I am trying the TCB, not in a "I HATE HUMANS" or a "I HATE PONIES" way.
I want to give it a different spin, or at least try to.
But I know this brand of fanfic is pretty hated, so I want to see what kind of people this story will attract.
YAY! I AM COMMITTING LITERARY SUICIDE! LoL.
"This is monster talking / spells"
"This is normal dialogue"
"This is flashback/ Thoughts"
Disclaimer: I don't own Prototype or My Little Pony and I don't make a profit out of my stories.
He who stands at the top of the Food Chain Chapter 1: Second Chance.
New York – Rooftop -
Here it was! The culmination of Alex Mercer's plan! The turning point he so wished for!
One of the two possible endings to his plan actually.
He had saved humanity from the Blacklight and a whole city from a nuke, once done that he had traveled the world saving as much people he could, helping countries and tribes and villages and so on so forth to demonstrate that he was NOT a monster!
Yes, he was no human, yes he was just a sentient 'Bio-Weapon' humans had created for their dirty wishes of power, and yes...He had stolen the identity of the real Alex Mercer when the man tried to have the Blacklight Virus (his true name) on the population out of some crazy wish of revenge.
But NOBODY! Not even Doctor Mercer had understood how adaptive, how Complex, the Blacklight Virus truly was...So much that once consumed completely Mercer's body it had reached sentience, he had gained a mind and a SOUL of his own.
And honestly, the real Alex Mercer was a piece of shit (and the Blacklight often apologized to the poor fecal matter for putting it on the same level of that human); unworthy of the small recognition he had, unworthy of being alive and most of all, unworthy of his sister's Dana's love.
So, when Blacklight became Alex Mercer, and once learned his true origins as a virus/bio-weapon, Alex wanted to prove himself BETTER than the former owner of his name…
From there things went down the drain.
No matter what he did, to him humans felt corrupted, dirty, literally FLAWED! Any good you did to them, more often than not was repaid with betrayal, any time one of them saw their power and wealth increase they immediately started wanting more and more! Violence was never enough, hunger was never satisfied and rage never quenched...But when he met her Alex knew humanity still had some saving graces, could still be allowed to exist.
This Her was a young woman, a humanitarian doctor in Africa: a hopeful-looking, weak little thing believing to save the world one Malaria-infected-sod at a time, so he helped her; No sickness or Virus could hope to match the Blacklight, the thing was MADE to triumph over every other 'common' attack unless the attack was specifically-engineered to fight Blacklight (even if in the end that countermeasure too failed, as his armour form could testify).
He purposely injected himself with several strands of illnesses and 'sweat-off' a counter, a cure whenever necessary...Easy to say soon Pharmaceutical Houses everywhere immediately went nuts in order to gain the miraculous cure to everything the young woman found and categorically refused to tell the source of, especially since she dated said source and had more often than not talked about future marriage with.
Then it came the day pure greed helped those money-hungry beasts in the form of one of the ungrateful bastards she had cured selling the information about Alex being the source of the panacea he gained by chance.
And in order to capture Alex, Her had to go, permanently.
Alex...He went mad. In his mind every time Humans entered the picture, his life would be ruined, so as soon as he saw Her being dead...He retaliated...Furiously; starting by finding the asshole that sold the information to kill him...then destroying his home village consuming every life-form down to the smallest bacteria until nothing in the area remained and even plant life would NEVER return, then he attacked the Pharmaceutical house commissioning the job, then the mercenary group they had paid to do the deed...Then the Families of the mercenaries and of every employee of the now-eradicated Pharmaceutical House...and then their neighbors, and the neighbors' neighbors, and the city AND the city immediately after.
Too mad at everything even barely resembling something Human The Blacklight Virus known as 'Alex Mercer' or 'Zeus' began his campaign: release the Blacklight Virus on the whole damn planet, Cure humanity of their Flaws (Greed, Rage, Envy and so on) and every other illness existing and making sure everybody would just live in peace free of any form of distinction old humanity created! in short:
Creating a Utopia! Alex' ideal Utopia, the one his 'HER' had always wished for.
Here enter James Heller: the perfect candidate to either be Alex' lieutenant in his plans to give humanity a 'second chance'…or to become the one finally killing Alex so that he could be once again together with Her, either option was equally good; even if after all the bad deeds he had done, the living Virus really preferred death sentence in the privacy of his mind.
