The remnants

I sprinted down the hallway towards the sound, my hooves burned with exhaustion but my body was not the main focus right now. My wellbeing did not matter at this point, if my assumption is correct.

I bolted down the hallway, the white walls and window of observing rooms flew past me. The walls seemed to continue forever in the long direction. Then I saw it. An open door casting it’s dark outline surrounding the lines of the door that stood out among the hundreds of doors lining the walls.

I slammed my hoof against the door and I felt a body fall into my forelegs gripping me tight. A metal mask dug into my shoulder, it hurt but I ignored the goring pain. A whining-crying noise came from the helmet. I pushed the little body away and looked at the mask. It sniveled as it stared at me. Slowly I took off its helmet. My body eased as I stared into the blue cerulean eyes, full of tears, and his dark blue mane damp from sweat.

“Crimson?” he asked cautiously.

All I could do was grab him, I couldn’t hold back the tears they poured from my eyes. I thought I had lost him, I was overly joyed to see his face again.

“I’m so glad to see you, bud,” I said squeezing harder as tears ran down my face. He looked back to the door with fear in his eyes.

Starblazer had come up from behind me, he sighed hard with a smile on his face.

“Looks like we found you.” he said kneeling down next to me.

“Are you okay?” He asked. I let go of the blue pegasii. Blue stood there timid and skittish looking back into the door.

“Crimson there’s something in there.” He said pointing a hoof in there.

Starblazer’s and my eyes locked and in unison we both nodded. I put my back against the door similar to as the other two did. I pushed inward, Starblazer following close behind me.

The room was dark, the power was out on the big empty chamber. A chilled air fell low and hung in the air, dry and stale. I shivered a little. Sparks shot out of a cord that hung suspended from the ceiling. It lit up the room flashing and flickering brightly. In the center of the room was a wooden platform with a collapsed mass of stallion sat. Hooks that were attached to the ends of ropes held his forelegs up, digging into the fetlocks and the sharp point extruding out of the forelegs.

His head was being held by the same grotesque way, the hooks around his neck instead. The face was unidentifiable; the skin had been peeled off completely and was draped around he wooden platform leaving the face muscle and inner tissue exposed to the air. Blood trickled down the suit of armor that it wore and leaked into pools on the floor.

“Oh my Celestia-“ I heard from behind me. I felt my stomach acting up; I was on the verge of throwing up. Vomit was bubbling at the top of my throat. Starblazer walked towards it slowly and cautiously. He outstretched a hoof to it, as soon as his metallic cuff touched it the skin fell off to the floor, peeling away more skin and muscle from the face. I couldn’t hold it now, my stomach lurched as I felt everything inside me come out through my mouth. It was sickening.

“It’s still warm,” He said looking at the door.

“Whoever did this isn’t too far.”

We both walked out, my legs still shaking from emptying my system off whatever I had in my stomach. Blue sat in the hallway gripping his head as he rocked back and forth. I picked up his chin and looked into his eyes.

“Blue, are you okay?” I asked him. He nodded but shakily. I looked down the hallway, besides what we had just witnessed, a trail of red horseshoes trailed off down the hall.

“Star!” I yelled. He snapped out from the room. I lifted a hoof to point at the trail I saw.

“Suppose that’s where the monster who did this went?” I asked him. Starblazer just nodded. I turned to Blue who was still sitting on the floor.

“Blue,” I said. On that he stood up straight.

“You take point, follow those tracks.” He nodded with some hesitation.

“Don’t worry, I’ll be right next to you.” Almost like a little colt, Blue walked ahead of me with some fear in his eyes on his low hanging head. As soon as he walked past me his pace picked up and he started running. Starblazer and I both followed close behind him.

The medical ward started to turn from an infirmary to a psychotic nightmare. Blood was strung to every wall, words written in it.

Help

RUN

DONT BECOME ONE

You Cann HIiide bUt i wIll fInd you!

DONT TURN BACK!

DIE DieD IE!

Those words struck a new feeling deep in my heart that the very ice in my soul cracked down and felt pain and worry more like that that I have not yet felt. These walls were painted with death. You could smell the death on the walls and on the floor, it was everywhere.

The horseshoe marks got smaller spaced and smaller spaced. Whoever it was-was slowing down now. Now ahead of us stood a small figure, sluggishly moving forward. A white lab coat cloaked his body, the back of his black and white mane had red specks covering it.

I heard a question that came from it.

“So, what are you looking for?” He asked melodically turning around. The lab coat he wore had brown and red stains painted on it, his eyes displayed a bright envious green against his light grey coat, his mane messy and out of place.

“I can’t help you in any way,” He said in his peculiar accent. When he said “way” it was almost like he said ‘vey’. His hooves looked like they had been dipped in blood. They were dripping onto the floor into a small puddle.

“I have no way to assist you, but, if you have any clues as to-I don’t know, maybe what this is that’s going on? I can help you.” He said gesturing a hoof out with sly eyes and a cocky smirk.

“But don’t take too long,” He said lowering the hoof.

“They’re coming for me.”

“What’s going on here?” Starblazer asked.

“The beginning!” He shouted to us three, the echo of his voice reverberating off the ghostly halls.

“And yet, the end.” He said grinning wickedly. Then a question came to me.

“How do we stop it?” I asked. He closed his eyes and shrugged.

“You can’t.” He said. Then he started laughing. Laughing wildly, not stopping. He laughed, he kept laughing. We all looked at each other and then back to him. All around us the walls shook. The screamed and screeched as something clanked against the trying to get out.

“Crimson,” I heard shakily from behind me.

“Stay calm.” I said still staring at the horse in front of me.

He still stood there manically laughing.

Then the vent flew open, and a mass of flesh and razor sharp bone fell on top of the stallion. The laughter turned to screams of agony and multiple bodies fell onto it. The overflowing creatures lowered a bit to show his face. His face was of sheer pain, then it went blank. His head twitched as the other things mutilated his body but his head had no emotion as it happened. Then it happened, something-long, cream-colored, sharp and jagged erupted from the middle of his forehead. His eyes rolled back as two more shot through his neck, turning it ripping his whole head off. And as the blood filled the hallway one noticed us.

It’s gaping holes in its face faced us. It’s body from the back was no longer anything that could resemble a pony or stallion. Muscle had been warped and twisted with the bone to make tall biped creatures with no skin and all muscle and bone. Blood dripped from the sharp appendages sticking out of their shoulders and at the end of what now look like arms. Teeth were no longer blunt but were replaced by jagged teeth like knives.

One stared at us and started making a clicking noise. The others took their attention off their mauling of the body of whoever that was.

“Star,” I said now realizing what the situation had come to.

“Take Blue and run.” I said.

“N-“

“This isn’t up for discussion!” I said raising my voice as I turned to him.

“Go now.” I said

I didn’t hear anything else.

Just the metallic clanks of hooves as they galloped away.

This is the final stand.

I won’t get my life back, as these creatures rush me I will be die and it will be brutal.

I have a good feeling Starblazer will take good care of Blue Mist.

Now those things are on the advance. I could fight them off but that won’t be smart, I’ll last longer but death is still inevitable.

I'll just stand here, wait for it with my eyes closed, i mean it won't hurt that bad if I don't see it coming right?

I guess this is goodbye cruel world then.