Celestia slammed her hoof into the table, causing everypony to look at her.

"I'm not about to kill half of my empire's population as well as the only major defense we have against attackers," she told the group. The meeting was arranged so that way the government could talk about testing a new, potentially dangerous disease that killed the nervous system and making the host act randomly.

"Celestia, the orders have already been signed and this Equestria Games we're going to release the virus into the stadium," a black pony told her as he turned off the projector. Celestia wanted to hit something, she was being choked into agreeing killing off most of her empire's population as well as some other empire's population, as the griffon kingdom, Saddle Arabia, and a few other empires would be contending this year's games. The stallion pushed a paper in front of her and she signed it, knowing that she was signing off an uncountable amount of ponies to their deaths. She left the room with tears forming in her eyes. She went to her room, ignoring her sister's pleas. She laid on her bed and watched the clock on the wall move from the three to the four as she fell asleep.

Twilight walked through the anti-magic field and felt the magic inside her become too weak to even perform a simple levitation spell. She ran over and joined back up with her friends, Spike was complaining that he wasn't able to light the Equestria Games torch this year and that some griffon got to do his job.

"It was never your job, to begin with, Spike, it was just a one-time thing," Twilight reminded him. She rubbed his head as the other five laughed. "So Rainbow, what are you doing this year?"

"I'm only going to be doing aerial relay this year, I jacked my left wing up so I shouldn't even be doing that," she told her friends while stretching out her left wing. After a while, they finally went their separate ways with Rainbow going backstage to get ready for the race, Fluttershy and Spike going to the hotel to drop off the luggage they had brought with them to the Crystal Empire, Applejack and Rarity went to check on the CMC who were going to be Ponyville's flag twirlers, which left Twilight and Pinkie together. Pinkie started bouncing away from Twilight in her unnatural happy state. Twilight ran over to the pink pony and walked with her in silence.

"Twilly," a voice exclaimed from her left. She turned to see her brother Shining Armor standing there in his royal guard outfit. He was standing next to Cadence, who was cradling Flurry Heart. She ran over and hugged him with all her might, she hadn't seen him since the Crystalling of Flurry Heart. "How is my BSBFF doing?"

"I'm doing great Shining, and you seem to be doing a lot better since the last time we talked," she told him. He rubbed her head and hugged her again. He looked over at a few guards that were stationed nearby.

"I'm going to have to go," he told Twilight and Cadence. He walked over to the guards and they all walked away. Twilight hugged Cadence and asked her how she had been doing and how Flurry Heart had been. After a while, a voice came on over the intercoms that stated that the games were going to start soon. They parted ways after a few more awkward hugs. Twilight caught up with Pinkie and they both made their way to the stands where they would be sitting.

"Pinkie, do you know when the other's will be here," she asked. Pinkie shook her head, mouth full of cotton candy. Twilight started playing with her hooves as she waited for the games to start. She was shaken out of her daydream as Pinkie shook her and pointed at the field, where she saw a black griffin walk out with a torch, that was meant to light the giant torch in the center. He walked out there with his eyes closed, probably due to stage fright. He continued on his path to the giant torch before he started to stumble. He slowed from the walk he was going to a slight shuffle. After a minute he collapsed entirely, causing the stands to gasp in shock. Medical ponies ran out onto the field to make sure that he was okay, while a female pony over the intercom was commentating what was happening.

"It seems as though Zephyrus is having some problems," the intercom announced. The scene in the field got better as the griffon started to move a little. "Oh, but it seems that it wasn't a big problem, probably just light headed from all the ponies."

"I don't know, you don't faint from being light headed, you sit down when you get light headed," Pinkie stated. I wanted to tell her it was possible to faint from being light headed, but I had to agree with her on this. The griffon started to move a little more even trying to get his claws under him. The ground suddenly became a bright yellow. I looked up to see a giant yellow shield above the stadium, encasing the dome. Suddenly, somepony screamed drawing everyponies attention on the field as the griffon was now attacking one of the medical ponies, the other medical pony ran back to the maintenance tunnels that ran under the stadium. A couple of buff security ponies ran out and pulled the pony and the griffon apart. The pony holding the medical pony laid the emergency pony on the ground and ran over to help the security guard with the griffon. "Oh sweet Celestia, I think the griffon killed the responder."

"But Twilight, how is that pony standing if he's dead," I looked back and saw the medical pony stand up, crimson red blood spewing from his neck onto the grass and his coat. Another security pony came out and asked the medical pony to lay back down and wait for treatment. The medical pony looked at him and charged him, knocking him to the ground and began attacking the security pony. A pegasus from backstage, one with a green mane and a blinding white coat flew up to the yellow barrier. When the pony hit the shield, there was a crack and the pony fell from the sky. His white coat singed black from the electrical shock. The pegasus hit the ground with a sickening splat, as its body exploded on contact with the ground. "Twilight, how did that shield shock that pony?"

"It's not a normal shield spell meant to keep ponies and other things out, but it's meant to keep ponies in," she answered Pinkie's question. Pinkie had stopped bouncing and her mane was starting to deflate.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean we are under quarantine, the government believes that there is something in here that is dangerous to the outside world so they contained it," Twilight told her. Pinkie's mane entirely deflated at this point. "And from that scene down there I would believe they assumed correctly."

The security ponies were now running from the three infected ponies and griffon, but they were quickly caught up to and pulled to the ground. The ponies in the stands were now screaming and trying to get away from the other ponies.

"Pinkie, we need to find the rest of the Mane Six, the CMC, and Spike," Twilight told her, Pinkie nodded, tears streaming down her face. They ran off into the crowd, trying to find the others. Twilight wasn't sure what was happening, but she knew that she needed to find her friends. Safety in numbers, right?

Author's Note

:P I love the Quarantine series, they need to continue it.