Twilight examined the pony standing before her with a horn leveled at her chest, she assumed the pony to be a stallion considering his suit and boots.

The stranger wore solid-colour grey fatigues, a full body suit from the looks of it. The figure wore a protective vest over it's midsection, twin tan coloured shoulder straps hung on the shoulders, and down to the numerous buckles, holsters and carrier's on the vests mid section.

A large knife sat in one of the holsters and there were two pocket knives in his carrier's, the figure was masculine by all appearances .

“He seems pretty muscular”Twilight thought to herself, looking at his covered hooves briefly.

Dark metal pads were strapped to the stallion's knee's he wore a pair of dark grey boots and a pair of dark gloves.

Her eye's traveled back up to the gas mask hiding the stallion's face from view. There were three breathing nozzles on the mask, a large one at the front mouth piece and two smaller one's on either sides, the eye pieces were tinted red so she couldn't see the ponies eye's behind them but they were undoubtedly watching her carefully, he also wore a dark grey helmet on top of his head.

"I asked you a question who are you ?"She demanded again.

The stallion tilted his head to the side slightly.

"I heard you the first time miss"He replied in a calm voice it was slightly muffled through the gas mask but Twilight heard him clearly"You tell me first"

Twilight paused for a moment her horn still aimed at him"My name is Twilight Sparkle I'm the princess of friendship and the leader of the elements of harmony"She replied.

Thorax smiled to himself slightly and said"Twilight Sparkle I see I've heard about you briefly from my employers you and your friends survived and defeated many villain's and bioweapons before and all of you survived this long which is impressive because survival against the odds is a skill I respect"

Twilight's eye's narrowed

"How in Equestria do you know about that ? Who are your employers ?"She demanded.

"That's classified princess Sparkle you may refer to me agent Thorax that's all you really need to know about me"He replied coldly.

"Thorax ? You don't seem much of a looker.. that's probably because why you're wearing that mask"said Twilight in an amused tone.

Thorax ignored this sarcastic remark and continued"I have a mission and you're in my way I highly recommend you lowering your horn and leaving"He informed her.

Twilight turned back to the main door across the hall being pounded on by the zombie's outside. Then she turned back to him.

“He's heavily armed..And he looks tough. I need all the help I can get.. even if he's a bit of a jerk like Rainbow Dash sometimes”Twilight thought to herself bitterly“But who is he ? An agent sent by Celestia ? My brother ?”

Twilight cleared her throat and said"Look... Thorax whatever your mission is we're both stuck in this infected city, we're in the same situation. As much as I don't trust you, I need your help... You have some sharp weapons on you and experience from the looks of it but you'll need my help too. I know my way fully around this city because I've been here a lot of times with my friends and family"

Thorax considered this briefly“Twilight could get in the way... but she's also skilled in magic and many other subject's like I was back in my foalhood. She may prove to be useful, also if I bring her along I'll still be able to keep an eye on her... if she ends up interfering with my mission I can simply kill her”

Thorax inclined his head and lowered and deactivated his horn"Alright I'll work with you"He replied simply.

Twilight lowered and deactivated her horn too and said"Alright we need some more supplies and then we should get to the roof and find a way out of here"She suggested.

"That's what I came down here for I was going to go to the station's armory. Since you've been here with your friend's you can lead us there"Thorax replied.

"Yes I can and after we escape the station we can even look for survivors and-"Twilight was cut off when Thorax raised his right gloved hoof.

"We'll just get out here we won't save any survivors"

Twilight's eye's widened"what why ? What do you mean ? If somepony else is out there alive we should save them !"Twilight insisted.

Thorax shook his head and said"No my mission has already been impeded. I will not compromise it further by going out of my way and saving helping anypony. The journey across this nightmarish city will be slow enough as it is. The only reason why I'm working with you is because you can keep up I wait for nopony. The mission must always come first. And we only have three days to get out of this city"

"What do you mean three days ? What's going to happen then ?"asked Twilight.

"If your strong enough to survive you'll find out once you've left the city if not you'll find out the unpleasant way"He replied simply.

Twilight glared at his mask and said"You don't call any shots with me Thorax. I don't even know who you are or what you do.. and you're not giving me any reason to trust you. I want to get out of here alive though, even if that means having to work with a jerk like you"

“Hmm strong mare but clearly emotional I can play with that easily”Thorax thought amused.

Thorax motioned to the shaking door across the hall"If you don't like my methods you're free to go back outside"he replied"I'm sure you'll find those things out there are less fair then I'm being"

Twilight continued to stare angrily at him after a few moments she forced herself to relax a bit“Who the heck does he think he is ?”

"Okay.. we'll do it your way.. Thorax"She replied bitterly.

“I'll need to keep an eye on this guy I may end up preferring the Nemesis out there to him”Twilight thought to herself.

"Excellent. Now that we've established that, lead the way"Thorax replied calmly.

Twilight nodded, walked past the desk and motioned to a metal door on their immediate right.

"The armory is this way tough guy I doubt there will be much weaponry though"She told him.

"Right behind you princess Sparkle"Thorax smirked, walking after her.

Author's Note

Another chapter done and I'll get the next one up as soon as possible.

Also that was one rough introduction they had there.