"Get back here!" I screamed as the Supreme Hunter and I sprinted over roof tops. We left the refugee camp a while ago, though we had to force our way through the barrier. Seems that we aren't immune to defensive magic, simply magic of the more forceful kind like assault spells and unwanted enchantments.

He seemed to ignore me, that probably ticked me off more than a snarky comeback would have. As I leaped over a gap between buildings I had an idea. I smirked and continued to focus on the Supreme hunter, changing my left arm to my magic arm. Still keeping my sprint up, my arm glowed with magic and I did what demon Sunset Shimmer did to the wall of her school. Meaning I used my telekinesis to grab part of the building that the Supreme Hunter was on and ripped it off.

I yanked my arm to the side and the rubble from the building shot towards the infected beast. He growled when they hit and tripped, violently tumbling across a building's roof and slamming into a concrete railing hard enough to deeply crack it. I made the last jump and slammed on to the same roof as him. I ripped some sort of blocky machine off the roof and chucked it at him.

However he regained his wits and dodged, the machine slamming into his previous spot and destroyed the concrete railing. The machine and the railing shards falling down into the city. The Supreme Hunter straightened up and cracked his neck.

"It seems you will be tougher to crack than I thought. No matter," He closed his eyes and his horn charged with magic. "You will still be consumed in the end."

His horn fired a large beam of magic at me. Three things happened at once, time slowed down and my reflexes kicked in, my right leg moved behind me to brace myself, and my left forearm brought itself up with my magic glowing around it. The beam struck my magic arm, my arm's magic creating a shield that protected my body. The force behind the attack would've shattered a normal person, and it was at this time that I was thankful for my new physiology.

The beam kept its assault on me, bits of it parting around my shield. This was simply a test of magic and we both knew it.

His beam gave up, likely growing bored of the power struggle. There were quicker ways of beating each other.

"Had enough already? Guess I'm stronger than you thought huh?" I smirked at him.

"Strength isn't everything." The Supreme Hunter snarled back. "Intelligence takes precedence over it. It just helps to have both, it is why I have such control over the infected."

I sneered at him, "And you wouldn't have such control if it weren't for me. As much as I despise the thought. You should be worshipping the ground I walk on."

His sharp, toothy maw grinned at me, it was creepy. "Perhaps I would have. If I did not mutate so wildly when I was first exposed to this wonderful substance known as magic."

I narrowed my eyes at him, "What do you mean?"

The Supreme Hunter let out an evil sounding chuckle and pointed at my magic arm, "I assumed you would have known yourself, you must have mutated that magic arm of yours somehow. If you didn't posses it in the first place."

I stretched the thin fingers of my magic arm as I thought about what he said. "My magic arm... I got it when I consumed a unicorn for the first time. But why didn't it mutate when I consumed Grassy?" Then it hit me.

"Unicorns have a much greater concentration of magic." I said aloud.

He slowly nodded, "Yes, the large amount of magic in them reacts with the virus. Forcing a mutation and accelerates the viral takeover of the body." The Supreme Hunter said.

I grew confused, "But why are you telling me this?"

He chuckled, "Because, I want you to come to realize how much more powerful I will become when I consume you once our fight is over. Truthfully, I wanted to consume the Princesses first, that would have boosted my power enough to let you continue to grow and watch safely from the sidelines. Once you were strong enough to put up a decent fight I would have destroyed you and consumed you, thus gaining even more power than simply consuming unicorns."

It made a twisted kind of sense. Though I was pissed that I was essentially being used like a long term potential meal. Being slowly fattened up for this guy's afternoon tea and biscuits. It was a plan that could've worked if I didn't get the sonar, he would've consumed the Princesses before I even knew what was going to happen.

I rolled my shoulders and cracked my neck, "Well, I guess that plan is out the window then huh? Looks like we need to settle this here and now." I casually swished my blade arm back.

He formed a blade tentacle from before and swished it around, "Yes, we do."

