They all ran screaming their lungs out. For the sake of Isaac's masculinity, or what's left of it, he was yelling very vulgar words at the thing and at Unitology.

They ran underneath numerous pipes, but only to have Isaac and Applebloom trapped underneath them.

"Shoot the yellow flesh on it!" Isaac yelled getting dragged towards its mouth. "Now!"

"Ah'm workin' on it!" Applebloom yelled firing away at the yellow tissue.

It gave a small explosion and became slightly smoother and thinner.

Isaac was firing away with his Pulse rifle and managed to cause another small explosion of tissue.

It swung its massive arm and made Applebloom go flying out of the pile while it still held onto Isaac. It pushed the other pieces of pipe out of the way and stood at its full height.

"Shoot it already!" Isaac yelled as it lowered him towards its mouth. "Any time now!"

Applebloom was dazed but still lifted her Plasma cutter at the middle piece of yellow tissue and fired.

She heard what was a sickening snap, her friends giving a sigh and heavy footsteps followed by louder ones.

"Let's go! Now!" He yelled picking her up.

He slung her over his shoulder and the last thing she saw was the Tormentor running at them before darkness.

Isaac slung the panel to the side as he carried Applebloom. The two conscious crusaders were right on his heels and on their tails was the Tormentor.

They ran ahead to a large glass window where, stepping near it, the gun ship appeared again and started to fire. The glass shattered sucking all of them into the void of space, they all hit the ship and grabbed on, Sweetiebelle holding onto Isaac and Scootaloo hanging on by her tentacles.

The Tormentor came flying by and crashed into the ship knocking out some fuel canisters. Isaac saw this and raised his plasma cutter and fired.

There was a flash and suddenly pain.

They all were blown away, Isaac and the crusaders crashing through a window.

"Ow... that's going to sting in the morning." He groaned getting up from the floor.

"You said it." Sweetiebelle said before getting lifted off Scootaloo.

"How do you think I-where's Applebloom!?" Scootaloo shrieked.

They all looked around for any sign to where she could have landed, but she was nowhere to be seen.

"The explosion must have knocker her out of my hands... Dammit!" Isaac yelled hitting a wall.

Four floors below.

"Oww... what happened?" Applebloom asked to herself while rubbing a small lump on her head and wincing as her hoof brushed against a tender bit. "Ow..."

She got up and looked around.

There were candles lining the floors, some in circles with the weird symbols and others just strewn about.

"Great... now ah’m lost." She huffed looking at the floor. "I'd better go and see if ah can find those silly fillies. Oh no, now ah'm startin' to sound like Pinkie." She groaned before having her helmet fold up.

It was pressing against the lump, but she thought it to be better to have to deal with a lump, than a blade in her head.

She started her silent trot along the corridors.

"Celestia pray for me and my friends." She asked.

Ponyville.

"Oh no..." Celestia said barely above a whisper.

"Dammit! Fuck every last one of those hell damned monstrous mother fuckers!" Alex yelled at the top of his lungs.

"Is she going to be alright?" Fluttershy asked nearly on the edge of crying.

"Please let ma'h sister be okay. Please... please... please..." Applejack kept repeating.

"If I get my hooves on those things, I'll tear them apart with my own damn teeth!" Alex continued to yell stomping the ground making the building shake on their foundations.

The crowd all had their ears lowered in pity.

"We never liked them... but they never deserved this." Silverspoon and Diamond Tiara cried. "We really should have been nicer."

Titan station.

"Do you think she's alright?" Scootaloo quietly asked.

"Of course she is!" Sweetiebelle cried. "She's more stubborn that a hydra... if anypony can make it, it's her."

"Now, what?" Isaac asked leaning against a wall. "What do we do now?"

A small screen flickered on his visor and Stross came into view.

"Issac? Isaac, can you hear me?"

"What do you want Stross? Look, it's over. All my plans just flew out the window." He replied glumly.

"No, no, no, no! It's not over. At least, not yet."

"Isaac... Isaac, we built it. We can tear it down!"

"You mean the Marker? Do you know where the Marker is Stross?"

"I... It's in the Government Sector! The Government Sector! But we have to move now! Now! Now! Because time is running out... for us."

His screen started to go staticy before fading out.

"Stross, Stross! Where are you going? Shit!" He slumped back against the wall.

"I guess we should keep going. There's not much of a point and waiting to see if she just shows up." Scootaloo sniffled.

Isaac and Sweetiebelle only gave a nod before he got up and they continued on their way.

