Equestria Divided: Hysterical Chances

by Element-OverLord

Rating: mature
Tags: Adventure, Sex, Profanity, My Little Pony: The Movie, Gore, Violence, Babs Seed, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Death, Alternate Universe, Human, Doctor Whooves, Narcotics, My Little Pony Comic, Sad, Main 6, Fetish, Spike, Cutie Mark Crusaders, Suicide / Self Harm
Length: 6028

Human AU! Fan Made Sequel-SpinOff to Elements Of Hysteria by FullMetalPikmin on Deviantart with his permission! After their painful demises, Spike and the CMC plus Babs found themselves waking up alive in another version of Equestria, Divided by War.

Human AU! Fan Made Sequel-SpinOff to Elements Of Hysteria by FullMetalPikmin on Deviantart with his permission! Here's the link to his work, so make sure to check it out in order to understand what happened prior to this fic and give credit to the original source:
https://fullmetalpikmin.deviantart.com/art/Elements-of-Hysteria-Chapter-One-Arrival-391587665

And here is the link of the conversation where I got his blessing to write this down:
https://fullmetalpikmin.deviantart.com/art/Couldn-t-sleep-did-sketches-of-EoH-380025381

Also, I'll be taking some liberties for this AU when it comes to Magic and how it's used here alongside the biology of the races here. Nothing too big, but it's to make it fit more with the show and the EQD AU.

After their painful demises caused by the Insanity coming from having killed the Mad Elements of Harmony, the group consisting of Spike Drake alongside the CMC, Applebloom Apple, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo Dash, plus Babs Seed, found themselves waking up alive in another version of Equestria, one that was Divided by War between 6 ruthless factions leaded by alternate versions of the now former Elements of Harmony.

Now that they're forced to rely on each other to survive this war torn land, they will have to harden their hearts, become as strong as they can, master abilities lost to them so long ago, and try their damn best to survive long enough to either reach a place where they can be safe or find a way to end the damn War, all without adding the many threats they will face alongside the possibility of falling back into Insanity...but then again, nobody ever said that Earning Your Happy Ending was a piece of cake, get it?

WARNING: This story will not only be a Human AU, but will also contain strong and dark elements, including but not limited to: Death, Gore, Torture, Maim, Violence, War Is Hell, Sexual Content, Swearing, and many more! Please be at least 18 to read this fanfic! I DO NOT support ANY of the negative stuff that I write here! I just write this for fun.

Cover image also owned by FullMetalPikmin:
https://fullmetalpikmin.deviantart.com/art/Elements-of-Hysteria-Chapter-Four-Return-397306253

Published 2018-06-15 03:20:07 UTC
Last updated 2018-06-15 03:20:07 UTC

Prologue: What A Wonderful World...

Equestria Divided: Hysterical Chances

Synopsis/Plot: Human AU! Fan Made Sequel-SpinOff to Elements Of Hysteria by FullMetalPikmin on Deviantart with his permission! After their painful demises, Spike and the CMC plus Babs found themselves waking up alive in another version of Equestria, one that was Divided by War.

Pairing(S): Eventual Spike X CMC X Babs. (Maybe others later on.)

DISCLAIMER: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Belongs To Lauren Faust And Hasbro. Equestria Divided Belongs To PoorYorick. Elements Of Hysteria Belongs To FullMetalPikmin. Everything Else Belongs To Their Respective Creator(S)/Owner(S). I Just Own The Plot And OCs.

WARNING: This is pretty much one of my darkest works to date, so please bear that in mind as you read this, for it will contain many things such as Death, Violence, Gore, War Is Hell, Self-Harm To Suicide (Which will only appear so far in This Prologue, albeit who knows later on...XC), Sexual Content, Profanity, Cursing, Murder, and many more things you must be 18 years old to read or see. Also BTW, I DON'T SUPPORT ANY OF THESE THINGS MENTIONED HERE! I JUST WRITE THIS FOR FUN! PLEASE SUPPORT THE OFFICIAL RELEASE!

Prologue: What A Wonderful World...

