I waited on the outskirts of the town until night fell, hidden inside of a bush. As night began to arrive, I was able to obtain some inside knowledge about the slave system they had. Black collars are those who still have a fire within them. Red collars are submissive ones, though they might've decided to be red to avoid pain. Purple collars are those who have an uncontrollable libido, and silvers are the undecided ones. All are constantly naked, while most collars weren't being treated roughly. That didn't mean they weren't as bad as...

I snapped the thought out of my head. I can't start reminiscing about him, or I'll lose myself.

As the hours passed, I noticed some caribou were treating their slaves like rats. Other caribou upon seeing this, will then attempt to beat the caribou for doing so, if the slave is beautiful enough in their eyes. Which most of the time it was, but those that weren't were mostly black collars.

As I snuck around to get a better vantage point, a caribou walked past me, holding a purple collared mare. The mare sniffed the air, and spun around to head towards me.

"CUM!!!" She shrieked at me. I panicked, and was about to pull out Steel Medula to get ready to fight. Much to my relief, and her displeasure, the collar prevented her from getting right into the bush. I still held my breath, as I held my hand on Medula, worried the caribou would notice after all.

The caribou looked towards the bush, not moving from where he stood. After a few moments of staring, he then drags the mare away from the bush, not interested in letting her do what she wants. I made a mental note to stay as far as possible from purple collared mares during the assault. I then continued to wait in a slightly further away bush.

After what felt like an eternity of waiting, night had fallen and all the lights were turned off in the houses. I emerged from the bushes, immediately heading to a two story house. Once I made it to the front yard, I stopped to look for any possible entrances.

Place your hand on the knob, I will open the door for you.

Neat.

I put the hand on the knob, a moment later the door unlocked with a resounding click from the other side. I quickly went upstairs to locate the caribou, and found that he was sleeping in his bedroom. The caribou was a buck, unlike the stallions I’ve been seeing. From the data Rasputin had drawn from the conversations we overheard, they’re anthromorphic deer that were the first caribou. This one had a scrawny physique compared to the others I’d seen. I took the advantage, and placed a mine next to the bed. Before the buck could get a chance to wake up, I grabbed him and threw him onto the mine. The mine enveloped the buck, and I could hear muffled screams inside as SIVA infected him. After a while, the mine released him. He looked the same, but I could detect pulses of SIVA within him.

So what’s he able to do now that he’s on my side?

Analyzing... unit can explode, making a massive swarm of nanites once next to an enemy. Nanites will infect enemies that are overwhelmed. Give a name to this unit?

Parazit. Parasite in Russian, though I’m sure you already know that Rasputin.

I was thinking Vipara, but that sounds good.

The infected then spoke. “What is my directive, warmind?”

“Start infecting the town when I give the signal, leave all females alive. Relay this directive to any you’ve infected.” The parazit nodded, and made its way downstairs to head outside.

Hopefully the fireworks won’t go off earlier than expected.

I went over to another house. One that is a two story tall house made of... candy?

Wait, that’s a gingerbread house! Is that a legitimate gingerbread house Rasputin?

It’s a decoration on the house.

The inside looked almost nothing like the outside, suggesting it’s not actually candy. However, the place looked as if it was more of something that WANTED you to get diabetes, take your cash, and leave you helpless. Tables were strewn about, suggesting that this place has claimed the lives of many. I knew that the treats here were corrupted by Dainn’s rule, so I forced myself not to eat them to prevent system corruption. Last thing I needed was that caribou magic. They still looked so good that they were unlike any sugary foods I’ve found. Hell, the chocolate I’m seeing here, might be enough to cause any chocolate lover to actually do anything to get it.

As I did with the previous house, I went about the place looking for anything to turn. I didn’t venture into the kitchen, a gut feeling telling me I shouldn’t. I proceeded upstairs to find similar results. Just like the other house, I found my next target in the bedroom. A normal stallion laid there, blissfully unaware of me. I proceeded to do the same with him as I did the buck. Results were different this time around.

The stallion didn’t get it’s wound healed like the buck. Instead, his body began to take a new form. His chest began to take on a more metallic feel, and his right arm looked more like a assault rifle with a syringe. The best I could say for what his face looked right now, is if the terminator was a pony, then quickly turned a bit anthropomorphic. Relaying similar instructions to the stallion, he stood in front of the window, waiting for unsuspecting victims to infect. I named it GI.

Is what these guys turn out to be completely random or something?

Negative. SIVA just adds abilities to improve it’s overall survival. It determines this based on its weaknesses. This of course results in a massive loss of emotion, as SIVA needs to infect the brain in order to successfully connect the new limbs.

So what about my emotions? I don’t think I’m different with how I am now.

When [O] touched your soul, your right brain overall became severely damaged. Only a select few emotions remained to give the appearance of a normal human being.

Exactly how does that work?

I apologize Skorri, but I lack the sufficient data to explain how [O] does this.

Well I guess that explains why she was so chipper when she met you. That doesn’t explain me however, where’d mine go?

You lacked most of it to begin with. The following emotions SIVA usually takes when transforming one are: Joy, happiness, hope, cheerfulness, admiration, satisfaction, pr-

I get it! Pretty much half of them are gone right?