Four floors down.

"Get back ya mangy varmints!" Applebloom yelled firing at the Lurkers crawling along the ceiling.

She fired and cut off all three tentacles of one that was getting ready to strike. The other had already fired and scraped the side of her helmet as she tried to duck.

"Ahh! You'll pay for that!" She yelled stopping it in stasis as she set a mine down in front of it.

Just as it was coming out the mine exploded and blew up.

"And stay down." She hissed as she unfolded her helmet.

She could feel blood coming trickling on her cheek. She sighed and walked over to the nearest mirror in the room she had holed herself up in when the Lurkers attacked.

She grimaced at the amount coating her cheek but still looked at the cut. It wasn't deep, but that wasn't what concerned her. She was cut across her eyelid.

She looked around and saw the bathroom close by. She trotted in and hopped onto the counter while grabbing a wash cloth with her kinesis. She turned on the faucet and let some cool water soak it before wringing it out and applying it to her eye.

She winced as she felt the cold cloth touch her skin but still cleaned it. After she was done she looked back in the mirror to see the damage.

It grazed her eyelid but cut her cheek too. The cut led from the middle of her right eyebrow down to her muzzle.

She smiled and turned her head to the side.

"That's gounna make a heck of a scar. I think I have Big mac's plow cut beat." She laughed at herself.

She hoped down and let her helmet fold back up.

She stuck out her hoof and the little blue line led her to another set of doors.

She hopped up and pushed the blue button in the middle and let it slide open. Luckily, she could hide behind the corner to peak out while Isaac would have just been standing there.

She looked around and slowly made her way in. The room was still lit fairly well, no blood or bodies on the floor and...

"Hello? Is there somepony there?" She asked, listening to the crying before it suddenly stopped.

"H-Hello? Who's there? I don't have anything! Please don't hurt me!" Cried the obviously childlike voice.

"Why would I want to hurt ya? I can't even see ya. And sides' I'm just tryin to find my friends. Why are you here?" She asked walking further into the room.

"I'm hiding from the monsters... they took my mommy and daddy... I miss them so much."

Applebloom stopped in her tracks, heart heavy.

"Yall lost your ma and pa too?" She asked shakily.

"I-I don't know... could you help me look for them?"

"S-sure... but ah need to see ya first. Where are ya?"

A small patch of bright orange rose from behind a table.

A little girl in blue over-all’s and a white shirt carrying a teddy bear came out. Her skin was tanned, her hair a bright orange and her eyes red from crying.

She saw Applebloom standing there and screamed before running out of the room.

"Wait! It’s not safe!" Applebloom yelled running after the girl.

She chased her down multiple hallways before losing track of her. Just as she was about to go back and look she heard a scream farther down to the left. She ran as fast as she could and saw the girl cornered by two large men.

"Please! Don't hurt me!" The girl cried in a ball.

"Don’t worry child, convergence is at hand. All shall see the glory that is the Marker." Said a tall skinny man with a black, overly gelled hairstyle.

"Yeah, what he said." Replied a large gruff man wearing an engineering suit like Isaac, reaching out for the girl.

"Hold it right there!" Applebloom yelled getting their attention. "Yall best be gettin’ away from her, if'n yall know what's good for ya."

"Look brother! A holy creation of the Marker! Let us give sacrifice to them so we may pass easily." Said the tall one.

The large man started to reach out again before something collided with him.

The girl looked up and saw they had turned blue and were glowing slightly.

"Ya might want to get behind me." Applebloom said reloading her Plasma cutter.

The girl ran away and went behind Appleboom just as the men came out of stasis.

"It seems this might not be a part of the convergence. Any who oppose us shall be sacrificed." The tall man replied calmly reaching into his jacket.

"Try anything funny and I will shoot." Applebloom warned letting her helmet fold up.

The man pulled out a gun and Applebloom fired.

The body hit the floor as the head rolled towards his partner.

"You feelin' lucky punk?"

He shook his head and ran off.

Applebloom gave a log sigh before turning back to the girl.

"Ah'm sorry yall had to see that. Are ya okay?"

"What are you?" She asked hugging her stuffed bear.

"Ah'm a pony. And if yall will let me, be the one to help search for ya ma and pa."

"R-Really?"

"Sure! Right now, we all need as much help as we can get. Ma'h names Applebloom, what's yours?" She smiled extending a hoof.

"Sally." She smiled back before shaking her hoof.