(Equestria, The Sanctuary, Sweet Apple Acres)

Y'Know, life is pretty much nothing but a big joke. After all, no matter what we do, we will all eventually die, and even if we somehow manage to make ourselves famous and our names remembered for generations, there would always be a point where even that would be forgotten by the sands of time, and nobody would care, for they would all move one eventually onto the next big thing until the same happened, and rinse and repeat...

Yeah, truly life was a punchline that people could only find funny so many times before they all got sick of it and moved forward, only to end up coming back in as if nothing happened. And if that was the case, then what was the point of living at all? To be born innocent and pure into this world only to die in many ways from a mere accident to sickness to being killed to dying of old age, either with loved ones or alone and bitter, now dirty with all the world's evils...

And the worst part of all this? Nobody could know for sure what happened when they died; Would they end up in the afterlife? If so, which one? Would they actually be reincarnated into another life, without memories of their past lives? Or would there be an actual nothingness, therefore showing that there was nothing after death but the void and the darkness in it? Would it even matter thinking all these questions?

Those, and many more thoughts, went through the mind of a dying young man of 18 years old with short dark green hair that reached to his neck, similar eyes that were now hollow, and pale skin wearing a dark green t-shirt with short sleeves and black stripes on it, with a dark purple hoodie on top, fingerless black gloves with metallic knuckes in them, black jeans that reached to his foot, and white socks with purple tennis shoes.

This young man was Spike Drake, former number one assistant of Twilight Sparkle, the personal protege of Princess Celestia and Bearer of the Element of Magic, part of the Elements of Harmony alongside their fellow friends, Rarity, the Bearer of the Element of Generosity and a great fashionista, Rainbow Dash, Bearer of the Element of Loyalty and aspirant to become a Wonderbolt, Fluttershy, Bearer of the Element of Kindness and one of the sweetest people to have ever been born in this cruel world, Applejack, Bearer of the Element of Honesty and main worker of the Apple branch of Ponyville, and finally Pinkamena Diane Pie, or simply Pinkie Pie, Bearer of the Element of Laughter and Party Planner Extraordinare...all before their fall into darkness, hysteria and madness...

Right now, as he was lying on a bath tub, with his wrists cutten open, letting his blood fall and mix with the shower, and with a hollow grin after finishing writing a bloody "ALONE" on the wall next to him with his bloody right index finger, Spike couldn't help but remember his life as it flashed right before his eyes, just like it's supposed to happen to many that would end up dying, as he remembered how he ended up in that situation...

The first thing he could vaguely recall was, ironically enough, his own birth where the fuzzy images of Twilight and Canterlot went through his mind when he was out of his egg followed by flashes of Twilight's magic being out of control before Celestia calmed her down and took her under her wing followed by the princess raising him from a small age until he ended up meeting with Twilight again when he was 6, and therefore started as her first friend before becoming her assistant, living in peace until they had to eventually leave for Ponyville when he was 10, all due to Twilight being assigned to check out the Sunset Celebration where his mother in all but blood would raise the sun in front of her subjects.

It was there where they ended up meeting with many of their future friends, including the other element bearers and the future Cutie Mark Crusaders, and many more as they went through many adventures, all starting when Twilight and the girls went to look out for the Elements of Harmony to stop the sudden return of Nightmare Moon, and eventually succeeded, returning her back into Princess Luna and saving the rest of Equestria from an Eternal Night.

But it didn't stop there, as they had to go through many more events in their life, ranging from a competition to get tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala to dealing with threats like Discord and the Changeling Invasion, all the way up to the reappearance of the Crystal Empire followed by the defeat of King Sombra...

All in all, it seemed like a good life despite the few bad moments, but sadly everything would soon come crashing down not long ago after his 12th birthday party, only 2 years after arriving into Ponyville, when that damn Hysteria sickness appeared from nowhere, suddenly causing many people around to go insane and start killing each other, infecting many more nearby with the same Madness to the point where Princess Celestia, after being forced to kill her now insane sister in self defense after she tried to bring down the moon, had to use a forbidden spell to block all magic in the land of Equestria in order to contain as much as possible the Hysteria Crisis, therefore causing their unique parts like either a Magician's Horn, or an Angel's Wings, or even his Dragonborn's Tail to vanish, something that was really painful even to this day as he felt something really important to him leave and never come back...

