The night was cold and quiet for Steve and Zachary. The only sounds that could be heard were the generator that they’ve barely started working on, along with Zachary’s heavy breathing and grunts of pain. Steve had forgotten about his injury due to the shock and the adrenaline from the situation earlier.

“Oh crap! I’m sorry, I completely forgot that you were injured!” He said, feeling stupid for forgetting like that. “Here, let me heal you…” He and Zachary got off the gen, and Steve did the best he could to heal the wound without any medkit. After he was done, the pain was still present, but at least Steve covered it with a piece of cloth he "apparently" found somewhere to stop the bleeding. Zachary wasn’t sure if he believed that, but he went along with it anyways.

“Thank you,” Zachary said. “I hope we can make it out of here… I didn’t even hear my heartbeat, even though he was like right there…” He sighed with confusion, as he started working on the gen again.

“Yeah, that killer is what we call Ghostface,” Steve started to explain. “When he stalks us, we can’t hear our heartbeat, and if he stalks us long enough, we become weaker, so he can hit us with one stab and we go down instantly.” Zachary shuddered at the thought, as he looked over at Steve and his weird choice of clothing.

“Why are you wearing that…?” He questioned, and Steve let out a chuckle.

“Well, I used to work at an Ice Cream Parlor, called Scoops Ahoy and this was the work uniform they made me wear,” He replied. “I didn’t come here wearing this though, because, for some reason, whatever the thing that brought us here lets us choose what we want to wear…” Zachary could tell, taking a closer look at his outfit, he has an ice cream scooper on his belt, and on his short sleeves was an image of an ice cream cone.

“Rarity would love to choose her fashion if she was here…” He accidentally let that slip out and quickly tried to cover his mouth, as if it would erase what he said.

“Whose Rarity?” Steve asked with interest. “I also never heard of anyone named like that…” Zachary wasn’t sure if he could tell Steve, he’d probably make fun of him or something since he would be telling him that he lived with magical talking ponies.

“I don’t think you’d believe me if I told you…” Zachary said, which made Steve frown a little.

“Believe me when I say that I’m open to believing anything at this point,” He replied with a grunt, as he finally pushed a part in place. “I had to fight a monster from another dimension, and another giant one destroyed the place where I worked, so I think what you say, I’ll be able to believe.” Zachary let out a sigh, something he seemed to do too often before decided to tell Steve the truth.

“Well, I live in a world with magical talking ponies…” Zachary replied, causing Steve to stop working and look over at Zachary with confusion.

“Wait, what?” He questioned as Zachary continued.

“Yeah, I used to live in a world with humans, but then one day, I was just brought to another world, that has cartoony like ponies that are magical.” Steve just stood there in silence, unsure of what to think.

“Well… Since we were all put into a different world against our will, I guess I could believe that…” Steve replied, as the generator finally popped, indicating that it was finally done. “Okay, let’s go and work on another one.” Zachary nodded, as they both started to wander the area, looking for the other survivors, whilst trying to find another gen as well.

Another generator popped, and as that happened, a loud yelp of pain could be heard, followed by a terrifying scream of pain. Steve knew what had happened, and started going in the direction of the scream.

“I gotta go save Nea,” Steve looked back and told Zachary. “I’ll try to be quick, please find another gen to work on or something.” He didn’t argue with Steve, as he ran off. Zachary looked around and did what Steve told him. He found the next generator before long and began to repair it. As he was doing this, he heard footsteps approach him. He felt his tension rise as he wasn’t sure if it was the killer using his power, or Steve returning, even though it didn’t look like Nea was unhooked yet, or it could have been someone else.

Suddenly, he heard parts from another side of the generator is fixed. He looked over and saw another man, leaning down and repairing the broken parts. He had brown eyes, with moderately short hair. He wore a Harrington jacket, its sleeves going above his elbows. He had straight keks, and he seemed to be pretty buffed.

"Um... Who are you...?" Zachary asked awkwardly. The man finally paid some attention to him, turning his focus to Zachary for the moment instead of the generator.

"You can call me David," He replied, with a heavy English accent. "What about you mate?" The sounds of another generator could be heard going off, as Zachary replied.

"I'm Zachary... I'm kinda new..." He replied as the generator was closer to being completed.

"I can tell, haven't seen ya here before," He replied, as the sound of the generator popping rang through the air. "Aight, that's four down, we just need one more-" He silenced himself once he heard someone walking near them. They were in a small maze of walls, so they couldn't tell where or who was making those footsteps. David went closer to the noise, looking as if he was ready for a fight, but before he could do anything, Steve popped into view, which made both of them jump a little.

