Protopony

The Queens tendrils, still latched on to us, were starting to really drain major parts of us now. The first was our abilities to morph our limbs into weapons and soon, I feared, she would take away the virus altogether. Before my worst fear came true, however, the pale white mare let us go with what could pass as an evil smile.

Upon release from the grip of The Queens tendrils, we righted ourselves as best we could leaning against the walls for support, as being drained had left us exhausted. Suddenly I turn to see Dash and Spike charging at me like raging bulls.

“GUYS SNAP OUT OF IT THIS ISN’T YOU!” I tried to shout at them, hoping that it would break whatever control this nag had on them, but my cries fell on deaf ears. I notice The Queen was using some sort of mind control ability to control my friends, then try to move as quickly as possible but find that I couldn’t move. “What the hell?”I say as I notice the tendrils grip around my legs preventing my movement then feeling the impact from my two friends, all goes black.

I woke up a few moments later with the two stooges laying on top of me and the others trying to get them off of me. We eventually got Rainbow and Spike off of me but when I turned to try and see where The Queen was standing a few moments ago, she was gone. In her place was a giant hole in the wall. “DAMN IT!” I shouted seeing that our only chance to interrogate her had slipped through our grasp. We were about to leave when I noticed several large… boils. That is honestly the only way I can describe what I saw, in front of us were large, pulsating, boils on the walls and floor. What really seemed gross though was that the things were glowing.

“What are those, horrid, disgusting things?” Rarity asked.

“I don’t know and I certainly don’t want to find out.” I say to her.

“Well if Ah didn’t know any better I could almost say… land sakes alive there are ponies inside those things!” Applejack practically yelled. I gave her a skeptical look before I saw one of those things glow real bright revealing the creature inside of it.

“Um, I don’t think we should stay very much longer.” Spike nervously says. looking at him, I nod in agreement.

“Well, with that said, maybe we should get the hell out of here before those… things…”

just before Rainbow finishes, the boils bust open releasing the creatures within.

The creatures that burst forth from the cocoons were huge, muscular enough to give Spike a run for his bits, and not to mention their size was three times the size of any other creature I’ve ever seen or studied about. The first one that hatched leaped towards me, launching me out of the nearest window. As I fell, the one thing I least expect to happen was me landing on two soldiers, literally popping their heads off on impact with the ground. The rest of the group came crashing down as well, each dealing with their own monster trying to eat their faces off. They eventually pushed the creatures off, all of them except for Fluttershy who was scratching the side of her beasts head.

“It’s okay there no one’s going to hurt you now okay?” She cooed to it. I, to this day, will have no answer as to how Fluttershy managed to tame her first monster. We all just kind of stared at her in astonishment but the creatures had other plans. As one they all rushed forward, the soldiers and Blackhoof personnel firing at them, and tried to rip apart our friend. Then the creature she actually stopped them by pouncing one the one that tried to hurt me. The fight was short lived as both monsters collided in mid air and fell to the ground.

The first to get up however wasn’t the creature that saved Fluttershy sadly. As far as I could tell that particular beast was now dead. The creature that killed him, however, made his biggest mistake when he tried to charge my yellow friend again without so much as paying attention to her eyes. “YOU HURT MY ANGEL!” She yelled and that’s when a thought came through my head, she viewed the beasts as nothing more than wild animals that needed help maybe this could work to our advantage. Before I could continue my thoughts however I heard the sound of something being slammed into the ground followed by a sickening CRACK!.

I look to see that Fluttershy had grabbed the creature and threw it against the ground as hard as she could “THAT WAS FOR ANGEL, YOU SORRY SON OF A BITCH!.” she yelled viciously. I just looked at her in shock as to what had just happened. The rest of the beasts just backed away slowly and then another amazing feat happened. Half of the group actually bowed to Fluttershy. The others didn’t comply however and just ran off into the night. Through out this whole thing what amazed me was also that the soldiers in the area barely fired a single shot except when those creatures attacked Fluttershy.

That part confused me for awhile before I turned my attention back to the monster that Flutters just smashed into the ground. It was writhing in pain and wasn’t going to last long after tonight. I went over and tried to see if I could absorb it the same way I did a regular pony, or if the occasion arises griffon, and was met with some success. I ripped the monsters arm off and then smashed it into it’s head causing it to be nothing more than a puddle of blood and brains. I then felt a strange sensation in my hooves and suddenly I saw four claws protruding from them. As I marveled at how I got my power back my friends also started to go through the same process as I did. Rainbow was the first to voice what was on all of our minds right then.