Unfortunately for him, things just got worse as even Twilight and her other friends got affected by that sickness as well, each one causing untold ammounts of chaos and death in their insane ramapages, Twilight with her macabre experiments, Rarity with her psychological and physical tortures, Applejack with her hunting and murdering of anybody that came close to her home, Pinkie Pie barely managing to hold out long enough for the Cake Twins to be taken away before she killed them all, Rainbow Dash trying her best to drink herself to death in order to avoid killing any people, and Fluttershy...she managed to last out the longest, staying alone after freeing her animals into the forest to protect them from her fall to madness...

Even now, he could remember the many tortures and psychological trauma he had suffered at their hands, ranging from the twisted experiments he was forced to assist Twilight with, and even sometimes being part off against his will, how Rarity had abused him and many others for her pleasure, including her own little sister Sweetie Bell which lead to them being forced to lose their virginities with each other, which among other traumas led to poor Sweetie to be unable to talk for the following years, how he had been forced to be the prey in a hunting session he had with AJ where he barely survived, and even then he knew it was because she had let him live for her amusement despite the pleading of Applebloom to stop it all, how he was forced to attend several of Pinkie's new 'parties' with many 'guests' whom were actually dead corpses, how RD had beaten him several times in a drunken rampage as well as poor Scootaloo, and finally how Fluttershy had seemed to be his only safe heaven where he and the others were healed and treated by her...only to once again end up suffering even more, despite their pleas to the once shy woman to not make them leave...

Eventually many people in Ponyville, including him, Granny Smith, Big Mac, and the CMC, gathered the courage to leave and managed to get out thanks to help from several army squads sent by Celestia, which took longer because of the lack of magic as they had to develop their technology in order to match what they had lost, and therefore were successful in their escape as Ponyville was then sealed off with the fallen Element Bearers and most of the now insane population behind...

Still, the trauma of what they had to go through in Ponyville, especially at the hands of their former family members and dear friends, lead to him and the CMC to go into therapy in order to recover from their trauma, but while the CMC were able to mostly recover within a year, it took him 6 full years, 1 for each Main 6 member and the trauma they inflicted upon him, to recover, and even then, he and the CMC had to find a way to distract themselves in order to forget the trauma; Applebloom took to listening to her headphones and be ignorant of most things, Scootaloo took skateboarding and burning away memories of her past, Sweetie Belle always remained silent and had to learn to use handsigns in order to communicate, and he himself took up smoking in order to calm himself down from those damn memories...

But everything changed one day when he saw a commotion outside and saw a crowd around several soldiers, one announcing the current situation around Equestria before saying something that got his full attention: That they were looking for yet another candidate to go on a suicide mission to find and kill the now Insane Elements of Harmony in Ponyville in order to ensure the Elements themselves were no longer corrupted by their mad Bearers, and Spike decided to take that chance to finally get closure for what he had done and take down his former friends and family for good...

With that in mind, he was sent to Ponyville, where he started his crusade/revenge against Twilight Sparkle, the one that had essentially been responsible for giving life to him and helping him, even at her worst, make him who he was today, and in their encounter after standing up for himself, he had ended up killing her by crashing her into several of her experiments, causing her to melt to death like in that Daring Do movie he once saw where one of the bad guys melted upon witnessing what was in the Arc...

Afterwards he went to deal with the next target on his mental list and ended up facing against Pinkie Pie, whom after knocking him unconscious made him, once he was awake, join another of her insane, made up parties with several dead people until he managed to free himself and be forced to fight directly before slashing her throat...only for her to keep coming at him, making him fall down and expect the worse...but all she did was to point at a picture of the Cake Twins, as if to ask what had happened to them, to which he answered in a moment of pity and closure that they were safe, healthy and happy, much to the poor party planner's happiness before she let death claim her, to which he lost consciousness a short time after...

