It was the final day tilt Myasnik’s eighteenth birthday. Six more hours till midnight was upon the land. Myasnik walked around in the west courtyard of Canterlot Castle. He paced back and forth with his hands in his pockets and his eyes fixed to the ground. He was extremely nervous. Reason being is because he didn’t exactly know what this new time activated strand of DNA would do to him by tonight.. It was Celestia’s idea to have him come here incase things got complicated and Myasnik would need to be kept under lock and key. And he understood that completely. Last thing they needed was some kind of rampaging monster or something. However, he wasn’t alone here. Oh no. Sweetie, Apple and Scootaloo were there with him. However he stepped away to give himself some time to think. Either way, he felt something was going to happen tonight that would cause trouble. He just didn’t know what

    “Ahaa, I found where all that nervous energy was coming from.”

    Said that familiar warm, motherly voice. Myasnik turned his gaze up to see Celestia walking towards him, offering him a smile. He waves to her and nods.

    “Yeah...I am pretty nervous about this whole thing. This who thing. It’s go me thinking of a certain event that happened back in my world in one of it’s countries. The United States. Something about a virus that nearly took down a whole city. I am starting to think that maybe..something similar will happen to me. What if I am some sort of a biological weapon that is set to go off tonight…?’

    Celestia could already tell that it was bothering him, but with what he was saying she could clearly tell he was worried about other than himself. She walks closer to him and puts a gentle hand on his shoulder. His gaze turns up to her afterwards.

    “Myasnik, look at me. Should things go wrong, my sister and I will do our absolute best to maintain control of what happens to you. Even Twilight wants to do what she can for you/ In fact, with her and her friends here…”

    She then steps aside revealing the girls who smile to him. They run to him and wrap their arms around him tightly.

    “...and these sweet young mares who adore and love you so very much, you won’t have to go through this alone.”

    She’s right. Sweetie, Apple and Scootaloo were indeed here for him. And their embrace calmed him down and made him feel quite better. He nuzzles into their warmth and sighs,smiling at them with a nod.

    “Thank you girls. I love you all so very much.”

    “Mhmmm! And we love you to, always and forever!”

    They all said in unison. Celestia covers her mouth with her hand as she giggles.

    “To be honest, I am a little jealous. I wish I could be a part of your herd.”

    She was joking of course..well maybe half joking. Myasnik’s eyes shot open and he shook his head quickly.

    “You are beautiful princess don’t get me wrong. But these three are enough for me...trust me.I ask myself every damn day what did I do to get these awesome mares to want me so badly. And the answer still leaves me wondering.”

    They all laugh at his words. Trying to make the situation as light as possible before the inevitable happens.

--11:55 PM, Near Midnight--

    Myasnik stood in the middle of the main courtyard where there was more room for others to move about should he lost control of...whatever is about to happen. With both Celestia and Luna having their magic at the ready along with Twilight and her friends. Myasnik asked Sweetie and the others to not be around for the event that was about to unfold, but they insisted that they were staying, no matter how much he asked.

    “One more minute…”

    He said to himself before he looks over to Celestia and her sister. Then to the girls. Little did he know however, that his something awful was about to happen,and it was going to be his awakening.

    “Sweetie, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo. WHatever happens, I love you with all my heart.Please do not forget that-...”

    A loud whistle was heard as an arrow shot through the air and shot clean through Myasnik’s chest, then again through his skull. Everything happened in slow motion. Everypony’s eyes widened in horror as they watched Myasnik fall back onto the ground with a thud, blood pouring from his entry and exit wounds. The ones who did the deed were two flying hooded figures. Who immediately began to try and make their getaway. Celestia was furious.

    “GUARDS, SEIZE THEM! NOW!”

    Twilight couldn’t move after what she had just seen. Myasnik laid there motionless. Though the worst part of it all was seeing his marefreinds’ eyes well up with tears. Their hearts shattered as the one they truly loved was shot dead.

    “NO! NONONO!!!”

    They screamed out in absolute emotional pain and agony as they ran over to him and kneeled by his corpse.

    “Myasnik, you can’t be dead! Please wake up!”

    Shouted Sweetie as she gently shook him, tears flowing down her face like a waterfall along with Scootaloo and Apple as well.

    “You promised you’d be with us forever! You can go breakin’ that promise!”

    “You wouldn’t let something like this kill you, wake up damnit,please!”

    Cried Apple and Scootaloo, burying their face into his chest, not caring that they were getting covered in his blood, they just wanted him back. Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow came over to the girls and tried to pull them away from him, they struggled against their sisters.

    “Sugarcube...he is gone…”

    “No he’s not! Let go!”

    “Darling...I am sorry. There is nothing that we can do for him…”

    “Let go of me Rarity, let me go!”

