green” Doc thanked “We'll contact you in five”
“Roger that”

Taking positions around the door, Garrus entered a code that started to open the door with the hiss of pistons and grinding of gears, the door split apart, one half rising into the wall while the bottem lowered into the ground, beyond a number of bright lights flickered on reveling four bug cells, with the numbers 1-5 on them with number 4 at the center.

They spread out through the room, looking into the windows that were at the center of each cell door, each one of them were shocked to find that the all but one cell contained a bug belonging to the same species that Snowflake belonged to, all were dead except for one.

“I've got a live one here!” Dingo called from Cell 4, looking inside her self Doc could see that the bug inside was definitely still breathing, So Doc made a decision “Open it up”
“Are you sure sir” Garrus asked “I know Snowflake is friendly but we don't know if this one will”

“I believe it will” Doc told him “From my studys of Snowflake I found that her bug breed is biologicly incapable of communicating with other bugs and can't be controlled by them, If' I'm right then I think they may be the result of extreme genetic modification combining Human, Arachnid and Pony DnA, who ever this poor thing was is still it there” she explained “Open it”

“Alright...” Garrus said as Dingo worked the controls “But I'm keeping my gun on it just in case”

The door quickly slid open showing a badly scratched cell, not coordinated strikes like most bugs, but desperate clawing.

Doc moved to the pale blue white dotted bug's side and flipped down her visor to scan it's bio readings “Weak... but physically fine, If we can get it back to Ponyville I'm sure It'll be fine”

“Sarge I've got an I'd on this one, it's listed under Subject 4 Je-” Dingo suddenly stopped halfway through his sentence, his silence was followed by the clatter of his weapon dropping to the floor.
Doc turned to him and saw him frozen in place and physically shaking “What's the name Corporal?”

Dingo still said nothing as just stared at the screen in silence, Lee walked over to him and softly nudged him aside and read the screen, she backed away almost instantly after reading and covering a gasp with her hand “Oh fuck.... Subject 4.... Jenifer... Dingo....”
The Bug chose then to wake up, it's eyes opened and focused on the first person they saw... Dingo.

What they heard it say next shocked them all.

The voice of a scared 12 year old girl reverberated through their minds, saying two words.

Big.... Brother....

“THIS IS YELLOW TEAM TO ALL TEAM'S, HOSTILES ENGAGED! I REPEAT! HOSTILES ENGA-”

Author's Note

So here's the next Chapter, what you guys think of this Twist?
Also For those of you who drew the connection with Sunset's Magi-sword and the Energy sword from Halo, you'd be right to do so as I took heavy inspiration from that exact same weapon, I'll supply a drawing of it showing the differences at a later date.
As usual leave your comments below and If your interested in editing please contact me.
Enjoy!