"Well," Applebloom started to reload her Plasma cutter. "Do ya know which way they were taken?"

"Just down the hall. That way." She pointed down the corridor.

"Then I’d say that's where were headin'." She said confidently.

Four floors up.

"What. The. Fuck." Isaac said slowly looking at the Cyst's on the walls and floor.

"That just looks nasty." Sweetiebelle grimaced.

"Even I wouldn't eat that." Scootaloo said.

"Hey, scoot's see if you can grab anything to throw at them." Sweetiebelle nudged her in the side.

"Y-Yeah, sure, whatever you say." She mumbled.

Her eyes lit up blue again as her gaze showered whatever part of the room in she was looking at in a clear sparkling blue.

Her eyes sat on a body lying against a wall away from the closest Cyst. She grabbed it and threw it at the small lump of flash making it shoot out a yellow puss filled flesh bomb.

"Well, this officially sucks." Isaac said grabbing a nearby box. "Let's get this over with."

Ponyville.

"I hope Applebloom is alright." Cheerilee said.

"We all hope that. But we mustn't lose hope in them." Rarity said gulping.

All the ponies were startled when they heard Alex start yelling at the top of his lungs into the muzzle Celestia put on him, for the sake of the children's sensitive ears.

"Alex, they will be alright." Celestia said walking up to him. "I promise."

He gave a huff before starting to walk off.

"Where are you going? If you don't mind me asking that is?" Fluttershy asked.

"I'm going to go blow off some steam. If any of you see any mountains crumble and need me; follow the destruction." He said before flying away.

Titan station. Residential.

"Are ya sure this is where they went?" Applebloom asked.

"Yes, this is the only way down here. They must have had to be taken here."

Applebloom looked up to see the sign above the door read, Escape pod launch bay.

She shrugged before jumping up to push the button.

The door slid open and Sally gasped.

There were necromorphs everywhere and they were all crowded around the door to one pod. The one with her parents.

"That's them! Please save my mommy and daddy! Please!" The girl cried.

Applebloom walked into the door way, Pulse rifle in one hoof and Line gun in the other. He helmet unfolded showing her with a clear smile but her eyebrows furrowed.

"I'd say its bout time' to do a little exterminatin." She said before firing a grenade from her Pulse rifle.

Necromorph limbs flew everywhere as the explosive hit a compact group. As they turned another went off and more went flying.

Applebloom aimed her Line gun and fired rapidly managing to cut many of them to pieces.

They all were charging her at full speed.

She smiled wider and pocketed her Line gun before doing the same. She ran at the closest Slasher; it brought down its blades and she jumped while firing her Pulse rifle, killing it and then using the body as a platform to jump onto the others.

She ran as fast as she could to the ship where the girl’s parents were staring at the small filly. She made sure to break the face of the last one that she ran on. She jumped onto the top of the ship and stood back on her hind legs looking out at the small horde of Necromorphs.

She brought out her Line gun again and started to fire away, cutting them to pieces as she blew them up with grenades, froze them in stasis to get a large amount with a mine. She was about to fire another grenade when it made just a clicking noise.

"Well dang, I guess now yall are gounna have to pay the hard way..." She said before taking out her Plasma cutter.

She fired off two more mines to clear a path for her to run. As they exploded she jumped and using the shock-wave, she propelled herself even further along and landed on a Brute.

"C'mon! That all ya got you mangy snake!?" She hollered while it tried to desperately reach her, but it's armored arms were preventing it from doing so.

She pointed her Plasma cutter right into its shoulder and started to fire. In seconds its arm broke off, she jumped down and saw one of the last necromorphs besides the Brute in the room. She aimed at the Exploder's small arm attached to the glowing puss sack and fired.

The sac was left behind as the Exploder fell to the ground, dead.

She walked over to the sac, picked it up with her kinesis and threw it at the Brute's good shoulder, thereby detaching it.

"Yall can come and go to your folks now!" Applebloom yelled out.

Sally, who had been hiding, came out of the doorway wide eyed as she took in the damage the small pony caused.

What was possibly dozens of necromorphs were now burnt piles of hacked and splintered limbs and bodies, some of them still smoking. She quickly got over it when she saw her parents emerge from the pod.

"Mommy! daddy!" She cried, hot tears of joy running down her cheeks as her parents embraced her in a similar fashion.

"Oh my little baby is alright! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" The mother cried.

"You or whatever you are. Thank you for returning us our daughter." The father said to Applebloom.

