1. Marksaline the Necromorph Queen

The Ishimura, save Sunset Shimmer 3/?

Nightmare Moon with two small health items had healed enough to make up the front again with her improvised weapon
'The mighty Alicorn Skull'.

Meanwhile did the Fillys get back into the Filly sandwich of doom formation, while Fluffelpuff decided to walk on the ceiling. While it was slightly disorienting Sunset, she would cope.

Cadance made up the rear guard with her empty nail rifle.

Before they moved to far along, did Luna having nothing better to do as being levitated and being used as improvised stabbing weapon start a conversation with some points they really had to discuss:

"About the creatures that keep sucking up lethal damage like Celestia do stall- ... Cakes, as Celestia suck cakes in... What do we know about the mutated enemies?
What exactly are these definitivly undead creatures?"
Luna asked their group just as mutch the ever watching Chaos god.

Luna didn't expected a instant answer to her question, while the Herd walked into the hallway that was in front of them. But it had to be ask even as they keep their guards up.
Or in the Fillys case upside down...

Just in case the hord of enemies chasing them earlier managed to catch up to them.
Or more troublesome, more of them showed up and regroup with the already for them hunting pack.

Cadance with some uneasiness answered:
"I love to say that 'i have no idea', but the truth is i have somehow a idea. Its extreamly disturbing actually since technically if i am not mistaken half the royal family is made out of them..."

Discord very appropriately inserted a 'car crash soundtrack with a William scream' in it as Nightmare Moon come to a so abrupt hold that she face planted with her rump high in the air.

When Queen Nightmare Moon, former Queen of Equestria looked with a expression of horror and 'are you fucking with me right now' towards Cadance, she could do nothing but sheepishly smile and wiggle one of her hooves at her in greeting.

Breathlessly did Nightmare ask:
"Come again? I might have suffered a minor case of major brain failure, when i obviously mishear you saying basically that you and more than just you are actually these things, just not as ugly as the backside of a Draconequus is...!"

Discord wanted to take offense to this, but decided to wait until they forget about his little Elevator prank, that just horrendously when south...

"I have never seen these before tonight, but as far as my Aunty Celestia is speculating, did Marksaline turned her into a royal version of this things when she revived her after she had been murdered by a assassin."

Nightmare Moon hearing that her sister was murdered and turned into a undead left her week in the knees, so mutch so that she dropped Lunas head to the ground, Luna didn't even complain that she just was standing upside down with her horn inbeded into the ground.

Luna was that flabbergasted.

Cadance continued:

"I got murdered by Discord and than revived by Marksaline as well... Did you know that after you die as a Alicorn, that you just stopped to exist?
I wouldn't even know it, if Marksaline had not revived me and let me think about it...
We really have to talk about this in detail once this dream rescue adventure to save Sunset Shimmers mind is successfully over..."

Discord had a bad feeling about this. Unfortunately could he not just snap himself out of existance for tonight. Something told him he shouldn’t play harder pranks towards the Alicorns for at least three millenia, until they started to forget about his involvement in Cadance... Ascending...

Lunas upside down frown looked almost like a smile if one would invert everything besides her mouth, did Fluffelpuff wondered.

Marksaline perked up when they started to talk about her and her M♡mmys.
Now that she think about it, she could need one or two mommys more since Sun and Pink M♡mmy are so often distracted playing with their boring paper...

Eating their paper toys never worked, so it stand to reason that making more M♡mmys would fix her problem. They probably stop living eventually, she would make them her M♡mmys next!

Marksaline was smiling open mouthed.

Fluffelpuff had a pleasant chill running down her spine. Since she was so fluffy, did it only happend if her Sissy had a good idea that she would Iike herself or she accidentally closed herself in the icebox again when going for some ice cream raids.

Nightmare Moon and Luna used telepathy to exchange some heated words that basically was boiling down to: "Are we sure the Moon isn't safer if these things run around on Equus?"
And:
"Let us wait for Discord and Celestia to explain themself, before we decide to flee with the Moon for another sun system if Equus is full of those monstrous things..."

Cadance was nervous how Luna and Nightmare Moon did stare alternating between her and the Fillys.

So after about ten minutes of standing around did she told them they would talk about it if they are not in the middle of a with ventilator shaft infested corridor to be potencial ambushed.

Nightmare Moon agreed, Luna added that if they try to bite her, that she would bite them back.
Cadance just hoove palmed at that statement.

Also she swore not ever to mention that she could practically change her teeth from pony maulers to dragon like teeth within a minute.
Not until they eventually become 'Necromorphic Alicorn themself'.

