It was a good morning. The usual Friendship Express traveled toward Dodge City. The usual everyday journey where the passegers were going toward their destination and the weather was good. A very normal and bright day.
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Except when the locomotive was suddenly overturned in mid air by some unknow force blowing it away with it's own wagons. The passengers were slamming against the wall and the floor depending of the rotation. All of this continued until the whole train abruptly crashed on the ground, causing a cloud of dust briefly rising from the impact.
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It's a miracle that the train hasn't exploded, but the damage was still critical. Some of the passengers were injured, and some of them had probably died from that incident. The driver was critically injured as well.
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A crowd of ponies coming from the afar were slowly marching toward the train, looking at it with a worried look and obviously wondering what happened. There are only earth ponies and pegasi in the group, with a some of them being Royal Guards, just arrived in time to rescue the passengers.
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The ponies trotted toward the train and stooped nearby it. A guard pegasus observed the train, looking from his left, then slowly turning toward his right. Hearing the murmuring voices going from behind him, he turned toward them ponies from behind him with a stern look.
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"Guys! What are you doing there!? They need some help! Move it!" ordered the pegasus as the ponies were gathering around the train while following the instructions of his colleagues.
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The pegasus looked back at the train and scanned the wagons.
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He and the other guards noticed some of the passengers slowly emerging from the windows facing upwards. Some of theme were struggling to deal with their injuries as they were lifting themselves until they managed to reach the top. A few of them couldn't endure their pain and fell to the ground.
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They were literally battered, and some of them were bleeding as result of that incident. The same could be said for the driver who emerged from the window of the locomotive, in pain and with his face half covered in blood. The pegasus guard immidiately ordered two of his subordinates to help him out as he briefly looked at the guards with a confused look before he passed out and flopped back to the locomotive.
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"HEEY!" suddenly called a female voice coming from his right.
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He turned to see who spoke only to find two really injured mare standing on the top of one of the wagons: a orange maned yellow pegasus and a red maned purple earth pony
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His face contorted in shock and preocuppation for their conditions.
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The first one was bleeding from her forehead and her battered wings, and the other one was holding herself in pain and bleeding a bit from her mouth.
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"Please! We need a help!" said the yellow pegasus.
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"I know!" replied the guard pegasus. "I will give you a hand, but what happened?"
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"I don't know-Aaarg!" moaned the yellow pegasus. "My wings hurts... Me and Candle Whisp we're simply waiting to reach our stop when the train was suddenly flipped upside down... Ugh!... You see? My wings are all beated up as result of this... incident... Candle is not fine either."
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"I can feel some of my ribbs being broken-aaaah!" said purple mare being Candle. "Please, Feather Ring. I won't ask you to bring me down, but you had to
help me-aaaaaah!"
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"Resist a little bit." said Feather to Candle before turning her head toward the guard pegasus.
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"Please, you had to help her."
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"I will help her. Can you get down on your own?" said the guard pegasus.
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"I-i don't know. I will try." said hesitantly Feather as she forcefully flapped her wings.
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She slowly flew nearby his position and lowered toward the ground while trying to ingnore the pain that was stinging into his wings. She let out a loud pained moan after her landing a the guard approached her.
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"Relax. Take some rest." said the guard.
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"Thanks... Now we had to get her." said Feather.
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"Yes... if you can, please." said meekly Candle.
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"Don't worry. It will took-"
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A sudden red wall briefly flashed in front of the pegasus eyes, interrupting his sentence. Both the guard pegasus and Feather were just puzzled as they couldn't understand what happened.
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"Hey, boss!" called another guard pegasus flying in front of the locomotive. "We tried to enter the locomotive, but this invisible barries is preventing us to enter!"
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He then tried to put his hoof inside the locomotive only to be propelled back by red wall flashing once more.
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The guard pegasus standing in front of Feather was even more puzzled as he then looked at Feather with a surprised look.
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"W-what is it?" said confused Feather.
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"That doesn't make any sense." said the guard pegasus. "You are stading out of the train without any problem, so why we can't enter?"
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"I don't know. Is this some kind of magic?"
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"I wish i could know that. But i-"
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He interrupted his sentence as he was noticing glowing at his left. He turned his head toward the red glow, finding two red stones laying to the ground nearby the train.
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The guard pegasus turned his attention back to Feather. His expression suddenly became a grim one. The other ponies of the group outside the train, Royal Guards or not, looked at her with the same grim expression as his.
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Feather started to feel uncomfortable as their glances were piercing her own eyes. She backsteped in awe. Candle was watching the scene from the top of the wagon, mentally questioning.
