Okay, where do I start? I guess I'll start with where I am and who I am. I was sitting on the top of a tall building about 7 or 9 stories tall. I'm Ezekiel, I am a young man about in my young adult years with dirty brown hair, green eyes, skin with a slight tan to it, and a slim lean build. I wore a black hoodie with white sleeves, light blue denim jeans, a dirty green beanie, a denim vest, dirty sneakers, and a red flannel shirt. I'd give you my last name, but I was kicked out of my family when I was fifteen so I don't have a last name anymore.
As for a background, well, I dropped out of middle school at a young age, my parents got sick of my shit and kicked me both out of the family, after that I came to New York City to find something to do. And just my luck, guess who I run into, Alex Mercer, not just a killer, a monster, a terrorist, but he is THE killer, THE monster, and THE terrorist. I tried to run, I was pretty confident I could get away, I was pretty good at hiding and I was a fast runner. Guess how long that chase lasted. Exactly three minutes, forty-two seconds, and twenty-three milliseconds, on the dot according to Alex, half of which was just him treating it like a game of cat and mouse.
He then infected me with the Blicklite virus... I think that's right... Whatever. As for why he did it? Your guess is as good as mine! All he said when I asked was, "I'll find out when IT happens." I'm sorry guy, but that doesn't make a modicum of sense to me because it's so incredibly fucking vague! Now I just do whatever with these cool powers, sometimes I beat up some hobos for shelter, sometimes I steal food from people. And compared to the other ones Alex had made, I'm completely average. I didn't get any evolutions or cool powers like the others. Anyway, I'm done ranting, I'm hungry and there is food to be stolen!
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Ezekiel leaped off the building he was on and made a crater as he landed, then he took off at 300 mph. He started toward a Chick-fil-A as a man walked out of the restaurant with a bag of food in hand. Ezekiel then zoomed by and snatched the bag away from the man, yelling back, "Thanks for the food!!" Ezekiel then stopped to look at his pickings, but there was dismay in his voice as he listed them off one by one, "Hash Brown Scramble Burrito, nobody ever gets this from a Chick-fil-A unless they wanna put on pounds and feel like they ate a whole turkey. Chick-n-Strips Kid's Meal, why would an adult ever get this, they're not even hot and the juice box is leaking. Waffle Fries, your better off ordering another meal instead of these. Avocado Lime Ranch Dressing, this condiment that has more fat than Chick-fil-A's Grilled Chicken Club sandwich. And Fresh-Squeezed Lemonade, this is just pure sugar water with lemon shoehorned in. God, this stuff is so unhealthy even I wouldn't order this, and I sometimes eat people!" Ezekiel tossed the bag into a pit.
He then heard a child voice scream, "FOOD!!!" Ezekiel looked to see a literal horde of kids tearing each other apart for the bag Ezekiel just discarded.
As Ezekiel watched, he stated, "They're not even going for the food anymore their just eating each other." Ezekiel then walked off into an empty alleyway. Then suddenly in a flash of golden light, Ezekiel had vanished from sight, and watching from above was Alex Mercer, he was holding a newspaper.
He gave a sinister grin and chuckled, "And like that, the pieces are falling into place." Alex then disappeared into the city, leaving the newspaper, it said [the disappearance of nearly one and a half million young adults and teenagers has left authorities baffled!!]. The next thing that was heard was someone screaming before being swiftly silenced.
Ezekiel opened his eyes to see he was in what looked like a concrete octagonal fighting pit, with him were other teens and young adults. "Did I get taken into a fight club?" Ezekiel asked. He spotted a glass window far above the pit, looking down, couldn't see much past the window.
Suddenly a voice came from an intercom, "Congratulations, humans! You've been selected to partake in the Conversion Project. Commencing Conversion Potion Ponytype Z-45 Test." Then before any one of them could react, a technicolor liquid was sprayed from the sprinklers. It felt like acid to the skin, Ezekiel couldn't see what was happening as his eyes were closed from a drop getting in them.
But as the liquid fell, the other people started turning into literal ponies. Some had wings growing out of their sides or barrels and others had horns coming out of their foreheads. Yet, for Ezekiel, he wasn't changing, he was just trying to get the fluid out of his eyes. "Ugh... What is this? An LSD bukake?" Ezekiel shouted to no one.