"Jesus Steve, ya scared the hell outta me!" David said as they both started calming down.

"Sorry, but hey, I see that you've met the new guy," Steve replied, and David nodded.

"Ya, we did the generator here, where's Nea?" He asked, wanting to make sure everyone was going to make it out of there alive.

"Oh, after I unhooked her, she said she'd prefer to heal herself with a medkit, then she went to go finish the gen she was working on," Steve said as David chuckled.

"Ah Steve, ya always got away with the ladies," He replied. "But hey, at least she's-" He suddenly cut himself off, as he started to groan. He put his hand over his forehead, and both Steve and Zachary knew what this meant.

"Watch out!" Zachary shouted, but by then it was too late. Ghostface vaulted a window, running right at David, plunging his knife into his chest, causing a scream of agonizing pain. He took the knife out, as David feel to the floor in a puddle of his blood.

"Run!" Steve shouted, and Zachary didn't even think twice. He blindly ran the other direction, not paying any sort of attention to where he was going. All he knew at that moment was that he had to get away.

Rainbow Dash sighed, as she sat in her room. She was trying to read a Daring Do novel, but she couldn't take her mind off of Zachary. SHe couldn't stop thinking about whether he was even still alive or not. That jacket they found had so much blood on it, but there was no way it could be his, right?

Sigh "Hopefully we can find him... but what if we don't...?" She said to herself. Rainbow wasn't the type of pony to act like this. Normally, she'd be energetic, hopeful, and most important, optimistic. Now, however, she just kinda felt empty. "C'mon Rainbow, get ahold of yourself. This isn't you... You're the one who never gives up, who's loyal. You can't just sit here like this!"

She got up from her cloud bed, with a newfound determination. "Heh, didn't take me that long to get out of my little depression," She quickly flew out of her house and went to the last place Zachary had been seen. The bridge. It didn't take her that long to arrive, and once she did, she saw that a few construction ponies were rebuilding the part that broke off.

Rainbow landed softly onto the ground, as she looked around. She didn't see any new clues, nor did she notice anything different from the last time they investigated there. "Hmmm, there has to be something-" She cut herself, as she felt a sudden pain in her head.

"Argghhhh....." She groaned, her vision going black. What's going on...? She couldn't help but wonder, as her vision returned to her slowly. However, she wasn't in the same place as before. This time, she appeared to be at some sort of farm, with a large cornfield.

"Where am I..." She wondered as the loud sounds of footsteps were coming in her direction. She turned to the source of it and saw a man in blue running. "Hey, what's going-" She cut herself off, as the man seemed to run right through her as if she wasn't even there.

The man ran behind some hay, trying to catch his breath. "Dammit, I got to save David..." Rainbow approached him, with a confused expression.

"Excuse me... can you see me... or hear me...?" The man didn't reply, but he said something that instantly got her attention.

"I hope Zachary got away... I need to find him as well..." He got up and ran into the cornfield.

"Wait, do you know anything about Zachary?!" Rainbow called out but got no response. "Hey!" She started to go after the guy, but before she could catch up, her vision started going dark again.

"No no no no no no!" Before long, she once again couldn't see anything, but she did hear a familiar voice.

"Rai....ow...." It said as she groaned. Her sight returned, and she saw that there were ponies all around her, including Twilight and Spike.

"Ms, are you alright?" One of the construction workers asked. Rainbow just groaned in response, as she tried to get up.

"What happened...?" She asked, rubbing the side of her head.

"You were hit in the head with a rock..." Another one replied. "We don't know how it happened though..." Twilight came up to Rainbow.

"Are you alright?" She repeated the question. Rainbow was finally on her hooves, as she finally found some balance.

"Yeah," The pain in her head was finally fading. "I think I saw something when I was knocked out though." Twilight and Spike looked at each other, as everypony else left, or went back to work on the bridge.

"Was it of Zachary?" Twilight asked, and Rainbow shook her head.

"No, it was of some guy in blue, but he did say something about finding Zachary as well." Twilight started thinking about all of their visions and how they could all possibly be connected.

"Is there anything else you saw?" Rainbow shook her head.

"No," She replied. "The only weird thing was another human and the place they were at. It doesn't even look like it belongs in our world... It's really hard to explain..."

"I saw something too," Twilight said, which surprised Rainbow.

