Undead Raiser

The situation in which Rainbow Dash and Moon Shard are couldn't get more absurd. Rainbow, Moon Shard, the crazy zombified Spitfire and her group were looking outside smashed entrance from the distance. They instantly froze up upon seeing a bizarre scene.

A bipedal creature, standing on his hind leg single handily smashed a horde of zombies into pieces. Only a big pile of dead bodies remains, stocked up around him. After having finished the killing and ignoring what is happening around him, he stepped inside the room.

The bipedal creature looked like a scarlet maned beige zombie earth stallion with his rib cage and a few muscles being partially exposed, wearing a gray cape covering his back and his tail. In contrast with the rest of his body, his hind legs, being talons were seemingly made of black iron with crystal colored veins pumping through that. His forelegs were also made of black iron with crystal veins, except that instead of hooves, he had clawed hands. Despite his zombie like appearance, he has black eyes, which along with his coat and mane looked more vivid compared the zombie Wonderbolts in his sight. His face didn't exuded lucid madness but annoyance.

"And you made me do all of the job by myself," The creature said with a male, normal, grumpy voice to 'Moon'. "And Clousdale was supposed to be a safe city."

"You are late, Brutus." Moon replied.

"Shut up, Requiem. I didn't asked your sarcasm." Brutus retorted.

Rainbow looked to the bipedal being and then back to Moon, with a very confused face.

"You... Know this monster?" Rainbow demanded.

"I was suspecting something like this since I saw you dying," Spitfire said at 'Moon'. "You are not Moon Shard!"

"Does that even matter?" 'Moon' replied nonchalantly.

"Wait!... What do you mean she saw you dying?" Rainbow demanded to 'Moon'.

"Save that superfluous question for later." 'Moon' said.

"So, you are the ones who spread the Necromyth in this city, isn't it?" Brutus asked to the undead Wonderbolts. "All of that because you though that the ponies that you were supposed to protect would be safe by killing them, devouring them or even turning them into Undementias zombies like you... I don't feel sorry for you."

"Shut up! What can a monster like you know about us! You don- Argh!" Spitfire collapsed on the ground in pain with the other Wonderbolts looking at her worried. "What now!?"

"Spitfire!" Undead Misty Fly said.

"Are you alright!?" Undead Surprise said.

"What's wrong with her?" Rainbow asked worried.

"The Undementias will usually being subjected to a gruesome, additional genetic mutation," 'Moon' explained. "The time that it takes to trigger and it's modality depends on the subject."

Spitfire moaned in pain for the throbbing sensation traversing her body. Her figure grew a little bit i and her forelegs became covered in black spikes. Her face assume a half feral one as her two feathered wings became two gruesome ones with pony faces protruding on their backsides, with their mouth being stuck in a scream.

Rainbow watched the scene in awe. And wasn't just Rainbow to react at this. Even the other undead Wonderbolts looked at her in fright. Some of them were even recoiling.

"HALT!" Spitfire shouted under her breath as she slowly rose up, making them stop. "It's ok... Besides, I didn't told you to leave."

"Spitfire, you body!" Undead Meadow said astounded.

"I will consider that a boost," Spitfire said while glancing at her new body and then glaring toward . "Still, to answer your provocation, I'm dead inside, so my sanity is purely objective. And regarding the inhabitants of this city, I'm offering them immortality and the salvation from their fears."

"Tsk! Salvation from their fears you said? That reminded me of a queen bitch I had met in a previous life." Brutus murmured.

"Huh?" Spitfire looked confused, not knowing what he was referring to.

Brutus glanced at the intimidated Rainbow Dash glaring at him with scorn. "So that is the Element of Loyalty."

"Just who the heck are you!?" Rainbow asked.

"Seriously? Is this the manner to show grace to someone who was making you a favor?" Brutus replied, slightly annoyed.

"Just give them hell already." 'Moon' said with slight impatience.

Brutus looked back at the crazed pegasi and pointed his clawed finger at them. "I'm sorry, but if you stand in my way, you will do the end of the zombies I had fought before."