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"What is wrong with them?!" yelled Candle in her mind.
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"W-why are you looking at me like that? Is there something wrong?" said a little scared Feather.
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"How did you know who we really are?" said the guard pegasus with a grim tone.
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"W-what are you talking about?" replied Feather, starting to panicking.
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"Please, don't play dumb with me... These red stone are yours, aren't they!? They are preventing us to enter the train!" said the guard pegasus gesturing the red stones.
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"No! They are not mine! Why would i do such a thing!?"
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"You better collaborate!" said the guard pegasus suddenly grabbing Feather by her neck.
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"L-let me go!"
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Suddenly two silver sphere flew off from a window of wagon nearby the one where Candle was standing and bursted in mid air in a explosion of violet liquid that rained on the area around the train.
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For Feather, Candle and the other passengers it seemed like normal water, but for the guard ponies and the other ones outside the train was a different story as they backstepped and started scream in pain while their bodies started to emit large pilars of steams.
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Feather cowered her nose with both her hooves due to the smell being that of a rotten corpse that has already surpassed the Post Mortem phase. She also closed her eyes due to the steam almost going into her eyes.
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The rest of the passengers including Candle was watching the scene. Some of them commented the scene loudly, while the others screamed in fear.
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"Oh my gosh!"
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"LOOK AT THEM!"
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Not knowing what is going on, she slowly opened her eyes as the ponies in front of her were moaning in a chilling chorus. Feather forced her sight to steer. What she saw was a horryfying visage. She screamed in horror as the skin on the pegasus Royal Guard and the other ponies was melting.
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Overtaken by panic, she forced her wing to flap like crazy, ignnoring the pain that they are causing to her and insisting to flying back to the top of the flipped wagon.
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She wasn't the only one. Some of the passengers were withrawing inside of the wagon in panic, trying to hid in some place that they could retain safe for them.
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She landed nearby Candle and let out a pained moan before returning her attention to the ponies... who weren't normal ponies at all. Even Candle and the rest of the passengers were astounded by this creepy scene.
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After a while, the steam finally dissipate, revealing the ponies nearby the train in their own horryfying form.
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They were alive, but they look like dead. The looked undead to the eyes of the passengers. Stitches and some wounds exposing some organs, muscle tissues, veins, arteries, or bones, depending of the "pony" were visible. But that wasn't the only scary detail. Each one has also a implanted weapon or enhanced body part coming out of their bodies.
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The guard pegasus in particular has now strange wings resembling giant axes, claws in the place of his hooves and a electric spear protunding out of his head. The rest of the body was just full of stitches and the muscle tissues on the left part of his head being exposed. The same goes for the opened wound exposing the left part of his rib cage and another one showing her right hoof's bone.
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Another example was a earth mare with spiked hooves, three scorpion tails replacing a normal one and a monstrous mouth protunding from her chest. A large wound on her back exposed a piece of her spine and a small one showed a piece of her ribb cage.
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The rest of them was equally so disgusting that Feather and Candle didn't even bother to memorize each one of them.
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The passengers simply watched in fear as the creatures started to slam against the invisible red wall that was flashing and every hit. The seemed intentioned to take the passengers as their preys.
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One of them gestured them to stop as the now monstrous guard pegasus lifted his head toward the passengers, glaring at them as his face contorted with ferocity.
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"WHO DOES THAT!?" screamed him in anger.
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As the remaining passengers stepped back in fear, somepony emerged from the wagon nearby were Feather and Candle were on and landed in bipedal position on the ground, in front of the monsters, carrying something huge on her back.
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The passengers were just baffled by the ponies approaching them since they looked horrendous to their eyes.
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The monster ponies, on other hooves, were just surprised to see her. They seemed to know what they are dealing with.
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It was a violet earth mare with a long black mane and a Cutey Mark depicting a strange blue strawberry, carrying a huge bag on her back.
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The mare looked at them with a unnatural calm as she put down her bag and rummaged inside of it.
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She then pulled out something that the monsters seemed to recognize. Something very dreadful. Something so dangerous and so heavy that a normal pony couldn't even manange to wield this easily, not even Applejack or Machintosh themselves in term of comparison.
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A very long giant chainsaw.
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And a very particular with a two handles: a normal handle bar and a multi rotatable rear handles. It has also three buttons to program the chainsaw for some unknown functions.
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Her upseting calm expression was suddenly repleaced with a very dreadful one invoking that of a controlled savage fury.
