The End Of Days

I ran through the twisting and winding tunnels of the main hive, I was trying to get away from them, but they were slowly catching up with me. I was running for my queen's room, as she would no longer be there. My queen, Queen Chrysalis, was now at the bottom of the hive being eaten alive by numerous amounts of her children. I ran by a nurse changeling and slammed into her knocking her to the ground, which got a few of the zombified changelings off my back. I rounded a corner and galloped the rest of the way to Chrysalis's room. I felt a dead changeling grab my wing but fall off. I looked back and saw my family and friends with numerous body parts missing. I finally reached Chrysalis's room and threw myself inside. I quickly took the escape route out of the hive.

48 hours early

"Drone Monarch, what are you doing back at the hive so early," I asked the drone that was sitting in the infirmary. He looked at me and showed me the wound on his front left leg. It was a scratch that went right through his armor and into his leg. I examined the wound and bandaged it up to the best of my ability due to the thick armor. "Come back in tomorrow and we'll see about that leg." The drone left my apartment of the infirmary, which handled the more major injuries and infections. I went to my desk and looked at my reports of injuries after the Canterlot attack failure. Most of the nurses stayed back to help the wounded, but I was thrown into battle due to my odd structure. I have the smarts and knowledge of a nurse, but the body type of a warrior. The hive just referred to me as Oddity or nurse Oddity. All my reports were just things the other nurses could deal with, like a sprained wing and chipped teeth. I laid back in my chair and closed my eyes in rest, I never really got to do much as I was either cooped up in the infirmiry or in my quarters on the 13 layer of the hive. Chrysalis lived on the first floor so 13 wasn't that bad. I started daydreaming about how Celestia and Luna were doing after the major attack of the Equestrian capitol. I imagined that they were having the worst of times right now, but in all reality they were probably sitting in their throne room drinking tea. I was awoken from my daydreaming when the door to my infirmary was thown open with four warriors surrounding one of Chrysalis's children. I walked over to were they had put her and saw a giant wound on her neck. Her name was Mythic and she was one of the changelings that worked down in the hatchery. I ran over and grabbed a bottle of rubbing alchohal and stitches.

"What happened to her," I asked while stitching up the soft skin.

"One of the newborns was crazed and bit her, we think she might be infected with rabies," one of the warriors asked.

"Why rabies," I asked while injecting the changeling with a pain killer and rabies shot.

"The newborn was foaming at the mouth," a different warrior asked. "We had to kill the newborn."

"We'll it ain't rabies that's for sure, but I'll keep her here in the infirmary with me for a while so I can check on her healing process," I told them while shooing the warriors out of the infirmiry. I took the changeling and put her in a cell and strapped her to the bed with leather straps for extra measure. I checked her blood levels, which seemed to be stabilizing out now. I felt a rumble in my stomach as I felt the need to get something to eat. I walked out of the infirmary locking it behing me and putting a sign on the door stating that I was out for a lunch break. I wandered down to my little hovel on the 13th level. I unlocked the room and wandered over to my little stockpile of love, and ate a small portion of it as I was trying to keep most of it for the winter when getting love would be harder. I sat on a chair and went into another daydream state, and one thing following another I passed out.

12 hours later, 24 hours until Main Hive collapse

I awoke and realized how much trouble I was gonna be in that I had left my station for such and elogated amount of time. I galloped out of my house and made my way back to the infirmary. When I got there I noticed one thing first off, the infirmary door was open. I walked inside and was scared at what I saw. The cell that had held the injured changeling was now wide open and the changeling was also gone from the bed. I wrote a report to Chrysalis about how I had failed to follow out my job rules and that a injured and potentially infected and deadly changeling wandering around the hive.

I sent the message to Chrysalis, and not only recieved a message, but a rather furious Chrysalis. I stared into her eyes and I thought I saw a part of the future where I would get ripped in two by the angered queen.

"Why did you leave your post, Oddity," she yelled at me with boiling rage. I looked own out of her eyes now that I new I had failed. "And what is this infected changeling that you speak of?" Before I could answer one of the warriors that had brought in the injured changeling.

"Oddity, we found a dead changeling," he announced to the whole room, then noticing Chrysalis and bowed to his queen. I followed the warrior towards were he was saying was a dead changeling. I saw the changeling and it was definitly dead. It's chest had been ripped open and main organs had been eated, which wasn't normal, as the only things that eat meat in Equestria were timberwolves, some dragons, and manticores, and none of those were down here. The rest of the changeling was also eaten. It's left eye had been partially devoured and jaw was hanging on by a single mussle. It's right front leg was dislocated with a bite on it and it's wings and horns were broken off and lying a few away. I quickly set up a quarintine area around the changeling and the tunnel that was home to the abandoned mines, was closed off to the rest of the hive. "Do you know what could have done this to him?"

"No, and I don't think I'll get an answer that'll make sense," I walked over to the changeling to see the bite markings on his leg. The teeth markings matched a changelings teeth and jaw line. The warrior walked over to a necklace that was near one of the wings. He threw it into his pocket and carried on farther down the tunnel. I left the changeling alone and waited for the warrior to come back. I saw him running with what I could guess was a look of fear. He was maybe 20 hoofs away from me when he tripped and I saw the infected pony that had escaped the infirmiry, get on top of him and bite down hard onto his neck. I stood up and began to walk over to the warrior to help him but was thrown against the wall by the other dead changeling. I ran away from the scene as the reanimated changeling banged against my shield spell that was what I called my quarintine spell. The shield eventually broke after the multitude of hits on the shield spell. I ran toward Crysalis's room to signal a phase 3 attack on the hive, code red. I reached her room and knocked until the door was opened by Chrysalis's magic glaze, I told her the attack on the warrior and the reanimated changeling. Her look was of humor, as if she thought I was pulling a prank. Her emotions changed rapidly when we heard a scream. She raced outside and looked over the balcony of the hive and looked down at the bloody mess that was once the hive's main center. She watched as her subjects ate each other and run away from who they thought was infected. She flew down and was immeadiatly attacked by the infected changelings. I watched as she was eaten slowly by the infected. This was now a Phase 4 attack on the Hive, Code Black.

I ran to my house, to only be stopped by six infected and chased back towards the queens quarters. I quickly gained more infected and soon I had a hoard on me. I hit a nurse on my way, one of the lower level nurses that dealt with younger changelings. She fell and pulled three or four changelings off my tail. The infected were slowly gaining ground, to a point that one had touched my wing and me run faster. I ran inside the quarters of my recently fallen queen, and slammed the door behind me. They were quickly destroying the wooden door, so I made my way to the escape tunnel behind the queens bed. I heard the door get destroyed, so I shut the door to the escape tunnel but not before taking off one of the infecteds legs. I ran the rest of the way, to scared to look back incase the got through the rock wall.

2 hours later

I had left the tunnel 30 minutes ago and walking to the first location I thought good. Canterlot. I was already half way there and didn't plan on stopping. My hive was no longer, as when I had left the escape tunnel, the hole into the Hive was burning and layers were exploding everywhere. I had been crying for the past hour over all my lost friends and family. I saw the small town of Applelousa, and I decided to stop for a quick drink even though my brain was yelling this was a bad idea. I got closer and closer and I noticed a pony with a cowboy hat on and a golden mane and tail, with a golden coat. He noticed me and ran towards the town. I just sat down and cried into my hoofs until I heard coughing. I looked up to be at spear point by the royal guard. I don't think was my cavalry, but it was better than being dead.