Infectious

"So you're saying that you want to put my brother in an arena and have him attack ponies to see how strong he is?" Felicity asked, slightly confused as to why Luna would bring up such an idea.

"Precisely. We are very curious as to just how strong he is and we thought this would be an accurate way to get results." Luna was not only wondering about just how strong Ronnie was, but also if he could be used as a tactic to aid in future pony conflicts. If he wouldn't scare their enemies into submission, he could beat them into it.

"Remember how I said he won't attack unless he's provoked? If you send ponies to fight him he won't stop until they're dead." Luna nodded at Felicity's statement.

"We figured as much, which is why we would be putting him against ponies serving life in prison or on death row." They had a line of very bad ponies ready to fight Ronnie. Their were few, but it would be enough for Luna to get the information she needed. "The reason we have brought this idea to you is because he sees you as someone to obey. We want you to convince him to perform this test of strength and to cooperate fully."

"It won't take a lot of convincing, honestly." She said with a raised brow, "but their is one thing I need to be sure of."

"And that would be?"

"He is going to be allowed to do whatever he wants to these ponies without consequence, right?" She needed to make sure that they wouldn't be using this as a reason to lock her brother up again.

"Yes, he will have complete freedom to do with these prisoners as he pleases." Luna could understand her concern, she and her brother seemed very close despite his condition.

"...Okay, I'll let him know."

"We thank you for accepting. We will send guards to collect him and have him delivered to the arena." Luna exited Felicity's room and instructed the guards to go grab Ronnie in no less than five minutes for the test.

Upon entering the arena Ronnie was greeted with a flat open area filled with seven caged ponies. Some seemed harmless enough, others however looked like body builders. He made his way to the center of the room, as per requested by Princess Luna, and looked around the empty stadium surrounding him. The only ones in attendance were the royal sisters, Felicity, and a few guards. his sister had explained to him what was about to happen and was actually kind of eager to let our some pent-up rage. He watched Luna take a step forward on to a platform before clearing her throat and speaking in her Canterlot voice.

"Attention ponies! You have been selected for a very unique and once in a lifetime opportunity! In this arena you will be fighting to the death against our friend here in hopes of winning back your freedom! Luna had convinced the prisoners she had collected that if they won in the arena that they would be released from prison and free to reenter the world. Ronnie found that to be both clever and foolish. We will be releasing you from weakest to strongest and you will fight for your life against one of the most dangerous creatures to ever walk Equestrian soil." Ronnie could hear the prisoner whooping and swearing at him. Some were just spouting random nonsense, others where screaming about how pathetic and weak he looked and how they would have no problems taking him on. "Let the battle begin!" The lunar princess used her magic to open the cage of the weakest looking pony. He had a bright white coat and a blue mane.

"You're mine you ugly sack of flesh!" The released pony charged and leaped at Ronnie, but he had already made a mistake. The pony had left his midsection completely exposed when he leaped into the air, allowing Ronnie to make one powerful swing into his chest with enough force to stop his heart. The ponies body fell lifelessly to the ground and the surrounding ponies all gasped in shock; Felicity however shot a grin at Princess Luna, who opened the second cage. This pony was a red unicorn with a dark brown mane. He tried to use his magic to teleport out of the stadium to run to freedom, but the princesses had cast a magic negating spell over the ring, making it impossible to do anything with his inborn abilities. While he was distracted trying to figure out why his magic wasn't working, Ronnie crept up behind the unicorn, grabbing him by the horn and lifting him into the air. He screamed and flailed around, swinging his hooves at Ronnie with all his might, but his opponent showed no reaction to the strikes against him. Ronnie gripped the horn tight in his right hand and placed his left on the base of the unicorns skull. With one powerful pull the horn popped and was completely removed, leaving a gaping hole in the pony's head. He then took the horn still gripped tightly in his hand and used it as a knife, stabbing into the pony's stomach repeatedly until his entrails started to collapse out of him. Luna was starting to enjoy the show at this point, however, the same could not be said about her sister who had to leave the room a long with a few guards.

