Protopony

As our weapons became locked, I pull one of my claws away , swinging low, scraping his leg. he drops the electric weapon to grasp his leg in pain but stands right away and charges to tackle me missing as I sidestep, he stands again this time pulling a firearm, quickly I rush to knock the weapon away then throw him against the wall, seeing that he wasn’t able to stand after the impact with the wall, I stand him up.

“WHY, MIDNIGHT?! WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THIS TO US?!” I yell at him furiously.

“I was just following orders.” he says. As he falls to the ground, he says “You win this one, but next time, you won’t be so lucky.” with a defeated tone as we walk away.

Midnight 3rd person POV

As he laid there against the wall he begins to get a strange feeling and looks down to see that the wound on his leg had healed almost instantly and any broken or fractured bones easily healed “What the hell?” he said to himself, he suddenly picks up a dumpster nearby throwing it across the alley angrily because he had failed.

“FUCK!” he yelled knowing exactly what had just happened. During his fight with his former marefriend, he apparently gained some of her powers. So now on top of him failing to stop the group from spreading the virus, he was now one of them.

Heading back to HQ, Midnight tries to keep the virus in him a secret, the others gathering around him, Big Macintosh comes up to him “Hey, yah okay? Yah don’t look so good.” he asked with a concerned tone.

“Yeah, I’ll be fine, I just need to rest.” he said to Big Mac.

Twilight 1st person POV

“THAT DAMNED TRAITOR!” I yelled to the heavens. The rest of the group either looking at me with pity or just grunting in agreement. “What was I thinking telling him I was a, what did he call me? A runner? What does that even mean?!”

“Next time I say we gut the mother fucker.” Spike said with utter contempt in his voice. I looked at him with murder in my eyes as I pin him up against a wall with my claws.

“YOU HURT HIM AND I WILL CUT YOUR HEAD OFF MY SELF!” I yelled at him. It took me a few seconds to calm down.

Spike looks at me with Frightened eyes, “Jeez Twilight, I didn’t know you loved him that much. I happened to notice you catching his leg and then something happened but it probably didn’t take effect until after we left.”  he said with a curious tone of voice.

I stood there, hanging my head to the ground with despair “We were going to get married in the future, but now I don’t know if I could ever face him again.” I said with a glum tone. Rarity walked up to me and patted my shoulder and gave me a brave smile.

“It’ll be fine darling. Maybe they’ll fix whatever made us… this way and you can still marry him.” That’s Rarity for you, always sure love has a way to survive.

Fluttershy walked towards me and sat in front of me, placing her arm around me to give what comfort she could.“If it would help any, we could look for a place to go to for shelter, since it looks like it’s about to rain, and then we could talk more about it.” she told me with a caring tone that helped to ease the emotional pain of what had happened.

“Yeah Twilight. Don’t worry we’ll get him back even if we do have to knock some sense into him.” Rainbow told me in her own comforting way.

“Why, if I had to, I would go right up to him and tell him exactly what’s going on, and how it happened.” Pinkie said in a solid but comforting tone.

“Shucks Twi don’t get too emotional on me now girl, the best thing we can do is hope that he will realize that he loves you just as much, you know, ever since this whole Blackhoof business started, I saw them snatch him up. before all of… this happened and I know they brainwashed them. Maybe the brainwashin’ didn’t completely wipe his memory.” Applejack told me with an encouraging tone.

Midnight 3rd person POV

Back at Blackhoof Headquarters. In the barracks Midnight lies silently on his bed. “What did she do to me? I can feel it getting stronger like it’s trying to bring something back.” Then, everything that he could still remember, before he was forced to join Blackhoof, slammed into his mind, that very day that he left the house, the day he was abducted.

He could see her running to save him, but being brought to the ground as the rest of the Blackhoof officials tackle her, he began to fight against the ones that had a hold on him, calling out her name before everything went black.

“I know what I must do. I have to escape, I have to go rogue, I have to find them.” As he said that, Midnight noticed that in place of his arms were claws instead, and the Virus detectors went off, alerting everyone. Before the rest of the specialists could arrive, he took off into the night.

Big Mac 3rd person POV

As they entered the room where Midnight was. Big Mac suddenly had an epiphany. “Why, if he had that darned virus in ‘im, didn’t the virus detectors go off like they was supposed to when he came in?” Big Mac said angrily.

“I don’t know sir. Technical issues, maybe?” replied Trixie.

“I WANT ALL OF YOU OUT THERE, LOOKING FOR HIM, NOW!” Mac Orders loudly, forcing the most formal accent.

The rest of the group scattered about exiting the barracks to begin the search as he walked to his room just falling back on his bed “What in tarnation happened to him, I know he got into a fight with them, did they somehow spread it to him while fighting?”  he asked himself aloud.

“You guessed right,” Midnight said from the shadows, walking into the light.

“How did you get passed the…”

“Virus detectors, yeah I know how to disable those. Learned about those before you even grabbed me days later.” Midnight said to his former commander.

“YOU SON OF A BITCH! WHY THE HELL DIDN’T YOU REPORT THIS TO ME RIGHT AWAY!” Mac yelled.

“Oh, I didn’t want to take the chances of getting killed or have to endure the most painful process that the last guy went through. Besides, I kinda like it, and you tried to turn me against the one I think I love the most, you sick bastard.” he said to Mac in a more mellow but angry tone. Mac looks at him confused.

“What are you talking about? Your mind was completely wiped.”  Big Mac said with an annoyed tone.

“Oh really, well some memories can never be lost. They may be distant at times, but they will stay. I placed the most current memories, before being mind wiped or whatever you call it, in the furthest recesses of my mind, which your brainwashing device failed to reach,” Midnight retorted, chuckling in a tone that gave Mac some level of discomfort.

Midnight then vanishes and runs to find the one he’d fought earlier that day.

Twilight 1st Person POV

We found an empty garage to an empty house and decided it would work for now. “I wonder what Midnight is doing right now?” I asked myself worriedly.

“Ah don’t know sugarcube, he’s probably on the way to report to them Blackhoof folks,” Applejack said in a tone almost the same as my own.

As soon as she finished speaking, I heard someone running down the road in the rain to notice that it was Midnight. I ran out into the rain noticing that he had no weapons and as I got closer he stopped, his arms turned into claws.

“Midnight, it’s me Twilight. What are you doing out here?”  I called out to him.

Midnight turned around slowly, “Thank you,” Midnight stated with an unexpectedly happy tone.

“Why are you thanking me?” I ask with a confused look.

“When you slashed my leg and injected the virus, I gained the same abilities you now have. You saved me and got back my most recent memories before they swiped me up off the street against my will,” he told me, placing an arm over my shoulders comforting me as he noticed the others in the abandoned garage and led me back to the others and said, “I’m sorry about the other day.”

“I did that when I struck at your legs? I thought I just hit your leg without injecting anything at all, I had no idea I could do that,” I told Midnight.

“Yeah, I had no idea either,” he said, the eight of us laughing.

I began to sense something coming our way, we had no choice but to run as it was the brawlers that began chasing us. We used our claws to slash and hack through the ones that got in our way.

We stopped to see that we were chased right to the hive that was there, seeing that the military and Blackhoof officials were also there attacking the hive. “What the fuck are we going to do now?” Midnight asked.

“We go through those fuckers. They took the crusaders, were going in to get them out,” Rainbow said, her hot headed persona once again kicking in.