Killer Symphony

by ElementBrigade

Symphony 1: Ballad of the Blanks

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(Sunny Town)

“Hey! Hey! Come on please tell me you’re not dead or anything?” Said the mysterious voice. The humans eyes shot open the moment she heard & felt someone waking her up. She then pulled her head up to see what she thought she was seeing an anthropomorphic pony with golden yellow hair with orange strikes. To what she could tell she was wearing a white scarf, gray vest with a red shirt under it, and blue color jeans.

“Oh thanks goodness that you’re ok.” The pony said as she sighed with relief. “For a second there I thought you were injured or something.”

“W-Who are you, and where the hell am I?” The humans asked as she pulled herself up from the floor of the house she was in.

“I’m Ruby, and to where we are? We’re in a town called Sunny Town.” She answered. “If you don’t mind me asking, but who or what the hay are you? You don’t look like a pony even though you have the legs of one, and you don’t have hair all over your body, nor do you have a tail.”

“What are you talking about, for that matter what are you!?” The human screamed as she back up away from the thing that looks oddly like a pony. That walks on two legs has hands and was wearing closes.

“Would you please lower your voice? We don’t want them to hear us.” She blinked at the pony giving her a funny look. “Them who?” She asked now getting a better look at herself and the outfit she was wearing.

“Holy hell! Am I wearing the Symphony Regalia Mk 2?! I don’t even remember getting this, what happen to me!” The human girl panics as she try to walk only to fall over. “Damnit!”

“Will you please stop moving around before the ponies in this messed up town finds us?” Ruby asked as she looked out the window to see if anypony notice them.

“Okay let start at the beginning, I want to know somethings then I will start listening to you got me” The human girl glares at the pony to get her point across.

“Ok will start from the beginning.” Ruby said as she cleared her throat. “My name is Ruby Finding Glass, and you are in the town called Sunny Town. Now can you tell me your name ms?”

“My name Sally that all your getting out of me until I can trust you with my full name, My turn what are you Ruby?” Sally said not trusting this Ruby seeing as she just woke up in with no idea where this sunny town is or how she got here.

“Well I’m a pony, or to be scientific equine.” Sally eyelid twitched as she looked at this so called pony. “Sure you are, and I’m queen of mars” Said Sally in a deadpan manner as she rolls her eyes.

“What, you’re saying I’m lying?” Said Ruby sounding confused at this.

“Ya, I’ve meet furries before and even though the mouth works just in time with your voice I know it just a silly mask” Sally then try to pull the Ruby head trying to get the mask off but quickly finds out that it not a mask.

“OW! What the hay was that for?” Ruby said as she smacked Sally’s hands away from her face. “That really hurt you know?”

Sally looks at Ruby with wide eyes staring at her. “Your… real, no. No,no,no,no,no. You can’t be real this can’t be real, what is going on!?” Sally yells at Ruby.

“Volume please! Do you want those dead ponies outside to hear you, and try to make you their friend?” Ruby said as she covered Sally’s mouth. Sally just blinks at her confused as she wait for Ruby to move her hand away before asking.

“What do you mean dead ponies?, and why would it be bad thing that they want me to be there friend?” Asked Sally as she sit up and looks around at where they are. Then something fly through the window before landing on the floor behind them.

Sally screams and a lute fire out of one of the rocket pods on her costume, the lute then hit the thing sending it through the wall and a loud explosion could be heard on the other side. Sally just sit there just trying to work out just what happened.

“Holy hay, how did you do that!?”

“I don’t know, what was that THING!?” Sally yelled in panic, it looked like a monster or something but how did she do that? Was her outfit just like the one from the anime, was it alive? Who cares she wanted to get out of here as fast as possible.

“What the hell was that?” Said a voice behind them. Sally and Ruby looked behind them to see a pony the same color as Ruby, only she had a red mane then a golden yellow & orange one. To what she could tell she was wearing a grey and black striped long sleeve shirt, a red dress, and a apron that says ‘kiss the cook.”

“Pick me up a carry me! I can’t walk in these stupid things!” Sally yells at Ruby in a mad panic thinking the other may turn into some kind of monster and attack them.

“Mom help me pick my friend up, our cover’s blown and we need to get out of here fast!”

Sally blinked at this and said this. “Wait, she’s your mom? Why are you both out in this creepy place then do you live here?”

