Conversion Bureau: Unlucky Day

Shining Armor stood at attention at the Air Docks near the Castle's Southern section, a part of the mountain sliced open to allow air traffic a less crowded area than above the city. Currently, he and ten teams of medical ponies were awaiting the arrival of Commander Sentry's ship with the remaining Bearers of Harmony aboard.

"Have there been any messages sent from the ship after retrieving the Bearers?" Shining asked a nearby Guard.

"No sir, none since the report. We've sent several since, asking for confirmation, but the Commander is likely shaken by the events witnessed."

"That doesn't excuse poor conduct on the part of the Commander or anypony working around him. Twily and her friends are the ones that suffered most out there, not Flash Sentry. I expect him to give a full report or I'll-"

A distant foghorn cut off whatever threat Shining would have come up with, the bow of the airship cutting through the clouds as it closed in on the port.

"Finally," Shining said as he took his position. "Wave them in."

A group of Pegasi flew out to meet the ship on his word, and for a few minutes, the Captain waited. He watched as the Pegasi flew towards the bridge of the ship, hovering around it for a few seconds. Then, much to everypony's confusion, they turned around and flew straight back to Shining Armor.

"Sir, we need to evacuate the area!" a green pegasus shouted as he struggled to land.

"What? Are you crazy?" Shining Armor responded. "Why should we?"

"The-there's b-b-blood splattered, everywhere!" the mare shouted as her fur went pale. "Something's on that ship and it slaughtered everypony on the bridge!"

Shining froze in fear, looking up to the ship.

"That... that's not possible! They're warded to keep teleportation spells out! A-and they don't touch the ground! No way that anypony could have boarded it!"

"Sir, that thing's not going to stop! We need to evacuate and shield the city, right now!"

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"Get to the wheel!" Flash Sentry shouted.

Twilight limped as fast as she could towards the center of the bridge, stepping through pools of blood and squishing some kind of gore as she tried not to implode from the sheer overwhelming fear she felt.

"Come on, come on, come on!" Twilight chanted as she adjusted the ship's steering wheel with her bare hooves.

She had woken up only minutes ago in the forelegs of Flash Sentry, who was covered in blood and panting like he had galloped a triathlon. Apparently, the Human that had decimated the Royal Guard at Crystal Lake, the same one that had killed two of her friends, had somehow gotten on board the ship, despite its enhanced magical wards.

THUD

"Twilight!" Flash shouted from the doorway. "I don't think this door's gonna hold for much longer!"

Twilight gave a silent prayer to Celestia that she wouldn't die by the Human's hands, begging for something, anything to save her and Flash at this moment.

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Shining looked between the two Pegasi and the ship, watching as it dipped in altitude, he huffed.

"You incompetent sods, look! It's adjusting its course! Somepony's behind the wheel and you're here lying about seeing blood on the windows!? I'll have you two scrubbing the latrines for years!" he shouted.

The ponies all watched with baited breath as the ship began to correct its course, the scouting Pegasi agape as they watched it slowly approach the docks.

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"There! Shining Armor's there! He can stop that thing! Right Flash?" Twilight said.

Just as Twilight turned around, the pounding on the door ceased, Flash Sentry leaning against the entrance with his back against it.

"It.... i-it just stopped," he observed. "Do you thi-"

A hand suddenly burst through the door behind him, penetrating the spot between Flash's wings before it ripped straight through his chest, the tips of Jason's fingers breaching the skin on his front.

"GAH!" Flash managed to gurgle out as the hand erupted from his barrel.

"FLASH!" Twilight shrieked.

Another hand erupted from the same spot, before the door started to part. As it opened, the strain on Flash's insides grew to a crescendo, the Pegasus screaming in agony as the gaping hole in his body grew vertically. With a mighty push, Jason ripped the stallion in half with the door, tossing the two halves of the Guard aside as though he were a part of the entryway.

"No! Stay back!" Twilight cried as she tried to hurl whatever magic she could gather at the approaching monster.

Jason simply walked through whatever magic Twilight threw at him, unaffected by her power in any way. A hand reached out to her maw, grasping Twilight by the jaw and flesh of her cheek. As the Human hoisted her up, her mouth open as she was forced to taste the blood of his victims from the glove invading her mouth, she knew only one thing.

This was her end.

The sound of a cork popping open brought Twilight's senses to a new high, her pupils shrinking as she watched the Human pull out a vial of the Potion.

'No, no please, just kill me! Anything but that!'

Her prayers unheard, Jason tipped the end of the potion's bottle down Twilight's throat, the fluid forcing her body to ingest the gift as her mind began to go blank.

Everything that made Twilight Sparkle who she was, every synapse of her personality, was wiped away like dust scattering under a great wave. Her injuries and fatigue were cleansed as she gulped down the Potion. Thoughts of her friends and family were replaced by the program that she herself had created, everything being replaced with Celestia and only Celestia. Happiness. Smiles. Friendship. Her mind devolved into these things, and these things only as a crooked smile began to overtake her face.

The Human release her once the bottle was empty, and she stood up slowly, a wide-toothed smile on her face as she stood.

"Hello, there, large, Human!" she said carefully, as if forcing a proper pronunciation on each word. "I, think, you, are, big, and, tall! I, want, to, be, friends! Friendship! Happy! I, am, happy!"