Infectious

Canterlot Bank was busy, as per usual. Business ponies walking in every which direction, depositing thousands upon thousands of bits with every passing second. The wealth of those living in this city could not be matched by just anypony and they knew it. This was what gave them pep in their step, that feeling they got whenever they received a large collection of money, that feeling that convinced them that they were important. The dozens of ponies inside of the bank just went about their business, thinking that today would be like any normal day. Little did they know that a group of four stallions were just biding their time.

Each one looked to another, nodding to confirm that they were ready to commence with their plans and after picking a spot to hid in just long enough to mask their faces and cutie marks, they were ready. As they all walked out ponies began to stare. The largest of the group, a strong earth pony, closed the doors and blocked it off. The two unicorns lit up their horns and announced to the ponies that what they were doing was committing a robbery and demanded that everypony lay on the ground. The locals made no attempts to argue and cooperated fully with the robbers. One of the unicorns nodded to the last of the group, a pegasus, who took flight with a large bag in his hooves. "Now listen up, my friend here is going to flying by all of you. Now you can either empty every bit you have into that bag, or we will make you give us those bits."

The locals, though reluctant at first, complied and handed over all of their not so hard earned money to the pegasus. Once he did a full loop around the room they demanded access to the vault in the back of the bank. The teller replied with some resistance until he was met with a taser spell that knocked him to the ground. When the teller's body was done shaking about from the electricity coursing through him they demanded access once again and the teller held onto his previous statement. "I'm sorry gentlecolts, but I cannot let you into the vault."

One of the unicorns sighed, his annoyance with this pony being very audible in his breath. "You know what, I don't even care." He said, looking to the other unicorn. "Finish him off, we'll get in their ourselves."

The unicorn nodded to his friend before putting his full attention back onto the teller. "You should'a just let us in the vault, bub." He charged up the spell and watched as the bank teller closed his eyes and waited for the end to come. However, before he was able to cast his spell the sound of shattering glass filled the room. The whole room turned to face the source of the noise. Their eyes met with what looked like a plastic ball shaped like a oval and a small metal top. Before anypony could investigate the ball exploded and suddenly the room went white, blinding all within the building. The four stallions squinted against the light, seeing two dark figures standing in the center.

When the light faded away the ponies all stared in shock and awe at two bipedal creatures standing in the center of the building. One of them was dressed in black leather with black plating over her chest, shoulders, waist, elbows, and knees. Her long brown hair went down to the center of her back and her eyes were being covered by a pair of heavily tinted sunglasses. Beside her was a figure slightly taller and more muscular from the looks of it. It was dressed in the same manner that a biker would be; blue jeans, white t-shirt, black leather jacket, and to top it off was a plastic mask shaped like a human skull with its jaw missing covering its face.

The whole room stared at the two in silence until the female reached into her pockets, pulling out four small throwing knives which she quickly launched at the the earth pony blocking off the door. Each blade found its way into a different hoof, tearing through the skin and burying itself into the bones of its target. The stallion cried in pain as he fell to the ground, unable to move because of his injuries. The rest of the group snapped out of their trance-like state and charged the creatures standing in the middle of the bank. The pegasus was the first to get close and the woman tapped the man's leg. He stretched his arms out to his sides, allowing her to grab onto the and push herself upwards and kicking the flying horse in the jaw. The pegasus became disoriented and flew head-first into a pillar, knocking himself unconscious in the act. The woman landed in front of the man due to her previous actions and smiled at him, kissing the cheek of his mask before spinning him around to the oncoming unicorns with their horns glowing and ready to fire. They both attacked the male with their taser spells, but nothing happened, he was completely unfazed. When they realized that he wasn't reacting as they had inspected they tried to stop themselves from getting too close to him, but their hooves slid across the ground, only stopping them when they were right in front of him. He reached down and grabbed the unicorns, lifting them with his powerful arms and slamming their heads together with enough force to knock them out. The stallion guarding the door managed to get back onto his hooves and limp over to the two, the bipedal males fist connecting with the stallions forehead was enough to put him to sleep with the rest of his buddies.

After dropping the bodies to the ground the young woman jumped up and wrapped her arms around the masked mans neck. "Oh my gosh, that was fun. And, we did it without having to kill them. Isn't that great Ronnie?"

Ronnie nodded in agreement with his sister. "It's great, Felicity."

Felicity released Ronnie and looked out at the surrounding ponies. "Ladies and Gentlcolts, you are now free to go about your day. The Canterlot Guard will be here shortly to retrieve these criminals and take them to jail."