Also it might not be a good idea to mention the thing about the ascending realm to soon...

They find it probably out on their own eventually...

Come on Girls, let us keep moving to a safer space and see if we can't find a place to make conversations with the only Draconequus that might provide us information on Necromorph Alicorns and this very ugly creatures. I actually didn't get all of it at the first time when i was a bit distracted about things like not having a Soul, stopping to existing if i ever die again and why pigs should be more available be breed in general if the hunger pangs strike them again..."

Discord just checked to be sure if he could not find another Draconequus to take 'the talk' off his shoulders. Unfortunately did the copy he snapped into existence for that purpose give him a deadpan look and snapped itself out of existance.
Sometimes it sucked to be the one knowing all the important stuff...

Nightmare nodded as their group came to a door, to their luck did they find on the other side a small medical gel pack that they used to bring Nightmares health indicator on her RIG to almost full. It was helpful to everyones moral that Nightmare wasn't occationaly grunting in pain anymore and she lost her heavy breathing.

Their herd then walked down the short ramp in front of them and found a crystal memory ball, which Discord explained was someone recording something for others to hear and see their experiences, they found out the information on the Crystal memory ball was that the undead creatures used the vents to get around the ship and the Griffon that made the recording warned them to stay away from the vents if possible.

That made Cadance a little more worried than she had been a few seconds ago, since she remembered that when they flee from the undead beings for the first time, that the vents one by one got explosively opend to add one attacker more to their hunting party for every vent to the enemy pack.
Once the memory crystal ball was done the herd opened the door to the transportation control room. The lights slowly and reluctantly at places powered on the moment they walked into the room.

The Herd watch around the room from the left to the right, where the controls were located as Luna stated to everypony what to look for.

As the Fillys watched as the metallic rod shields that were on the exterior and interior of the room pulled back to allow looking through and revealed that way the other side of the tracks that the transportation platform would move on.
Their adult companions had noticed three Discords on the oppositional side.
One was busy typing on console without holographic display, through others did seem to enjoy themself in the mean time.

One was dancing on a strange platform that was lighting up when stepped on and there was a ball that looked like Lunas armor over him blinking randomly by all kinds of colors.

The last Discord was netting strings out of nowhere and seem to make a endless Tapestry out of it...

Everpony was observing Discord for a few moment, they all relaxed before out of nowhere a image of the main Discord appeared in front of all with a suit on, Luna had to watch on to Nightmares illusion screen since the piece creating the illusion was not currently present with Luna...

Discord explain to them that they all had a communication device in their suit and he would show them how to use all their suits functions in the following minutes.
First he started with what he called what was displayed infront of them all with a suit.
This was a video connection, essentially allowing them to speak to one another despite the fact that they were in two separate locations at the moment.

While it had its occational problem was it still the best way they had to talk to one another, if they should be splitting up for any reason.

Next he showed them how to use the map function. It showed their position in real time.
If Luna was looking right her body was dragged somewhere after Nightmare had checked for her deceased body. Curious...

Than he checked with them all the inventory they had stored in hammerspace. He showed that eatch of them could carried throughout the adventure up to four different weapons on them.

Sunset had a magic cutter in her displayed icon.
Cadance had her empty shot Nails Rifle displayed.
Nightmare had a comical dead Luna head with crossed out eyes and her tongue laying limp to one side displayed as improvised disposable weapon...

After Luna remarking that this joke was in bad taste...
Did Discord finaly explained to them about the text and memory crystal log and the mission objects explanation.

They just ignored that his Discord copys in the background were doing very distracting things like the dancing Discord adding backflips and the Tapestry nitting one adding silly glowing pictures to his displayed work.

While Luna & Nightmare Moon really wanted to know about the undead creatures that apperently were described as 'Necromorphs', did he reminded them that they could learn all this after Sunset mind wasn't falling apart.
The Filly didn't like that remark to mutch with misty eyes...

So they hold everything bare bones and on the walk, since Discord could give occational tidy information packages in between their race to save Sunset from the coming darkness.

As slightly redundant as it was they confirmed to one another how the enemy have proven that they are capable of moving quickly and attacking with very lethal force.
They have to be very careful from this point forward. Respawning was very limited, since it could only happend twice. Ones on the Ishimura and one time later...

Also Sunset Shimmer has a special case and the Lord of Chaos would not count on her respawning, so they have to keep her as safe as possible.
At that Sunset wimper in worry...

Discord ask despite actually see it all happen, how they had been holding up.

