I forcefully shoved into the mind of the pony beside me and he yelped in what I thought was surprise. I hoped not pain. "Everyone stop!" I saw some of the ferals began charging, and the one I had forcefully dominated rushed to intercept. I heard motion and turned to see the man I left behind raising a gun. "No!" I felt a weight behind my words, and he hesitated.

"I have this." I turned to the ponies as they began to wrestle with the dominated one, trying to reach us. "It's time to rest." The ones not engaged in the battle sank to the ground, looking drowsy and tired. Those battling were less quick about it, slowing, but I guessed the adrenaline in them had them too keyed up to just tell them to sleep.

I felt certain I couldn't keep the leader behind me from starting to shoot anything that moved, and that might include me if he realized I was messing with his head. I took their anger, perverting it quite literally.

The ponies gazed at each other with glazed eyes a moment before they dove at one another. Instead of trying to reach the human, using their waggling pony cocks became the most important thing. Male or female didn't matter as rage turned to lust entirely and they collapsed in an unwholesome orgy pile. New grunts and squeals came from them, of an entirely different sort.

"Is... that your doing?" He didn't approach me. Looking at him, I could see his gun was raised and ready. "Don't move too quickly."

I turned to him slowly. "Yes, they're all sleepy or... that. They're no threat to you now." Remembering it, I pulled back from the pony I had forced myself into. It felt rough. Where normally drawbridges met gently, I had plowed into his mental castle and left a hole. I frowned, promising myself to not do it that way unless I had to in the future. I didn't want to hurt ponies. "We should go. Where to?"

He gestured back at the limp form of Zhang. "Pick her up, and follow me." He didn't holster his gun, but he wasn't pointing it at me. Good enough for the moment.

~Pinkie, what's going on up there?~

~I settled down the wild ponies and they're mostly calm up here. I hear lots of noise above and below. Should I go check it out?~

~No. Keep the civil ponies safe and the wild ponies safe with them. Make sure that floor remains secure.~

I reached Zhang and quickly hefted her up with magic, just long enough to get her loaded on my back. "Pinkie says the floor with the other ponies is secure and safe. The ferals there have been pacified and are calm, but I wouldn't send soldiers there until they have a place to go where they won't jump at humans on sight."

He shook his head with some surprise. "For being as harmless as children, you certainly are acting decisively."

I frowned at him. There was an urge to jump on him like the other ponies had. He'd make a fine pony... "Please, we should get somewhere safe, for you especially. Where would that be?"

"Right." He slipped through the door, looking around at the ponies that were still there, either gazing at him placidly or making quite a mess with one another in a passionate display that made us both color a bit. "Filthy." He turned away from it and moved determinedly down the hallway. "You didn't mention you could command them so firmly."

"I didn't even know I could do that. Emergencies can bring out the best in us."

"I see." He pulled out a card and slid it through a slot, the light on it turning from red to green before a soft click allowed him to pull open the door and slip inside. Before I could move for it, it clicked locked, and his voice came through the speaker, "Afraid I'll be staying here. You're safe with them. Bring Zhang upstairs to the safe floor and keep it safe. I'll be organizing things from here."

For just a moment I was tense with anger, but he wasn't really wrong. He was safest in there, without me. There had to be some way to stop ponies from wanting to infect people, or even being able to. Was being a pony inherently infectious? I hoped not. With a sigh I turned from the door and began trotting towards the stairs, Zhang bouncing on my back. It was a good thing becoming a princess made me larger, or she'd be a lot more of a burden than she already was.

I had to go back by the still groaning pile of ponies and one of them bit at my ankle, not trying to hurt me, but to stop me. She gave a soft whine, and some of the others in the pile looked towards me even as I yanked away from her. Zhang slipped to the ground and drew their attention and for just a moment, just a tiny moment, I was tempted to leave her to them.

I took a quick breath and grabbed her in magic as I backed away from them and their lustful gazes. "I'm not interesting at all. Nothing to see here. You all look much more attractive." My magic wove with my words, and most of them seemed to agree, falling over one another eagerly, but one kept coming for me.

He almost looked like he wanted to say something, but a whinny escaped him instead of words. That somehow made it worse. I didn't want to be raped by anyone, but a horse was a step down from a human. He was advancing faster than I could backpedal when I remembered another trick of mine. It was dirty, sure, but...

He suddenly stopped and began to buck the air wildly, his face one of rapture. My horn magic was on his cock, holding it firm and steady as he drove himself against a mate that wasn't there. It was clearly great for him, and didn't involve actual contact for me, which was as close to a win-win as I was getting. I backed away from him, the stairway about fifty feet back, but he staggered after me even as he groaned. With a sudden snort, he sprayed across the ground, his balls pulling up tight with every firing of seed and rapture passing over his face.

