Cutie Mark(ed) Crusaders Prompt Tag Collab

Written by Fluttercheer

All of a sudden, it became dark around them. They had not seen the sun going down behind the horizon, it was just like somepony had switched off the light. Besides, it was too early to get dark anyway.

And strangely, it wasn't COMPLETELY dark. There was a weird, green glimmer around them everywhere, that managed it to light up the town a little. It looked eerie and gave them shudders.

"Girls?" Sweetie Belle squeaked in fear. "What is happening here?"

"I don't know....." Scootaloo answered. "But I have no good feeling and I don't like that."

Like to confirm her feelings, a loud siren suddenly sounded across town.

The air flickered and slowly, the ground underneath them, the buildings, the fountain, everything around them changed. Where the town looked once nice and clean, everything was dirty now, like Ponyville had been abandoned for hundreds of years.

Then the creatures came. They looked like ponies, but their heads were growing out of their chests and where their heads should have been was just a open stump that allowed to look into the inside of their throats.

The creatures were all dirty and bloody and from their throats emerged gurgling sounds. It seemed like they tried to speak, but couldn't because their heads weren't connected to their vocal chords.

And as the fillies just saw now, their heads didn't even make any movements. They didn't turn them around and there was no blinking of their eyes. Instead, the eyes were permanently closed.

But somehow, the creatures could see the three fillies anyway, which became apparent to them as they suddenly started moving into their direction.

"No! No! No!" Scootaloo expressed in fear, then she pushed her two friends who stared in complete shock and dragged them along with her, until they suddenly started to move away from the demons on their own.

The three fillies began to run. They called for Discord to help them, but the draconequus wasn't here anymore and they received no answer.

Dashing as fast as they could and dodging several of the scary creatures, they saw a big building in front of them and ran up to it.

As they had reached the door, they quickly proceeded to open it, rushed in and slammed it shut behind them. There was a bar on the door and they put it down to prevent any of the creatures from coming in.

Turning around, they saw where they were. They had entered the Ponyville Hospital, once a nice, friendly place, but now it was as dirty and scary-looking as the rest of Ponyville.

A foul stench waved through the air. "Okay and what now?" Scootaloo asked. Her voice was shaking.

"We need ta find somepony ta help us. Come, girls!" Apple Bloom said.

Together the three fillies ventured ahead into the dark building.....