“Long story short this town is cursed thanks to these idiots that think cutie marks are nothing but a plague.” Ruby said as she pulled Sally from off the ground along with her mother. “And the moment when I got my cutie mark…...well let’s just say it didn’t turn out so well for me.”

“What the hell’s a cutie mark?” Sally asked not really understanding what going on.

“Truth be told I don’t know much about it, but I believe it shows you what you’re good at.” Ruby showed her her scarf which had a magnifying glass on it. “This is my cutie mark, I got it when I was helping somepony find something they lost.”

“So…you what, get it for your birthday or something?” Asked Sally not really getting it. “Or do just random people give you stuff with marks on them and say this is what you're good at so here you go. Sounds like someone just giving out your job in life so you can’t try and get something better out of life if you ask me”

“Look I don’t know how this works ok. We been trap in that stupid town for the past…...I don’t know how long, but after they killed me the entire town got cursed.”

“What are you talking about you look fine.” Said Sally as she looks her over.

“I’m a ghost, and my mother got turned into one of those things you just saw a few seconds ago.” Ruby said as she looked into Sally’s eyes. “Can’t you tell by our eyes?”

“Okay, the glowing eye thing I thought was just contacts or something. As for being Ghosts ya right there no such thing as ghosts” Said Sally as she looks around. “But on the other hand that I’m wrong I’d really not want to find out and get out of here.”

Just as they were half way through the town, a group of undead ponies block their path to the exit, along with the one behind them. “Hold it right there Ruby and Mitta.” Said one of the ponies as it walking slowly in front of them, keeping a safe distance from the two ponies and human.

“Hey who the creeper over there?” Sally asked as she looks around for another way out.

“I am Grey Hoof, the mayor of our little home we call Sunny Town.” He said giving her a polite bow.

“Lame name…” Sally calls out not really impressed at all. As she start pulling on her outfit trying to work out how it works if it did at all.

“My I ask who you are hairless ape creature?” Grey Hoof asked which caused Ruby and Mitta to laugh a bit.

“What did you just call me?” Sally said in a deadly tone and pulls a little tighter around Ruby’s neck.

“Oh sorry I didn’t mean to offend you or anything, it just that you don’t look like a pony even if you do have the legs of one. Not to mention that you don’t have fur covering your body, nor do you have a tail.” Ruby hear a hiss sound coming from Sally legs and saw a little bit of smoke coming out of the tubes at the ends.

“And what make you think you have the right to call me an Ape! I am a human being dammit!” Sally yells sounding pissed.

“I have never heard of a human before, but you pretty much look like an ape to us so…anyway we would like to have you as our friend and hoping you would join our happy little town.” Grey Hoof said with a warm smile on his face. “Even if you look like a hairless ape.”

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  (Music Starts)

Just as he finished however a soft sound fills the air around everyone, it sounded like music but Grey Hoof could not work out where it coming from. “No one insults Sally Anderson the second and get away with it!” At this point everyone saw something that made their eyes bulge and jaws drop. Sally was flying.

“I am going to teach you not to insult a lady!” Sally screams as the rocket pods on her outfit spring to life as a large number of lute like missiles arm and fire at the horde of ponies and there Mayor.

“LOOK OUT!” Yelled one of the dead ponies as they started to scatter like a bunch of cockroaches. The explosions that follow exploded just in time with the music that was loudly playing.

“I’m not done yet we still have the grad finale!” Sally yells as the two lute like cannons fold under her arms and she grins as her target had no where to run. “AND YOUR NAME IS STUPID!”

“Wait wh-?” He was unable to finish as the blast of music made contact with him. A few seconds later Sally stopped her attack as she landed next to Ruby and Mitta.

“That what you get!” She side with a smile until she realized what she just did. “Oh my god… I can fly!”

“Well that wasn’t very friendly of you ape lady.” Grey hoof said as he was pulling himself back to normal. “If you’re gonna be our new friend, will have to fix that attitude of yours.” A lute missile lands right in his face after he said that.

“Stop calling me an APE!” Sally yells again as everyone could hear her grinding her teeth.

“Um…not to piss you off or anything, but shouldn’t we be leaving like oh I don’t know NOW!?”

“Not until he calls me lady Anderson! I’ll keep kicking him down until he understands this!” Yells Sally as she give Ruby a death glare.

“I can understand that, but given the fact that you just figure out how to do those interesting moves and all, I doubt you want to overheat your gear now do you?”

“...Umm…” Said Sally as she stare at Ruby then laughs nervously.

