Applejack looked up at mare. "Why?"
"Oh, Applejack... you know we can't have anymore of these diseased freaks running around Ponyville."
"F-fuck you! I ain't like them whatso-" She didn't get to finish. Mare embedded the cleaver into Applejack's neck, and pulled it back, slicing it much more. Applejack fell to the ground, unmoving. Mare then turned to Applebloom.
"Your sister was quite loud. I hope you'll take it much more quietly."
"Fuck you," Applebloom merely hissed. Mare shook her head, and raised the cleaver over her head. She was stopped, however, as she screamed loudly, feeling a sharp pain near her side. She turned around, and saw a white earth colt, biting into her abdomen. The colt, eyes bloodred, stopped biting the abdomen, and went for Mare's neck now. He tore a large chunk out, causing Mare's throat to leak blood profusely. She fell to the ground, choking. The colt continued to chomp on Mare's neck, until she finally stopped struggling, and ceased movement, staining the floor. The colt turned to Applebloom, his eyes returning to the pale blue they used to be.
"Are you insane!?" Applebloom interrogated.
"For what? Saving your life? You're welcome, by the way," Eric replied, not very pleasantly. He turned to Applejack, as well as Applebloom, who looked on in morosity. "I'm sorry..."
Applebloom looks on, not moving. "No... it's just... I don't even feel anythin' anymore."
"I know..." Eric turns to his own cells, where Sweetie Belle and Fluttershy emerged. They turned to the two bodies, and back to Eric, who was wiping his muzzle with his hoof, staining his hide around his foreleg.
"Eric, what did I tell you about biting ponies?" Fluttershy scolded.
"She got Applejack, Fluttershy! I should have ripped her face off!" Eric roared, his eyes flashing red again. Fluttershy cowered a bit, trembling and backing away from Eric.
A hissing noise emerged from the door to the cells as it lifted, and Scootaloo entered to find the scene. She turned to Mare's corpse, and smirked at it. "Good riddance." She turned to the others, her eyes showing wear. "Fluttershy... I need help with Rainbow." Fluttershy nodded, and exited the cell along with the others, finding Dinky and Derpy already tending to an annoyed Rainbow.
"Derpy, I told you, muffins are not going to help me or my wing!" Rainbow shouted, before wincing and cradling her wing stump.
Fluttershy turns to Rainbow, and lightly touches it. "Rainbow, don't flap your stump. It's not gonna make your wing move."
Rainbow turns to it, and sighs. She stops flapping, and pouts. "Damn Mare... cutting my wing... killing Applejack... I'm glad she's burning in hell right now."
"Now, Dashie, don't you use that tone." Fluttershy continued to tend to Rainbow's wound. "I wonder how the others are doing..."
Umbreus leads Lyra, Bonbon, Colgate, Cheerilee, Alan, and Draco to the sewers back to Ponyville. He looks up at the grate leading to the alley, and turns to Draco. "That thing's heavy... and I was going to ask you to push it..."
Draco turns to his own stump. "Yeah, I get ya. So what do we do?"
Umbreus ponders. "Well, if you can carry one of the mares on your back, we can probably get her to use all of her legs to open the sewer."
Draco nods, and turns to them. "OK. So who's the lucky lady?"
Cheerilee steps up. Draco lowers himself, allowing her to clamber onto his back. He turns to the ladder leading up to the grate, and begins to scale it. Without both appendages, the climb takes much longer than it would be. After three minutes, Draco finally reaches the few last bars, and opens his wings to provide a platform for Cheerilee. She lays down on his wings, and uses all of her legs to push upwards against the grate, straining as she does. She stops for air, panting, before she tries again. The grate, feeling much lighter the second try, lifts up with ease...
And Draco and Cheerilee see why. A hoof reached into the grate, gray, rotten, and musk. Cheerilee released the grate, and kicked back at the hoof, panicking. With one of her strikes, she instead hits Draco, square on the side of the head. Draco feels the kick hit hard, and he loses his grip on the ladder, falling down the manhole towards the sewers.