Then upon waking up, he found himself on the CMC's Club House where he reunited with the CMC and Babs Seed, whom had been the previous recruits to attempt the suicidal mission only to end up retreating due to how dangerous many of them were, and after some arguing and planning, Spike decided to go next after Rarity, joined by Sweetie Belle, whom also wanted to see the ending of her once beautiful big sister and get closure as well. And so after getting inside alone at first, Spike ended up confronting Rarity, whom after a fight had managed to overwhelm him and seemed about to finish him off...only for Sweetie Belle to finally interfere, managing to overpower her sister and for the first time in years, had screamed at full blown capacity how much she had hated Rarity and how she ruined her life, all while stabbing her to death, which the fashonista seemed to enjoy, even helping getting herself killed until she breathed no more...

After that whole event, Spike and Sweetie Belle returned to the CMC Tree House where there was a brief celebration of joy upon the young girl recovering her voice and now being able to speak once again before Spike decided to go on his own to finish the next Bearer, Fluttershy, by himself, this time more cautious than before as he eventually reached her place and confronted her, expecting the worst...only for her to treat him just like she had done all those years ago, as if nothing bad had happened between them, making him confused and a bit worried as she went upstairs to do some business, as she claimed, while he proved the soup she gave him...only to almost puke out of disgust at how awful the soup tasted due to the venom in it, to which he then switched both soups as she arrived and took the poisoned one down, shortly dying of poison as he went upstairs to see what was so important, and saw a tape that said "Play Me", which he did and it showed the last time he was ever truly happy, his 12th birthday party before it showed a confession of Fluttershy where she acknowledged that she was insane, but did her best to keep it at bay but was also too much of a coward to do anything about it, thanking Spike for freeing her from her burden, apologizing for having hurted him and the others so long ago, and wishing him the best and to live a full life without regrets, which by the end of it drove him to tears as he actually regretted ending such a kind but tragic life...

Hell, even now remembering that was enough to bring him to tears, albeit he just let it go as he remembered how after paying respects for Fluttershy's soul, he had gone back to inform the CMC quartet about his success before choosing Rainbow Dash as his next target, to which Scootaloo tagged along as they went to confront her...only to see her yet again drunk and barely breathing sitting to an aged up Tank as she tried to ignore them, only for an angry Scootaloo, who was finally letting all her hidden emotions burst, to make her pay them attention, which caused the Rainbow haired girl to try to attack them, only for him and Scoots to counter her, fatally wounding her in the process as she sat down with her former protege doing the same at her side, discussing about their lives and their regrets, even making up with each other over their former relationship in all but blood before Rainbow died in peace after swearing to a tearful Scootaloo to take care of Tank, and with a smile on her face, she left the world...

And then there was one, whom was also the most dangerous of the 6 targets; Applejack, whom Spike decided to finally confront after healing himself with help of Applebloom, whom had refused at first before he managed to make her release her pent up emotions and realize that he was right and needed to confront her past in order to let it all go. Still, they instead had ended up knocked out by the mentioned as soon as they arrived to the farm where the Apple family had lived and woke to find themselves tied up with their target in front of them doing nothing but eating an apple pie, which honestly made her even more terrifying as she, once having finished, announced that she would give them a short time to prepare themselves until she came back to start her 'best hunt yet'.

Thankfully, they had managed to find a way to free themselves from their holdings and make a trap for the now mad Earthling, managing to trap her inside the now burning barn, and while she was obviously mad at first, she then just congratulated them, obviously with sarcasm, before warning them that they would soon end up like her as she sat down, accepting her death with them watching until she was burned to a crisp alongside the place, just to make sure she didn't get out or anything like that, followed by him barely managing to call the SWAT team to pick them up before he lost consciousness, followed by him waking up in the hospital and being informed of his success upon eliminating the former Bearers of the Elements, and soon enough he was allowed to go back to his new home with his new family, and it all seemed like a happy ending...right?

