The Unraveling

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.