Spitfire was about to retort, only to be frozen by a dreadful dark aura exuding from Brutus's body. She didn't know why but she's intimidate by him. And she hated. Mustering her own frustration, she tried to not show any of that fear.

"Do you think that we are going to recoil and take it? You are WRONG!" Spitfire screamed. "We are not normal ponies anymore and I cannot die naturally. However we are not as dumb as the other zombies. We are still Wonderbolts, only better!"

"Yeah, yeah, and you can strike like lightning and stuff," Brutus mocked them with a straight face, one seconds before grinning cruelly. "That didn't save them from being destroyed."

Brutus stepped aside and gestured to two pegasi corpses behind him. Both of them wearing a Wonderbolts uniform, being Soarin and High Wind, being already Undementias zombies. Rainbow Dash looked at them in horror, but the most shocked of all were Spitfire and the others. The undead Fleetfoot glared at him with seething hatred.

"These two ponies were my companions, you bastard!" Fleetfoot flew in the air and dived furiously toward Brutus.

Five of the other undead Wonderbolts, with Misty Fly and Surprise being among them follow suit by flying toward the unnatural zombie. Fleetfoot was about to reach Brutus, only for him to block her by grabbing her head with his claws and engulfing her with a black flaming aura, causing her to wriggle frantically like a ragdoll while letting out a chilling scream that was suffocated by his hand.

The five Wonderbolts stopped in front of them, unable to aid Fleetfoot and slowly recoiling, intimidated by both her scream and Brutus's obscure powers. As her scream lost it's strength and faded, her body stop moving and the flame dissipated. Brutus released the undead Fleetfoot and let her fall on the floor.

Collapsed, Fleetfoot remained motionless for a moment. Then she slowly rose up, looking toward Brutus. Worried about her, Misty Fly took a few steps forward. She was about to ask her something, only to be met by Fleefoot furiously groaning. Her breath becoming harsher and her voice being more aggressive.

She slowly turned toward them, glaring at them with a very feral expression, as she doesn't seem to recognize them or remember who she was. Her eyes being completely white, devoid of any color. But the most gruesome thing that they noticed was her forehead being covered with a circular blue mark made of tendrils that were penetrating through her skull.

The undead Fleetfoot roared ferociously toward them, terrorizing her former companions. Rainbow Dash was literally stunned by that. The ability to subjugate a zombie is something so rare that is chilling to even thinking about.

Upon seeing this, the undead Spitfire glared at Brutus, clenching her teeth and trembling in rage for whatever he has done to her companion.

"What have you done to her, you monster!?" Spitfire screamed.

"Your friend is the last of your problems," Brutus informed.

Spitfire flew in air and was about to charge toward him. But then froze as she saw some figures slowly emerging from the corpse piles. They slowly gathered nearby Brutus. Her cold body shivered upon realizing what she was seeing. Behind Brutus, there various zombies, Lessers and unicorn Flailers. All of them having the same gruesome blue mark on their forehead. A horde of zombie were now forming a entire army at his service.

Rainbow Dash stepped back toward the walls, fearing for what is going to happen next. Her attention was then caught by 'Moon' remaining immobile despite that.

"What the hey are you doing!? Get away from there!" Rainbow shouted.

"Don't even think this is the first time I saw that happening." 'Moon' commented.

Brutus raised his hand up and then pointed his finger at the undead Wonderbolts.

"Shred them up!" Brutus ordered, causing his marked zombies, including Fleetfoot to rushing ferociously toward their enemies.

The zombie Fleefoot flew toward the zombiefied Misty Fly, who dodged her tackle. Misty tried to assault her only to be blocked and held by three marked zombie pegasi, allowing Fleetfoot to approach her and tearing her body apart in bites, helped by the threes. She screamed for her to stop as her teeth and that of the other marked pegasi made their way through her flesh. A cruel way to dispose a enemy.

A furious undead Surprise tried to attack Brutus but was blocked by marked unicorn Flailer, who wrapped her in a gray aura with her telekinesis, blocking her and used her body to flail other two zombie Wonderbolts who tried to help. Surprise was then slammed against the walls repeatedly and then tossed violently on the ground. Stunned and moaning in pain, the bleeding undead mare didn't have the time to react or even process the situation that the Flailer beamed a searing ray at her, almost reducing her body in ashes.