...Oh, who was he kidding?! While he had acted at first as if nothing was wrong, and it seemed that way, eventually the realization of what he had done, even if to prevent any more deaths as well to get closure and satisfy his wish for vengenace, with the full consequences that came with said acts had began to smash down on his barely holding mind, which actually seemed more fractured from the deaths of his former friends and family in all but blood, as he tried his damn best to keep himself together, especially because he saw how the others around him were fairing now better, but sadly his resolve was getting weaker and weaker, despite his attempts to calm himself from trying to quit smoking to looking for new hobbies to do, heck even talking with Shining Armor, who was also recovering from the death of his wife Cadence at his own hands, as he gave him a letter to Princess Celestia, until he just...snapped...

To be honest, he was vaguely aware of what had happened, even less of what had actually triggered him albeit he suspected it was because of him trying to quit smoking, but the next thing he knew was that there were some screams, some laughter, mainly from him, a bit of a fight, mainly with Big Mac from what he could remember, and several slashing and stabbing noises before he found himself in the middle of the dinner room, with the bodies of his new family in all but blood dead, having been brutally stabbed or slashed in several places, but he didn't pay any attention to that as he stared at a catatonic Applebloom, whom was staring at him with a myraid of emotions ranging from shock to fear to anger to sorrow to hatred to disbelief and many more he couldn't recall before she knocked him on the ground and stabbed his gut with his own knife before she ran away, all while screaming for help...

It was in that moment that he realized what he had done, as he held his wounded gut, cursing himself and everything around him, especially the damn world, the damn sickness, and the damn Elements, for making him into the monster he was now, as he then proceeded to take another knife, went up to the bathroom, put up the water on the bathtub until it was full, and then got inside and cut his own wrists, letting the blood flow from his wounds as he slowly died like he deserved...

'And so...it ends...' Thought to himself the now broken Dragonborn, barely aware of some sounds outside the house but uncaring of them as he thought of his life, the ups and downs, and even what it could have been, all while maintaining that hollow smile on his face, even if it was harder now to breathe and see... 'Heh...they were all right...life was nothing...but a big joke...even so...it wasn't...so...bad...after...all...right, every...one...?'

With that last thought, as well as a silent apology to Applebloom for the burden he obviously ended up putting in her, Spike Drake died with a hollow laugh, just a few seconds just as several Soldiers came inside and saw his now lifeless body, and realized too late what had happened...

Still, this was far from the end for the young soul yet...

(?)

...?

WhAt Is It?

...Interesting...

WhAt Do YoU mEaN?!

...Nothing much...just watching an alternate path...

Is ThAt So? LeT mE sEe...

...

GyAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HOW HILARIOUS INDEED! I SHOULD HAVE LOOKED AT THIS SHIT SOONER! GYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

...Are you done?

J-JuSt A bIt MoRe...HeHeHeHe...AlRiGht, It'S dOnE...AnYwAy, NoT bAd, BuT i PrEfEr MoRe BlOoDy TaLeS lIkE tHaT wOnDeRfUl OnE wHeRe I lEaRnEd HoW tO mAkE cUpCaKeS fRoM tHaT aDoRaBlE pArTy LaD~!

...Please don't bring that one up, I still can't look at those the same way as before...

FiNe, FiNe, ThEn WhAt AbOuT tHe OtHeR oNe WhErE i LeArNeD wHeRe RaInBoWs CoMe FrOm? Or ThAt OnE wHeRe We WiTnEsSeD hOw DrAgOnS gEt MoRe TrEaSuReS fRoM tHeIr So CaLlEd ViCtImS? oR tHe OnE wHeRe NaUgHtY sTuDeNtS wErE pRoPeRlY pUnIsHeD bY tHeIr TeAcHeR lIkE hOw A gArDeNeR tAkEs OuT tHe WeEd, WhIcH lEaD tO a WoNdErFuL sCaRlEt HaRvEsT!? oR tHe PaIr WhErE tHaT lItTlE tRiO lEaRnEd ThAt CuRiOsItY kIlLeD tHe CaT aS iT dId To ThEm WhEn ThEy WeRe TrIcKeD bY tHaT sHoWsToPpEr Or ThAt BiG gUy?! Or ThE oNe WhErE-

-Enough.