"Will I even be reunited with her?...No. Probably she won't ever want to see me...Huhuhu! Ironic, I did all this to have the world become like she wanted it to be...and she will probably hate me for it. But considering I tried to do it on the flesh and blood of innocents, I cannot blame her." Alex thought chuckling at the irony of his thoughts as his final battle with Heller finished with the man pinning him down poised to deliver the finishing blow.
"Any last words?" Heller asked growling.
I am sorry.
I did it for her.
Tell Dana I am sorry.
Use the Virus well, I couldn't.
I regret doing all this, but I just tried to save humanity from self-destruction.
Be careful, now they will come after you, you'll never find peace.
Protect Dana, I beg you.
I am sorry for your wife, I hoped to save her during the attack but I didn't make it in time…
"...Welcome to the top of the food chain." Of all the things he wished to say, those words, said with a soulless dead tone, left his mouth and he could swear even Heller paused for an instant at hearing him saying it like that before plunging his claws deep in Alex' chest making the world fall into darkness.
Sometime later -
"Uhu?" Alex thought as he found himself floating somewhere dark, somewhere smelling like rotting matter.
He curiously couldn't even tell the shape of his body, as if he was semi-liquid in consistence.
"So this is what it feels to be consumed?" he wondered as he found-out he could not speak.
"Surrounded in shit, not exactly dignifying..." he thought as with a soft thunk! A bent and half-rusted can of soda hit his head.
"Eh?" finally forming something resembling a mouth the Living Virus muttered in shock.
"I can't consume metal, and neither could Heller...what is happening here?" he said with a weak voice.
Feeling extremely weak or not, he needed to see what was happening, so ever so slowly, he used the few energies he still had to have some of his Blacklight cells turn themselves in the components of a human eye to see...damp walls with barely enough light filtering by the ceiling.
"I am...In the sewer system?...I swear, if somehow Heller 'expelled me' like feces heads will roll!" what remained of Alex (barely a small pool of black goo not different from what was of him after the bomb's explosion) hissed in contempt.
"I am a semi-solid blob of goo, it must be the reason why I am floating instead of going down like a rock. Whatever. I need bio-mass to return human, luckily rats are abundant here. It will be only a matter of time!" he said managing a smirk with his small cavity-like mouth.
Something akin to more or less two weeks later – (Hard to say with just one eye and floating inside the sewers) -
"WHERE. THE FUCK. HAVE. THE RATS. GONE!?" Alex shrieked in blind rage as not a single rat had even walked closer to him, and the newly-grown antenna on top of his goo-head could not detect the critters moving no matter how sensible he made the appendages.
"I am in the sewers of New York! For fuck's sake there should be more rats here than humans up there in the streets!" he said incredulous, by-now no more offended at being reduced to look like a black slug the size of a small dog with a single human eye between its antennae.
"...Something is not right, I can't hear a noise here, no critters around and silence above. Either they are still waiting for the aftermath of me and Heller playing around passed or-" his musing stopped when the noise of heavy machinery echoed all the way down forcing the cringing Virus to tone his hears down to human sensibility.
"Ask and you shall get...that sounds like tracks, maybe they are finally rebuilding and-"
Ratatatatatatatata!
"...No. that's an automatic riffle. They are definitely fighting up there." Alex finished saying in a deadpan tone.
"Good, and in my status I can't even 'borrow' some bio-mass. They will capture me or destroy me too easily for my tastes. I'll just give a look and dive for a hiding spot should the worst happen." he muttered as he slowly crawled up the wall following his earlier 'slug joke' with his body secreting a similar slime to stick to the wall.
"Let's see...I never tried consuming a dead body, but in my state I cannot...be...picky..." Alex drawled as he saw, once peeked outside with an overly-long eye, a human soldier fight with a pastel-colored pony wearing an armor seemingly made of pure gold.
Forgive him if in the shock he slipped down the wall to stare upward towards the badly-closed man-hole from were he was spying outside, but he was feeling a tad overwhelmed.
"...LSD should not work on my immunity system, nor on my brain...maybe the eye is rotting?" he wondered as he broke-down the antennae to re-create his eyes with brand new cells.
Once returned to spy outside he saw other soldiers join the first one with tanks while now WINGED pastel-colored ponies descended from the sky at mach speed while pelting the soldiers in vials of purple stuff transforming the soldiers into MORE pastel-colored ponies and getting torn to shreds by the humans' machine-guns in retaliation.