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As she quickly pulled it's own starting cord, the giant chainsaw revved, and it's blade started to rotate frantically. But those blade weren't just normal ones. These were pointed and sharped blades, designed for one thing:
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Slay every enemy in it's way.
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"What are you waiting for!? Just bring it already!" roared the violet mare as thirteen of the ungodly creatures rushed toward her.
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Normaly, nopony can possibly move a chainsaw of that size or even use it this quickly It would leave her exposed to any surprise attack.
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But this mare manages to deliver a quick horizontal swing with her long giant chainsaw while holding it with both her hooves by the handle bar and the rear handle respectively despite it's weight, like it was a straight sword.
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And unfortunately for the attackers who were almost reaching her, they were in the long range of her chainsaw and were immediately butchered in that one quick swing before they could touch her.
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Sliced body parts, bones, organs and blood were scattered on the ground as they briefly screamed in pain.
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She dashed toward the other creature who were charging her with such agility despite the weight of her weapon. A great number of them quicly surrounded her and tried assault her in circle.
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This time there are several Royal Guard monstrosities among them. Maybe their armor can save these ones from being tore apart.
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But they got ripped into shreds with their armors by her performing a spinning slice with her chainsaw. Their armor weren't enough. Her giant chainsaw can even cut through freaking metal.
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Other of them continued to attack her, but they were outmatched by her unnatural combat abilities and ways to use her weapons.
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A female pegasus with a missing eye and two electric rods instead of her hooves exploited the violet mare's apparent distraction to quickly dive toward her and electrify her.
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The mare perceived her presence without even and quickly thrusted the pegasus' body with her chainsaw before slamming with her currently tortured and mangled up body against two of them rushing in front of her in a overhead slash, shredding her in the process.
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As she pulled her chainsaw away from the corpse of, the earth mare with the spiked hooves arrived toward her from her left and throwed her three scorpion stings on her.
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The violet mare leaped away from their trajectory backward while severing the scorpion tails in a swing. The creature yelled, but then suppressed it, trying to ignore her pain and leaped toward her prey with her monstrous other mouth wide opened.
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But the word "prey" was a euphemism since the violet mare delivered a quick vertical swing right before the monstrous mouth of the creature was going to swallow her, severing up the monstrous mare's flesh and insides. As it was happening in some kind of brief slow motion, the inequine mare's divided body passed through the calmly intimidating chainsaw armed mare while the blood splatter on the chainsaw and a bit of her face.
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As the two body pieces finally fell on the ground, she suddenly heard a sound of a storm coming from her left. The violet mare turned toward the source, only to find the inequine guard pegasus, flying above the train and shooting from afar a stream of electricity from the spear that was protunding from his forehead.
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She leaped away from the lighting strike while took the handle of her chainsaw with her teeth before she returned in four legged position.
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Furious as he was, he charged his spear with electrical energy and started to dash in mid air toward her.
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"So you are the one who destroyed our disguise! Feel my wrath and DIE!" said the monstrous guard pegasus.
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She pressed some button hidden on the rubber cover part of the handle with her teeth, making the chainsaw's blade part goes into the the vertical position and ran toward him right before he shoot a lightning on her, dodging the attack.
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As he shoot another lightning stream, the violet makes a high jump toward him to avoid the strike while reaching him and performing a rolling circular slash that instantly shredded his body in two while avoiding his electric horn, causing him to fall into the same death inflicted to the divided mare.
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The mare landed the same moment which the splitted sides of the guard's body fell to the ground with the blood and some organs.
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She pressed the button once more, returning her chainsaw's blade part into it's horizontal position, dropped her chainsaw and instantly catching it by gripping it from the handles with her hooves.
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She stood up again in bipedal position as five of them tried attack her from behind. The mare noticed that and turned toward them in a circular swing, tearing their bodies, bones and insides, and make their divided body parts falling to the ground as they screamed.
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"Get the hell out of my sight, you lot!" screamed in annoyance the violet mare.
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For a moment, the mare briefly looked at the fallen severed upper body of one of the creatures. It was a purple maned yellow mare with two pruding scythes impanted in her hooves, her opened left cheek revealing her inside of her mouth and her exposed ribb cage. A unnatural freak like the other ones, but with one exception.
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The violet mare knows who she is, but not in the condition in which she is now. But she doesn't feel any sadness, sorrow, anger and not even emphaty toward her.
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She knew that this would happen.
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The violet mare then perceives something coming from above her. A equally monstrous blue maned red female pegasus was flying above her, armed with column shaped metal clubs protuding from her hooves.
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Her wings' bones were bulging out of her skin and her rib cage being partially exposed.