"Brutal, just brutal. Next opponent! She opened the next cage, holding a grey Pegasus with a white mane. This pony stood slightly taller than the others and was noticeably more muscular. Before he could so much as blink Ronnie threw the corpse he was holding at the pony, causing him to with draw slightly. He then leaped across the stadium with a loud screech and tackled the large pony. They rolled into a nearby cage, Ronnie pinning the pony to the ground and holding him in place by his throat. The Pegasus struggled beneath him until a pony inside the cage they had bumped into tossed the Pegasus a shiv. He eagerly grabbed it and stabbed Ronnie in the side of his neck. He shot up off of the pony, holding the afflicted area and yelling and gagging as he stumbled around. The pony got back onto his hooves with a bright smile, he though he had won. That changed when he watched his injured opponent turn back to face him with a large grin on his face. There was no screaming in pain, their was no choking, there wasn't even any blood. Ronnie grabbed the shiv and pulled it out of his neck before tossing it to the ground. The Pegasus was now frozen with fear, giving Ronnie more than enough time to leap at him again, this time digging his long jagged nails into the flesh of the pony's throat, making him bleed all over the floor and choke on the warm red liquid. In a matter of second the life faded from the pony's eyes and he was finally gone. Ronnie's could feel his infected blood calling to him, tempting him, making his stomach growl.

"I hope you're enjoying this as much as I am, my subjects, because it's not over yet!" The next cage opened to reveal a very large stallion with a brown coat and yellow mane. His body was built for fighting and his eyes were burning with desire, unlike Ronnie's. His body was pale and lifeless, which slightly unsettled the stallion, and his eyes were screaming with hunger. The stallion shook off the feelings he was having and charged after his opponent headbutting him off of the dead Pegasus on the floor before pinning him to the ground. The stallion held Ronnie down with all of his might, but was struggling against his massive amount of strength. Ronnie knew that this stallion would be hard to lift off of him and that could mean bad things, so he did what his kind were meant to do. The stallion smiled victoriously, knowing that he was more than capable of over powering this creature beneath him, but his smile vanished instantly as a sharp pain ran up one of his hooves. He screamed and jumped off of his opponent holding his now injured appendage. Luna squinted her eyes in the hopes that she would be able to see just what Ronnie had done, but Felicity was already well aware and the look she gave Luna told her that. The stallion was still crying out in pain, looking down at his hoof which had clearly had a bite taken out of it. He was about to start cursing at the one who had caused his injury, but found himself out of air as he was knocked to the ground. Suddenly he felt his insides being torn out. The creature was on top of him, digging its nails into his skin and slashing away like a wild beast as it started grabbing his internal organs and throwing them around the room at random. It didn't take too long for the stallion to finally give up and die, but it was becoming difficult for Luna to hold onto her lunch. She was about to call off the whole thing, but Ronnie seemed to have other plans. He ran over to the next cage and grabbed the bars, bending them open and allowing him access into the cage. He slipped into the small steel prison and wasted no time digging his hand through the pony insides chest and pulling out its beating heart. He then started tearing each off its limbs off, taking bites out of anything he could get his hands on.

"ENOUGH!!!" He froze, hearing Luna's wing-beats as she flew into the arena. He slowly stepped out of the cage, his body coated in blood with most of it leaking from his jaw. They stared at each other, dead eyes locked onto teal with nothing but silence filling the room. A slight groan came from behind Luna, she turned her head to see the pony that Ronnie had torn apart with his bare hand squirming on the floor and trying to get up. It's coat seemed slightly darker with black veins protruding all over his body and his eyes were the same milky white as Ronnie's. Ronnie quickly walked over to the newly infected horse and stomped on its head, making a combination of blood, bone, and chunks of brain matter scatter across the floor. He looked over at Luna, then at the two remaining ponies still caged up.

"Check...please?" He muttered. Luna wanted to laugh, but she couldn't. This had gone a little further than she had expected. She knew he would kill anyone in his path, but didn't expect anything like this.

"I believe that is all I need. You've surpassed my expectations and taken them to a whole new level. I can't tell whether I should be proud or if I should be more cautious with you." She was stuck in a bind. On one side she wanted to embrace the fact that they had such a powerful new ally, but on the other she felt she should get rid of him for the safety of her subjects. "You may go back to your room now, we are done here." With that Felicity came down and grabbed Ronnie, taking him back to their room. Luna ordered the guards to return the remaining prisoners to their cells and the maids to clean up the carnage left behind.