September 30th, 9:37am, apartment room 8H

Faint bits of light began to pour through the cracked windows and into the back of Thorax's head.

When Thorax felt the heat on his back, he immediately woke up.

"Morning...we'd better get going now. No time like the present." Thorax thought to himself.

But when he opened his eyes fully, he noticed that his face was close to Twilight's and their lips were really close to each other.

That made Thorax blush, and get up from the ground.

"Why am I blushing?!" Thorax mumbled angrily.

Then he heard Twilight quivering and mumbling some words, and she was sweating from her forehead.

Thorax assume that she is having a nightmare now, so he leaned down and poked her soft cheek, but she didn't respond.

Twilight's nightmare

Twilight was standing in the middle of a dark street, watching as a large black coated figure in the distance trudged slowly up the broken pavement road towards her. A crowd of horrible moaning zombies limped slowly behind it. The surrounding colours of the buildings were muddy and hazy to her eyes, completely unrecognizable. A fog seemed to hang over the approaching figures.

"Where in Equestria am I?"

She began to move, but she found that her hooves wouldn't respond. She tried again but she still couldn't run.

"Why can't I run?" Her mind screamed fearfully.

Twilight then felt herself panicking when she saw the Nemesis and the zombies coming to full view, but she saw a black stallion, with bright blue eyes, a dark horn and was wearing body armour, and the stallion was Thorax.

"Thorax!" She screamed, as the Nemesis extended it's tentacle at her, and once the tentacle got close to her, Twilight tried to run but it was no use, the Nemesis wrapped it's tentacle around her body.

Thorax looked at Twilight with an emotionless look and talked to her.

"There are a few friends here who wants to speak to you Twilight, they're not happy to say the least."

Then a pair of solid figures materialized out of thin air suddenly on either side of him.

Twilight gasped out as she recognized the two ponies. They were the stallion royal guards she had worked together with, and they were glaring at her.

"Smoke? Rocky?" She asked disbelievingly.

Smokey was the first to speak, he raised a single mangled hoof at her "Why didn't you save me Twilight?" His voice asked hauntingly. "If you just fired your magic instead of standing there like a sniveling little coward you are! You could have saved me!" He yelled.

"Smoke..." Said Twilight as she fell on the ground. His words struck her heart like arrows. "I'm... I'm so... sorry Smoke... I-I
tried... I was just-"

"And me, Twilight!" Rocky interrupted. His voice was much more scarier than Smoke's.

Twilight turned around slowly and looked at him with a scared face. He was bleeding from his head and mouth, then he pointed his mangled right hoof at her.

"You didn't even fired your magic when that thing grabbed me! You just stood there with your mouth wide opened! And let it kill me!"

"Rocky!" She pleaded, and guilt was pouring through her head.

"You never even tried! You killed us both! You killed us both! You killed us both!" They said repeatedly, and Twilight was on the floor crying in shame.

"No! No! Please... I'm sorry... I-I tried..."

"What's wrong Twilight? You don't have what it takes to survive? I thought you were smart and strong. But you are just a scared little baby. You are far too emotional to live."

"Thorax...please don't."

The Nemesis let out a loud roar and stabbed it tentacle through her head killing her.

End of nightmare

Twilight finally woke up from her nightmare, and she had a small get a rolling down her cheek from the past event that happened when she was with the two royal guards.

"Smoke... Rocky... I'm so sorry... please forgive me..." She thought sadly.

She then stood up slowly and looked in front of her, and she saw Thorax staring down at her with his gas mask in his right hoof.

"Oh...u-um... hi." She said slowly.

"Good morning Twilight. You were quivering since I woke up. I decided not to wake you up. Nightmares I presume?" Thorax asked neutrally.

Twilight then looked down on the floor sadly.

"Yeah... a really bad one... I don't want to talk about it."

He shrugged his shoulders dispassionately and stared off into the distance.

"I wasn't going to ask. What you choose to do with your lai. or what haunts your dreams, is your business." He replied mysteriously.

Before Twilight could reply to this, Thorax continued onwards as if nothing had been said.

"Anyways, we named to get out of here now, it's morning now." Thorax informed her "The sewer to the virus research facility isn't that far. And if we remain here much longer the Nemesis will surely find us. But i think it's still knocked out from the explosion."

"Agreed. I don't want that thing finding us either. We need to get some fresh water on our way. I hadn't had any in more then a day." She replied.

"There are plenty of restaurants near here. We can find some water in one of them." Thorax replied.

"I guess so. Let's go." As she stood up, her hoof was feeling better.

Then Thorax put on his gas mask and placed his dark metal helmet on his head.

"Right behind you Twilight."

"You know what? I think that gas mask looks cool. You changelings do know how to make such technologies."

"Yeah pretty much."

Then Twilight lead themselves to one of the restaurants.

Author's Note

Another chapter completed! Sorry if it was a bit too short. Didn't have that much plans for it, but the next chapter will be fun to read.