“Please tell me you’re not overheating or something?” Mitta asked.

“No, no it just…I don’t know how I did all that just now” Sally said as she plays with her hands.

“Really now?” Said Grey Hoof still having that creepy warm smile on his face.

“Wait why hasn’t that thing exp-” Just before Sally could finish her question it explodes right in the mayor arms.

“You know if your gonna keep acting like this, we’re gonna have to do things to you that you wouldn’t want to find out.” Grey hoof said as his arm was patched back to normal. “And I know you wouldn’t want to end up just like how Ruby did, when she found that cursed cutie mark of her’s?”

“You know what I don’t care. I don’t even know why you care about some stupid mark so much, As far as I care, you’re just some little man who can’t amount to anything. I’m leaving and these two are coming with me.” Said Sally as she grabs Ruby and Mitta.

“Oh I don’t think so.” Grey Hoof snapped his fingers and a group of ponies surrounded the trio. “You see unlike those two who keep say that what I’m doing isn’t right. You on the other hand are very interesting, and we just can’t let you our new friend get a…way?”

Sally was hovering over his head and pokes her tongue out at him before flying away with the two ponies in her arms.

“Son of a bitch!” Yells Grey Hoof as he looks on at the human who was getting away.

“I told you we need some pegasus in case something like this happens.” Said Starlet. “Now they’re getting away!”

“No matter, all we have to do is get them before they make it out of the forest.” Grey Hoof order a group of ponies to go after the runaway trio. “Find them and make sure they don’t escape”

“That not really going to stop them seeing as they can fly” Said a dead pony.

“I wouldn’t worry about that.” He said pointing at the thunderclouds above them. “Even a pegasus knows they can’t fly through a thunderstorm, or else they’ll get killed by that or hitting the ground...hard.

“Ummm G-Grey Hoof sir, I D-Don’t think the human girl is slowing down” Said a panicked Dead pony.

“Give it a minute and.” Right on time a thunderbolt hit the human just fly right into it and the storm cloud to.

“...”

“Ha! See? What did I tell you fool!” Gery Hoof said with a smile.

“So… When should we see them fall?” Asked One dead pony as she looks at the storm.

“Follow the smoke trail Three-Leaf, and I want that hairless ape thing alive.” The Dead pony nods at this and start walking.

(Music Ends)

(Castle of the Twin Sisters)

“That was nuts. I almost died, that idea you had almost got all three of us killed Mitta!” Said Sally as she sit on one of the throuns.

“Hey cut me some slack ok? I didn’t think that you go that high up into the air, I mean even a pegasus knows he or she can’t go into a thunderstorm!” Mitta said as she brushed off some of the dirt that was on herself from the crash landing. “Not only that but I’m pretty sure as long as the curse is still on that town, we won’t die…..well me and my daughter that is.”

“I don’t believe in curses, if that town is such a pain I guess I’ll just have to blow it up. Once I figure out how to control this thing.” Said Sally as she looks at her outfit.

“Well the sooner you do that, the sooner we can finally leave that place.”

“Mom please be nice to Sally, after all she did save us and all.” Said Ruby.

Sally sigh as she take her hat off and looks at it. “Story of my life folks. One minute I’m buying a goku uniform from a shop, and the next I wake up in a town full of dead ponies…...reminds me of a movie called silent hill.”

“What’s silent hill?” Asked Ruby as she walks up to Sally.

“It’s a horror movie that I watch with the family on friday nights. Kinda interesting really, your town is just like. One minute it’s fine, and the next turns to hell on earth after a certain amount of time goes by.”

“That sounds horrible, why would somepony make something like that?” Said Ruby.

“I’m pretty sure they made it for the money, or just to see how the people would react to it.” Sally said as she put her hat back on. “Anyway care to tell me what hell’s going on in that town of yours?”

“It’s cursed just like mom said.” Ruby looks to Mitta then at the floor. “A while back before all this happen. Sunny Town was once a peaceful place where everypony was nice and friendly, kinda like how most ponies are around here. Then came the day I got my cutie mark.”

“That’s the day when all hell broke loose I take it?” Sally asked

“Pretty much yeah, Grey Hoof thought that getting a cutie mark was some kind of curse or plague. So in a way to make sure nopony else would get my daughters plague, he along with everypony else decided to kill her.” MItta said looking out at the forest. “And that started the curse of Sunny Town. Where whenever a lost pony finds their way into our town, Grey Hoof kills them and make them another one of his friends.”