He landed hard on his back, his back arching as pain rose from his spine. "Gah! Fuck!" he exclaimed, cringing. He stood up, and turned to where he landed. He saw Cheerilee, remaining much more calm about the pain than Draco did... until he saw why. She gazed emptily overhead, blood trickling in the corner of her muzzle. Draco groaned in repulse, and saw the grate above being lifted, and the undead revealing their maws. "RUN! FUCKING RUN!" he shouted to the others.
Umbreus nodded, and he lifted Alan onto his back. The others followed him back through the sewers. Draco stood up, clutching his back. He pulled out his Boomstick, and opened the chambers. He found both loaded. He checked his pockets, and found only two shells remaining inside. He sighed, and followed the trail of the others back towards the safe room as the undead found their way into the sewers...
"I'm not gonna fly out of here..." Rainbow said begrudgingly. She stands up, and walks with a slight limp. "And I really, really hate to admit this... but we gotta head back to Ponyville."
"No... you have to head back to Ponyville..." Eric replied calmly. The others turned to him.
"W-what do you mean? What about you?" Sweetie Belle asked with concern.
"I'm tired of running from something I can't escape from. My reckoning will come forth soon..." Eric spoke, his eyes morose but teary.
"Please... don't say that..." Sweetie Belle replies meekly.
"You can still go and try to live, Sweetie... but... I'm not."
Sweetie tries to speak up yet again, but Fluttershy stops her. "Are you sure about this? I mean, I think you are but I just want to be sure you're sure."
"I'm sure."
Fluttershy lifts a misty eyed Sweetie Belle, as well as Applebloom, onto her back, and she nods. Derpy lifts Dinky and Scootaloo onto hers. "OK, Eric. When we get to town... I promise to come back..." Fluttershy states.
Eric simply nods, not bothering to argue. Fluttershy then leads the way into the sewers, followed by Derpy and Rainbow. He slowly returns to his cell, and sits beside Applejack's corpse. "I'm sorry I couldn't stop her in time... maybe in the next life... it's much better."
Umbreus galloped full speed through the sewage, the others close behind him. "Come on! The safe rooms are two corridors down! If we hurry, we can get in without..." he slows his sentence to a stop as he comes across the scene of a scrap amongst a yellow Pegasus and a unicorn with a chainsaw. He backs up, terrified. "Everypony... back away slowly... and they might not notice us..." he whispered to the others behind him.
The unicorn thrust the chainsaw forward, while the Pegasus quickly parried the blow. The Pegasus, holding two hatchets, swung both his wings down onto the unicorn, missing by mere millimeters. The unicorn saw its chance, and used the chainsaw again to pierce the Pegasus's left hoof. "GAH!" the Pegasus reacts.
Umbreus twitches his ears, and recognizes the voice. He sets Alan off his back, and charges forward with his katana, slicing the forelegs off the unicorn. Before he could strike again, the unicorn vanished. Umbreus turned to Magnus. "Leon! Thank Celestia you're safe!" He then sees Magnus's bleeding hoof, and begins to wrap it. Magnus looks upwards.
"Pinkie... it's safe now."
Pinkie Pie unveils her eyes and ears, and looks around to find the others with Umbreus. "Hey, everypony!" She turns to see Magnus being bandaged by Umbreus, and recognizes him as a Changeling. "Not so fast, evildoer!" She reaches into the pack Magnus had, and takes out a rubber chicken. She then commences to beat Umbreus with the chicken, not causing much damage but still bringing pain nonetheless.
"Hey! Quit it!" Umbreus orders, crouching and covering his head with his wing.
"Pinkie, stop. He's my friend," Magnus clarifies. Pinkie turns to him, then to Umbreus, and then back to Manus.
"Okey-dokey-lokey..." she says suspiciously, keeping an eye on Umbreus. Magnus finally sees the bandage tighten. He stands up, feeling a sharp pain as he does from his hoof.
"The hell happened to that unicorn?"