"No trouble at all, ah’m just glad she's with her folks again. What are your names, mines Applebloom."

The man was tall and skinny, his skin was a pasty white, his hair orange and he had a tangled looking beard. The woman was just as tall, she was blonde, had tan skin like her daughter.

"I'm Steven and this is my wife, Vanessa. We cannot thank you enough for helping her and us."

"The only way to thank me is to get out of here. Don't want to run into any more of those varmints do ya?"

"No! Again, thank you Applebloom. We don't know what we would have done if something happened to her. Come on Sally, we need to go." Steven said.

"Applebloom, do you want to come with us? Away from the monsters?" Sally asked.

"Ah’m sorry, but ah can't. I still need to find my friends." She sighed.

"Maybe I can help?" Vanessa said.

"Really? How?" Applebloom perked up.

"I'm chief medical officer. I have a clipboard somewhere in the pod that lets me pin point the location of every person aboard the station. But only if their alive. I'll be right back."

Vanessa quickly ran into the ship and a few seconds of rummaging around she reemerged with a small holographic board.

"What are their names?" She asked ready to type.

"Scootaloo, Sweetiebelle and Isaac Clarke."

"Uh huh, yes, ah! Here we go. Their four levels above us. All you need to do is head to that elevator and go up three floors where there will be another that will take you up another. Now I'd suggest you hurry before more of those... things show up."

Applebloom gave a quick thanks and salute before running off to the elevator across the room. As the doors closed she heard the rumble of engines, and smiled. Knowing she managed to bring good in this crisis.

Ponyville.

"Applejack... you're little sister s a total bad-flank!" Fluttershy said.

Everypony looked to her in shock that she had just cursed making her shrink away whispering apologies.

"Ma'h little sister, just obliterated-"

"Decimated." Pinkie said.

"Annihilated." Fluttershy squeaked.

"Leveled." Rainbowdash wheezed out from trying to regain her breath from the amount of awesome just witnessed.

"Destroyed." Twilight said.

"Mopped the floor with them."

"Those necro's." Applejack finished. "And all to help a lil' girl. Ah'm proud of you Applebloom."

"Eeyup."

They all turned to see Big Macintosh at the front of the crowd.

Titan Station.

"I think I’m going to throw up again..." Sweetiebelle groaned putting a hoof to the front of her helmet.

"Just don't do it in front of a walkway this time." Isaac said taking out a power core.

"Life support failure: Oxygen output is zero. This area is unsafe for habitation. Personnel Oxygen supplies are now required." Said an electronic voice from the speakers.

"Isaac, you can put the core back in now. The fire's out." Scootaloo said buzzing around her sick friend. "And hurry. Sweetiebelle needs to puke again."

He put two of the cores back into their rightful spots restoring enough oxygen so she can unfold her helmet.

She quickly floated around to the ground where she deposited her stomach's contents.

She shook shakily but started to trot forward to the entrance of the room ahead.

And have Isaac and Scootaloo hear two shot's fired from her Seeker rifle and no reply.

"Sweetiebelle? Are you okay in there?" Isaac asked magnetizing his boots to the floor. "Sweetie?"

"I'm alright. But we need another core for the elevator!" She called out.

"I've got one. Just go in." Scootaloo said pulling a core along into the darkness.

He shrugged and walked in.

His face plate illuminated the room clearly; pieces of scrap were floating around aimlessly and two Lurker bodies with their heads missing.

He turned the corner and went through the door.

"Not again!" He yelled wiping more vomit from his chest. "These suits are dry clean only."

"S-Sorry..." Sweetiebelle said. Her usual white face was now a pea green with a small line of saliva floating to the floor as she burped. "Ugh... I hate zero gravity."

Isaac pulled out the malfunctioned core and put in the new one. He pressed the button and the elevator whirred to life.

What was in it gave them the shock of their lives.

"I was wonderin' when I'd find yall again." Applebloom grinned sitting on a Puker corpse.

Sweetiebelle and Scootaloo ran up and hugged her, both of them crying in happiness.

"Applebloom! We thought we lost you!" Sweetie cried burying her face in her friends’ mane.

"Don't you ever leave us again!" Scootaloo cried smiling. "That's my shtick."

"Doesn't Uncle Isaac get a hug too?" Isaac asked getting down on his knee.

"Maybe later. You smell like this thing." She pointed down at the Puker.

"Blame Sweetiebelle for that." He grunted.

"Again?" Applebloom asked.

"Again." She replied.

