Quarantine

I awoke on a cold tiled floor in the pitch black. My head was ringing louder than a church bell and my eyes were seeing fireworks in the darknesses. I stood up and rubbed my head and stumbled over to the wall and walked along it until I found the door. I grabbed the handle and pulled it open and stumbled out into the darkened room. I looked around to see six female ponies, three fillies, and one dragon. The door to the room had been put back and barricaded with the bed closest to it, on which a female earth pony slept on it with a small orange filly, with a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane at the foot of the bed with an orange filly. A yellow pegasus with a pink mane slept with the dragon in her clutches, she was crying in her sleep. The dragon had a bandage around it's left arm, which was stained an almost blackish red. A pink earth pony slept in a chair with a white unicorn in front of the chair with a white filly in her grasp next to the door to the balcony. Finally, a purple alicorn slept next to the door to the bathroom. I walked silently past her and walked over to the balcony door.

I steped out onto the balcony and closed the door behind me. I looked out at the dark city of the Crystal Empire.

"I knew I shouldn't have come here," I told myself. I looked down at my coat in the dim moon light and stared at the caked blood from other ponies who had died today. "My sister was right, I should have taken the Manehattan job instead."

I stared at the moon and silently prayed to Luna to get me out of this nightmare. I layed down on the balcony floor and let my thoughts lul me back to sleep.

I woke up on the cold concrete floor of the balcony and a throb in my head and back. I stood up and my legs popped simultaneously as I groaned from the pleasure. The sun was pretty early in the sky and some of the mares had woken up. I walked to the balcony door and walked in. The purple alicorn and the orange earth pony had started waking the others up, until the orange one noticed me.

"Hey, Twilight, that one's awake," the orange mare told her friend, who looked at me and walked over to me.

"Hi, I'm Twilight Sparkle, and I am or was the Princess of Friendship," she looked me in the eyes as she said this I was noticing how blood stained her coat was and how diluted her pupils were. "Screw it, we're probably going to die in this stadium and for once I want to act like a normal pony for once, not all high and mighty like everypony wants me to be."

"Okay, I'm Lightning Snow," I told her, she nodded and went back to waking everyone else up. I stood around watching the two get everyone else up and awake, and after awhile I decied to make myself usefull. I waited for the pink earth pony, to get out of the chair she was sleeping and flipped it over.

"What are you doing," Twilight asked me. I pulled out a spring from the couchand threw it aside.

"I'm making a weapon," I told her as I kept rummaging around in the couch.

"How?"

"By taking some basic engineering and shoving it together with some inginuity and survival," I answered as I pulled out a flat piece of metal about eight inches long. "Do you know any magic that can sharpen this?"

"Yeah, I know something," she took the piece of metal and in her magic aura she bent and melted parts of the melted until it was a five inch long blade. "Here, it's the best I could do."

"Thank you," I grabbed the piece of metal grabbed a wooden stick from inside the chair. I went to grab my saddlebag and felt my coat. "Where is my saddlebag?"

"It's in the bathroom, I'll get it for you," she ran into the bathroom and came back with my saddlebag. She put my saddlebag next to me and I quickly opened it. "Here you go."

I grabbed a roll of duct tape and broke the wooden stick and taped it to the makeshift blade. I grabbed the knife in my teeth and swung it around a bit, and threw it into the wall. I heard a few shrieks from behind me, I turned around and apologized to the fillies and yellow pegasus and quickly grabbed my knife.

"So, you're a pegasus were you in the Games," I told around to see a cyan face hovering in front of me. "Cause if you were I would have beat you if this didn't happen."

"No, I wasn't in the Games, I have a fear of heights," I told her.

"Seriously, your a pegasus with a fear of heights," she started laughing hysterically.

"No, I don't have a fear of heights, I just hate sports, besides like tennis," I told her, to which she stopped laughing at me and started asking why I didn't like sports "I don't like sports because, I see them as a waste of time and quite boring, I'm into engineering and science."

"If you aren't in the games why are you here," she asked me.

"I'm here taking a job as a soda vender from the food court," I told her. I went to turn away to put my stuff back into my saddlebags, bust got stopped by her.

"What's your name?"

"I'm Lightning Snow," I answered. "Who are you?"

"I'm Rainbow Dash, how do you not know who I am, I'm the fastest flyer in all off Equestria, the first pony to do a sonic rainboom," she told me with disbelief in her voice.

"Are you also the most egotistical pony in all of Equestria, too," I asked her with a smirk. She huffed and floated away as I heard a laugh from my right. I looked over at the pink earth pony. "Hello?"

"That was hilarious, no pony ever makes fun of Rainbow, I'm Pinkie Pie," she told me as she bounced away from.

"Hey, I just wanted to say sorry bucking you in the face, twice," the orange earth pony said as she walked up to me. "I thought you were one of them."

"No hard feelings, honestly, I'm glad you decided to bring me into your room," I told her with a smile on my face.

"I'm Applejack," she reached her hoof out and I accepted the offer with my own hoof and we shook.

"It's nice to meet you Applejack, I'm Lightning Snow," I told her. "Also, can you tell me everyone else's name, because I'm going to lay and try to kill this migraine."

"Sure, that there, the small orange one, is my sister Apple Bloom, that mess over there is Rarity, the one crowded around the dragon is Fluttershy, and the dragon is Spike, the small white one is Sweetie Belle, Rarity's sister, and finally that one is Scootaloo, who acts like Rainbow Dash is her sister."

"Thank you, Applejack, that sped up my next hour, I'm going to sleep now," I told her as I walked over to the bed. I lied down and put my saddlebags next to me and a pillow on my head as I fell back asleep.