They say not well...
With Luna dead and everyone basically out of ammo besides Sunset Shimmer with her magic cutter.
Discord recommended to collect and use the blades of the enemy he dubbed 'the Slasher', they could stretch their offensive options with them later with this blade like objects even more.
The Alicorn adults nodded and would now collect the blade parts of the arms of those Necromorphs from now on as recommended.

As Sunset had actually never seen somepony torn apart like Lunas was, did her question if they had to face many of this scary monsters a surprise to no pony, but it only got a telling pitying face from Discord.

While Fluffelpuff didn't know Sunset well enough to know why she was so scared of this oddly looking Doggos, did she had consider she didn't like to see her new 'first friend forever' saddened and would make their deaths therefore fast and switching them to Crimson Cookies when they had taken their cutting toys away.

While Marksaline was letting out a sigh of relief that noone annoyed her with sadness anymore, did the not sister indicated that she was unhappy, what in turn might make Fluffelpuff unhappy.
Marksaline would destroy what would make her sister unhappy! But since destroying the not sister would make Fluffelpuff unhappy, did the Doggos are the ones that needed destroying!
Marksaline was proud of her pure genius-ish thoughts sometimes.

Discord said before they started to move on that he was happy to see that them all had survived and Luna would get a respawning soon enough with a reminder that Luna would have to be a lot more careful, since she would not respawning again inside the Ishimura after getting 'killed again'...

Discord assured them that if they listen to him, he would most certainly get them all out of here with Sunset Shimmer mind save and sound.

What he didn't give assurance for that they be in one piece. Seriously, the Necromorphs had a un-cany ability of amputation after all...

The Fillys and adults watched as Discord at his station was doing something they could bearly make out on their displayed monitor.
He seemed to study its result for a moment, to everyponys surprise did their suits seem to reboot for a moment and than reopen the video chat.

Once the connection was stable again did the Game Master Discord lord of chaos and change showed where they hd a new function. Now they could 'ping' one another's location and find one another if they didn't knew the location of the others. Cadance used he function for a few minutes and switch from one user to another.
Now a illusion line in coloration of ones fur color surrounded by a blue line was connecting to one another if needed in a few hooved commands.

The information would allow them to tell what was the right or wrong direction to find their Herd mates location in chaotic situations.

Once that all was cleared up by everyone, did Discord got to explaining their first mission related objectives.
"The brain nodes in this section of her memories are damaged. If it would be mechanical i say its a fried main component, but there should be a easy way to get around that, while i fix it later.

I have a emergency override option if you get in a maintenance bay near your location. It will suffice to get a override component there. Once everything in this area is fixed temporarily i fix the problem completely once you leave the area of the Ishimura for another part."
Once Discord exchange some medical four dimensional 4th wall bending details with someone unseem he continued.

"If we are carefully everything that was in Sunset mind would be unlocked and she be smarter and more capable than she would otherwise."
Discord mumble something about idiotic use of mind bending magic noone really made out enough to understand.

They unanimously came to one conclusion, they just ignored Discord being Discord and focus on their first task.
Something that made them annoyed, was that apperently there is also a broken transportation blocking the pathways in her brain that needs to be repaired. Everything on the journey they can't reach yet, needed it to work to get from here to other places.

To which the Draconequus raised his lions arm and looked at the device that was allowing them to speak with the ponies.
The chaotic god showed them a brief improvised animated picture video of them fight those creatures to make whatever repairs they were talking about earlyer.

Discord finished heir conversation with:
"You fix the transportation and i will help reducing the difficulty of the area for now until you all had better odds defending yourselves."

But he warned them that the enemy waves later on had than the ones they avoided now added to other waves. So they better map out the areas the would move around in their head, to keep their distance to the enemies for better placed precision shots.
Low ammo could be made up when ever shot was precisely placed to dismember the enemy faster.

They all tensed up for a moment when they hear some noises coming from the walls. But Discord assured them that this room and a few others he would have prepared as safe zones. No matter the enemies, as long them stay in that room they are perfectly save.

That said, the time was still ticking away, one second at a time...
The heat of what they would gone through could be coped with later, now it was time to move out.
The mental battle field that was the Ishimura was to be fix and Sunset Shimmer mind needed to be rewired to reunite her with her traumatic memories she had to overcome. But this time she had a Herd to help her through it all!
Step by hoove step!

They hoped that whatever was going to happening, they could escape this living bad dream together. And the fillys looked forward to snacking on the door candy along the way ♡

Author's Note

Maybe i go over all my chapter in all my stories at a later time, but since it will literally costs days worth of free private time... Yeah, not going to happening to soon.
I rather make chapter content for you to enjoy.

The proofreading on these already cost hours of proofreading alone...

Stay Snuggly everybrony