FiNe, SpOiLsPoRt. NoT tHaT iT mAtTeRs WhAt HaPpEnS nOw To ThOsE uNfOrTuNaTe SoUlS, bEcAuSe ThEy WeRe So PaThEtIc To DeAl WiTh ThAt KiNd Of PrEsSuRe, JuSt LiKe ThE rEsT oF tHeIr PaThEtIc CoUnTeRpArTs~!

...Would you like to bet on that?

...HeHeHeHe...GYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HOW AMUSING! HOW PITIFUL! HOW HILARIOUS~! GYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

...

I-i MeAn, WhAt A nIcE jOkE pAl, YoUr SeNsE oF hUmOr NeVeR fAiLs To AmUsE mE~! eSpEcIaLlY wItH sUcH a FuNnY jOkE yOu JuSt MaDe RiGhT nOw~!

...

...Oh. My. GrEaT. oNeS...yOu'Re SeRiOuS, aReN't YoU?

...When I'm not serious?

...ToUcHe. StIlL, lEt'S sAy YoU dO sEnD hIm To OuR cUrReNt PlAyGrOuNd StAgE, hOw FaR yOu ExPeCt HiM tO lAsT tHeRe?! I wOuLd SaY oNe MoNtH aT mOsT, pErHaPs MaYbE tWo, AnD tHaT's Me BeInG gEnErOuS~!

...Who ever said I would send him alone~?

...ArE yOu FuCkInG mE?! YOU KNOW THE RULES! YOU CAN'T DO THAT! I WAS ABLE TO SEND IN MY CHAMPION THROUGH A BLOODY LOOPHOLE, BUT YOU CAN'T DO THE SAME AT ALL! OR DON'T YOU REMEMBER YOUR VERY OWN RULES?!

I do, which is why I can presicely do that, especially given the circumstances behind the demise of these souls on their world...

AnD wHy WoUlD tHeY bE aBlE tO dO sO?! It'S nOt LiKe ThEy CaN AtOnE-?!

...It seems you finally got it, didn't you?

...No. No. NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNONONONONONONONONONONONONONO! MOTHERFUCKER! BULLSHIT! BULLSHIT! YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME! OF COURSE IT HAD TO BE THAT FUCKING LOOPHOLE!

Indeed, just like the good old times, no?

...GrRrRr...FiNe, WhO eLsE wIlL jOiN hIm ThEn?!

The 4 members of the little group once known as the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and their version of Shining Armor. Nobody else.

...HmP, fInE, i CaN sTiLl WoRk ThE sCeNaRiO, eVeN wItH tHe AdDiTiOn Of ThE nEwCoMeRs...StIlL,bEtTeR gIvE mE a GoOd ReAsOn To NoT jUsT sEnD aS mAnY pAwNs As I cAn To DeAl WiTh ThEm AlL aT oNcE.

That will because of the 2 conditions for them to be allowed there, as per the rules...

...HmMm? Go On ThEn, I'm LiStEnInG...

Basically, on the first condition, they will end up in Equestria Divided 3 years before the Main Story starts, which will give them plenty of time to prepare for when they eventually have to join, but they will not leave the Neutral Zone they're in, which happens to be Redheart's Refuge, until the time is up, and in exchange neither your nor your pieces will not try anything directly nor indirectly against them...

WhAt A pAiN, aNd WhIlE uNdErStAnDaBlE, i HaVe To WoNdEr WhAt WiLl I gEt In ExChAnGe...

I was getting there, for the second condition will be that they will be summoned with their natural and magical abilities up to how they had been 6 years prior to their sealing, and thus they will have to work from the ground up to remaster them in hopes of learning even more in order to survive the war, all while dealing with their personal demons, and whenever they will succed or not is up to them...

WhIlE tHaT sOuNdS aMuSiNg, I wIlL nEeD sOmE cOmPeNsAtIoN aS pEr ThE rUlEs~!

...Very well, as long as it doesn't overstep your boundaries.