I sprinted across the roof, jumping over his low swipe with a front flip and shooting down at him with my blade primed. He jumped to the middle of the roof, dodging my attack as it cut through the roof. I cursed and pulled it out, leaning back to dodge his counter attack. His blade passed in front of my neck, an inch from scraping the skin.

My arms turned into whipfists and I snarked at him, "Alright then, long range it is."

I swung my right whipfist in a horizontal arc, the Supreme Hunter used the tentacle body of his weapon to block. A loud, booming smack was heard when he two dense biomass weapons struck. My other fist shot forwards as my right retracted. The blade of his tentacle struck mine, they sparked off each other with a loud clanging sound.

"Is that all you've got?" Mocked the Supreme Hunter.

I growled and charge jumped into the air in an arc over the Supreme Hunter. His gaze followed me and I swung my whipfists in constant fast arcs, each attack attempting to strike somewhere new. As I neared the apex of the arc I managed to smack his blade away with one fist and shot my other into his back. He snarled when the attack struck home, but I wasn't done. My free fist grabbed ahold of the ground near him and I pulled myself at him as hard as I could.

I rocketed towards him, making sure to increase my speed by charging my biomass like I would when I use a charged attack. I flipped and righted myself, and my feet struck him in the face with great speed and his head slammed into the roof. I heard a resounding crack, I didn't know if it was his head or the roof. Likely both.

He skidded a few feet, leaving a trail of broken concrete roof and I landed lightly, most of the force went to the hit on his head. My fists formed hammerfists and I launched myself at the prone form of the Supreme Hunter, not wanting to give him respite. It was in my rush that I didn't see his tentacle flash at me, it smacked me in the face and I flew to the other end of the roof. I smashed through the railing and fell over the side.

I spat to the side and formed my wings. I righted myself in the air and flapped hard, I shot upwards and over the roof. I twisted in the air and my wings flared out, flapping silently as I kept myself floating just over the rooftop. I scanned the roof, noting that the Supreme Hunter wasn't where I left him.

I looked to my left and saw one of the roof machines I initially threw at the Supreme Hunter come flying at me. I flapped hard and barely dodged the surprise attack. I had to dodge upwards this time when another came barreling at me. I dodged a lot of flying objects, after a while most of them ended up being bits and piece of the roof. He probably ran out of things to rip off the roof and resorted to the roof itself.

I was flying in a circle around the building at this point.

"Give up with the throwing thing! You can't hit me with them!" I bellowed at his throw happy form. He was slamming the roof, creating chunks to throw.

He didn't answer and I groaned. But I had the chance to try something new. I flapped hard and shot straight into the air, dodging the occasional concrete roof. I reached about three thousand or so feet above him, the roof chunks have stopped at this point, he was probably curious at what I was about to do.

I dived down, flapping my wings as hard as I could as my feet turned thicker and heavier. Hammerfeet is what I'm calling them, and when I got around the five hundred for mark I charged a bullet dive. I increased my speed dramatically and I righted myself as I neared the roof, my new and heavier feet as the focal point of my attack.

I swear I saw the Supreme Hunter's eyes widen when he realized what I was about to do. He jumped to the side in a desperate bid to not get hit by the full force of my new attack. He was lucky I couldn't change the course of the attack, my feet struck his previous location, missing him by three feet.

The force of my now newly dubbed 'Artillery Dive' struck the roof with tremendous force. The concussive blast hit the Supreme Hunter and he was flung over the side. I didn't see what happened after because I misjudged how powerful my new attack was. The added speed from my height, wings and bullet dive, plus the weight of my hammerfeet created enough force for me to completely shatter the roof and continue to the next floor, and the next, and the next.

I got all the way down to the first floor of the building, once at ground level my feet slammed the ground and cracks appeared on the floor. The building shuddered and rumbled. Dust and building pieces polluted the air and I coughed as I tried to waved it all away. My legs turned back to normal and I stumbled out of the building through a hole I punched.