The two undead Wonderbolts that were previously flailed stood tall as various marked Lesser zombie earth-ponies and pegasi rushed toward them. Before they could touch their targets, a blue ball bounced in front of the marked creatures and burst in a icy explosion, freezing all of them. The two undead pegasi looked up and saw the undead Meadow, flying above them and being armed with other two blue balls.

"Follow me!" Meadow commanded as she bucked the frozen zombies, shattering them into pieces. "We had to prevail!"

The two followed her in mid air. Coordinating their assault, Meadow flew at full speed toward Brutus. The other twos arrived at him from other different directions. As they were arriving, Brutus narrowed his eyes in boredom.

"C'mon, guys. You aren't even trying," Brutus complained quietly.

As Meadow and her companions were approaching, Brutus 's right hands suddenly changed it's shape and turned into a huge sword, which he promptly uses to slash them in two parts. Their sliced bodies fell on the floor without even touching him.

Another undead Wonderbolt tried to attack him from above, thinking is distracted. Unluckily for him, Brutus already noticed him and pointed his finger at him.

"Tear him apart." Brutus commanded.

With that, the Wonderbolt was blocked by the telekinesis of a unicorn Flailer, allowing the marked zombie pegasi to do their job into destroying him, horribly.

"THIS ENDS NOW!" Spitfire's voice boomed, causing a strong ultra-sonic scream that disintegrated anything in it's path, including marked zombies, the corpses of her comrades and the undead Fleetfoot.

Brutus survived the attack by shielding himself with both his arms and his incorporated sword that dissipated afterwards. Raibow kept her eyes shut while covering his ear to protect herself from being deaf, as watching the entire massacre wasn't enough. 'Moon' was also covering his ears and yet he was unperturbed.

The scream ceased after a brief time, giving to Brutus, Rainbow and 'Moon' the time to see what happened. The undead Spitfire covered herself with her huge wings. Not to protect herself but to generate a devastating sound wave coming from the pony face's screaming mouth being attached to her wings. Spitfire opened her wings and scowled at him with all of her hate.

"I hope you are happy now," Spitfire said with venomous spite. "You killed my team! Did you had any idea what they represented to me!?"

"You and them were already dead after you got bitten," Brutus remarked. "You had become dangerous since the pestilence had corrupted your mind. To sum up, I can't let you live."

"D... Dangerous?" Spitfire looked at him with a insane face. "Heheheh. Hahahah. AHAHAHAH!"

"Are you finished?" Brutus said, being tired of her shenanigans.

"That will be you... Demon... Let me show you what a Wonderbolt is all about!!" Spitfire proclaimed as she flew in mid air and charged at full speed toward him like a lightning one second before disappearing.

Brutus shielded himself with his arms but was then struck by her attacks due to her disappearing and reappearing at a absurd speed. Spitfire was usually very faster, but in her monstrous form she flew so fast that she's sliced every part of his body with her claws and black spikes, making him bleed. Brutus wasn't able to see her but could perceive her movements. As Spitfire was reappearing, Brutus backhanded around, striking Spitfire in a lucky shot and propelling her away from him.

Spitfire regained her aerial balance and looked at him, more furious than before. But her anger was then replaced by shocked surprise upon seeing Brutus's right arm being turned into a bizarre sniper cannon, being already pointed at her. Brutus observed her face for a second and then smirked one second before shooting.

The bullet instantly got through Spitfire's lowest part of her chest, piercing through her body. Her blood gushed out very fast. She yelled in pain as she fell back, collapsing on the ground. With his arm returning to normal, Brutus then proceed to walk toward the now defenseless zombie Spitfire, who was weakly moaning in pain.

Having saw the whole scene, Rainbow Dash couldn't help but feel sorry for Spitfire and her warped mind. She lost her and her other friends. The ones she admired most. She wanted to think that there was another way, but it was too late. Then she glanced at Brutus. Despite the fact that he saved her life, Rainbow felt only anger for his methods and his actions.