"I'm sure you don't mean to leave vomit in conveniently placed areas. Let's go see what's up top."

They all squeezed into the elevator. The crusaders in one corner while Isaac was in the other.

"So, what did you do while you were gone?" Sweetiebelle asked Applebloom.

"I found a girl named Sally, saved her from those Unitologeist ponies, fought a small army of necro's in minutes and got her back to her ma and pa. What did yall do?"

"We... just blew up some living mines and floated around in a room." Isaac said.

The elevator stopped and the first thing they notice was the numerous amounts of boxes lining the room.

And the horn like sounds.

Isaac put his head down in defeat. "Go ahead. I know you're already reaching for me." He sighed.

Scootaloo grabbed Isaac by the legs and ran forward leaving her friends behind.

They both winced as they heard Isaac's occasional yelp of pain but that faded when they saw him and Scootaloo walk back with four Stalkers.

"I already hacked the panel, come on and hop on if you want."

The other two crusaders smiled as they mounted their grotesque steeds.

"Isaac... you know you want to." Scootaloo bribed. "This is a once in a lifetime opportunity."

He gave another sigh before getting on his requested Stalker.

"Mush... I guess." He said hanging wrapping his arms around its neck.

The Stalker gave a chirp before sprinting away from the others, Isaac yelling more profanity as it started to jump on and off the containers. They all kicked their Stalkers in the sides and they also went sprinting.

They all were running up a hallway and before they knew it. Their small infantry stopped when Scootaloo spotted her favorite place on the station.

"Sweet! Can we get some more burrito's Isaac?" Scootaloo squealed.

"You're asking me that when there's someone over there?"

She looked to see a woman behind a gate killing Slashers left and right, figuratively and literally.

"...Yes?"

"Let's see is she needs our help first, or at least see if she can help us."

They quietly walked to the end of the walkway, keeping an eye on her but only Scootaloo saw the Leaper climbing up the railing.

She shot her tentacles out and grabbed it, all the way from the tail up rendering it immobile.

She turned into her natural self and started to eat the soul of the thing when, she got the odd feeling something else was watching her. She looked back towards the woman and saw she had her weapon aimed at her.

As she fired Isaac tackled Slenderloo to the ground. The leaper ran off and Isaac caught a glimpse of Slenderloo before he fell onto the floor.

Soon they all heard a scream and it came from the woman across the cat-walk.

Isaac and the other two crusaders quickly rushed over and saw Slenderloo sitting in front of the woman; the only thing between them, a flimsy metal gate.

"Stand back or I'll shoot-" The woman started before her weapon was taken from her by Slenderloo. "You."

"Scootaloo, turn back please and give the nice lady her weapon back." Isaac said. "Listen, I'm sorry about her. I think you just let her meal get away and she's a bit angry."

"I'm more than a bit angry! I'm starving!" Scootaloo yelled handing the woman her weapon back before she sat down on her orange rump.

"Meal? That thing eats meat? And it's eating the necromorphs?"

"First of all, lady, I'm a mare, second I'm a slenderpony and third... I do not eat meat!" She yelled before smashing a chair across the room. "Get you're facts right!"

"Okay, so why shouldn't I kill you four?"

"We had the chance to kill you, didn't we? But you're still standing. Look I think we got off to a bad start, here. I'm Isaac."

"Ellie. What do you want, Isaac?"

"Were, trying to get to the Transport hub, I need to get to the Government Sector."

"What do you think we were trying to do?"

"Hey, I can help you. Besides, we got a better chance if we stick together. Don't you agree?"

She stopped messing with the wires in the panel to walk over to him.

"Not a chance. Other people are just a liability. I'll release the door lock, but after that you're on your own. And please, don't follow me. Ok?"

She was about to go back to the circuits when he saw Scootaloo fiddling around with the wires. She ran over to stop her but the sound of the elevator opening distracted her.

She looked back to Scootaloo who was glaring at her with red glowing eyes before she pointed at the elevator.

"Go before I eat your soul." Scootaloo hissed.

She walked into the elevator and looked back at Isaac to see his helmet fold back up.

Scootaloo went over to them again and threw, Fluffy the sixth through nine over the rail.

"You’re not very good with the mares, are you Isaac?" Sweetiebelle asked.

"Yes I am!" He defended.

A small cloud of black smoke came from behind and materialized into a scroll, Applebloom picked it up and read aloud.

"No you're not. Alex."

The three fillies were sent into a wave of giggles as he blushed under his helmet.