Then the ponified people suddenly began growing fleshy growths with the rest of their body being ripped and torn as their skin and muscles were stretched beyond their limits. Some had their legs snap underneath them due to their disproportionate weight and the muscle being ripped around their legs, while others just grew tumors in their legs from their bones. Then the voice came back on the intercom, "Another failed batch, alright get ready to trap and ship these freaks of nature."
Ezekiel rubbed his eyes as he got the last of the fluid out of his eyes. "Finally, I can see again. So what is this supposed to-" He stopped when he saw the mutated remains of the ponified people shambling toward him like zombies. "So I've either been drugged or this is real... Oh well in for a penny," Ezekiel shrugged before pulling out a plastic bag of white powder and inhaling the entire thing in one go.
"FFFFFFFFFFFFUCK YEAH!!!" Ezekiel roared with bloodshot eyes with dilated pupils before quickly rushing forward to slam his fists down on one of the zombie's heads, stunning them. He then grabs them by the midsection, leaps into the air, and powerbombs them into the ground with tremendous force, smashing their ribcage. As well as, blowing the other zombies away with the force of the attack, before absorbing his zombified victim into his body. "Ah, that was filling, somewhat, good thing I can't taste anything from doing that cause that would've just been gross," Ezekiel said to himself before continuing with his murder spree.
Then the sound of a spit take came from the intercom "WHAT THE HAY!?!? Guards! There is a human that wasn't affected by the potion and he's Eating the other subjects! Get him!!!" Ezekiel didn't know where a door was as he couldn't see one, so he assumed it was a hidden door. He waited for when the sound of something unlocking, and bolted toward the direction of the noise, only seeing a wall ahead. But Ezekiel continued to run forward before quickly finding that the wall was an illusion and behind that fake wall, was a metal door about to be opened.
Ezekiel then proceeded to front kick the door, breaking it open like a case of TNT blew it open and off the hinges. On the other side of the door, was an army of ponies wearing armor designed like that of a spartan's. They were holding different forms of guns. The normal ponies had what looked like human world weapons like muskets and blunderbusses, they also had mechanical arms holding the weapons.
The pegasus ponies just had clouds in jars attached to different types of rifle stocks, some like shotguns, others were like an assault rifle, and a few looked like a Telsa sniper rifle, they had the same method of carrying their weapons as the normal ponies but modified to not get in the way of their wings. And the unicorns had weird metal guns that had runes carved in them, some looked like shotguns with red runes, some looked like assault rifles with blue runes, and others looked like pistols with green runes, unlike the others, their horns were covered in an aura that also covered the weapon at their side.
Ezekiel also noticed a red smear on the floor, most likely from a pony that was behind the door when he kicked it. One of the ponies yelled out, "Get on your knees!!"
Ezekiel replied, "I'm not your mother last night!"
.... And they took exception to that. Guns opened fire on Ezekiel, The normal ponies' guns somehow firing more than one bullet at a time. The pegasi's shotguns fired jagged chunks of ice, the assault rifles firing sharp icicle spikes, while the sniper rifles fired lightning bolts. The unicorn's guns fired different energy blasts based on the color of the runes, red shot fiery blasts, blue shot out water at extreme pressure, and green shot out a stone spike. Ezekiel was turned into a black and red paste.
One of the ponies then stated, "Guys, I, uh, don't want to jinx it... but I think we got him-" A tendril shoots out and grabs the pony mid-sentence. he screams as it throws him around, slamming him on the ceiling and floor. "AAAHHH!!! SHOOT IT!!! SHOOT IT!!! SHOOT THIS FUCKING THING!!!" A few more tendrils shoot out to grab the corpse of the pony that was killed by the door and the leftovers of the ponified abominations. The other ponies shot at the tendril holding the alive pony, only to end up shooting and killing the pony it was holding. The tendril then pulled the corpses into the center mass of Ezekiel's remains, where they were absorbed into his body.