Brutus approached the undead Spitfire, who looked at him with a dazed but resentful eyes. Ironically, as much resentful she intended to remain, guilt took over a piece of her as if part of her conscience managed to emerge from that twisted shell.

"I am... Dying?" Spitfire asked. "You are going to... Cancel the Wonderbolts from history in one blow for their sins, isn't it? By killing me?... Hehehe... I guess I really deserve it."

"You are wrong if you think that I gave you the coup the grace," Brutus said.

"What... Are you... Talking about?" Spitfire asked, confused.

"I shot a point with multiple arteries to incapacitate you " Brutus admitted. " I didn't had necessarily killed you."

"Wait... You are not... Killing me?" Spitfire demanded, fearing his intentions.

"You will not die." Brutus said, one second before grabbing Spitfire's head and lifted in the air.

"Wait! What are you doing!?" Spitfire screamed with her voice being covered by his hand.

Rainbow know what that means. "NO!"

"You will obey me!" Brutus announced as the black flame engulfed Spitfire's body. She screamed loudly and her body shook frantically, seized by the dark energy invading her. After a while, she stopped and became motionless. Brutus dropped her on the ground and waited for the obvious result.

The undead Spifire slowly rose up and looked at Brutus with a hollow expression, now wearing the same mark and having become another minion to be used by him, much to Rainbow Dash's horror.

After that, Brutus's body was suddenly engulfed in black flames for a moment before dissipating, with him having assumed the form of a normal and yet zombified four legged pony, with hooves and some exposed inside, wearing his pony size version of his cape.

"Good job, Brutus." 'Moon' greeted him. "That is how you should deliver a massacre. You have also another-"

"Don't... Say anything," Brutus interrupted him. "I'm not get used to command dead corpses. That goes also for the sentient ones."

"Remember, we made a pact," 'Moon' remarked. "Until you hadn't found the real cause of the pestilence and slaughtered the ones who killed you, you will never take your life back. Get it?"

"I know perfectly how that works." Brutus muttered rudely and then groaned. "So... Why we are after the Elements of Harmony, anyway?"

"Not even them couldn't cure the plague," 'Moon' explained. "But they could lead you to the source of the problem and giving you some hint about the culprits."

"Wait... Are we talking about the ones who targeted the Holy Pillars?" Brutus demanded.

"That is something that we should discover after we get to Canterlot." 'Moon' said, almost grinning.

"And Rainbow Dash?" Brutus inquired.

"She was the reason why we are here, but I doubt that she will collaborate after she saw you doing this." 'Moon' reminded that.

Unable to tell what happened and having saw her friends falling one by one like that, Rainbow slowly approached them with fury in her eyes, eager to get some answers from them.

"Collaborate you said?" Rainbow demanded, getting their attention.

"I'm not expecting anything from you, lady." Brutus replied calmly.

"SHUT UP!" Rainbow screamed. "I.. I.. I saw what happened to Spitfire and the others! And I saw them falling into the madness! And yes, I know that they had to be stopped! BUT NOT IN THIS WAY!!"

"You didn't expected me to let them live, aren't you?" Brutus demanded, slightly annoyed.

"I expected you at least to put a end to their suffering!" Rainbow said, angrily. "But crushing them like this is just unforgivable!"

Brutus grinned. "Unforgivable?"

Rainbow froze up in shock. "What?"

"Do you even think I like this job?" Brutus retorted calmly. "I got my own normal life stolen and desecrated repeatedly. I died multiple times. I have my own vengeance to carry out against my assassins who are probably the cause of this chaos. Dear mare... I have not time for morality."

"What the buck are you?" Rainbow demanded with inquisitive tone.

"Let me answer that for you." 'Moon' said while approaching Rainbow with a grim intent..

"What are you doing?" Rainbow exclaimed one second before 'Moon' put his hoof on her bandaged head.

Rainbow screamed in pain as head was suddenly filled with memories from another world, another life and another era. She doesn't know what is going on due to the flux being so rushed. Then the memory river adjusted itself and she understood as his voice spoke in her mind.

"Let me tell you about his current life, previous life and role that linked him to the brutal legends being none other than the Undead Knights!"