    “Come on Scoots...you don’t need to see this…”

    “Dont...don’t take me away from him, please!”

    The girls continued to struggle and fight their sisters to return to Myasnik’s side, Fluttershy started sobbing uncontrollably as she had cared greatly for Myasnik, her memories running back to the first day she had met him. And Twilight...she was especially heart broken as well. Someone who she had worked so hard to obtain friendship from, gone. However, after a about ten minutes something began to happen to Myasnik body. Something that put everypony on edge once they saw it.

"Tia...I think we have a bigger problem..."

    Said Luna as she pointed shakily to Myasnik’s body which was now thrashing about, this reddish blood looking tissue roaming over his form and closing up his wounds. Myasnik’s eyes shot open as he instantly lifts himself up with just his legs.His eyes completely bloodshot. He takes in a gasp of air, the tissue continuing to crawl over his body as the effects of the new strand had already taken effect, even after he was shot dead. He lets out a scream of pain as he grabs at his body. Jagged spikes started sprouting out of his arms, legs and back.he falls to his hands and knees as the pain continued. The spikes vanished and suddenly tendrils sprouted from his body, reaching out and lashing and grabbing at whatever they could reach. Myasnik slams his fists into the ground, the full concrete slabs breaking under him as he does.

    “AAAAAH FUCK! IT HURTS! GAAAH!!”

    He screamed out. They all couldn’t believe what was happening. Myasnik’s fear from earlier was realized. He wasn’t becoming any regular super soldier,he was becoming a perfected version what what plagued the big city of New York all those years ago. They all watched in fear, but also in deep concern for him. The assassins who killed him earlier suddenly felt to the ground before him after the guard had finally caught up to them. The wings breaking on contact with the ground. Myasnik however didn’t waste anytime in what he was about to do.

    “Oh sweet Faust…”

    Celestia said as she watched Myasnik grab one of them by the throat and lifted him up with ease. He slams the assassin into the ground and starts wailing his fists mercilessly, blood instantly flying everywhere. And what shocked her even more? He was..absorbing the pony into his body, he did the same thing with the other one as well. His head felt like it was going to burst as he grabbed at it. He was seeing memories that weren’t his! It was as if he was looking through the eyes of the ponies he had just consumed!

     “You have your orders, Shadowcross. Should you fail in your mission to kill him before he awakens, I don’t need to tell you what is at stake.”

    “Yes, sir. Consider his blood to be spilt, my partner and I never fail when it comes to assassination.”

    “If I may ask sir. What is so threatening about this creature?”

    “It is what the king fears to be a monster that could very well ruin our plans to take over all of Equestria. Our intel shows that he is living in Ponyville, but he will be taken to Canterlot Castle to have his change overseen. Now,get moving soldier.”

    “Yes,sir!”

    The memories end.Myasnik stands to his feet as he looks down at his hands. A look of [ure shock on his face as he finally remembers what all this was from. Imagines of newspaper and internet articles of a man in a hood and a black leather jacket leaping across roof tops, fighting some kind of fleshy monsters. They were vague, but he knew exactly what was happening.

    “Oh God…”

    The realization hit Myasnik hard. Celestia slowly began to approach Myasnik, her horn glowing, just in case.

    “Myasnik…?”

    He turned to look at Celestia, though he began backing away from her slowly.

    “Princess….stay away from me. All of you stay away please!”

    “Myasnik, calm down! We just want to help you!”

    Shouted Twilight with genuine worry as she stepped closer as well, Even Apple and the others struggled harder from their sisters to get to him, but they weren’t letting go. Myasnik looked over at them and lowered his head.

    “I love you all...I-I am sorry!”

    He got it in his head that he was now seen as a complete abomination to them, and immediately runs away in a dead sprint. Leaping over obstacles  like they were absolutely nothing. Trying to get away from any living thing as fast as possible.

    “Myasnik, wait!”

    Shouted Twilight as she made an attempt to run after him, but was stopped by Celestia.

    “No Twilight...let my sister and I handle this…”

    “Princess please, don’t hurt him! I know whatever has happened to him, he isn’t going to hurt anypony else! Myasnik isn’t that kind of guy!”

    “Twilight!”

    Celestia raised her voice to get her to calm down.

    “I said, my sister and I will take care of this. Do you understand?”

    Twilight was confused for a moment, then nodded, finally getting what Celestia was saying.

    “Okay...I do. Please bring him back to us, princess. I know that those three won’t be too happy if they lose him...again.”

    She looked over at the sobbing trio. They continued calling out his name between whimpers and sniffles.

    “MYasnik...please come back....”

    They all said, shaking uncontrollably as they sobbed against their sisters.