Friends until the bitter end: Reanimation

(be,be,be,be,be,be,be,be...)

"AAAAAAAAAAaaahh, 'gasp, gasp' AAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaahg!" an earth pony screamed as two syringes emptied them selves one red one blue into both of its arms. It the watched the monitor in horror as the two vile concoctions met in his heart mixing and intensifying the pane. The Blood than began spewing from his mouth as he erupted into a violent coughing fit, bits of lung coming with it as his organs tore themselves apart, then nothing.

(beeeeeeeeeeeeeee....)

"Mark time of death. 1230 hours. Test subject 19 did not survive." a unicorn stallion said to a Mare in a white lab coat before pressing a red button and incinerating the test subject in the adjacent room.

"That is the 20th one today. Ceph DNA is highly volatile. but we are close ...sir." the mare said still reluctant to acknowledge this unicorn as her superior. But she was smart enough to do it anyway after all the last mare to try and put Commander Dark Sword in his rightful place got a bullet in the head and her closest friend was forced to watch before being a test subject.

"Sir batch 24-35-b is ready." she added checking her data pad.

"bring in the next test subject." Dark sword said his voice cold. The door to the room adjacent to them opened and a green unicorn entered the room dressed in the white and orange uniform of Dark swords splinter group S-CELL or Sickle CELL.

"Ok Just lie on the table." the mare said.

"Alright." he said as he lied down and let the restraints hold him in place, and activating the heart monitor as automated arms holding glowing orange and yellow liquid descended from the ceiling and placed the syringes into his veins. This time however there was less screaming and when the needles retracted he sat up.

"How are you feeling?" the nurse asked as she watched Dark Sword start clutching his head.

His vision was a blur of blue static as he heard a voice calling to him. He had found it but he had to be for sure so he pressed a blue button on the panel prompting a hatch to open in the room with the green unicorn. The two of them Dark sword and the scientist watched one of the test subjects enter the room. These test subjects were testing something different and once the serum was completed and injected they became highly highly aggressive and there manes changed to orange, red, or a purplish black in some cases, and and all of there cutie marks changed to match. it was a strange symbol Dark sword didn't recognize, and the entirety of there eyes began glowing orange or red. The other thing he found interesting about the test subjects of Project 19 was that they were able to use the strange weapons stored at CELL base 16. However it only seemed to stand there watching the green unicorn as if waiting for something. taking this as his cue of a successful test he weakly pressed the incineration key.

"Begin the process. lower the dose by 1.5, no anesthetic" Dark sword before ling down on the Nanosuit cradle in the viewing room.

"Yes sir." the scientist said as she beginning the series of injections. After the operation the Nanosuit wearing stallion stood to his hooves, the glowing red optics over his eyes in his suits visor changing to a yellowish orange.

He let out a raur and rushed the doctor who tried to run only to be pinned to the wall with her hands clasped together over her head. The mare instinctively pressed her thighs together as the stallions masked face neared hers. She then heard a metallic 'shwing' as Dark Sword raised his arm his close combat spike extended from his wrist. Her breathing and heart rate became more speratic as he spoke.

"Now then..." he said his already deep baritone voice sounding synthetically filtered as his visor flickered out turning black before glowing a bright orange.

"Begin injecting all Sickle CELL personnel with Project 19 right away." the former star pupil  and Royal guard captine of Princess Celestia  said as he stood and left the twitching barley conscious broken mare on the floor.

He walked to the a large room where the subjects for project 19 were held and upon entering the many modified mares and stallions turned to look at him before kneeling with there heads bowed low they stretched as far as he could see to the other end of the massive room. he took a deep breath before saying a phrase he didn't even know, it felt foreign like the DNA he had acquired had it locked in its matrix.

"They think i'm the Alpha Ceph? I AM THE APLHA CEPH!"

"Equestria will be MINE!"

Calcified abandoned Cell base six months ago.

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"We are gathered here today to witness the joining of two lovers. The alicorn Prince Raptor Equenus and the Changeling Princess Nymph daughter of Chrysalis..." Celestia continued with a smile on her face. She stood at the top of the thrown room dressed in a ceremonial gown with Raptor and Nymph standing beside each other. the room was filled with on lookers from the extended family of nymph, nobles, delegates, the family's and herds of blackwatch troopers and the elements of harmony and there family's all watched. The massive open balcony behind Celestia and Chrysalis who stood beside her opend to a vista of the castle and the city beyond.

Blackwatch troopers lined one side of the isle in there dress uniforms while Changeling centurions lined the other. in the shadows of night Raptoral knights hid unseen. In the shadows Closer to the prince Head Paladin Brother Valencio stood in the shadow to his lords right while across form him Junior Librarian Brother Lachlan stood.

There on either side of the door and hanging behind celestia were the banners of the betrothed lands. The black and green banner of the Changeling federation featuring a pare of green insectoid wings a crown crown hung next to the white banner featuring half of a moon and half of a sun connected with two alicorns circling either side. Below them under there respective banners were Prince Raptor dressed in his dress uniform and Nymph dressed in an elegant White wedding dress.

"You may kiss and seal the contract." Celestia said with a smile and the two engaged in a deep passionate kiss.

when the two parted the room erupted into cheers loud enough that no pony noticed the door burst open. They all watched a group of five heavenly armored griphons sail into the room.

'bap, bap,bap,bap,bpa, zaap,zap,zap. wiiiiz gush.'

The first two would be assassins fell to a barrage of pistol fire and magical burst from blackwatch and Changeling guards, and the third fell dead its upper chest bulging outward from ribs that were broken from the inside thanks to a DME round fired from Starnes on another balcony.