Then Ezekiel began to reform and when he was done, he popped his neck and asked, "So boys, tell me, how's your health plan?" The ponies then screamed and opened fire again on the human. "APPARENTLY, IT'S GREAT!!!" Ezekiel shouted before he started to duck and dodge the weapon fire. Proceeding to rip and tear through the ponies with his bare hands. Try as they might, the ponies couldn't get a good fix on the Blacklight carrier as he was bobbing and weaving through the group of ponies so any missed shot would hit a pony as a result.
In another room of the building, two ponies were watching what seemed like cameras that used magic rune signs. One was a pegasus in a scientist outfit. The other was another unicorn with a grey coat, blonde mane and tail, and green eyes. He had on armor like the other ponies but his armor had more of a higher rank look to it, he also had a picture on his flank, it was of a sword going through the center of a star-spangled vortex.
The pegasus was scrambling through notes about human biology as he looked back and forth from the table to the camera, "Th-this doesn't make any sense! We've studied hundreds of humans but none of them has done this!! Commander Showdown, we have to alert the princesses! Use the Telecoms already!" The pegasus panicked as he picked up random papers, some were just blank sheets too.
Showdown watched Ezekiel as he tore through the area, he then explained, "No point, Professor Beaker. he's already found the Coms room, and he's using the spine of a pony to destroy it. How he found it, either he's learning things from the ponies he's eating or he's just a lucky guesser," As Ezekiel proceeded to do just that.
"Why didn't you use it before this like when I alerted the guards!?" Beaker questioned.
"Do you remember Conversation Potion Ponytype Testing Site-X or CPPTS-X? It had one of the first successful conversion potion results on a human, as they did it one at a time, instead of our group test. That human then proceeded to escape the confines of his containment before we could find out how the potion was able to change him into a pony perfectly. Do you recall what Celestia did in response?" Showdown asked.
"Sh-she used meteo-"
Showdown proceeded to interrupt Beaker, "She used Meteor! A spell that warps space-time, causing an enormous meteor to fall on the chosen location. It killed everypony except that human because it had gotten away long before because the site, like this one, was designed to alert anypony within that a dangerous spell was heading their way. Those ponies died for nothing and no pony knows what the human that escaped even looks like since the ones that did were killed. This human will just do the same thing, so here's the plan, I'll keep him distracted."
Showdown proceeded to take a rune slate out of a port similar to a VHS tape being taking out. "Take this recording rune slate to Celestia, let her know about it. That she can plan how to trap and kill this... Thing."
Beaker, fearful, still nodded. The two used a window to get outside, Beaker flew off into the air as Ezekiel came out of the building. "Okay, the coke is wearing off. Who are you?"
"I am the only master of the Mana Blade Style!" Showdown stated with his chest puffed out before a sword materialized from nothing. "I've slain a thousand changelings, fought off a dragon, and held my own against an Ursa Major. I've worked my way up to the upper ranks for the Royal Gaurd. I've been the executioner for several of your species' people"
"Are ya done working your own shaft over there?" Ezekiel brazenly asked.
"Ex-...cuse you?" Showdown asked, confused by the moment having been suddenly ruined just like that.
Ezekiel quickly replied, "Oh I'm sorry, I, heh, I was just wondering when you were done sucking your own dick!"
"Perhaps I should just skip to my point. My name is Showdown."
"And I'm Carmen Sandiego. Guess where I am!" Ezekiel joked.
"I'm trying to have a serious conversation with you here." Showdown sighed, realizing what he got himself into.
Ezekiel replied, "Oh, so am I. And I'm failing. And I'm sorry for that. It's just that I'm so agitated, cause I'm coming down from this major drug trip and I've got a splitting headache from it! I haven't had anything to eat and be able to taste it! I've got this aching pain in my eyes from some little shit stain spraying me in the face with some kinda potion! And now there's this annoying little homo trying to impress me like I'm his alcoholic and disappointed father!"
Showdown suddenly teleported in front of Ezekiel with a look of rage on his muzzle. "Be a sport and grab Daddy another beer, would you?" Ezekiel taunted, where Showdown proceeded to slice at his neck.
With Beaker, the Pegasus was wheezing over a rock, "I... Need to... Work out more..." Beaker suddenly hears the sound of a gun click. He turned only to have the upper part of his head blown off by a pony wearing a hoodie and pants.