"W-W-WHO! WHAT! WHERE! WHY?!" Alex bellowed as he returned on the floor of the sewers to escape the ricocheting bullets and sprays of purple 'Pony Juice'.
"THAT was not result of Blacklight infecting horses! I do NOT make cute creatures!" Alex, in a surprising flash of pride from his being a Bio-weapon, said in denial.
He needed information and he needed them soon! But the only way he knew was through consuming either a human soldier...or a pony one.
"I swear if eating one of them turns me pink I will find a way to self-terminate." he muttered while whacking his gooey brain for a plan for some very-needed consuming.
As if the heavens heard his plea/whining, a big chunk of wall above him exploded fiercely inundating Alex and a great part of the sewers in dust and pieces of broken bricks as a tank overhead had been up-turned by a lucky shot of the attacking ponies a second before it could fire, making the road collapse and causing two heavily wounded soldiers (one pegasus and one human) to fall close to the Living Virus.
"...You DO know I still believe you do not exist, right? I will chalk this up as coincidences." Alex muttered while looking up towards the sky.
"Augh!" the pony soldier groaned in agony as he still tried to move the bloody stump where one of his wings used to be.
"Never there has been a better time to say: 'Don't look at a gifted Horse in the mouth'!" Alex said sighing as he slowly crawled up the pony's body towards his face.
"Just do me a favour: don't chew." he asked as he crawled down the horse mouth to consume him from the inside while ignoring his weak protests.
"M-M-M-MERCER!" the human soldier shrieked in fright as he tried to drag himself away ignoring his broken legs while the purple unicorn got covered in tendrils soon leaving room to a perfect replica of the animal but without a single scratch on his body and still wearing the hoodie the Human Mercer was famous for.
"Uuuuhm! It's a nice start. But I still have space for dessert!" the horse said in Mercer's voice making the soldier shriek louder and paw his body for his gun.
"NO! NO! WAIT! PLEASE WAIT!" he begged.
"Sorry, but I need info about what is happening here, both Human and...Equestrian...Stupid name for a country, by the way." the horse replied opening his mouth wide and filling it with fangs a horse SHOULD NOT have.
"GYAAAAAAAAAH!" the man yelled in fright as Alex pounced to consume him in a single bite.
Once recovered even more bio-mass and returning to his old human body, Alex broke free from the sewers as soon as he reached an isolated-enough area to come out and then climb a near sky-scraper to survey the war-zone from its rooftop.
"Okay. Let's make a recap of the situation." he said sighing as he watched fighter jets and choppers battle pegasi while ground troops fought Unicorns and Earth Ponies.
"I was out in a coma-like state for three months, probably feeding on whatever garbage I could come across floating in the sewage and so with not enough bio-mass to completely heal and wake-up. In those three months and two weeks a nation of talking, magic-using ponies appeared in the middle of the Atlantic ocean and started professing Love and Friendship to all living things and even offering the chance to convert humans to ponies..." Alex mused as he distractedly kicked away a missile a near chopper misfired to have a near group of pegasi explode to bits from the rebound projectile.
"Something happens with the potion and it gets poured in the main water source of New Orleans forcing the change on the whole place...And by the Pony's memories it may very well have not be an accident. The Conversion is discovered altering the mind: personality remains unchanged...but every Negative traits (or what those horses see as negative) is forcibly removed…In very rare cases leaving the subject half-catatonic. Their Leader Celestia (What name is that?) then comes-out fully...They will save humanity from itself by forcing the change, but with the excuse of the humans declaring war on Equestria first because they are savage war-mongers."
"...But why I am here? Why I was not consumed?" Alex finally asked aloud what was nagging his mind ever since he woke-up.
"That would be because of me. I needed you to not die so to speak with you." a new voice said amused.
"Who-no. WHAT the fuck are you?" Alex asked turning his hands in the sharp blades of his Claw Form.
"Name's Discord. And I have a job for you." the mismatched creature, sporting parts of different creatures in place of what he was supposed to have, answered smirking.
"A job?...I am listening." Alex said with narrowed eyes.
"I want you to stop this war between Ponies and Humans." Discord said simply.
A long silence fell between the two filled only by the warcries of the two races, the gunfire and the agony screams of either wounded horses or mid-conversion humans.
"Stop this war? Anything easier? Like finding El Dorado, The Graal or Atlantis?" the Living Virus asked sarcastically.
"You want a different task? Then tell me who's best between Coca Cola, Pepsi and Dr. Pepper." The creature countered with a challenging tone.
