Section 1: Chapter 4: Starting A Outbreak

'Calm down, Alex.' He told himself.

'I am going to blow my cover if I let my rage get control.' He continued to tell himself.

While the fact that Celestia destroyed the human race angered him, he also realized that to have these memories, he must have consumed Dana.

That thought made him feel like an ass. He consumed his own sister.

"Well, lets look at these pony memories." He thought aloud.

"Honey I am going to distract it, When I do, run." A peguases stallion with brown fur said.

"But what about our foal? She is going to need a father." The mare Alex was looking through.

"She is going to need a mother too. Either way, it's better to have 1 parent then 0." The stallion said.

"I love you." The mare said as she ran off carrying a filly with cyan blue fur and a rainbow mane.

As She ran off, she heard a loud scream signalling that the stallion died.

'I consumed Rainbow Dash's parents? That could be useful leverage if the need arises.' Alex thought with a grin.

He then heard a noise. He looked up to see 3 cariages of royal gaurds on their way to the forest.

'Probably looking for those gaurds I consumed.' He thought.

He then remembered something, something he thought after he consumed Elizabeth Greene. If she was the hive mind of the virus, and Alex consumed her, then would that make him the new hive mind?

To find out, Alex took a detailed look at her memories.

It showed him that she was able to mutate the virus at will to do otherwise impossbile things. She could change DNA to make the infected creatures known as hunters.

How she started the first few hives and how she was able to spread the 'infestation', make eggs for hunters and most importantly, how the virus effects a host.

There were a few ways to use a host, have them turn into the infected creatures that roamed the streets, to be able to see and hear conversations through them, as well as convince them to do things they otherwise would not do.

'I guess I am the hive mind.' he thought.

If Alex started an outbreak in Manehatten, Celestia would have to send many royal gaurds to the city, leaving the palace open for infiltration. And a better chance to kill Celestia without being detected.

'Well, off to Manehatten then.' Alex thought as he took flight to the inronically named city.

Everfree Forest, POV: First Lieutenant, Emerald Haze

It was disturbing to say the least.

When they arived the ground was covered in enough blood to paint a room red.

The one gaurd they found who survived was traumatized and could not give any useful information about the creature.

Using a viewing spell, what they saw made some gaurds in his platoon visably gulp.

The creature that was a mass of tentacles slautered the gaurds. After they  shifted into a creature the viewing spell could not make out. The only thing they could make out was that it was bipedal.

After that it shifted into one of the gaurds it 'ate' then made changes to it's body to look like a civie.

That would make the job of finding it a lot harder.

He sent all of this information to Princess Celestia and waited for further orders.

Emerald Haze hoped that the creature could not have gotten far...

Manehatten, Equestria, POV: Alex Mercer

'Ok this cannot be a coincidence.' Alex thought to himself.

Not only was this city named after Manhatten, but it was ALSO on a island just off the coast!

But even more interesting is that the train station here was named Penn station.

THAT made him feel like the guy he was back in Manhatten when he released the virus on humanity.

'Well, let's get this over with.' he thought as he walked into the station.

He saw around 120 ponys in the station.

'That should be enough to start an outbreak.' he thought.

He began to build the virus into his chest as a small bit of it leaked out as a red mist. As he reached critical mass he realeased the virus from his chest exploding in a red mist spreading thoughout the station.

He then looked around at the damage.

All the ponys in the station were already beginning to transform into the creatures he knew and red substance known as infestation was attaching itself onto the walls.

As the ponys finished the transformation, he then felt a new presence in his mind.

He tapped into that and he noticed that these were all the infected ponys in the station he felt.

He could see what they were seeing as they began walking outside to infect more ponys.

He tried to send a mental command to the ones that where lingering to also go outside. To his surprise they followed his command and went ouside.

While Alex could feel no intelligence in the minds of those infected ponys, he did get a large influx of memories from the infected.

'Well, I guess my work here is done.' Alex thought as he ran outside.

When he got outside, he saw the few royal guards stationed here at Manehatten being overun by nearly 200 infected.

'They already infected that many?' Alex thought to himself.