“Why the hell would he do that?” Sally asked as she flicked a spider away.

“He thinks that it would protect them from getting their cutie marks. Which it does but it makes them become undead zombies, as you saw what happen in town a few moments ago.”

“Is that what happen to you, cause if it did happen to you shouldn’t you be just like them?”

“The original ponies in that town got turn into the undead, while those who ended up in town get killed and turn into that by Grey Hoof’s magic.”

“Okay…...so what do we do now?” Sally asked. “We can’t wait here any longer, mostly because they might figure out where we are.”

“Well we can’t leave the forest due to the curse of Sunny Town, and I doubt anypony would come to our aid seeing how they might attack you Sally.” Ruby said pointing at the way Sally looks.

“Why would they attack me?” Asked Sally giving them blank looks. “It not like I’m a zombie pony or anything”

“No but you do look like something from another world.” Said Mitta. Sally looks at Mitta then at her outfit and sighed. “Yeah okay you got me there I guess, not to mention how did I fire off all that stuff to begin with?”

“Maybe it was caused by your emotions or something?” Sally groans after hearing that, all she wanted to do right now was find somewhere safe and get some rest.

“Well we better get going before they catch up to-.” Mitta was unable to finish her sentence as the trio hear a manly scream as someone falls from the air above them and lands on top of Sally.

“Get it off!” Yells Sally as she start hitting it with her hands.

“Stop hitting me you ass!” Yelled the teen that was on top of her. Ruby and Mitta look on not really sure what was happening or how they could help. The one thing going through there minds was there doomed.

“Ow! I can’t believe you plan actually worked Mister Sanageyama.” Said Sweetie Belle climbing off of him, along with the rest of the CMC. As soon as Sanageyama had more space to move Sally slapped him across the face.

“I don’t know who you are but never land on me again!” Sally yells at the teen.

“Oh I’m sorry it’s not like I had much of a choice seeing how I had to get those three out of harm's way from a bunch of undead ponies!’ It took both humans a moment to realize that they was both talking to another human before pointing their fingers at each other then yelling.

“Do you two know each other?” Asked Ruby as she watches them screaming.

“Unfortunately yes.” Sally said. “This idiot’s name is Simon Rosencaster.”

“Wait a minute you said your name was Master Sanageyama” Said Scootaloo, giving him a glare.

“It is, I just go by that name from time to time seeing how I am a master at kendo.” Simon said as he pat dust out of his hair.

“The sad part is that’s true. Though that title keeps getting him into trouble with the local students in school at times.” Sally sighed as she recalled one time he ended up making half the school go after him for interrupting an assembly.

“Hey not my fault they couldn’t handle how awesome I was.” Simon then take a poses with his wooden sword in one hand pointing it in the air.

“If by awesome you mean make a fool out of yourself, then yes they couldn’t and never could anyone else.” Sally smirked after she said that.

“Bite me hamburgler! Anyway what the hell are you doing here?” Simon asked as he sit on a rock.

“How should I know, how are you here anyway and what are you doing with.” Sally stop to count the cmc. “Three little kids all the way out here anyway?”

“Well it a long & epic story really, you see while I was-.”

“We found him in the woods.” Said Sweetie Bell.

“And he was crying like a baby.” Said Scootaloo as she rolls her eyes.

“And we couldn't just leave him here by himself, so we made him a part of our club.” Said Apple Bloom with a smile on her face.

“........Of course I’m their leader of their club.” Said Simon. Sally just give him a knowing smile as if she heard something like this happen before.

“What’s with that smile?” Sally say nothing and rolls her eyes. “It the book club all over again.” She said as she rubs her eyes.

“Yeah but at least the book club didn’t try to kill me with books.” The cmc give simon funny looks as they look back at each other.

“Um not to ruin this little moment you all are having, but we might want to leave this place.” Mitta suggested.

“She right it not safe in these woods, wait how did you deal with those undead ponies anyway?” Asked Sally as she looks Simon over.

“Would you believe that the goku uniform I got actually allows me to transform?”

“Seeing as I’m stuck like this and blow up their town. Yes, yes I can as soon as pigs FLY!” Sally yells but stop herself and calms down. “But I really am stuck like this it hard to walk in these”

“Hate to break it to you, but Sunny Town isn’t destroyed.” Said Mitta pointing to herself. “Cause if it was then I wouldn’t look like this now would I?”