"Stopping the war it is then. But WHY the embodiment of Chaos and Discord wants me to stop all this to begin with?" Alex asked coldly.
"And how do you know who I am?" Discord asked back very curious, before snapping his fingers and turning the missile flying towards them into a toaster Alex then kicked back at the chopper making the thing start falling down without control.
"I consumed a pony, he knew something about you, so now I know too." the man answered.
"Uhu! You steal memories too other than Magic then..." the Draconequus replied impressed.
"I steal their body as well, and sorry but I don't believe in Magic, that would be giving the middle finger to what I believe about Science and the Laws of Physics, Nature and Common Sense." Alex said annoyed.
"All laws that are ssoooo out of style too!" Discord said as he somehow came out from Alex ear to circle his body until he remained standing and giving the man a one-armed hug.
"Please get to the point." the Living Virus begged groaning.
"I want you to stop this for a reason: I do NOT condone genocide." Discord said with a grave tone.
"Xenocide. We are talking about the WHOLE human race, not just a 'sub-group'." Alex said as both walked to sit on the side of the rooftop and watch the massacre unfolding under them.
"The fact remains that I do not like this." the Draconequus answered unfazed.
"This is Chaos, Disharmony. And you do not like it?" the other asked.
"I like the chaos where people and pony survive. Not ONCE somebody died after I finished with them, even in my worst moments. The worst I did was turning a few into statues, but contrary to when it happened with me, they were not conscious nor could they tell they were trapped in stone, and after I broke free the first time, I had always made sure of that. It is not a nice feeling."
"I have a passing memory of you 'grilling' ponies too." Alex said nonplussed.
"The fire was cold. If I can make so that clouds rain chocolate and turn LIVING rabbits in bunny slippers, I can very well make cold fire...In fact, I can testify that the ones depicted on that glass panel in Celestia's palace were all ponies that instead of burning marks came down with the flu." Discord answered huffing.
"Then why are you not stopping this yourself?" Alex asked.
"Do you see that mare?" he answered pointing in a far away point in the horizon.
"Where?"
Sigh! "Wait, I am zooming the image." the creature answered grabbing...Space and enlarging pointer and thumb on it as if enlarging a picture on a tablet making a winged horse with a horn (Alicorn, the consumed memories supplied) appear before them.
"Is that...Celestia?" he tried saying, while also ignoring every scientists he ever consumed cry in agony for all the laws of physics that had just been raped by Discord as if it was nothing.
"Personally surveying this attack, if I even just sigh too close to her soldiers I will have the Elements of Harmony on my tail instantaneously and I will be back to decorate her garden as a statue." he answered.
"Elements of Harmony." Ale said nodding as he already knew what the other was implying.
Six mares (teenagers, even) holding the condensed power of Harmony itself, practically something out of a kid-show since it meant they could shot friendship at their enemy.
"I am an entity of Chaos, and those things are my exact opposite, as long as they exist and the Bearers listen to whatever Celestia says as if God's gospel, I will have to limit myself."
"Want me to kill them?" Alex proposed simply, kinda surprised to see the other turn to glare at him fiercely.
"I would like you not to. Unless you want to cease to exist." he hissed coldly.
"Are they your friends?" the Living Virus asked.
"..." the other simply looked away and refused to answer.
"Yes they are then, no need to vocally confirm it. Any other reason you want me to help the humans? I do not exactly like them myself."
"I don't want my brethren to disappear..."
"I beg you pardon?" Alex asked confused.
"Being of Chaos." Discord said pointing at himself.
"Being of Harmony." he then said pointing at Celestia.
"...Beings of Chaos." he pointed at Mercer and then at the humans.
"We? Chaos?" Alex asked.
"One of the reasons Celestia wants humans gone, the others is still too soon for me to disclose." the other answered getting up.
"No. you are not going anywhere without telling me what you want from me." Alex said growling.
Sigh! "So be it." the Draconequus said making Celestia's image disappear.
"Celestia is trying to bring here her ponies, all of them and a great part of their territory, forcefully annexing those pieces of land to the Earth."
"Okay..."
"The Barrier you see down there, that pink dome of energy, is 'overwriting' a portion of human territory with Equestrian equivalents, that barrier is 'making room' for a piece of Equestria to be brought here, soon more barriers will appear to teleport pieces of the pony kingdom here." Discord explained.
"Then why it is expanding?" Ale asked as he could tell from the soldier's memories that a month ago the dome he could see outside the city used to be smaller.