"I don't know... but it wasn't the same one we saw at the dam. That one wasn't burnt."
"Man, watch out for that one! The bastard's still using his magic even after being scorched and losing his jaw."
Magnus twitches his ears. "Wait... the unicorns can still use magic?"
Draco nods, and realizes what Magnus's concern was. The unicorn, missing the flesh from its forelegs but retaining the bone, reappeared behind Umbreus. The unicorn bites into his wing, causing it to cripple and retreat at his side. Umbreus, struggling to retain his pain, succeeds in hiding his agony, and turns around. He uses his horn to blast a large beam of blue light at the unicorn, hitting its head and causing its entire cranium to explode onto him. Umbreus checks his bite, and shakes his head. "Hey, how long do I have before I become one of those things?"
"About an hour or so," Magnus replies.
"OK. Leon, the safe room should be down this door... ow... and then the last door on the left. Can't miss it." He bends down to the unicorn's corpse.
"What are you gonna do?" Magnus interrogated.
"I'm gonna do something you really don't want Alan to see. Just take him, head inside, and regroup with the others."
Magnus nodded, and lifted Alan onto his back. He entered the damaged door, leading the others inside. Umbreus shut the door behind them, and returned to the unicorn's corpse. "Can't believe you actually got me..." he says with enthusiasm, pulling out his shorter blade. He turned the weapon so that the blade faced him, and thrust it into his stomach. He winced, but spoke again. "I have failed to resist the opposing forces. They have captured me, but I will not give in to them. I shall remain faithful, Equestria." He drags the embedded blade along his waistline, revealing a portion of his insides. He kneels down now, his groans now yells. He stops before making the final incision. "I-I'm sorry, Cloud..." He then lifts the hilt upward to his chest, whereupon he falls over afterwards.
"Come on, it's just this..." Magnus stops as he feels something slam into him.
"Ow..." he hears a meek voice complain.
He looks up, seeing Fluttershy rub her cheek. "Fluttershy, don't go back there!"
"Why not?"
"Those things are coming. Come on... we have to go back to the safe room."
Fluttershy nods, and turns around. "Rainbow, Derpy, we have to head back."
Rainbow Dash claps her hooves together. "Ha! I was right! Ponyville isn't safe!"
"Yeah, now's not the time to gloat, RD!" Lyra argued.
Rainbow nods, and heads back into the safe room with the others. "Pinkie! I thought... well... you know..."
"That I was a party crasher like those guys? As if!" she replies excitedly.
They shut the door behind them, and sit down, exhausted. "As long as we stay here... we can find out how to get out of here."
Eric looks up to Magnus. "Wait... why?"
"We head to Canterlot. We go there, we head to the castle, and we sort this out. We're so close now... we can't give up now..."
Eric shakes his head. "No... you don't understand... in a few minutes..."
"We'll be out of here! Isn't that great!?" Alan cheered.
"No, it's not that! It's-" he is stopped by a beam of light behind him. He turns around, and finds a charred unicorn standing before them. The unicorn, merely glaring at them, uses his horn once more. As it glows, his severed muzzle growing something white from his upper jaw. As it grew, it curved medially, meeting end from end at the middle. In a matter of seconds, Wesker grew himself a new mandible, his tongue being replaced into his mouth. He grinds his teeth together, creating a terrible grating noise as he did.
"That's... better..." he hissed slowly. The others raised their weapons towards him. He showed no fear, merely lifting a hoof up to halt them. It worked, and they hesitated firing. "You... will bow... before me... or die trying..."
"W-what?" Derpy quivers.
Wesker points to Draco. "Not... you..." With that, he fires a beam of light towards Draco, striking him in the chest and leaving a large scorch mark on it. Draco, breathless, falls to the ground, breathing raspily. The others turn back to Wesker in shock.
"I... I am... I am your ruler... your king... bow... down..." Wesker rasped out.
The others did no such surrender. They pulled out their weapons, and readied them. Wesker merely grinned, gritting his teeth as he did. "Die... trying..."