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"Your behavior cannot be possibly tolerated anymore, Antiblue!" said the pegasus with a severe and yet creepy voice. "You had to accept the new rules that will define Equestria as it will be!"
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"Look, i have no time to hear your lecture, Marine Sapphire." replied bluntly Antiblue.
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The pegasus hoovered higher and flew toward her while delivering a swing with her other club only for the violet mare to duck and avoid being it as her foe passed her over.
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Sapphire corrected her flight route and flew toward Antiblue once more.
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The creature tried to attack her with her implanted metal club, but was nullified by the violet mare severing it with a vertical slice from above that was then instantly followed up by another one from below, shredding the pegasus' body before she could have the time to deliver a blow with the other club.
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Antiblue quickly turned toward the crawling and bleeding upper body of the yellow mare trying to cut her back hoof with one of the pruding scythes from behind, thus she stepped away from her range, avoiding that feeble attempt.
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The yellow mare slowly lifted her head toward her face, making a creepy smile.
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"Cmo'n, Antiblue." said the yellow mare with a amused and yet disturbing tone. "Get killed and be reborn as one of us. Please... do that... in the name... of our... friendship."
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"Sorry, Ruby Honey... But that is not gonna happen!" said Antiblue while slamming her chainsaw against her head, sawing it up and killing her for good.
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Feather, Candle and the rest of the passengers who were watching the whole fight were both astounded and shocked from both Antiblue's unnatural dexterity and brutality as she continued to tear the monsters apart. Some of them couldn't bear the sight of blood and scattered body parts and organ, so they closed their eyes.
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Some of them were exulting a little, and some of them was just a little disgusted, since kill a living creature was against Harmony and their morality. But, since the monsters were trying to kill them, they didn't have much to complain that. The rest of them were yelling for other reasons.
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"GO! DON'T STOP! SHRED THEM UP!"
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"Is that actually ok kill these creatures? Cannot these ones being just arrested or banished to the Tartarus instead of butchring them?"
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"What the heck are you talking about!? None of us has here has the ability to deal with them otherwise! Besides, they tried to kill us, so SHUT UP!"
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"Hey! There's nothing to see there, kids! Fly back into this wagon, now!"
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A female unicorn observed the bloody fight from the flipped window of the wagon. Worried about the mind health of her three unicorn foals, she release her grasp, hoovered toward the floor with her magic and ran toward them.
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"Foals! Cover your eyes! This not a spectacle for-"
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But she couldn't finish her sentence that the three unicorn foals had already covered their eyes with a bandage and plugged their ears with earplugs. All of that done with their magic while smiling toward her, leaving her a little annoyed.
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"Could you just take this situation a little bit seriously?" commented her.
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Antiblue's chainsaw blade part was almost half covered with the blood of the creature as they were literally almost decimated, leaving only their bloodpools, severed limbs, some organs, little boneshards and their severed implanted weapons to fill the battlefield.
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Only two of these monstrous freaks remain.
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One of two that Antiblue was going to kill first was a earth mare with quartz instead of her ears, Antiblue delivered a vertical cut her on her head, starting to splitting it in two with her giant chainsaw, causing the mare to scream in pain.
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"GAAAAAAH-NO!" screamed rebellious the undead mare as she then blocked the chainsaw with both her hooves.
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"You... You stopped it with your hooves!" said impressed Antiblue. "Fine Then!"
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"Blignt on! coeaniing wit meee!"
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As Antiblue struggled to break the mare's resistance, she felt something suddenly coming from behind her.
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She turned her head behind and noticed a flying monstrous pegasus Royal Guard coming toward her with long spear implanted in his hooves pointed on her back, specifically on the zone of her spine since she is currently in bipedal position.
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"Nope!" said Antiblue while performing a upward high jump, causing the spears to thrust through the undead mare's chest and insides instead as the right half of the mare's head detached from it and fell to the ground.
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"WOW! What a big jump!" said surprised Candle from above the wagon.
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"How did she learn to fight like that?!" asked shocked Feather.
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The undead guard pegasus looked above, trying to see were she is as he struggled to pull his spears out of his comarade's corpse. But that wasn't much that he can do since Antiblue dived on him in a slashing drop, violently slamming her chainsaw on their bodies and slicing their fleshes in two during her violent landing while wielding her chainsaw with one hoof. This coup de grace was made even more terrifying by Antiblue's ferocious expression that marked her face as she mercilessly finished off her foe.
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After washing her long giant chainsaw, Antiblue putted it back in her huge bag and watched the aftermath of the fight with a calmer look.