A rough enough estimate of it yes. They only were active when you were around a select few individuals to begin with.

Whatever. Just tell me what this guy can do.

Right arm shoots nanites that can replicate a bigger amount of nanites only once per reload. Should this unit get too close to a enemy, it’ll stab it with its bayonet, and nanites will flow into it. Enemy will slowly become incapacitated, similar to Tetanus. How long depends on how powerful target enemy is. The enemy shall be infected shortly afterwards.

Making my way inside another house, I quickly scanned the house for caribou to infect. When I came upon the caribou, it was a pegasus snoozing peacefully on a cloud bed. While I questioned the logic of it, I stayed on my attack, quickly infecting the caribou. After the infection was completed, my next unit was made. The pegasus had lost it wings, but in exchange had a jetpack that recharges. When it catches its target, it then bites it with its inner mouth, and depending on the area can range from instant infection, to extremely slow infection. Unless the target is mechanical, it will be unable to infect it unless it hits its brain.

I smiled at this, while loud this would essentially make an unstoppable army.

A couple hours later I had personally infected a small sliver of Ponyville’s male population, a total of 150 caribou and equines, not counting the various other mutated units that went out to stealthily infect other caribou. I'd been infecting around the edges of the town to surround the townsfolk. A couple hours later is also when the fireworks went off, as a contingent of patrol guards came across one of my units. Said unit was the parazit, and it let people know it did its job by releasing a explosion audible within a 5 mile radius on top of the guards.

Needless to say, my cover was blown. I quickly exited the house I was going to infiltrate. Equines were running in all directions, as parazits flooded the streets. As if I was in the middle of Pearl Harbor, I was constantly hearing explosions, terror, and anguish. Occasionally, I’d see even mares fighting for their masters, only to get overwhelmed and knocked out briefly afterwards.

One would say it was chaos, some would say it slaughter. If I still had a nice portion of my right brain, I could say with certainty it was madness. Despite all that was happening however, I found serenity in this destruction. They deserved what was coming to them, but not feeling something I'd expect to feel made me feel... frustrated for some reason.

Among the destruction, I saw a stallion within the fray, leading as many red and black collared mares he could out of the fray. From the gossip, he’s Applejack’s owner, her brother Big Mac. He was the few ones among everything here that wasn’t under the power of Dainn. Big Mac must’ve figured out somehow that my units were unable to attack mares, unless provoked, and hid himself among them as he helped many escape. Probably to bring them to that resistance I heard about.

After taking in the scenery before me, I continued to make way through the town, still converting males as I did so. As I went, the scenery just continued to be more horrifying. I witnessed countless stallions jump out of the windows, only to be pinned by a GI or attacked by a parazit. I even saw stallions desperately trying to defend themselves, using mares as meatshields, and firing a plethora of spells at my units. All in vain as while the spells did damage, SIVA only regenerated it.

I began to hear rapid stomps behind me. I quickly rolled to the side, dodging the behemoth charging me down. Once I got up, I took note of its appearance. It looked like a massive Tangela, if said Tangela had dripping acid tentacles instead of vines, a carapace, looked like something out of a poor and mainly porn-focused hentai game in which graphics would be its only upside.

A heavily armored caribou was on top of said abomination, smirking as he looked down at me.

“DEMON! IN THE NAME OF MY FATHER, I SHALL DESTROY Y-”

“Destroy me?! A weak dirtbag like you?!” I yelled over the sounds of destruction. I then grinned in amusement, as I unleashed Sleeper Simulant. “Alright then, COME AT ME!”

Taking the bait, the behemoth charged at me once more. As it drew closer, I calculated its speed, the angle I needed to hit at to overpenetrate the beast, and hit the rider in the process. The beast was moving at about 23 mph. At it’s size, it needed to be 10 feet away, and shot at a 135 degree angle since the rider was in the middle of the beast’s back.

Aaron, the acid coming from the beast it extremely hazardous. Spending any longer than 5 seconds within it will kill us.

Then let’s get this shot just right, I thought back as I aimed down the sights in that specific angle.

The beast was 300 feet away as I began looking at it if it were staying still, and I was in the perfect position to get the best shot.

The beast was 100 feet away as I finally finished my calculations, and the possible visual I’d be needing to realize before firing.

The beast was now 60 feet away. The caribou was laughing at me. “STANDING STILL IN FRIGHT?! WHO’S PATHETIC NOW?!”

The beast was almost in range. I began to charge up Sleeper Simulant. Time seemed to slow down as it drew closer to me, acid dripping all the way.

The beast was in range. I fired off Sleeper making a large hole in the beast, and cutting off the caribou’s lower half. I jumped out of the way just as the acid and blood landed where I stood. The caribou then fell in the acidic remains of the beasts and the acid ate away at his flesh. Eventually, the caribou ceased to exist as every last bit of him dissolved away. I looked at the remains of what I done. That thing could’ve been a pain to deal with if I let it run around my newfound army. It was a better thing something like that no longer is alive.