Just in time too, the building gave one last shudder before starting to collapse in on itself. I must've hit some support beams or something. I had to run across the street, I stared at the building as it fell. I put an arm in front of my face as a wall of dust slammed outward from the falling building. I coughed once more and shook myself in a bid to get rid of the annoying building dust.

Suddenly I found myself back hoofed through the other building I was standing in front of. I was slammed through a few walls before I stopped myself. I dodged the Supreme Hunters secondary attack by diving through the window of the shop we were occupying. I rolled on the sidewalk and grabbed the light post next to me. I ripped it out of the ground and swung it like a bat.

The attack hit home, the Supreme Hunter flew down the street, hitting abandoned carts and other light posts. The post I currently had was bent and broken, clearly not a Martell. I threw it to the side, it clanged against the ground as I stalked my way over to the Supreme Hunter. He got back up, not surprising really, and stalked towards me as well.

I formed muscle mass when we got about twenty feet in front of each other. The Supreme Hunter bellowed and charged the last few feet, as did I. He threw a right hook and I ducked under it, countering with an uppercut to his chin. He leaned back and the uppercut barely missed his snout. He tried head butting me and I jumped left a bit.

"You can't win this. Just give up!" I shouted and slammed a left jab into his cheek.

Blood splattered out of his mouth from the force of my hit and he staggered back. He spat the blood out of his mouth and leapt at me. He swiped at me with one of his clawed hooves, they looked weird but were still deadly. I jumped back a bit but did not anticipate the claws growing, they slashed my chest and left gaping claw marks on it.

It hurt, I wouldn't lie. But the wound healed instantly and I struck the Supreme Hunter in the face with a strong right cross. A boxer I was not, but I knew the basics well enough. He flew into a wall with a crash, bricks and mortar falling around his body. He bursted out of the pile and sneered at me.

"Just die already!" His sneer changed to a smirk and I didn't have time to dodge the interference.

A bulkish, purple hoof slammed into my head and I was rag dolled down the street. I groaned and picked myself back up, shaking my head to get rid of the stars. I straightened up and looked around. Many of the new hunters slowly walked into view, I counted at least ten. I formed my armor and twin claws as they all bum rushed me.

I shoulder checked one and crushed its shoulder to paste, I twirled around and one of my claws met its neck. The head was parted from its shoulders and blood gushed out of the hole. A tentacle absorbed both parts of the hunter it as I rushed by. I had to dodge right, one of the hunters dropped down from above. I kicked it into one of its brethren and knocked them both down for a bit. Another of the hunters struck me in the chest, I was prepared in this instance so I merely moved slightly. I swiped a claw into its face, blood and brain splattering the ground and our bodies, a trail of it following the arc of my claws.

I jumped into the air, the other hunters following me, the two I knocked down earlier as well. I air dashed forward at them, the front two didn't have time to react, my claws met their necks and they dropped like bloody sand bags. I kicked one of the heads into the face of the nearest hunter to distract it. I rolled away from the strike of another as it slammed into the ground crouched and thrusted one of my claws forwards, it pierced the head of the hunter. I widened my claws and the head exploded in a shower of gore. I didn't have time to get back up however, one of the hunters bucked me in the side and I flew out of the group.

I skidded across the pavement, and I used my shoulder to use the momentum to fling me back onto my feet. A screech was heard when my armored feet skidded across the pavement. I took a step and then stopped when a shadow loomed over me. I quickly turned around in surprise and cursed when I saw the Supreme Hunter slamming his hooves down on me.

I grunted from the impact and slammed back into the ground creating a dent in the pavement, the force of his hit made me bounce off the ground. He raised his hooves into the air and I saw the other hunters falling down at me as well. I tsked and charged my biomass around my body, my armor disappearing. As the hooves fell my biomass reached its peak and with a yell I unleashed the tendril barrage devastator.