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Only severed limbs, body parts, blood and even death are the only things left in the battlefield.
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The passengers were helping each others to pulling themselves out of the wagons of the trains. Some of them started to bury the corpses of the deceased ones nearby the rails.
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The driver wokes up and watched in horror the result of the slaughter that happened while he was unconscious. Two of the passengeres that saw the fight explained the situation to him, who had a hard time to calm down.
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Feather and Candle reluctantly approached Antiblue as she was wiping the blood from her face with a handchief.
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"Erm... excuse me." said hesintantly Candle. "I-i hate to ask but... You are the one who throwed these water bombs on them?"
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"So what?" replied Antiblue.
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"But... you-"
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"No, i didn't turn them into monsters. I actually exposed their true appearances by destrying their camouflage."
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"What!?"
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"Look." began Feather. "I don't know you and yet in wanted to thank you for saving us... But i can't still-"
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"Condone what i have done to them?" interrupted Antiblue. "Let me put their existence in few words. They were already dead long time ago."
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"W-what do you mean?"
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"You saw them trying to get inside the train and yet cannot pass throug the invisible wall created by these red stones that i previously throwed nearby the train. That wall prevents the undead creatures to go through it. They cannot even pick up the stones since they would be easily blowed away."
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"U-Undead!?" exclaimed shocked Candle.
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"You mean...?" said Feather.
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"Yes. They were undead creatures with no moral or regard toward the living." said Antiblue. "Do you know why this train is flipped upside down?"
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"W-We have no idea." muttered Feather The train was suddenly blowed away in mid air. It was like some sort of magic..."
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"Speaking of magic..." began Antiblue as she walked toward a flipped wagon where the locomotive was before being blowed up, followed by Feather and Candle, who had a hard time to stand due to the pain on her chest continued to sting her.
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"That was indeed magic... But not a spell. Look there." Antiblue gestured to some purple crystal shards scattered inside the rails.
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"W-what are these?" asked confused Candle.
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"These are the fragments of of a Force Repeller." said Antiblue. "It usually allows the user to create a shockwave that propels away anything around him. Probably the train accidentaly crush it under it's wheels and unleashed all magic at once, blowing it in mid air. Who put this inside the rails was intentioned to create this incident."
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Feather and Candle's expressions contorted in fright and confusion.
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"B-but why!?" asked Feather.
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"It's a trap to injure and keep you lot trapped here." continued calmly Antiblue. "Then these undead creature would attack you and retrieve the rest of your corpses. Though they're all beaten now."
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"What..." murmured Candle in disgust before saying "Our corpses?"
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"Who the heck would do this?" said Feather. "And why would they go for this train of all things?"
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"To these monsters you would have looked like a delivery of meat. If i didn't happen to be here, you would've been killed." said bluntly Antiblue.
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"But why they need our bodies!?" yelled Cradle.
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"Please, Candle! Calm down... It's over now." said Feather to Candle, trying to calm her down.
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Candle nooded slowly, and lowered her head without make any eye contact with her. She will have a hard time to calm herself down.
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Feather turned her attention back to Antiblue and tried to confront her.
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"What... are these creatures?" asked hesitantly Feather.
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"... Allow me to ask you something that you will find at first sporadic." said Antiblue. "Didn't you know anything about the murders commited by Pinkie Pie now know as Pinkemena?"
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"Y..Yeah, but what has-"
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"The corpses and body parts of her victims were used by somepony to create Homuncoli who could repleace the said victims. However, these ones are anything but Homuncoli."
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"... You cannot be serious."
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Antiblue gestured to the mangled bodies of the monster ponies scattered to the ground.
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"Look at their stiches. They are dead bodies with other body parts stiched together. And some of their parts are implanted weapons or improved body parts. But let me tell you. Pinkemena's murders allowed this somepony to use their corpses to create the said Homuncoli, who could be classified as undead creatures. otherwise you cannot explain their existence."
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"...?"
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"But she wasn't the only one. This "Alchemist" had some reinforcement. And to answer to you question, these creatures are Enhanced Wraiths. Ghost of their former selves and mockery that had nothing to do with nature."
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Feather suddenly noticed that the driver and two other passengers were listening to their conversation for this whole minute.
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"W-what pony would create something like this?!" asked Feather.
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"You don't know what are getting into, right?" replied Antiblue.
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"To be honest... i don't have the slightest idea"
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Antiblue was preparing herself to tell them about the puppeter, because even thinking about him was pissing her off for various reasons.