"Damn scientists... So friend, where are you from? Conversation Potion Ponytype Testing Site-Z, huh? Wonder if there are any like me there... What's this?" The mysterious pony then picked up the recording runic stone. "A recording runic stone, wonder what's on it." The mysterious pony sat down as he pressed play on the recording.
Magical Evolution; The Elements of Resistance
Ezekiel ducks down and speeds towards Showdown. Suddenly, Showdown finds Ezekiel right in front of him, preparing an attack. Showdown swings his sword to block Ezekiel's hand, then prepares to strike. He swings his sword thrice, but Ezekiel blocks via grabbing the hilt of the blade. "Gotcha bitch!" Ezekiel shouted.
Ezekiel attempts a punch to Showdown's head, but Showdown blocks it with his sword. Ezekiel then dashes by Showdown, ending up behind him. He backhands Showdown in the back of the head, causing him to flinch and stumble. Showdown turns around to face Ezekiel before swinging his sword again. Ezekiel dodges the blade in seemingly instantaneous movements before attempting to punch Showdown again. However, Showdown ducks underneath the punch and pushes Ezekiel away with telekinesis. Ezekiel slides across the ground before coming to a halt.
Ezekiel then rushes to Showdown again. This time, Showdown anticipates it and swings his sword to block Ezekiel's attack again. However, Ezekiel gets behind him again and punches him in the back of the head. The force of the blow dents the ponies’ helmet as well as sends him back across the ground. Showdown gets back on his hooves. "Come on, rent-a-cop, show me ya moves!" Ezekiel taunted.
Ezekiel then runs towards Showdown in an attempt to end the match right then and there, but before he can pierce Showdown's suit, the pony commander uses telekinesis to push Ezekiel away. Ezekiel backflips while in the air and lands back on the ground cleanly. Showdown then walks up to Ezekiel, sword drawn. Ezekiel draws his arm and prepares to deliver a swipe to Showdown's helmet, but Showdown blocks with his own arm, withdrawing from recoil, and holding Ezekiel up off the ground with magic. Ezekiel begins to struggle against the ponies' grip. "Surrender, you stand no chance of victory! Ever since the betrayal of Princess Twilight, we've exceeded past the pathetic Royal Guard and have become the Royal Army, I'd be so bold as to say I could take the Elements of Harmony single hooved!" Showdown shouted. Ezekiel flinched from the sheer volume of Showdown's voice.
"Dude, I am two feet away from you and nobody is around, there is no need to shout whatsoever. Also, your incapable of killing me," Ezekiel replied, he then had an idea. Ezekiel began to inhale VERY deeply, Showdown stared in confusion, until Ezekiel closed his mouth tightly before letting out a thundering, earsplitting, and ground shaking scream. Showdown's irises glaze over his pupils as his eardrums popped like blood-filled water balloons. Showdown stumbled back and bellowed in pain as his ears bled. His telekinetic grip on Ezekiel disappeared at the same time.
Ezekiel bashes Showdown three times, burying them into the ground. He then kicks their head twice. The first one breaks Shadown's lower muzzle, and the second one launches Showdown's head off like a football. "Fatality! Ezekiel wins!" Ezekiel announced to no one. Ezekiel looked at Showdown's corpse and grabbed it with his hands,
Ezekiel stopped smiling as the Blacklight virus reacted differently to Showdown's body than it did with the others. First off it started playing an important memory from Showdown's mind, mainly the thing about the Elements of Harmony he mentioned before he was killed.
It was of Beaker and Showdown getting ready to perform another potion test. Beaker looked at Showdown and asked, "Hey, Showdown, do you know what happened to the Mane 6? I ask because the guards were telling rumors about what happened to them."
Showdown answered blankly, "Princess Twilight didn't see eye to eye with the Princess Sisters' goal of converting the humans into ponies. In fact, she and the rest of the Mane 6 were against this, even going so far as to declare war, if you believe the princesses say. But on the day of the battle, all 6 of the Mane 6 had vanished, no trace of them. No magic hiding them from plain sight, as if they had gone up in smoke. As for what happened then, two theories circle, one being forced upon ponies to forget the other."