The last two however must have done there research before the attempt and wore the appropriate armor. However no amount of armor could protect them from what everyone in the Room saw move to protect the Newlyweds. From the shadows on either side of the prince and princess they first saw two pares of glowing blue eyes flash to life from what they had first assumed to be shadowed statues.

"Burn Scum!" one yelled its voice boomed in the room amplified by its helmet.

The first of the two massive armored stallions moved to raptors left raising its left hand and pointed a blocky weapon with a smaller block and a cilinder on the side at the griphon before a little flame appeared in front of one of the black holes. Then a torrent of liquid flame erupted from its barrel covering the griphon making her scream in pain and writhe on the ground its flesh melting.

The second stallion a unicorn standing before Nymph merely waited patently until the griphon was right on him. Then simply reached out and grabbed the griphon by the throat, then simply flexed his thumb upwards while curling its fingers back snapping its neck killing its instantly. they then watched the one to Lamars right walk up to the writhing burning griphon and bring its massive armored hoof down on the griphons chest, crushing it and showering him with a spray of blood and broken bone. the room fell silent at the revile of two stallions whom stood taller then celestia. They watched the one whom had stomped the flaming griphon turn to the prince.

"What is your will my lord?" he said dipping his head and plageing a fist in the center of his chest plate in salute.

"galt, Stergo, Spread out and search the building." Prince Raptor said gesturing to the back corners of the room resulting in two more of these knights in grey to emerge and dip there helmeted heads in the affirmative. the two knights then did there strange salute before turning to leave and slammed the handles of there weapons into the ground and taking there pikes in both hands as the blades began to glow a dull reddish orange.

Raptor then erupted in a torrent of writhing tendrils startling and scarring some of the delegates, other royals and wedding goers who had never seen this before, however the princesses and changeling queens were unfazed. when the tendrils subsided the prince reappeared dressed in a uniform matching the blackwatch troopers in the room only with out the mask, goggles or hood. The prince pressed an icon on his wrist computer after which they watched a heard a thud on the balcony behind princess celestia and watched what blackwatch and a few others recognized as a nano-suit soldier. The trooper reached behind him and retrieved a large assault riffle and tossed it to Raptor who caught it in both hands, and pulled something back making a clicking noise.

"Alri..." Lamar said hefting his Morita Rifle onto his shoulder pointing the comically large assault rifle purpose built for Nano-suit soldiers.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" A scream pierced the night are emanating from the tower adjacent from them.

when they all turned to look all they saw was the silhouette of a pegasus crouched over a sniper who had been positioned there. they watched it repeatedly stab at the poor mare with a spike emanating from its left wrist, its other seemed to bulge disproportionately in an organic looking cylinder with two jutting ends that glowed blue. What ever it was then ceased and stood looked at them its two burning orange eyes as it reared back and let out a terrifying screech. A screech that echoed in the night and shook them to there very bones. The few former humans old enough to remember dropped there rifles in shock and fear an action that disheartened some and in the cases of others such as the dragons made them think that perhaps blackwatch was not all that is said to be. The thing, the demon from tartarus continued to stare a for a fraction of a second before it noticed the mare below it attempt to move. they watched it move its disfigured arm up and seemed to fire what appeared to be a bolt of magic at the mare making her head explode before it looked back to them and leap from the tower and dissipated into the night.

It was only then did an alarm that no occupant in the room or in fact the entire city recognized, as a synthesized masculine voice echoed threw out the entirety of the capital city. BASS the Blackwatch Automated Security System a system that only Blackwatch knew about and were sworn to secrecy sounded an alarm that would resonate through out history here in Equestria and the entire wourld the same way it had on earth all those years ago.

"PROXIMITY WARNING, XENOCEPH PRESENCE DETECTED.  All citizens are ordered to report to the castle or Docks for evacuation in an orderly fashion. All blackwatch personnel The alpha contingency is in effect." BASS boomed throughout the city.

The occupants of the room the family and royals, males and females alike looked to the prince expectantly the Princesses and his new wife chief among them. But what they saw in the princess eyes worried them more then the tartarus spawn on the roof. For the first time they glanced a new emotion in the normally confident, even dare they say arrogant face of the prince, Fear. Pure and primal, instinctual, the kind that only came from one who had seen true horror first hand. His breathing was ragged, his pupils dilated, wings clamped tightly to his black like a vice around his body. They looked around trying to find something that would reasure them but what they saw were a few blackwatch troopers about ten out of the 25 in the room standing with there weapons limp at there sides, one clasping a piece of metal consisting of two peaces crossing one long one short muttering something to himself.

"Raptor?" celestia asked slightly reaching out to her secret love. Nymph already had his arm wrapped in hers holding it closely trying to get a reply. She had never seen this, this was not the raptor she knew. He gave no retort, delivered no snappy one liner, No references to movies she had never even heard of, nothing at all. He simply stood there starring at where the thing that had killed the sniper had once been. this whole time her gem continued to glow brighter and brighter, cracks becoming wider and wider, and more numerous until it was a beacon of light. the solar princess stood in front of Raptor and shook him trying to rouse a response Valencio and Lachlan made no move to stop her they simply stood still un-moving like statues awaiting orders. Then with a turn of his head his pink eyes stared into her own and she felt her heart race but she felt the dread in his and saw the face of true fear and her gem split straight down the middle one side glowing a bright orange the other continuing to glow a deep blue.

"The Ceph..." he spoke in a dry, weak uncharacteristic voice

"May god help us all."

That did it the gem began to shatter showering the room with light and raw magical energy. snapping the prince out of his stupor from the light show in front of his face.

"That light is fucking annoying."

"Oho Raptor i am so so sorry." began Celestia only to be cut off by a distant explosion.

BOOM!

A realization came to them all in the room, about the Princess and Prince standing there before them. The contrast to the young male and the anent Female. One generation was meant to shield there body's and the other...there souls.