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"Who created them is a complete nutjob that doesn't stop at anything. A mad one devoid of empathy. A earth mare who has somehow become a hidden menace. A Necro-alchemist. This one, believe me or not, is befriended with Princess Celestia."
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"EH!?"
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"The Enhanced Wraith were noless that her creations. Many living creatures, ponies in particuliar, were killed or, in most cases, resurrected and transformed into monstrousities bounded by her will. Some of these monsters were camouflaged and turned into their former normal appearance just to make her act as her spies or assassins. Yeah, you get the weren't just her own personal creations. They were also her personal fighters that she can use at her disposal. This mare manipulate Pinkie Pie's insanity and killing spree and many other crimes. The one who is currently acting as Celestia's fake second in command so she can actually manipulate the events at her own gains."
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Antiblue paused a little as her irises shrunken in response to her incoming revelation.
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"Necro Meele. This bitch is the final problem i want to deal with. As soon as fucking possible."
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Every hall of the castle was illuminated by the sunlight.
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Celestia was looking to some papers while taking a little rest after using her powers rise the sun after having lowered the Moon, something that should be done by Princess Luna.
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But her sister wasn't there. She dissapeared from Equestria without leaving any warning or traces. Despite Luna's dissapearance leaving her the burden to do the double duty once again, Celestia wasn't even bothered.
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Her look wasn't the usual one. She was wearing a black armor covering both her flanks and her torso respectively.
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Such detail awake some doubts in the mind of one of the two pegasus Royal Guards standing outside the room, with the door being closed.
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As that guard tried to say something, the other guard, being Wedge, gestured to him that is not the case and invinted his colleague to mind his bussiness and continue his job.
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Celestia was also pondering about her plans to save Equestria and to increase it's farming potential. Infact there are several reports about the progress of her project, and the list next daily duties.
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There are also various letters, but only few of them had the sign of Twilight Sparkle, despite their caligraphy not being that of her faithful student.
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She could feel that she didn't manage to cope with the deaths of Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, and the madness of Pinkie Pie.
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But Celestia knows what happened, and hasn't the minimal intention to be distracted by that. The Princess has a plan to carry out.
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She could suddenly hear a creaking sound coming from one of the walls of the room.
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The hidden door opened a little. A mare in the shadows was looking at her with a very chilling gaze, without even revealing her form.
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"Not that i wanted to disturb you anyway, but there is any relevant new about the progress of the project?" said the mare.
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"There are not many good ones."
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"Lower your voice."
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"The guards that you sent to investigate the sabotages have not returned yet, the farming capability increase with scarse results and the plan for the construction of a depopulation center on the moon was still delayed since so many portals were destroyed. Also there's a shortage of camouflages since Azalea Prima's deception and crime to kill all of the Changelings' clones. And Applejack is nowhere to be found." said Celestia.
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"I see."
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"What's worst is that somepony has taken care of Pinkie Pie. Twice. Do you know who could be the responsable of her double death?"
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"I know perfectly who it is. I will take care of this scum."
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"...?"
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"Continue."
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"The good ones are that the problem of the portals is gonna be fixed soon. Additionally, we were able to cover the whole incident happened at the Rainbow Sanctuary."
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"Twilight Sparkle doesn't know anything our plan, right?"
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"No. She didn't even bothered to ask. She is still heavily shaken for death of her two friends."
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"Not that i asked you for that detail anyway."
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"I have one question. Were is Biggs?"
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"That big moronic pegasus? There are some little adjustment that i had to do before setting him free."
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"I see."
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"Your Majesty. You can continue where you were left off." said the mare in the shadows before closing the door.
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With the conversation concluded, the mare went down the stairs and wandered through the darkness of her own underground laboratory.
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She passed by some of the ponies who were now Homuncoli, without even looking in their eyes. The mare gives some occasional glances to the work of her undead subbordinates and to some of the machineries infesting the majority of the underground.
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Descending into the depths of the place, the mare walked toward a door and opened it before entering inside.
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As she closed the door, a hellish and chilling chorus of moanings, screams, grunts, slammed metal and shaken chains were infesting the room at nonstop.
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The mare switched on the light, revealing a very disturbing spectacle.
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The room was actually a huge spiral staircase that served as a prison. So many exposed Enhanced Wraiths were imprisoned inside their cage, wriggling and screaming as they noticed her presence. One more digusting than the other.
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As some of them were briefly bleeding or losing something from their insides.
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The mare wasn't even bothered by the whole hellish chorus since all of them were her creations.
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She went down the stairs until she reaches the bottom level of the staircase. She walked toward one of the cages in front of her.
