The camera turns towards two ponies wearing high-end equipment and nice looking suits that probably cost a lot of money. The lights flick on, the ponies start to talk between each other.
"Today on PonyNews11, we have a few interesting articles to talk about for the next hour," the first news anchorstallion starts.
"We have a building collapse, random attacks and a mare states she saw a 'zombie pony'," the second news anchor states in a creepy tone. "Today The Rich Building collapsed in Neigh York today, 29 and counting have been killed and counting and 57 have been injured, but sadly among the deceased was Mr. Filthy Rich, the owner of The Rich Building, is one of the deceased."
"Our hearts go out to the families to those of the deceased," said the first anchorcolt. "Also today, a few ponies have been killed via being eaten alive. One of the victims was one of the friends, or more like nephew, of Princess Celestia. Prince Blueblood was found dead in an alleyway behind some restaurants and clothing establishments. All over ponies have been found with eaten flesh. The murderer or murderers have not been confirmed nor caught, but the police and royal guard are on high alert."
"Today, a woman stated she found a 'zombie pony' oooh, spooky, but all jokes aside, she caught this video on her camcorder, but she does swear, so all you little fillies and colts leave the room," the anchormare. A projector comes down out of the ceiling. "I love having fun toys."
"So do I, but you know what I love more, all of our wonderful viewers out there," the anchorponies told the camera as they stepped away from the podium and let the videos play. You stood up and walked over to the anchorponies and held up my new camcorder that I had been saving up for forever.
"Hey, guys so I'm going out to celebrate my marriage tonight, do you maybe want to come with," you asked them as you recorded them.
"Yeah sure I'll come, but why are you filming us, Silver," the anchorstallion asked.
"I'm recording you because, uh, I got a new camera and want to see how good it is," you told them as you continued to film them.
"Yeah, sure I'll come to your party, where at," the anchormare asked.
"It's at the bar on sixth and main, but you two are back on," you told them.
"Thanks, come on Aura, we got a broadcast to finish," Royal told her. They got back to their broadcast after a short commercial break. "And we're back after a short commercial break, now that video, was it an alleged zombie pony or a pony on bath salts, go to our website to leave your view, and we'll see you tomorrow at 11:00, only on PonyNews11."
"Hurry up Talik, me and Cherry are ready to go," you yelled up to your roommate from college.
"I'm coming, hold on," Talik yelled down to you. For being different, he's rather funny. His jokes run from murder and rape jokes to the top of the line quality jokes. The only thing that makes him different, is his family. His family was strange, his father was a zebra and his mother was a pegasus, which made him, but other than that you've been friends longer than you could remember. You saw the striped pegasus walk down the stairs and fly past you and your wife. You followed your friend, who stopped on the sidewalk looking down the alleyway that separates your apartment block and the restaurant. You looked where he was looking and saw a mare and a stallion was going at it in the alleyway, and from the looks of it, they had been going at it for a while. "Hey, stick it to her bro."
"Sure thing dude," the stallion started to go faster, but before the show got too bad you continued on down the sidewalk towards the bar. Talik flew up to Cherry and you and walked the rest of the way with you. You met up with Aura and Royal inside, and from the looks of it, they had been there for a while. The two had a crowd of ponies around them as they hammered down shots. They were on their 20th shot. You watched as Royal fell out of his chair, but still got his drink down. Aura stood up and fainted next to Royal. You laughed at their drunken stupor but were on your way there.
After about 7 cups of Applejack Daniels, you started to feel your buzz, but you needed more beer to get fully drunk, and you were also trying to drink more than Talik, who had already had 12 cups, Cherry, on the other hoof, had 5 cups and passed out. You looked over to Royal and Aura to see that they had gotten into a booth and started to make out. Two other stallions were recording it on their IHays. You pointed this out to Talik and he laughed a hardy laugh, stood up and went over to the jukebox and put on a song. You waited for the record to load to listen to the song he had selected. He had choose Watching Dragons On Top Of The World.
You finally decided to head home when Royal and Aura started to have sex. You quickly awoke Cherry who had been asleep for about two hours now. Talik had officially beat you in your small drinking game, he had drunk 32 cups of Applejack Daniels and you only had 26. Talik said he was gonna stick around and drink some more. Cherry and you made your way back home slowly but surely, almost getting flattened by a speeding carriage, but you got home. You quickly made it to bed and past out, hoping your hangover isn't that bad in the morning.
You slowly sat up in your bed. You looked over at Cherry, who had passed out curled up on your body. You stood up and grabbed your bag and threw your camcorder in it, along with a few cans of soda and the charger for the camcorder. You woke up Cherry and told her it was time to wake up. After waking her up you ran downstairs and quickly grabbed a slice of bread, threw some butter and jelly and ran out the door. You galloped to work trying not to hit anypony on their morning travel from home to work, as well as the ponies here were kind of dicks, you hated most of them.