I looked off into the distance towards a mountain, quickly recognizing Canterlot. I then made preparations for the ambush on the captain. After the captain, I will take down Canterlot, and leave it as a base for the resistance. After Canterlot, head straight to Cloudsdale to bring death from above upon Dainn.

The sound of sex echoed through the halls of the recently conquered Canterlot Castle, accompanied by cries of torment, and grunts of pleasure.

The once seemingly indestructible rulers known as Celestia and Luna, had fallen from their seats of power only a year ago. Enough time for Dainn to break Celestia, hunt down Luna, and begin to break her as he did Celestia.

Bent over Dainn's recently installed throne, Luna cried in anguish, wishing for the unwanted feelings to disappear, wishing that Dainn would finally stop ruthlessly fucking her. Regardless of how she felt, Dainn kept slamming into her ass, battering her insides with his cock.

"Nothing is better than a recently made whore!" Dainn yelled out over her noise as he climaxed. Luna cried as if she was being dipped in lava, as Dainn's seed poured into her ass like a tsunami. The semen fell onto the floor, mixing with the already existing blood and cum.

The doors slammed open, Dainn quickly swiveled his head to meet whoever started this sudden intrusion and his cock slipped out of Luna's ass shooting a few small ropes of semen as it did. He gazed at the two guards, carrying an ill-looking male, which seemed to be traumatized by something. Dainn amused the thought that something would be scarier than him, for how does one kill a god that had broken four?

"What's the meaning of this interruption?" he yelled out. "What’s so important about this one citizen that you have to interrupt me breaking this bitch?!" He gestured towards Luna, slapping her flank hard, and eliciting a yelp of pain from her. The soldiers quivered, Dainn exuding a murderous aura to all in the room.

"Ponyville has been destroyed sir. If this survivor of the attack is anything to go by, Captain Dvalinn most likely walked into the attack as it was about to end. We have no info on whether or not he survived."

Dainn's eyes widened. Captain Dvalinn was one of the many offspring of Dainn, and he showed most promise to the throne. He threw Luna to the side, and walked towards the citizen.

"Speak," he commanded.

"The attack started at 5AM your majesty. At first, an explosion went off so I went to lock up everything thinking it was a terrorist attack. But then those..." The caribou shuddered. "THINGS showed up already breaking through my window, one of them managing to cut me." He gestured towards the cut on his arm. "I made a beeline to the front door only to see hordes of them. I never ran so fast in my life. I thought they'd come after me for sure!"

"And what are these 'things' you speak of?"

"They were a lot like us your majesty, but... they barely even looked normal! They were all transformed in some way, their eyes vacant of emotion, their body parts replaced with metal! They were going around transforming everyone into them, I even saw someone on a warbeast get quickly overwhelmed by just 5 of them. Just thinking about all the shit I've seen makes me..." He stopped suddenly.

"Makes you what?" The caribou then started convulsing rapidly, making agonized screams as he did so. Dainn was quick to respond. "GET THIS GUY TO THE MED BAY NOW!" The soldiers were quick to pick him up, but before they could get moving, he exploded outwards, organs and blood splattering all over the place. A humongous swarm of nanites came out of him, attacking and infecting soldiers, who screamed in surprise. They were quickly transformed into GIs.

Almost immediately after transformation, the GIs lunged at Dainn, only for him to sidestep and release a powerful blast of magic. Said blast of magic annihilated the transformed caribou. As the ashes of the guards fell to the floor, Dainn stood still, taking the realization that there was something much worse than death.

He bound Luna once more, and made haste to call a state of emergency. This was a threat beyond what he thought was possible, and he'd need his entire army if he was to stamp this out quick. A virus was one thing. A parasite was another all on its own, especially when able to take over its host and replicate itself onto others.

Harmony sat inside its tree, patiently waiting for another displaced to come by. Most of the time in these universes at the least, it would be an outsider that comes takes their power to free Equestria. Few times had it been one of their followers, and they usually wouldn't stand a chance even then. They pondered if they were ever going to get their well deserved victory here, or if all hope was lost for this dimension.

They were still strong enough to hear the mechanical footsteps coming towards them however. They smiled in satisfaction, all hope wasn't lost after all. They cut off the vines, allowing them to see once more. May I ask who freed me from this draining prison? they said, waiting a few moments for a name to be announced. Once the time passed, Harmony looked below and became terrified.

While gods of order were regularly friends with each other, there were few that were considered downright monstrous, or not even order to begin with. The Vex however were god killers, reality transformers, zealots of their own order. And they have come for their power, and whether Harmony wanted to give it or not, they would take it.

No! S-stay away! They tried to summon their power in vain hope of finding a means to escape. While this would break their law, their oath, they wouldn't lose their power like this, no matter how significant it was to their true power. Not when there's still so much left to hope for. Unfortunately for them, the Vex came prepared. She found herself bound by a new set of vine-like bindings, of glass-like construction. A giant Vex minotaur came forth, sword at the ready. It swung the sword down upon Harmony, and the sword drained the tree's energy. The energy went into the minotaur, empowering it further.

The Vex then teleported away, planning its next move to capture the King of Fire and Steel.

Author's Note

Editor:Vutava