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Inside there is one of the few undead ponies who doesn't throw any tantrum. It appeared to be the now resurrected pegasus Royal Guard Biggs, whose body is covered with dragon scales except for his head, which shows a oblique small opened wound on his head and his right eye being fully red.
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He didn't seemed to be bothered with the infernal ruckus because he was almost used to. And he wasn't even looking at the bars.
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The mare kicked one of the iron bars of his cage to get his attention.
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"You can also call my name. That wasn't necessary." said Biggs while turning his head toward the mare, only to be surprised to discover who disturbed him.
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The hellish chorus continued to echoe trough the staircase, which was disturbing enough.
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But more terrific than the chorus and the imprisoned screaming Enhanced Wraiths was the revealed appearance and identity of the mare, something that Biggs himself would have a hard time to get use to.
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Necro Meele herself.
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She was a orange mare with a blonde mane, wearing a scientist coat and a pair of glasses. The one creepy detail that characterized her face was herleft eye's direction: Always stuck uphill due to her own strabismus, something that doesn't seem to bother her much.
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Is not her appearance who made her creepy, but her infamous personality.
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She disturbingly smiled at him.
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"Believe it. You should take your new situation under a new light." said Necro Meele.
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She then pulled out some kind of iron stretching claws, attached them to her hoof and forcefully putted deep inside Biggs' mouth as she grabbed his throat from behind the bars to hold it firm.
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Biggs was gurgling incomprehensible mumbles as Necro Meele's iron claws continued to travel through his stomach until she stops and brusquely pulled them out of his mouth.
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Biggs painfully coughed repeatedly as Necro Meele removed the steined iron stretching claws from her hoof and tossed it to the ground.
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"*cough* *cough* What... *cough* was that for!?" muttered Biggs.
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"Exactly what i expected." said bluntly Necro Meele. "Your stomach will automatically assimilate every molecule of food inside your body, that according to your altered acid. However you don't need to ingest anything since you are dead. Seriously, you shouldn't even feel the need to eat or drink. So don't even bother me with your stupid requests."
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"*cough* I get it... Anyway, what about Wedge?"
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"He's fine. Especially since Celestia requested his resurrection. But wait, i couldn't actually calling that a request. I just remade him for myself. Infact he's just another recruit. That she liked him or not doesn't matter to me."
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"...What?"
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"Alicorns, alicorns, alicorns. Celestia in particular is immortal, but she doesn't even bother to play this card at their advantage. This princess cannot have any children, but c'mon! Celestia doesn't even bother to taste the fleshly pleasure for the sake of her stupid incorruptible nature."
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Necro Meele started to become more irritated as she continued to speak.
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"She should have take some lover, find some way to make him a alicorn as well, make him loyal to her and stick with it. Something that she hasn't even done before. Just any kind of vent valve for her sexual tension. During the times in which she was attracted by some stallion she liked, Celestia only expressed her love while preserving her purity, and that's it! It's a freaking miracle that i have her at my side, because her puritan behavior started to annoy me at non stop!"
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Biggs started to feel unconfortable. It didn't matter if he is now a undead freak.
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Necro Meele calmed down a little and adjusted her own glasses.
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"Too bad that Luna can't be here." said frustrated Necro Meele. "Seriously, somepony is gonna pay for sabotaging the treatment that i had reserved for her. And that wasn't the first one."
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"Now that i think of it, where is Princess Luna?" said Biggs.
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"None of you business. Besides, i cannot still set you free."
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"Why not? Not i'm feel uncomfortable here, but i'm starting to fell useless."
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"Because of two things. One: You had to take your future role seriously. And two: You are still mentally battered since your previous fight against Rarity when you were still a living being. I cannot afford to send some currently unstable idiot like you."
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"H-Hey! I'm not that stupid!"
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She glared at him with her only functional eye: the right one. But that was enough to pierce his spirit. Biggs started tremble inside his head.
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"Not that changed anything at all. I will set you free only when i required your presence. Sorry, but Octavia will have to wait i little... maybe." said Necro Meele.
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"Well, i can't nothing about it... i guess. But what about the one who killed off Pinkie Pie?" said Biggs.
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"I sent a criminal that you knew well. I remade him personally."
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"A criminal? No, don't tell me... Why?!"
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Necro Meele was nervously grinning, much to Biggs confusion.
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"I have a damn bone to pick up with one mare that i know very well. I expect him to deliver the worst punishment that scumbag really deserve. Not that you really care about it."
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They remained silent as the infernal chorus echoed some more.
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"Ok, let me ask you something." said Biggs. "I know that i no longer need to eat, drink or... whatever you alredy know what. But..."
