Quarantine

Applejack stared at the scene happening only 30 feet away from her. She asked Rarity to keep the CMC back so that way they didn't see what was happening to the ponies. Suddenly a pegasus flew out above her, flying straight up to the yellow barrier in the sky. When he hit the shield, a bright flash lit up the stadium as the pegasus erupted in sparks. His white coat singed black from the shock. The pegasus started falling towards the ground, a part of her wanted to pray he wasn't dead, but she would guess that much electricity would kill a pony. She turned her head right before the pegasus hit the ground. Ponies that were unlucky enough to keep watching screamed in horror as he hit.

"Applejack, what happened," Rarity asked. I walked towards her and the CMC, getting away from the entrance to the field. Applejack looked at her friend's eyes, tears gathering in her own.

"We need to go find Twilight and the others," Applejack told the four, they looked at her like she had gone mad, and right now she wished she was. She started leading the group away from the entrance to the field, so they wouldn't have to see what had happened outside.

"Applejack, what happened," Rarity asked again.

"I'll tell you later, right now we need to get to Twilight and the others," she told her. Rarity wasn't pleased with the answer but trusted her friends gut. They all heard a loud bang from backstage and looked back to see ponies start barricading the doors to the field. "I don't think that will help."

"What," Rarity asked. "Why don't you think that will help them?"

"'Cause those things took down three security ponies three times their sizes," there was a gasp from her right. She looked down at the three fillies, that were all scared out of their minds. She realized what she had said and tried to think of a way for her to calm them down. "The security ponies are fine, though, they just got pushed down."

She hated lying to ponies, especially ponies she knew. She continued on until she found some stairs labeled "Backstage Ground Floor". She entered into the stairwell and started walking up, being followed by Rarity, Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle. She read the plaque that was labeled "Backstage Pegasus Floor" and thought about Rainbow Dash. She went to open the door but found it was barricaded from the other side. She quit trying and continued on towards the stands, where Twilight and Pinkie should have been. When they reached the last stairwell, she pushed and it flew open. She saw ponies, griffons, and other species running around in a frenzy. The voice on the intercom was still relaying what was being told. She looked into the stands looking for Twilight or her road flare of a friend Pinkie Pie. She felt a tap at her hooves and looked down to see Applebloom pointing into the stands, where she saw Twilight and Pinkie. She picked up the CMC and ran through the crowd towards her friends.

"Applejack, we need to get out of here," Twilight told her once she finally reached her. Pinkie was hunched over in the fetal position, rocking back in forth slowly next to Twilight. "Pinkie snapped when the first one died."

Luckily for Applejack, the CMC were too busy talking to Rarity about what was going on to care about what Applejack and Twilight talked about. The group heard a scream coming from the stairwell and looked over to see a pony get attacked and brought to the ground by three ponies, and get passed by 15 more.

"Told you those barricades wouldn't last, luckily for the pegasi their's seemed to have lasted," Applejack hit herself for being so calm about the entire situation. "Twilight, we need to get to Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Spike then leave."

"We can't, that yellow shield is a quarantine shield meant to keep things in," Twilight told her. They finally decided to break up the conversation as more ponies were getting attacked. One group of ponies fell over the railing and straight to the grassy floor below. Ponies were being attacked by the crazed ponies from all over, a few falling back down the stairwell, some bringing down a pegasus that was flying a little over the ground. They finally left the scene and started running for the hotels.