HeH, sInCe YoU aDdEd NeW pLaYeRs To ThE gAmE, i'Ll NeEd To Do ThE sAmE~! In FaCt, HeRe ArE mY cHoIcEs~! WhAt YoU tHiNk~?!

?!...I see...very well then, but they will be under the same conditions as the others I have chosen. Is that clear?

CrYsTaL~! It WaS a PlEaSuRe DoInG bUsInEsS wItH yOu~!

The feeling is not mutual, now let us see who will win this bet, and hopefully end this scruffle for good...

(Equestria Divided, Redheart's Refuge, Patient Room, AP12 (After Princesses 12))

'Ugh...my head...w-where am I?' Is this...what death feels like?' Thought a certain green haired Dragonborn as he groggily woke up, somehow being alive as he shook his head before opening his eyes, being careful to not get them blinded by the light on top of him as he yawned before, barely, being able to wake up. "No...this is...am I...alive? But how?!"

With a gasp, the now clearly awake Spike glanced down at his body in shock and disbelief, noticing how there were no wounds at all, wondering how could this be until he saw a nearby body-sized mirror to his side, with him shakily moving towards it, wondering if he was somehow in a dream until he saw his reflection, which showed him wearing his now casual clothes, clean of any blood stains it had previously until he froze up upon looking at one new yet actually addition to his body, which happened to be a purple dragon tail with green spikes that was connected to his butt and was long enough to reach his feet...

"M-My tail...my tail..." He muttered numbly, looking at the dragonic appendage as it moved from side to side, as if to reflect it's owner's happiness upon seeing it again after so long, and thus it was of no surprise as Spike quickly touched it to see if it was real, and upon confirming the familiar and melancholic feeling of the scales and the spikes, he ended up hugging it as tears of happiness fell from his eyes, finally happy after being without his tail for so long, feeling that void inside him beginning to get filled up. "Oh man, it's back again! After so long! Woohoo! I can't wait until I tell the others abou-!"

THAT realization, alongside the memories of what he had done to his last family in all but blood made his cheering stop and be replaced with a look of pure horror mixed with sorrow, disgust and self-hatred appearing on his face as he could see, even now, how he just attacked his remaining family after snapping, how he had killed them brutally but in the end couldn't bring himself to finish up AppleBloom, followed by him commiting suicide..

"B-By Celestia...what had I done...W-WHAT HAD I DONE?!" He ended up screaming in self disgust before he quickly went to the nearby toilet and puked out what was left of food in his stomach as the horror of what he had done had been too much for him, barely able to remain conscious enough to hear some sounds from...several...familiar...voices..."N-no way..."

With a look of disbelief, yet faint hope mixed with fear, he got out of the bathroom...only to freeze up as he saw 5 more beds besides his, with another 6 in front of them to form a row, but while 8 of them were currently empty, the other 4 were being used right now by a certain quartet of young women he knew quite well, and had ended up killed, or at least most of them, before his death...but somehow they were not only alive and here, wherever here was now, but also having woken up not so long after his scream...

"Ugh, my head...what just happened?" The first one to say that was Scootaloo Dash, a young girl around 18 years old with her purple, spiky hair downwards reaching to her neck, eyes of the same color as her hair, and caucasian skin, wearing a short sleeved orange t-shirt with a sky blue hoodie on top of it that had the sleeves painted like a rainbow, dark blue jeans, and sky blue and white tennis shoes with white socks underneath. Finally, a pair of orange wings around 1 1/2 diameters twitched behind her as they streched out, like they haven't done so in so long.

"Yeah, tell me about it..." Groaned the second one, Babs Seed, another young girl of 18 with dark red hair in a bob cut, tanned skin, green eyes, peckles in her face, and wearing a sleveless black t-shirt with a brown hoodie over it, gray pants and black combat boots.

"The last thing I remember was...w-was..." Shakily answered the third female, Sweetie Belle, around 18 years old as well with pale purple and pink stripped hair, a white horn in the middle of her forehead with a light green glow around it, pale skin, green eyes, and wearing a white, short sleeve button t-shirt with a purple skirt that reached to her knees, white socks and a pair of black shoes.