The locals all got up and started clapping their hooves together, more than happy that they wouldn't be losing their paychecks today, but really, that was all they cared about. Minus one particular white unicorn with a blue mane and tail wearing a monocle who made his way over to the two. "Excuse me, but that was absolutely marvelous. I must ask, who are you?"

Felicity took a step forward to introduce them. "I'm Felicity and this is my brother Ronnie. We're basically the special operations group for Canterlot."

"That's odd, I didn't think Canterlot had a special operations group." He stated, having never seen these two or even heard of such a thing going on within the palace.

"We've only been around for a couple of years now. When Celestia saw how skilled we were at fighting she decided to for the special ops group for crimes that were more than just simple thievery and whatnot. We don't typically do a whole lot out here though. Not a lot of crime happens in Canterlot, at east not in the middle of the day." She explained.

"I guess that covers it." He said with a smile. "Anyway, my name is Fancypants and I just wanted to give you my most sincerest 'Thank you' for your acts of heroism. I would also like to invite you to a little get-together I am having one week from now. I would be honored to have you both there."

Felicity took a second to think about it. The party did sound like fun, but it all depends on if they will end up having to do a job or not. "Tell you what, Fancypants, I'll check out schedule and write to you if we're available or not."

"That sounds splendid. I hope to see you both very soon." He said as he walked out of the bank, being cautious as to not get too close to the stallion who had been guarding the door earlier.

Felicity turned to face her brother with a smile on her face. "Well, I guess all that's left is to-" She was cut off by the feeling of something touching her leg and when she looked down her eyes met with one of the unicorns that had been knocked out just before her fired a much stronger electricity spell at her. The spell was strong enough to send her body flying several feet away and land with a loud thud on the ground. The whole room froze as the robbers started to wake up.

The unicorn grinned victoriously as he pulled himself up, staring down the whole room with his horn still shining brightly, completely unaware of the now heavily angered meat-eater behind him. Ronnie reached out and grabbed the unicorn's head, slamming it into a wall repeatedly until blood started to leak out of every orifice on his face. He tossed the now convulsing pony back on the ground and, just to be safe, stomped on its horn, making it break into small chunks with his powerful leg. Suddenly Ronnie found himself being attacked from behind, the sound of flapping wings filling the air. He reached behind him and lucky managed to catch one of the wings. With the wing held tightly in his hand he pulled the peagsus back down the earth. After getting him to the ground he grabbed the other wing and pressed his boot against the ponies back, pulling the appendages until the bones snapped and the flesh split, separating the wings from the rest of its body. The second unicorn managed to get up, but Ronnie's rage didn't give him a second to make a move. By the time the pony got up he was in the air and then being thrown out of the nearest window, landing on the other side with glass stuck randomly in his body. Finally, the earth pony rose. The fight was over before it could start as Ronnie grabbed the stallions head and punched the back of his neck, severing his spinal cord and making him paralyzed.

Once all of the robbers were dealt with he ran over to his sister and picked her up off of the ground. The air around her smelled alive and his heightened hearing was picking up a strong heartbeat. She was still alive; that was all he cared about. Ronnie walked out of the front doors, ignoring the stared that were being directed at him from every direction of the bank. Once outside he used his unnatural strength to leap onto the roof of the building and jump from one to the next until he made it back to the castle. His eyes locked onto the balcony connected to his room and he made one last powerful jump, landing right on the edge of the railing. He hopped off of the railing and walked into the room, gently placing Felicity on the bed to get some much needed rest. When she seemed to be settled in place he walked over to the bathroom and turned to face the mirror so that he could see his reflection. The outfit was Felicity's idea and he really didn't mind it. It actually looked pretty cool in comparison to him. He reached up and pulled off his mask. His eyes were still had that old milky look to them, his dirty blond hair was turning black from rot, and his skin was slowly going from pale to a greenish grey in random spots with dark veins covering almost every inch of him. He noticed a strip of loose skin and grabbed it, peeling it off of his face. He had been falling apart like this for a while now. They had been in Equestria for almost two years and the fact that he wasn't already a pile of ash was a miracle enough. He didn't know how long he would last. Back in his world there were hundreds of theories on how long a zombie could live under certain conditions, but none were ever proved due to the fact that everyone was too scared of zombies to ever think about going near one. It didn't matter to him though, all that mattered was that Felicity was safe.

He looked over at her, grateful that she was alive and well, and he smiled. "If it wasn't for you, I'd probably be a mindless freak..."