The tendrils pierced all the hunters, dragging the weaker ones into my body. The Supreme Hunter staggered back in surprise and pain. I took this chance to form my muscle mass and grabbed ahold of his hooves. I planted my feet on his chest and pushed with them with all my might while pulling with my arms. His hooves were ripped off his body and he screamed in pain. I admit I relished in that one scream.

I did a quick sit up and tackled him to the ground. Sitting on his chest I slammed fist after fist into his face. I roared in rage and the onslaught picked up the pace, the punches growing heavier and heavier until it seemed like thunderclaps were resounding from the strikes of viral flesh meeting viral flesh. His face was a broken and bloody as it lay on the ground, I slammed my fists into his chest, ripping into his body and grabbed a hold of his ribcage. With a mighty tug, I roared as I forced his chest to explode outwards in a bath of blood and gore. Countless tendrils swarmed around my body and his, breaking his entire body down at the cellular level and converting it into biomass for myself.

His body took some time to absorb, but when it finished I knew everything he did. Control of the infected belonged solely to me now, his death and consumption by me gave me the keys. My mind spread outwards into the head of every infected in the city. I was new at this but it felt like I had done this a hundred times over. I ordered every infected in the city to cease all hostile actions.

I felt power course through my body. I groaned as the biomass built and built. I gasped for air once the biomass reached its peak and let out a yell as I performed the same devastator James Heller did in the ending of Prototype two. The tendrils shot out of my body like bullets, I knew where each and every infected was and the tendrils honed in on every single one. I felt the virus in the subway system, the growths and infected walls. The tendrils swallowed them up as well. The tendrils met resistance at the pony's magic wall but I didn't press on that area, I couldn't feel the virus in there after all.

The tendrils reached every part of the city, absorbing all of the infected biomass. Everything was completed and they retracted back into my body. I groaned from the discomfort of using a devastator this long. Once the final tendril snapped back into my body I fell on my knees and braced my body with my hands before I fell on the ground. I sucked in one last large breath before my breathing evened out and I got back on my feet.

"What a rush..." I muttered. I put a hand to my head, "Ugh, wow. That guy had a lot of memories in his head. I need to put the ones I don't need away, I just want the spells..."

I walked down the street, rubbing my temple to try and ease the headache I had. I got to a park after a few minutes of walking and simply sat down in a bench. I nodded to myself after half an hour of sorting my head out. I shoved everything back into the depths of my skull and relished in the feeling of not having a headache.

I breathed a sigh, "Who knew beating a super monster would drain you so much."

I simply relaxed for a few more minutes, I slapped my hands on my knees and pushed myself back up. I stretched my body, I didn't need to but it was mostly habit. My wings formed on my back and I took off towards Grassy's apartment. I might not need the bits but it was good to have some on hand. If only to keep attention off of me if someone asks why I didn't have any money.

A few minutes of lethargic flight brought me to Grassy's destroyed apartment complex. I flew into the hole that lead into Color's room and gazed sadly around it. I shook my head in sadness and strolled into Grassy's room. I took the bits from many of his hiding spaces, I formed a satchel on my side and shoved the bits inside it. It was only a temporary bag though, there was a shop not too far from here that sold backpacks for bipeds.

Once the house was cleaned from anything useful I walked out the front door and went to the backpack shop down the street. I found a simple dark blue bag and shoved everything inside of it, bringing my biomass satchel back inside of me. I slipped the bag across my shoulders and stepped outside, I looked up and saw that the sky was starting to clear.

I could see pegasi cleaning the air above the city, the ponies must have realized that the threat was over. I didn't feel like staying though, I didn't think that my presence would cause any sort of comfort. I adjusted the bag and took off in a sprint down the streets, there was an overland train track leading out of the city. I was going to follow that and simply walk around the country, maybe seeing and exploring a whole new world would lift my spirits from these disastrous three days...

Author's Note

Huzzah! Alex is ready to meet displaced now!

I'll do a crossover chapter and then begin writing a good chunk of the story.