"What are they?" Beaker asked as he readied a new potion.
"The first and forced on theory is that Twilight had used a spell to teleport herself and the Mane 6 somewhere the Princess Sisters could never reach. As for the other..." Showdown let out a deep sigh, "They're working with the human that escaped CPPTS-X to stop the princess sisters, but this has yet to be proven. Yet, so has the former."
Ezekiel came back from the flashback. Then the second reaction to Showdown's corpse came, the Blacklight's tendrils flowed through and over his body, stopping at his hand. Ezekiel's hand then glowed a mystical aura before a demonic red katana made of spiny red and black tendrils wrapped around a red blade of energy in the middle.
Ezekiel inspected the blade before he started to twirl his new sword around. He then quickly slashing in front of himself 4 times before he slashed down with both hands. This was followed by him swinging the sword in an upward rising motion, then Ezekiel threw the sword and it came back like a boomerang. Ezekiel then summoned what looked to be a blunt sword made of the same energy as the sword's center. Ezekiel then began spinning it around like a twirling baton. He then let loose a flurry of blows with the blunt sword and ended with a cleaving blow with the actual blade. Ezekiel finished his show by slashing at the area before him with tremendous speed, cleaving the air itself and leaving an afterimage behind. "I am totally going to fuck around with this thing! Probably cut my own arm off doing so!" Ezekiel said with a bit of glee in his voice.
"Hot damn, that was a Commander of the Royal Army, I would want to fuck with you right now." Stated something behind Ezekiel. He turned around and grabbed the neck of the pony that killed Beaker. They were a pegasus with a blond main and tail, a light brown coat and wings, and a picture of a burning star. He wore a red baseball cap and a red sweater vest. He quickly sputtered out as Ezekiel held up his new sword to his throat, "Woah! Woah! Woah! I'm on your side! I'm a human!"
Ezekiel recalled something about a human in Equestria that escaped captivity, but he didn't know what this human turned pony looked like, "How do I know you're not just lying to me?!"
"You're from New York as well so... The number 1 of the New York Yankees was Billy Martin."
"I don't know sports!" Ezekiel retorted.
"The top three pizza toppings are pepperoni, sausage, and mushrooms."
"Everyone knows that!"
".... Get outta here." The pony replied with a New Yorker accent.
"Okay," Ezekiel replied before dropping the pony.
He rubbed his neck and replied, "Well, that's one way to greet somepony. I'm Terry, I'm from New York too. Gotta say it's great to see some of my own species that isn't a zombified pony! And a Blacklight Virus carrier no less!"
"Ezekiel. Can you really call me of the same species? Since your a pony and all." Ezekiel replied before realizing what Terry just mentioned. "Wait, what?"
"Yeah, you got a point there. And yes, I know what you're infected with, I was around during the first outbreak of it and saw Alex Mercer in action. Even watch. Can't believe he infected others, makes me wish I didn't get teleported here even more." Terry explained. He then pulled out a rune stone and continued, "But enough of that, I need to get you to to the others! This will take us there via teleportation, just need to ready it."
"Okay, but what about them?" Ezekiel asked, pointing to an approaching army of Royal Army ponies.
"Oh, crap... U-uh... Good thing Twilight made these quick to turn on!" Terry exclaimed before opening a portal with the rune. Ezekiel let out a quick laugh from the slight innuendo Terry made. Terry and Ezekiel jumped into the portal as the Royal Army closed in.
"After them!" One of the ponies yelled, then a jar with an odd cork and what looked like a cartoonish hurricane inside. Upon sight of it the Royal Army ponies quickly ran in the other direction, "It's a Hurrinade!! Get back! Get back!" One of the ponies yelled. Then the cork popped off and the jar exploded into a massive hurricane, destroying the rune along with the surrounding area. As the soldier ponies recovered, one of them stated with a hint of dread in his voice, "Oh, the princesses aren't going to be happy about this..."
Terry and Ezekiel landed on a wide-open rocky mountainside. The portal closed behind them and Ezekiel asked, "Why are we here? It's a cliffside in the middle of- Where'd you go?" Ezekiel took a quick look around to find Terry was no longer around.