"Wait, seriously?!" Twilight nodded.

"Yeah, I saw Zachary, but he looked a lot older. Not only that, but he was at some sort of campfire in the woods with other humans, but that also didn't look like it was apart of our world."

"Yeah," Spike chimed in. "When I tried reading a book earlier, it showed me images of Zachary, and he was getting attacked by, I think it was a human, but he didn't look like a normal one. He hurt Zachary, but another one that was also wearing blue saved him." He stopped for a moment, before continuing.

"Even though what I saw was on paper, I could still tell that where they were at was different from our world. That one looked a lot scarier, and it definitely looks a lot more deadly. " They were all at a loss of words, not sure what to think about their current situation.

"Let's go see if any of our other friends have had weird visions," Twilight suggested. With no better ideas, they all nodded in agreement. The one closest to their position was Pinkie Pie, so they decided to go to her first. Hopefully, they would get more information.

Zachary had finally stopped his long-running, as he was desperately gasping for breath. He was starting to lose his composure after seeing what he saw.

This can't be happening this can't be happening this can't be happening! His mind was racing, as he panicked more and more. As he was holding his hands on the side of his head, crouched down. He suddenly felt a tap on his shoulder. He shot his head up, as he faced a girl.

"Hey, we aren't going against The Doctor, what are you doing?" She asked. She had a somewhat Sweedish accent, she was wearing a grey beanie. She had blue eyes, was white, wore a green sleeveless shirt, with skinny jeans.

"I-I'm sorry..." Nea sighed, holding out her hand.

"It's fine, I'm guessing this is your new?" She asked, and Zachary nodded. "Yeah, some of the stuff you see here can be... terrifying..." He grabbed her hand, as she helped him up to his feet. "I'm Nea, by the way,"

"Zachary," Nea nodded, pointing towards another direction.

"There's a generator over there, let's go finish it real quick." Zachary agreed as they both started heading towards the gen. As they got closer, the generator finally came into sight. It was in a little wall maze and hadn't been worked on yet, so they didn't waste any time and started immediately. They both got to work on the halfway done generator and since Nea had a toolbox with a brand new part, along with some other tools, the process went by faster.

As soon as it was about to pop, however, she stopped and looked over at something. Zachary noticed this and tried to look in her direction, and gasped. Ghostface was hiding behind a wall, just staring at them, but Nea was staring back. Suddenly, a Ghostface turned white for a second, then his red stain appeared, and the loud sound of his terror radius came in.

He got up from his position and bolted towards Nea, as she ran away. He didn't notice Zachary, due to how the generator was positioned and the side of it he was working on. Feeling like he had no other choice, he continued his work on the gen, as the last cylinder on it finally started moving.

POP

It was finally done and the exit gates were finally powered. Zachary sighed with relief, but he took a sudden sharp breath when he heard Nea cry out in pain.

Oh no, I have to save her! He thought to himself, as he heard Nea once again scream as she was placed onto a meathook. There was a boom, and in the distance, he could see what looked like giant bug-like or spider-like legs going up into the air.

Even though Zachary didn't see it happen, he could tell that she was gone. He felt a heavyweight on his chest as he felt like he could have done something to save her. He couldn't think about that now, he had to get the exit gates. As he turned around, he saw Steve running towards him, along with David.

"Zachary, there you are!" He said, finally catching up. "Where's Nea?" Zachary just stayed silent, not sure what to say, but he didn't need to say anything for them to understand. "C'mon, let's go get the exit gates opened..." His tone was sadder, as he felt that he failed to save his friend. They all started heading towards the nearest exit gate when suddenly the sound and the feeling of a faint heartbeat. The killer was coming.

"Shit!" They had to hurry. Zachary was the first one to reach the gate, as he started opening it. Steve and David were looking out for Ghostface, and it didn't take that long for him to show up.

"Get the gate open, I'll distract him!" David said, before going off to distract the killer. The first red light shined on the box when David went down.

"Wait, what?!" It was at that moment Steve realized that David had been injured and he once again forgot to heal his teammate. "Oh shit!" He ran up to the killer (Which David didn't manage to get him that far) Steve tried to stop Ghostface, but he shoved him away, as he got atop of David.

He raised his knife and brought it down, stabbing into Steve's back. He did this two more times, before pulling out a camera, lifting his head, and taking a picture.

"Wait, what?! I thought the killer had to hook survivors to kill them!" Zachary said as the last light of the power box came on, indicating that the gate was almost opened. Ghostface took the knife out of the cold corpse, as he rushed towards Zachary, raising his knife and bringing it down.