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"But what?"
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"Is just one cupcake. You had to considerate that there is still the curiosity for my taste buds."
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The Necro-alchemist quickly grabbed a steel bat and smacked brutally his face, sending some of his teeth to fly.
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"Are you even listening!?" said a pissed Necro Meele.
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As Biggs was moaning for the fierce pain caused by the blow, the hellish cacophony of screams, moans and metallic sounds started to intensify.
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Necro Meele walked away from the cage and looked up toward the highest floors of the spiral staircase, watching almost every restless, caged
Enhanced Wraith that was wriggling. Some of these creatures even started to scream.
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"NeCrO MeElE... NeCrO MeElE! GiVe Me OnE ChANcE!"
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"LeT Me DeVoUr SoMe DrAgOnS! I WiLl GiVe ThEm A TaStE Of ThEiR OwN MeDiCiNeS!"
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"NO WONDER I CAN BARELY BREATH! MY LEFT AIM STARTED TO MELT! SOMEPONY BRING ME A MIRROR!"
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"BELIEVE ME! THIS FUCKER THAT MURDERED ME DESERVES THE REAL SLAUGHTER THAT I CAN POSSIBLY DELIVER!"
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"HURRY UP AND LET ME KILL SOMEPONY!"
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"KILL!"
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She deviously grinned as her mind was processing some sinister plan that she will carry out in the future.
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"You seriously doesn't know when to being silent, isn't it? Hold on a little longer. Soon the entire Equestria will become a giant sepulchrum." said Necro Meele with a sinister tone.
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The Necro-alchemist pulled out from one of her coat's internal pockets a couple of documents, one in particular with Antiblue face on it. She was glaring at the image with a twisted intensity.
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"Speaking of future plans, i forgot that there are still the remaining part of the outskirts of Ponyville to check out. After i have done with the others, including Doctor Hooves, you're the only one left, Antiblue. Honestly, that is not your real name at all. I know who you are. You're name is actually Azure Strawberry. I'm grateful for the secret information that Celestia allowed me to check. Contrary to the other victims, i won't even make you an Enhanced Wraith. Instead i will destroy your hateful figure during your slow death. I won't even replace your toilet... hehehehe!"
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As the rescues were coming to take the ponies who were injured into the train's derailment into a safe place, Antiblue used a shovel to dig up two holes.
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Once Antiblue finished, she proceded throw the remains of Ruby Honey and Marine Sapphire into each hole respectively.
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Candle was carried away by the rescues while Feather, who had her broken wings and her forehead wound being treated, remained to watch Antiblue as the pegasus was curious about the burial.
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"B-but... These two tried to kill you as well. Why are burying them anyway?" asked confused Feather.
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"It's entirelly pointless, i know." said Antiblue "so i only bury the ponies who know me very well. Don't get me wrong. Is not like i'm very likeble since i became a delinquent."
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"So there are your-!"
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Feather froze up as she realises the horrible implication of that sentence. She couldn't even believe
to have heard that.
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"Y-You killed off your friends?!" muttered Feather.
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"Hey. It wasn't my intention to have friends in the first place. They were the ones who tried to befriend with me in the first place when they were still alive. Besides, they were now resurrected as undead abominations. if didn't kill them, they would've killed you guys."
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Feather remained speechless and petrified by her words as Antiblue calmly threw Ruby Honey's upper body inside her own hole, without even hiding the slightest bit of temporal melancholy.
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Antiblue knew that in situations like this... that cannot be avoided.
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"Well... At least i can resume my journey with a more serene tone." said Feather.
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"It's not over." retorted Antiblue.
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"Huh?"
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"You and your friend better find a safe place once you had arrived in Dodge City. This situation has just began to became even worst as long this Necro-alchemist is still alive."
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Feather started to shake a little, knowing what that means. She was briefly snapped out by the voice of the driver calling Antiblue from behind her.
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"Hey!" said the driver. "That must be the job of the Royalties to deal with this Necro-alchemist, and you don't look like a Royalty or a Royal Guard whatsoever, you murder! Seriously, who the fuck are you!?"
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"Yeah." said Antiblue. "You heard this guy, dear reader. Who the fuck am i? Well, you had to go through a real ordeal of a flashback in order to find out my situation, Necro Meele herself and, mostly, what happened to Celestia, Luna and some of bearers of the Elements of Harmony as well. I will tell what i had to go through until now. But i will first tell you about my past. But don't expect me to be clear about it. There is one hell of trauma that i didn't want to mention."
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To be continued in Chapter 2.