Then Terry's hoof popped out of the rock wall, waving him to come forward before pulling back into in. Ezekiel walked in to see the wall was fake, and there was a small gathering of about 8 scrap houses with another scrap building in the center. "You know, out of everything that's happened to me today, I'd say this is the second strangest thing that's happened so far in my life."
"What was the first?" Terry asked.
"Trying to use weed, coke, meth, and booze at the same time. I woke up on top of the empire state building in the nude. This was before I became a Blacklight Carrier." Ezekiel explained. Then Ezekiel spotted 7 ponies and a lizard walking toward them.
An Alicorn mare with a dark purple mane and tail with a pink stripe, a lavender coat, horn, and wings, and a tattoo of a 6 pointed star with smaller white stars on her flank.
A normal pony mare with a long sandy blonde mane and tail, an orange coat, and a tattoo of 3 apples on her flank.
A Unicorn mare with an elegant deep purple mane and tail, a snow-white coat and horn, and a tattoo of 3 diamonds on her flank.
A Pegasus mare with a short rainbow mane and tail, a cyan coat and wings, and a tattoo of a cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt on her flank.
A normal pony mare with a curly deep pink mane and tail, a pink coat, and a tattoo of a blue balloon and two yellow balloons on her flank.
A Pegasus mare with a light pink mane and tail, a butter yellow coat, and a tattoo of 3 pink butterflies on her flank.
A unicorn with a lilac coat, dark blue eyes, purple with light green lining mane, and a tattoo of a purple and white star with two blue glimmering streams.
And the lizard was purple with green scales on his back and a round belly.
Ezekiel drew his sword and held it above his shoulder. "So they with you or I'm about it have something to eat?"
The rainbow-haired one retorted, "Try it creep, see what happens!"
Terry quickly butted in, "Rainbow, this guy killed an entire Conversion Potion Site's worth of Royal Army ponies and a Commander. He's basically an immortal superhuman and that sword is a magical by-product of what happens when you mix a living calamity virus with magic from a commander's corpse. Shut your mouth, before you get in trouble and get killed." Rainbow grumbled before backing down as the others stared with awe and shock, Terry then continued, "Girls and boy, this is Ezekiel. Ezekiel this is Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Starlight Glimmer, and Spike the dragon."
"Greetings! We're the Elements of Resistance, there are more of us but for now, you need to be filled in on the situation," Twilight states.
"Just looking at makes me think I'm going to hear a bunch of words I've never heard of and will immediately forget," Ezekiel replied with a blank stare.
"Dang, you too?" Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Terry replied.
The group of ponies and one Blacklight carrier walked toward the center building, as they did Terry asked Ezekiel, "You know, for someone trapped in a world that basically wants you dead or pony. You're very calm. How?"
"Two things, I'm naturally nonchalant, I'm not going to freak out over most, if any, situation. I'll just accept it and move on. Second..." Ezekiel took a bag of pot from his jacket. "Weed."
"You humans are so weird," Starlight stated.
"Damn right," Ezekiel and Terry replied as they entered the center building.
'I feel like I forgot something important... Well if it was that important I wouldn't have forgotten it.' Terry thought.
Elsewhere, in a massive castle on a mountainside, a roar of pure rage echoed through the structure followed by an explosion. Two ponies ran into the main hall and came out with a charred corpse of a guard pony. "Somepony find that fucking human, kill it, and make sure it's dead this time!" Screamed an alicorn with magenta eyes, a four-colored mane, those colors being a light deep blue, a light turquoise, a very light cobalt blue, and a pale pink, and a white coat, wearing gold jewelry and shoes. She had a hoof standing on the broken remains of the recording rune from CPPTS-Z. She rubbed her temples as a headache set in, "And get me a ginger ale and an aspirin..."
Another alicorn with cyan eyes, a sapphire blue mane with grayish Persian blue, and a dark blue coat, with silver shoes and black metal jewelry. Walked up to her and reassured her, "Sister you mustn't get so heated. This human stands no chance. The human race shall accept our conversion, once we complete it,"
"Yes... Yes... But as of right now, our priority is finding those two humans, one is a major threat to all ponies, and the other bears the perfect conversion potion. Where is my aspirin!" The mare roared.
