Project Zero

Back at the house, Lemon finished hammering the last nail in and shouted, "There, a brand new window."

Nighthawk walked to the counter and grabbed his camera, "You know, that chaos at the school was too hectic that I don't remember much of it." He slowly opened it and started recording, "Mind refreshing my memory, Blitz?"

Lemon chuckled and tossed Nighthawk a soda, "Sure thing..."

The two approached the school with caution. Even though nothing was around, the two soldiers learned better not to lose guard. They walked into the school and saw a few bodies and junk everywhere. "Want to split up?" Nighthawk asked.

"Sure, keep the fire silent and meet back at the cafeteria in ten."

They went their separate ways, Lemon heading towards the east side, and Nighthawk the west, and all that they could see was trash and empty rooms.

Lemon walked into one room and sighed when he saw a little blanket lying on the floor, suddenly he heard a banging sound behind him and drew his knife. He got closer to the door, and stepped to the side. With one deep breath, he opened the door and a creature marched out of it. Blood was dripping from it lips, clothes tattered and its blood red eyes locked on Lemon, The creature shrieked in terror and jumped towards Lemon. He jumped out of the way and kicked the creature in the legs, breaking them and knocking it over. The creature tried crawling, but Lemon stomped on is dead, fleshy arms, squishing them in the process. He turned it over so he could see its head and crushed its skull. "Nasty little beast." Lemon said as he secured his knife. He turned over towards the door and heard Nighthawk scream across the other end of the school, "Get out of that closet and put your hands on the ground!"

Lemon ran over to Nighthawk and he had not one but six girls on the ground panting in fear. Nighthawk looked at him and nodded his head toward the door, " I think one of them ran out towards the music room."

Lemon sighed and looked at one of the girls, "You know these are the girls right?"

Rarity popped her head up, "We tried explaining that to him, but he wouldn't listen."

"Nighthawk?" Lemon said as he crossed his arms.

Nighthawk looked back at the girls and holstered his weapon, "My bad you guys..."

Lemon shook his head and walked out of the door, "Idiot."

"Check the music room!"

"Yea yea, I got ya." Lemon said as he walked into the music room. He had his gun drawn on a figure kneeling on the floor, "Twilight?"

Twilight turned around with her hand on her side and shirt dried up in blood. She took a couple more breaths and passed out. Lemon secured his gun and ran to her. he shook her a couple time and he felt her breathing still, "Hang tight, you're going to be alright."

A few hours later Nighthawk came in with a crate of canned goods and knives, "Better make use of the knives, that's all the ammo that we have."

"And we have Pinkie's Cannon." Fluttershy said as she was digging through the food.

Pinkie grinned, "Yea, that isn't happening."

"And why not?" Rainbow asked as she put a couple knives in her pack.

"I only have five confetti rounds left and three of them are explosive rounds."

Nighthawk grinned from the statement, "Wait, how did you manage to make explosive rounds?"

Pinkie smiled, "Just mix glitter and confetti together. Makes a powerful shot too."

Nighthawk turned over, "I knew it."

Lemon walked over, "Why can't you make more?"

"Somehow we all lost our powers when Twilight was injured." Sunset Shimmer said as she picked up her pack, "We couldn't do much."

"Yea, well, I don't think that you will have any powers at all." Lemon responded as he showed them the broken crystal, "I found it broken on the floor next to her, and now I want to know what happened?"

Nighthawk stood up and put his hand on Lemon's shoulder, "Maybe we should let them rest for a while, they're in pretty bad shape to do anything."

Lemon looked at the girls and sighed, "Fine, Lets use the roof the our advantage and take watch, I'll get first shift."

"You need rest too. I'll take first shift, you can hang here and guard the entrance." Nighthawk said as he shook is head.

That night, everything was quiet, Nighthawk and Lemon switched out their shifts, and the girls were piled on top of each other next to Twilight who was taken care of, and covered up warmly. Sunset Shimmer snuck out on the roof and kneeled next to Lemon Blitz. "Aren't you supposed to be inside." Lemon asked.

"Couldn't sleep, I needed to clear my mind." Sunset replied.

"I understand, that's the one thing I like with night watch, I could be able to think in quiet."

Sunset chuckled, "I like quiet but not like this." She looked out to the city which was now a smoky wasteland.

Lemon grinned, "So what happened with Twilight?"

Sunset lowered her head, "About an hour when you left, the blockade was broken and everyone began panicking, We decided to hold up the school as long as possible so people will get in. A few of us stepped out to hold these things by force, but I never realized that Twilight was knocked over by one of them until I stepped on her necklace. Rainbow came in from behind me and stabbed it, but she also cut Twilight in the side by accident, We could see an airstrike coming and we got her inside before the bombs fell."

Lemon nodded, "What happened to the survivors?"

"A day after that several survivors got teams and began roughing it. Some went into room and killed themselves off. Others revolted and tried taking the school for themselves. So we got some supplies and hid in the room, waiting, praying, that either you find us, or someone else does."

Lemon sighed, and looked at Sunset who had a couple tears in her eyes, "I don't understand why this happened, but it scared me more than anything."

Lemon put his hand on Sunset's, "Hey, you did what any soldier will do, and that's protect your friends. We will get through this, I will promise you that."