You finally make it to the studio and race inside. Everpony looks at you like you're crazy but you just wave to your colleagues. You caught your breath before walking anywhere. You walked over to the teleprompter to make sure that it was in working condition. You were the pony that was supposed to make sure all the equipment worked for the broadcast, and rarely asked to film outside of the studio, so you practiced with your camcorder to get a feel of recording yourself. You sometimes prayed that somepony would end up sick or stay home so you could leave the studio and get into the action of the world and not do maintenance on cameras and lights. You looked at the clock on the wall, which surprisingly read 9:00, as you normally arrived at 9:30 to 10:00.
"Hey, Silver," you turned around to see Crystal, your boss. She never really spoke to you, as you never had a reason to talk. "I'm gonna have you take over Bolt, he's taking a paid leave on Tuesday."
"Uh, yeah, sure I'll cover for him," Bolt was one of the field reporters, so you only had to wait another 4 days to be able to get into the field. You were confused though as Bolt never took a day off work in his life. "Why is he taking paid leave?"
"His wife and kid are sick with the flu so he wants to take of them," she told you as she walked off back towards her office. After all of your maintenance checks, you walked over to the table that had an assortment of foods laid out on a white sheet. You ignored all the tasty looking pastries and walked over to a set of chairs and waited until the broadcast began.
"Only 15 minutes until the broadcast starts," you told yourself and continued to count down until there was no time left and the broadcast was starting.
"Welcome to PonyNews11 and today's stories are a doozy, changelings have been found prostituting off of married stallions and mares, more unexplained attacks and a carriage accident that ended in a horrific tragedy," Royal starts off with like he always does.
"Since last night and today changelings have been found having paid sex with married stallions and mares, to be able to gain love off the unsuspecting pony," Aura announced to most of Equestria. "One changeling states that they had to take drastic measures to keep their queen alive, the changelings are still being held in the Canterlot dungeons until Celestia finds out what she wants to do with them."
"More attacks are being reported all across Equestria, and some are getting more brutal and some are being caught on camera," Royal said. "Today, we have a witness who stated he saw one of the attacks." On the television, the scene changed from the newsroom to a pony with a straight pink mane and looked like she had been crying for awhile. Behind her looked like a bakery that had been sealed off with police tape. The bakery's name was the Sugar cube Corner.
"I was starting my shift at the Sugar Cube Corner, when I heard a bang from the owners, Mr. and Mr. Cakes room, I went upstairs to check it out and I reached their room and what I saw mortified me," the pink pony was on the verge of tears again as she was telling what happened in the bakery. "I saw Mrs. Cake tearing at Mr. Cake's throat, he was yelling for help, but you couldn't hear anything past his gargled scream. There was blood on the floor, the bed, the walls, everywhere. I told Mrs. Cake to stop it, but she wouldn't so I ran in and tried to pull her off her husband, but all she did was bite me on my leg," she says this part while pulling her front left leg to the camera. The area around the bite was purple. "I ran out of the room and down to their foals room and all I saw was..." she stopped speaking as tears easily flowed from her eyes. She stepped out of the view of the camera and you could her vomit in the background. After some consolement from the reporter, she got back into the camera's line of sight. "I saw the baby Cakes, mangled to pieces, I saw legs and eyes and so much blood, I ran from the building and down to the police station." The television returned to the newsroom and the first thing you notice was that Aura had been crying heavily. She walked away from the podium and wandered over to the restroom. Royal was sitting in shock and fear, over the video. It took both anchorponies to compose themselves, but they finally did. You pulled out your phone to pass the time over the next 14 minutes. You scrolled through videos of these strange attacks. You didn't find anything that was really interesting so you went over to the brighter side of PonyTube. You scrolled down and put on Drivers - Let Her Go.
You felt a tap on your arm and looked up to see your boss standing in front of you. You looked at the clock and realized it said 5:13. You quickly left the newsroom and ran home, not wanting to stay outside too long. You quickly made it home and threw your stuff in a corner. You went and sat on your couch, to pass the time until Cherry got home. You turned on the TV and went to the only news station on right now. CMCnews. You watched as they talked about hoofball and swimming. They finally got onto anything good, they started to talk about the attacks but didn't include much. You turned the TV off and wandered into the kitchen. You opened a bottle of soda and chugged it down, but spilled some on you when you jumped at a loud bang coming from upstairs. You put the soda down and walked up the stairs. You jumped when you heard another loud bang. You walked down the hall towards Talik's room. You opened the door, only to be scared by Talik, who received a punch in the muzzle. He sat on his bed rubbing his muzzle while laughing his ass off.
"God dammit Talik, your gonna end up getting killed one of these days," I told him while I left his room. I wandered over to my room and collapsed onto the cloud mattress, and passing out almost instantly.