He decided to not have any more infected corpses rise up after infection. He needed to spring infected creatures of the royal palace gaurds at the right moment.

He then noticed one of the guards heading toward the bridge connecting the city to the mainland.

"Princess Celestia must be told of this!" The guard yelled as he ran.

He could not let Celestia find out this early about the infected creature the virus creates.

So he ran after the guard.

He ran after the guard that was already at the bridge and crossing.

Alex jumped into the air and brought out his hammer fists, as he then decended at the gaurd who was in the center of the bridge.

When Alex connected with the gaurd, the force of Alex's hammer fists caused the apparently weak bridge to collapse.

Alex immediately jumped back onto the island. Alex and water do not mix well.

After, he commanded the infected to decompose into pools of blood. Let those who were unknowingly infected spread the virus for him.

And since most of the ponys here would not dare try using the train after what he did, Alex had a license to do what ever he wanted.

Time to consume...

Alex shifted into his human form and jumped onto one of the smaller buildings of the city, then continued to do this until he had a vantage point over a large crowd of civilians.

To be able to get the most biomass from the crowd, he would need to use 'the devastator'.

While it is normally used to destory groups of tanks and super soldiers, it can be used to consume large crowds of enemies. But using it when critical mass is not achieved can be risky, because he had to sacrifise a lot of biomass to create the consuming tentacles that will be flying through the air.

"Well, let's hope this works." He said to himself.

He jumped down while gathering up most of his biomass into his arms, chest and back.

When he landed, he exploded with tentacles that impaled all but one of the civilians.

The impaled civilians all seemed to have small tentacles moving around on their body's as the large ones than pulled them toward Alex.

They then sped up as the only surviving one was running.

As all of the impaled ponys finished being consumed, Alex looked at the fleeing one who turned turned into a changling.

The changling heard this and flew away as fast as he could go, for Alex, paint could dry faster.

Alex changed his arm into the whipfist and exteneded his arm to catch the changling.

The whip went around it's neck and when it had a good hold, it retracted as it's capture was struggling to get away.

Unkown Location, Changling Hive, POV: Queen Of The Changlings, Chrysalis.

Chrysalis was watching this... Creature hold her subject in it's foreleg.

She heard the thoughts go through the captive changling as it stared  into the darkness where there should be eyes.

'Please let me go, please let me go, please let me go...' the changling said in it's thoughts.

Unfortunately, she could not help her subject escape this creature.

She decided to take a good look at the creature though the changling's eyes.

The creature was bipedal, had no fur, had tanish skin and wore a jacket with a small part of leather over the head that made seeing the creatures eyes impossible.

Then the creature did something unexpected.

The creature threw the changling up then used its forleg to pull the changling down to the ground with a loud crack as the impact cracked the chitin armor of the changling.

It's forleg then brought the almost dead changling a bit closer as a tentacle came out of it's side then stabbed the changling.

Then she felt the changlings mind being brought inside the other creatures mind, merging the two.

She then felt the creature enter the hive mind through the changling it just 'consumed'.

While the creature looked, she felt the chanlings mind still screeming in pain from being trapped inside the creatures mind.

After the creature was done looking, Chrysalis felt the creature cut its self off from the hive.

'Well, not sending anymore infiltrators to Manehatten then.' She thought to herself...

Equestria, Manehatten, POV: Alex Mercer.

'So changlings are part of a hivemind like me, fascinating.' Alex thought.

Alex's thinking was interutped by the radio he built into his mind. He picked up a distress signal from one of the skyscrapers, specifically, the one in the center of the city.

'City hall, well I better stop it, dont want gaurds coming to 'save; the day too early now do we.' Alex thought.

The reason Alex had a a radio intergrated into his mind, is that when disguised as blackwatch soldiers or marines, they would be suspicious of someone who was not using their radio when they clearly had one. It also helped for pin pointing where soldiers calling in strke teams were so he could kill them before they finished the request.

Alex crouched as he brought biomass to his legs to make the jump.

When he jumped, he jumped high and could see the building the signal was coming from.

He took on his pony form so the population was not aware of his presence, he did not want any of the ponys to know that the outbreak was not an accident...