“Oh come on I blasted that town to hell and back. Wish I knew how I did that” Sally then try to will her goku uniform to do something but nothing happens. “Simon how do I get this thing to do what I want!”

“I can only tell you that you can change between your different set of goku uniform, but other then figure out how it works…...yeah I don’t even know myself.” Simon said. Sally growls at this as she points at where her feet should be.

“Can you at least get it so I can walk without worrying about falling on my face” Sally was right in Simon face as she show just how much she didn’t like this. “You know I hate asking you for help.”

“Have you ever thought of saying your other goku uniform regalia’s name?” Sally narrows her eyes at him about to say something then stop and thinks. Sally looks at the floor, then waves Ruby over to help her walk behind the throne. Once out of site there was a flash of light and everyone could hear Sally groans.

“You have got to be kidding me!” They all heard her yell. Simon looks at everyone as he rest his sword on his shoulder and slowly move to the throne to peek at what happened. He was then hit in the face for it and sent into a stone pella.

“OW! WHAT THE HELL!?” Simon growled in pain as Sally then start pummeling him into the stone floor.

“Um guys, we better leave now.” Scootaloo suggested, as she pointed towards the entrance of the the room they were in. “Cause I think they found us!?” Standing there was a small group of undead ponies blocking their way.

“Oh great that all we need.” Sally complains as she has Simon in a choke hold.

“Geez for a bunch of undead ponies, they can sure move fast when needed.” Simon said as he pulled Sally off of himself. “Give me a second, I have an Idea.” Sally just smacks him before walking away.

(Outside of the castle of the two sisters)

“So there in there right and not just a burned backpack this time?.” Asked Gladstone.

“Yes sir.” Said a mare with her horn missing. He snorts to himself before giving the order. “Alright you know what to do, get in there and drag that ape out with those two-”

“BLADE REGALIA MARK II !!!”

Everypony stopped what they was doing to see a flash of green light and a large suit of green armor standing in there way. Gladstone had no idea what this thing was but it was in the way.

“I don’t know what you are, but stay out of our way this as nothing to do with you.” Said Gladstone as he looks at the others to go ahead with the plan.

“I don’t think so dead man.” Simon moved in front of the ponies that were about to get inside, and attacked them with his kendo stick from his arm. “MEN!!!”

“What?” Said Gladstone as the last thing he saw was being sent flying back to sunny town and crashing in to his house.

“Ha! Take that you undead freaks!” Simon cheers as he pumps both large fists in the air.

“You done showing off Simon” Said Sally as she stand there with her arms crossed.

“You can be such a buzzkill you know that right?” Simon complace as he towers over her. “I think the tables has turned don’t you?” Sally then kicked him in between the lags and watches him fall over.

“The… Pain…” He whimpers on the floor. Sally then walks over him and waves for the ponies to follow her.

“I doubt we’re out of the woods yet.” Said Mitta. “He’ll just send more after us.”

“And we’ll keep kicking his ass until he learns that he can’t stop us.” Said Sally with a grin on her face. “Besides we have this idiot so this is no longer a even fight but overkill.”

“So what do we do now?” Asked Simon as he pulls himself up from the ground. “I doubt you friends can leave the forest to get help, and we can’t leave due to the fact that if someone see us like this then they’ll shoot first ask question later.”

“Why Simon I thought this would be right up your alley” Sally turn to him and smiles a very real evil smile. “We’ll do to them what we did to that gang that messed with our school.”

“Fair enough, but we might as well use our other names for the time being. Don’t want them to figure out who we are and stuff, right you little snake?” Simon said as he grins as well.

“That fine by me monkey.” Sally smiles and laughs at the nickname.

“What have you gotten me into Ruby?” Asked Mitta looking at her daughter with a worry look on her face.

“I don’t know but now I’m scared.” Said Ruby hugging Sweetie Belle, but the little crusader didn’t seem to mind.

“So…...does anypony know where they live?” Asked Scootaloo. The only answer she got was both humans laughing like evil villains from one of her comic books.

“I’ll take that as a yes then huh?” Scootaloo said as she looks at everyone.

“I got a feeling my sister isn’t gonna like this one bit” Said Apple Bloom as she looks at her friends.

“I’m pretty sure all of our sisters are not going to like this….at all.” Sweetie Belle said.

“So Cutie Mark Crusaders, Zombie fighters...” Said Scootaloo with a smile.

“I think we might want to hold that off, and try to get our cutie marks into something other than this.” Said Apple Bloom.

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