"The expansion is artificial, the dome was not supposed to enlarge, Celestia is using it to both defend her ponies and 'delete' humans, that is why the conversion is the only way to survive it." Discord answered.
"She is bringing Harmony-based beings in a Chaotic environment, contaminating the system. One of the two needs to be 'formatted' in a way to sustain the system, and she is forcing our native one to change to accommodate Equestria instead of the other way around."
"Exactly, and I like it here. Here there is Chaos Magic in the air, I would almost not need to be chaotic to exist, but I would do it all the same because I enjoy bringing chaos." Discord explained smiling as he made every soldier, pony and human alike, stop fighting to just dance the macarena while wearing mariachi costumes.
"This should stop other deaths, and since I attacked both, hopefully Celly won't be too mad at me."
"We have Chaos Magic here?" the Virus asked surprised.
"Yep! You have it and you can't use it, and that is a pity let me tell you, and even if I feel more powerful than ever HERE, I would not trade it for what I have in Equestria. But I fear there are some plans of Celestia for this place I will not like. And I need you to stop this madness." he asked.
"How?"
"By the looks of it...In three months Celestia will finish turning enough humans into ponies to force the ones remaining to surrender and accept being turned to not succumb. Then their Conversion will forcibly stop them from expressing their resentment. What Celestia's Dear Student Twilight didn't have the courage to admit is that her potion does not Erase the negative traits, it suppresses them in a way that the New-Foals won't be able to express them. They won't lose themselves, but they won't be able to really fight back either. Then the Barrier will make a rapid passage on the whole planet to be sure nobody remained human and the final stages of her plan will begin with the arrival of the first ponies from Equestria." Discord explained.
"...And Dana?" Alex asked in dread.
"She willingly took the Conversion Serum, she said that humanity took away her brother twice: once by killing him and the second time by turning him into a monster, she resents humanity for turning you into a monster twice. She is okay and has not been forced, once done I suggest you two talk." Discord answered.
"I see...What is the plan then?" the other asked sighing.
"As I said, the Final Phase of Celestia's plan won't start until the total conversion of this planet is completed, I want you to stop THAT final phase from happening. By now is too late to save Humanity from conversion, but you can help me create a Safe Haven for the New-foals to return Humanity to its old beauty...Sure with ponies bodies, but everything else will be as if this never happened, if we do a good job I will be free to also give back to the Converted what the potion suppressed, but not the body as I doubt those would not break apart in the new Harmonious/Chaotic hybrid Magic of this place."
"All this so that you will have Chaotic Magic to feed yourself without disseminating discord?" Alex asked unconvinced.
"As I told you already, I see much similarities between Humans and me, so I would hate them to truly be gone."
"What about Heller? He would be more motivated than me to save the humans."
"The coward?! The darned idiot only focused on protecting his daughter and turning uncaring for the others, as long as they were together the world could have burned for all he cared!" Discord replied growling.
"I find it hard to believe."
"He never said that openly, but I could see it inside his spirit. So I removed the Virus from him turning him into a human, I forced both him and his daughter to drink the Serum and unceremoniously (and literally) kicked them through the Barrier. If they only cared for themselves then they could do it as ponies." the Draconequus answered with a tone of pure vitriol.
"..." Alex stood in silence as he digested the thing, surprised by both outburst and how easy it was for the creature to dispatch the Virus he was made off.
"I want you to go through the Barrier, find a cozy place and wait for total Conversion of Humanity to happen. In the meantime study what you need to know about Luna and Celestia and how to create the Haven for the New-Foals. I will take care to not have more dead popping-up by pretending to help Celestia in exchange of not being imprisoned." Discord said.
"That I can do, if the new Magic that she is bringing here is dangerous for humans just like radiation...I fear we'll have no other choice than to live the Conversion happen. Anything else?"
"The Elements Bearers I forbid you to kill, maim, Consume and the like. They are off-limits, they MUST stay alive, I will deal with the source of the power of the Elements themselves by myself."
"Want me to kill Celestia and her sister?" the Living Virus asked making the other cringe.
"Let's leave that as a last resort if things REALLY get bad and we have no choice, but Luna is clearly following Celestia's plan against her will, so I will be more lenient with her at least."
"Okay. How am I supposed to pass the Barrier?" Mercer asked.