SSSTTTTTT

The loud sound of a knife piercing through the could be heard, as Zachary had his eyes closed, but he felt no pain. He turned around, and saw Steve behind him, with a knife in his chest, and Ghostface in front of him. The gate was finally opened, and Steve, with all the strength he had left, pushed the killer away, and grabbed Zachary's arm as they both made a run to escape. Ghostface tried to stab Steve again, but thanks to the interference of Zachary, he took the hit instead.

Sure, it was painful, but it ensured that both he and Steve would survive the trial. As they both finally escaped and were running towards the campfire, Steve looked over at Zachary.

"Thanks for the save," He said, and Zachary nodded.

"No problem, after all, you did the same for me," It didn't take long for both of them to reach the campfire, offering them a temporary solace from all the chaos.

"So... you're saying that Zachary might have gone to a different world?" Pinkie asked as she laid in her bed, not in her usually bouncy mood. Twilight, Rainbow, and Spike all went over to Sugarcube Corner to try and see if Pinkie had any visions of Zachary, but she didn't.

"Yeah, we believe that he might have been taken back to the human world," Twilight said. "But the only things we could connect about them are that the place Zachary might be in now is a lot scarier, has other humans, and possibly some sort of monster." Pinkie raised her head.

"What do you mean by monster?" Twilight just shrugged with a sigh in response.

"He's like this, really tall humanoid figure, with an abnormal face..."

"You mean like this?" Pinkie cut her off, as she held up a mask.

"Yes, exactly like that!" Spike said as he was the only one who saw the "Monster". "Wait, where did you get that?"

"They were selling this mask, along with a black robe one year for nightmare night, so I picked it up. Pinkie said, inspecting the mask. "I think the costume is called Ghostface or something like that."

"How did you know that was the one I was talking about?!" Spike asked, making Pinkie sigh.

"Well, I was looking through my closet this morning, and just found it under a pile of other stuff. When I picked it up, I saw something like a human wearing it, and he had some sort of knife as well..."

"Wait, so you did have a vision?!" Twilight asked, and Pinkie just nodded a little.

"Yeah, but it was only of this, not Zachary..." Twilight started thinking about this, wondering what was going on.

"Zachary must have been captured by something, something possibly wearing that mask?" She suggested, and everyone seemed to agree with that.

"Well, how do we get him back?" Rainbow asked, but Twilight didn't have an answer for that yet.

"I'm not sure... But there could be more humans in a similar situation. I mean, we've all seen them in our visions..." She started thinking about it and came up with the most logical solution she could think of.

"Come on everypony, let's go do some research."

Zachary was once again sitting at the campfire, trying to get warmed up with its heat. He heard Steve walking behind him, and when he looked up at him, he was in normal clothes instead of his work uniform.

"Feels good to be in normal clothes again," He sighed placing his foot on a log instead of sitting down.

"Shouldn't there be two more people here?" Steve nodded, rubbing his nose.

"Yeah, they'll show up eventually." Zachary nodded in response, as the sounds of footsteps could be heard in the forest. Suddenly, a figure came out of the woods. It was a black woman, who had brown eyes, wore glasses, had black hair. She wore a leather jacket, with a plain brown shirt, and blue skinny jeans.

"Who's this?" She asked as she joined them at the campfire.

"Claudette, this is Zachary, Zachary, this is Claudette." Steve introduced them. Zachary nodded and reached out a hand.

"Nice to meet you," He said, as he shook her hand. She smiled, before beginning to walk-off.

"I'm going to go get ready for the next trial since it's not the end of the day yet..." Zachary looked over at Steve.

"How can we tell when it's the end of the day?" He questioned.

"When everyone is at the same campfire, then we can all sleep, or chat until we begin the same thing all over again." Steve sighed, wishing they could all just get out of there. Zachary looked around, wondering where the fourth survivor was.

"I wonder where the fourth one is..." Suddenly, they heard a voice coming from the woods.

"Hey, is anyone out there?!" They shouted. The voice seemed familiar to Zachary, but he couldn't put his finger on it. Steve looked over at the direction of the cries.

"Hey! We're over here!" He shouted. It didn't seem to take long for the person to come and find them. Someone came running out of the woods, the light of the campfire shining on their faces. Zachary let out a large gasp, as he recognized the person that stood before them.

"Dad...?"

Author's Note

Boom. I hope this one satisfied all of you.