“HELL YEAH MOTHER FUCKERS!” She shouted as she leaped into the air before doing a little twist and slicing the air in front of her.

“Oh, I’ve been wondering when I’d get to use these beauties again.” Rarity said in an almost sadistic tone, which I awkwardly enjoyed hearing her use.

“I’m sorry angel.” Fluttershy said as she patted the dead beast, which I have decided to dub brawlers due to their fighting nature, and then sliced her claws across the head of the brawler who killed her pet. “That bitch will pay for what she made me do.”

“WHOA NELLY NOW WE’RE TALKING!” Applejack said as she cut across a dead brawlers body.

“With this, I could slice those bastards to bits.” Spike gladly exclaims.

“This will certainly add a new decoration to every party we have with those meanies.” Pinkie chortles.

“This is all nice and everything.” I said, though I couldn’t help but feel a little pleasure in having my claws back, “But right now we need to… wheres Applebloom and the others?!” I suddenly realized that when I woke up the little mares were nowhere in sight.

“Oh, where is my sweet little sister? Was she not with us a moment ago?” Rarity asked worriedly.

“THOSE FUCKERS ARE REALLY GOING TO GET IT NOW! WHEN I GET MY CLAWS ON THEM , I WILL MAKE THEM PAY!” Rainbow yelled fiercely.

“Where’s Applebloom? I thought she’d have been knocked out of there like the rest of us.” Applejack asks with a very concerned look. I turned towards one of the soldiers ahead of us and grabbed him in my claws.

“WHERE ARE THEY YOU FUCKING WORM?!” I demanded from this sorry excuse for a creature. He only stammered before I decided to rip his head off and eat him. Suddenly a pang of pure pain shot straight into my head as a flashback suddenly happened.

There were two individuals, one looking like the white mare called The Queen, the other a brute with three young mares in his grasp. Suddenly a mysterious stallion steps in demanding that the brute release the young mares. He quickly hands them over to the white mare, the mare wrapping them in her tendrils, sealing them away in some sort of prison. The brute then throwing the stallion across the room. but before the brute gets to him he zips out before any further harm could be done, realizing that he had failed to rescue them he leaves, the brute begins to pursue.

“Where are they?” asked Applejack inquisitively.

“The… The Queen took them after some huge infected gave them over to her.” I told her.  I left out the part about the stallion trying to save them because I didn’t know how she would react.

“WELL THAT’S JUST FUCKING GREAT!” Dash yells, still extremely pissed.

“Well if you would let me finish Rainbow I was about to say that I know where the other hunter is as well.” I scolded my old friend, like I said hot headed.

“Sorry about that, its just I got so angry with Scootaloo’s disappearance.” Rainbow said with a hint of anger still in her voice.

“It’s fine, we’re all a little upset right now.” I told her as I placed a hoof on her shoulder. “Lets just focus on finding that nag and bringing her down.” The group nodded in approval. I racked through the memory to try and pinpoint where the beast started to chase the mystery stallion. “He’s going towards the warehouse district. It may be trying to make a hive.” I told them, this was a partial idea that I had but not the real one that I had in my mind. This seemed to please the group as we started to run towards the warehouse district.

Once we arrived in the warehouse district  we notice that it was already a warzone. We notice the mysterious stallion run right past us, with that we stopped the pursuing beast Fluttershy quickly bringing it’s face to hers then impaling it’s face with the claw on the other hoof consuming it to gather the information as to how they could get to The Queen.

After a painful flashback, fluttershy explains that the hive  that The Queen is in is back in the market district. But before going to the market district we quickly tracked down the stallion that had passed us.and found him hiding in an alley hoping that he’d lost the beast.

“Midnight Star?!” I nearly shout, “What were you doing in that hive?” I ask him.

“I was trying to rescue those mares when I got a call saying that there were three mares being carried off to the hive, so I went in. I also heard about seven runners being in the area. You must be the runners I am suspecting?” Midnight explained.

“Well, there are seven of us here and we were the only ones running over this way when we saw you pass us by brute in tow. Which, by the way, Fluttershy here took care of him. so now to answer your question, yes” I told him flatly. He sighed as though he wasn’t right which is not like him.

“Then I’m sorry Twi but.” As he said this he whipped out an electrical rod. “I’m afraid I have to kill you and your friends. Nothing personal.”

I stared at my old friend with a look of utter shock and disgust as he circled me and the others. As me and him finally finished our little dance Midnight was the first to react as he leaped forward at the same time I did, claws extended, and our weapons were locked.