"It was made to repel Humans and human weapons, but even if you are a 'Bio-Weapon' per se...You think, you feel and you can reason by yourself...You are alive. And I saw you consume and turn into a pegasus. If you stay transformed the Barrier won't hurt you, and once inside, you will be able to do as you please."
"You DO know that I will have to Consume AT LEAST once an earth pony and a unicorn so to at least have a base from which create a new identity every time I need?" Alex said coldly.
"Create?"
"You people have a more malleable DNA than Humans, I just need to change pigmentation of fur, mane and eyes to blend-in. I think I can even fake a Cutie-mark with enough practice. If I can create a hoodie with real pockets, I can create a tattoo that should tell people what my talent is supposed to be."
"..."
Sigh! "I do not like murder. But I guess it will come to it all the same...I will give you a list of ponies I would like you to NOT use as snack." Discord said making a piece of paper appear in Mercer's hands.
"Feeling desperate to ask a monster like me for help, eh?" he asked with a mirthless chuckle.
"It's either this and have few victims or see what I thought was my friend commit the ultimate sin and erase a whole race. I will contact you as soon as I learn more about Celestia's plans and motivations." Discord answered as he covered Alex' mouth with a hand to force him to swallow something.
"That was Heller's Virus. I think you will need the extra power-up." he said before popping away like a soap bubble.
"BLEARGH! YOU BASTARD!" Mercer screamed in rage as he barely stopped himself from puking while he subconsciously absorbed the altered strand of Blacklight.
As he saw Celestia finally approach to stop the impromptu dancing session of Humans and Ponies, Alex' body broke down into shapeless bio-mass and then recompacting into the same pegasus soldier he had Consumed, sans the armour but with the hoodie.
"Here goes nothing." he muttered as he gave a tentative flap of his new wings to see them work and his flying unobstructed high in the sky.
Flying extremely low to not be seen by the furious Alicorn coming to fix Discord latest joke, the Living Virus slowly made his way towards the Barrier, and once tentatively touched it to no ill effect he plunged inside, as he was told moving unharmed through Celestia's ultimate defense thanks to his being recognized by it as a real Pony.
"This needs more investigation..." he muttered curious as he made his way towards his first destination, Manehattan city.
"God, so mane bad horse puns for names...Who named those places?" He thought grimacing as he took altitude while already trying to understand where to play around with the Pegasus DNA he had in store to change fur colour and the like…
Failed that, he will return to his old Modus Operandi: Consume whoever he needed to blend-in and every time he needed a new identity; as long as he respected Discord's 'Do not Kill' surprisingly long list, he had nothing to worry about from the mismatched creature.
"Done this new good deed, I will become a hermit somewhere hard to reach and Consume whoever tries to disturb me! I need a vacation!" he said annoyed.
The nerve of those horses! Forcing Humanity to change what they were so to fit THEIR view of perfection through DNA and Mind manipulating formulas that would technically erase what they didn't like of Humanity! It was Preposterous! Maddening! Monstrous! Unforgiv…
"...Shit it's my exact same plan only with Ponies instead of Blacklight Virus!" Alex cursed with a low voice as he FINALLY caught the irony of him of all people being tasked with stopping Celestia's plan.
"Hey you! This is no place for civilians!" a Unicorn guard yelled annoyed under him.
"Do you have a wife? Marefriend?"
"No I am single, why?" the lone soldier asked.
"I hate to leave behind widows." Alex answered before pouncing on the guard to Consume him, he needed it both for the Unicorn DNA and for quench his annoyance at his predicament.
Okay! I am no good at first chapters unfortunately, I never was good at setting-up things before making them 'evolve', but I hope this was acceptable all the same.
As I said, the Conversion will happen, there will be very little victims of the war (thanks to Discord) and the story will focus on Mercer 'Removing' the more unsavory elements of both Pony and Human side as he tries to "Rebuild" human civilization adapting it to the new pony-shaped humans.
All the potion does is SUPPRESSING negative traits, it doesn't erase them.
The catatonic New-Foals will eventually heal once Discord gives them back their Negative Traits.
The story focus on Alex Mercer, the whole 'Humanity VS Ponies', 'Conversion' and the like will be more back-ground elements, catalysts of Alex' actions and kills.
I plan to have sections at the end of each chapter called "Tea with Discord" where Alex and Discord talk about what is happening, in there I will gradually give more back-story, details and explanations about what is happening in-story.
Why? I wanted to do things differently.
Thank you for reading my new story, I hope I will be able to continue it, and do it justice!
Please have mercy.