"Lemme guess, being killed..." Deadpanned a hollow, yet somehow surprised and hopeful voice as the final girl of 18, AppleBloom Apple, looked around with her wide orange eyes, long red hair and pale skin wearing a pair of black classic headphones in her ears, a short sleeved yellow t-shirt with red lines around it under an orange hoodie, blue jeans with a black and silver belt, and brown boots with white socks underneath.

Then the quartet glanced at each other with shocked, disbelieving and hopeful looks as tears of relief and joy came to their eyes before they hugged each other, all while crying and saying how glad they were to see each other and being alive, making Spike smile despite the situation and his inner crisis, glad and happy to see his friends, his family even, like they were right now...

'Better leave them alone...' He thought as a look of regret came to his face upon remembering what he had done to them, but as he attempted to leave to give them time to catch up to each other as well as think how they were still alive, wherever they were now, his foot accidentally stepped on a old part of the floor, causing a shrieking noise that made the four girls stop their talk and look back at the now nervous Dragonborn, whom quickly cursed the fact that just NOW of all times he had to be discovered...'FUCKING E-RANKED LUCK! Okay Spike, calm down, maybe they won't be so ma-oh whom am I kidding?! I'm fucked!'

Those thoughts were soon confirmed when the looks of disbelief, surprise and fear melted into looks of anger, disgust and betrayal as they got up from their beds and threw themselves towards him!

'E-Yup, definitely fucked...' He mentally deadpanned before closing his eyes, knowing he deserved what was going to happen to him, and only cursing the fact that he didn't had a cigarette for a last smoke...'Hopefully my death this time around won't take so long...'

Author's Note

D-O/DIO: Welp, and here we are. Now, TBH, this was an idea I had in mind for a VERY long time, like around a few years ago ever since I first finished reading the fanfic of FullMetalPikmin in Deviantart, of which I left the links above in the summary and the start of the fic if you want to look it up, which I recomend you do to avoid the spoilers shown here and to know where Spike and his friends here are from.

As for the plot itself, I admit it was hard at first to write in several parts, but thankfully I had several bouts of inspiration to help me get the story going and here we are! Now as you can guess, Spike and CO. have ended in Equestria Divided 3 years before the "Main Canon" of the series started, so 12 years have passed instead of 15, and as you can guess, the upcoming chapters of the first Arc will revolve around the group learning where they are and try their best to adapt to this new, bloody world they're in, all without adding the fact they still have many inner demons to face, including themselves, but that's what 3 years are for aside from training, no?

I won't lie, this will be one of the DARKEST fanfics I'll ever do, and it's not just because I want to be as edgy as possible or try to compare to the original inspiration-source, instead it's because the world they're in is pretty much the bastard love child of Game Of Thrones/A Song Of Fire And Ice with Warhammer 40000, and while it mainly involve the Canon Equestria Cast of Ponies and Magical Creatures, here it will be a Human AU since Spike and CO here came from another Human AU, of which if you consider the worst of humanity during all the wars we've had, and mix them up with all the previously stated elements of EQD...yeah, I think you all get the idea.

Sadly there will be moments where Spike and the others will have to suffer and go through hell, mainly literally, but then again nobody said that Earning Your Happy Ending was easy, no? But don't worry, while mainly dark, there will be comedic, even if black comedy variant, and heartwarming moments as well, not many at first but there will be...

If you have any questions, suggerences, ideas, or criticism you want to say, please do, but do it in a constructive fashion please. I know I'm far from perfect, and I'm trying my best, but I just can't believe how many people can dislike one story or even flame it because of one thing they don't like, and make others do the same...If you don't like nor want anything to do with this, you may just leave and say nothing, but if you say something, at least give a good explanation as to why and even offer critical support and advice on how to fix this fic instead of just cursing and flaming it.

In fact, if any of you think you can do better, then try to write something yourselves, no offense but I would like to see you try being in the shoes of authors that you critic to harshly...To everyone else, my apologies, but I needed to get that out.

Anyway, please review, and in a fashionable, positive way please. Until later on, and GOOD LUCK!