You'd think that would slow him down, and I even tried to make him feel tired from it, but he kept right on coming for me. His recent orgasm only seemed to dull him slightly, somehow, and he rushed to get to me. I shrieked and grabbed him by the shoulders with my magic, giving him a rough shove. Like Pinkie, earth ponies were strong and I barely stopped him a moment before he was moving back towards me.

Zhang suddenly woke up on top of me and began shrieking and wailing. "Keep that thing away from me! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! Please, I just didn't want to be shot. Don't let it any closer..."

Her noise drew the mostly lazy eyes of other ponies that hadn't thrown off my compulsion yet. I didn't want to be around when they woke up, so I turned and ran. I ran as hard as I could, reaching the stairs with the heavy panting of the earth pony behind me. He was clumsy climbing the stairs, but I had a passenger that had just about lost her mind in terror. "Shhh, let me handle this." I gently prodded at her mind, and she didn't just let me in, she practically gave me a mental hug of desperation.

I filled her world with sleep, and she fell against me, knocked right out. It was a lot easier to influence people I was directly connected to by far, and I let out a breath of relief as I turned and ran up the next flight. This was tiring work, and I could hear the virtual steam engine of a male chasing after me. It would be so easy to just let Zhang delay him... No, that wouldn't be right, not by a long shot.

The door to the next flight suddenly burst open and a soldier staggered in and slammed it shut before noticing me and leveling his gun at me.

"I'm one of the good guys! Let the pony behind me keep chasing me and you'll be safe."

He didn't look like he understood all that, but he backed away in time for the male to storm past him, still chasing me, or was he chasing Zhang? It didn't much matter. "Watch out for others!" I screamed back at him between heaves as I got closer and closer. ~Pinkie, where are you? Come to the stairs so I have a clue how close I am.~

"I'm over here!" shouted a chipper voice... from below me. Crud...

I wheeled around to face the stampeding stallion and let out a slow breath, trying to catch it again. "Alright... Alright..."

He smiled brightly at my surrender and took slow steps towards me. He looked very tired. "I... good mate... promise..."

Aw, that was almost sweet, if I didn't already have a family, and he hadn't just chased me up half a building. I tried to not hold it against him. The disease affected some worse than others, and it was my meddling that put the lust in him. "I want to take you to a place where there are more ponies, where you'll be safe."

He looked confused. "Not safe?"

"No, not safe, not even a little." I stepped forward slowly. "We have to go back down." I smiled at him. "Together?"

"Mate?"

"No, not on the stairs." Ugh. "Please, come with me. I'll take you to the safe place. Do not approach the man we'll pass. He's very scared, and if you want any mating, you'll stay away from him, alright?"

"Mating." He looked eager. He was rock hard and twitching. "I... be... Mating..." I'm almost certain that's not what he meant, but he turned back downstairs and let me start leading the way without running from him, so that was a big plus.

We passed that soldier, slumped against the door and sobbing softly. His fingers had become hooves while we were gone. I winced and nodded at him. "Please, come with me, to the other ponies, the intelligent ones. It'll be better for you than changing here, alone." Alone, I imagined he would become another feral. "We'll help you as much as we can."

He looked quite doubtful, but he rose despite it, and I had two men following me, one on four legs, and the other, well, give it time. I sighed as we went. "I'm very sorry about this. Do you know what's going on in the building?"

"No... It's chaos. We don't even know how they got in, or where. We kill most ferals on sight to keep cities safe, and people safe." He rubbed the side of his face with a hoof. "Am I going to be a feral? Will they kill me next?"

The male with us looked over the soldier and snorted. "Not... mate..."

"That's right, he's not a mate." I rolled my eyes. "Look, keep talking. Being around friendly, intelligent, people helps keep things on the 'right' path. What's your name?"

I kept pumping him for personal information and encouraging him even as he became less and less human. By the time I reached Pinkie, he had become a pegasus mare. Though distraught on many fronts, she could vocalize her objections, and followed us to the other ponies.

Author's Notes:

Say hello to the new pony, and a new feral too! Two for one combination.

Aiko made it back to the floor with all the ponies on it, but the situation in the building is uncertain. What do?
1: Pinkie and Aiko go out and start hunting ferals to bring back and calm down.
2: Wait for help to arrive.
3: Focus on the ponies they have already and get all the ferals there calm and cooperative.
4: Get sweet sweet revenge on Zhang! Sell me out will you...
5: Time to bust out of this building!