"What are they doing? And what are they holding?" Asked Rarity.

"It seems like he let them have their own weapons." Twilight stated.

"She's too young for a weapon!"

"But he can't protect them all at once. Even he knows that." Twilight pointed out.

"I guess it's for their own safety. I just hope nothing will happen to my little Sweetiebelle."

"As long as he's with them, nothing will harm them."

"Thank you twilight, you always know how to make me feel better." Rarity brushed away a stray hair.

Titan station.

Isaac and the others had just found a medical waiting room covered in blood but, still looked nice considering the circumstances.

"Are you sure this is the right way?" Applebloom asked.

"Yes, I’m sure."

"Are we there yet?" Asked Scootaloo.

"For the tenth time, no."

He decided to let them play a little game as they went along, and what a mistake that had been. They hadn't stopped talking, occasionally taking in some air.

When they were done scavenging the room they were currently in, they proceeded to down the hall where a rush of steam escaped the ceiling signaling a quarantine. Instead of yelping the crusaders and Isaac raised their weapons.

Yellow lights flashed around distorting the shadows, scratches echoed from the walls and afterwards metal could be heard tearing from behind them.

Sweetiebelle aimed her Javelin gun and fired, it hit the slasher directly in the chest causing it to fly back and into a wall. Isaac and Applebloom where firing away rapidly with their plasma cutters cutting off limb after limb, head after head until there was a small pile. Scootaloo had her Ripper's out and was charging them head on, jumping on them and sending a nice silver blade into their bodies.

A lurker crawled along the ceiling unnoticed, it saw its chance. The small one with the gun that shot the round blades. It leaped and started sinking its tendrils into its back. As it was doing so one of its tentacles was cut off by a flash of light. It fell to the ground before seeing what had happened, the tall one had its weapon raised directly at him. He gave it one screech before jumping through the nearest vent.

"I-Isaac... help." Scootaloo whispered letting her helmet fold open.

He ran directly to her and slowly picked her up, cradling her like a small baby.

"Don't worry, you'll be alright." He said trying to comfort her even though there was blood pouring from her back.

"I've had a good run... that right girls?" She smiled weakly at them.

"N-No! Please don't go, we need you!" Sweetiebelle cried letting her helmet fold down to reveal her tear strewn face.

"It's alright... I got my Cutie mark. I'm ready... just go, before more come. Please... for me." She whispered with a small trickle of blood coming from her mouth.

"W-We can't! You’re our best friend!" Applebloom cried.

"Please... get out of here. I’ll hold any off if they come over. Just... go." She said before closing her small eyes finally.

They all could just watch as her health bar slowly went from yellow to red and then flickered out. Isaac slowly set her down on a bed in the room next to them.

He just looked at her before grabbing a vase and throwing it into a wall. He let out a cry of anger and sadness before going onto his knees.

"I promised I’d protect her... Why does everyone I care about die!" He yelled at no one.

The remaining crusaders slowly went over to him and hugged him on both sides.

"W-We should keep going... it's what she wanted." Sweetiebelle silently cried.

"Yeah... we need to get out'a here." Applebloom agreed wiping away her tears and letting her helmet fold back.

"I'm getting you two out of here... even if it kills me." Isaac said before standing up.

They all left their fallen comrade, lying peacefully on the bed. As they exited through a door, the lurker came crawling back out of the vent.

It crawled over to where they had been standing; it didn't understand why they didn't bring their comrade back. Instead of pondering the confusing statement it crawled over to the bed.

It crawled up onto the bed and saw the reason for its missing tentacle. It let out it's remaining two and as it was about to mutilate the corpse, her eyes shot open.

She started to convulse and before long her face had turned completely white, she had no eyes and no visible nose. Her suit around her legs extended until they were atleast as long as the tall one's, her wings became white and longer.

She stood up, towering over him. He shot out with his tentacles but he was shocked that they were caught by two smooth black one's and saw another two coil around his underside. He was lifted to face the creature, it tried to bite it but that proved futile.

"Lunch time..." It said coldly before it started to feel his face warm up and freeze at the same time.

Slowly it started to squeal out of pain, it tried to look away but for some reason it couldn't.

Red light's shot out of its face and slowly its shape formed and was sucked into the creature.

"The others are going to freak... I hope they can forgive me." Said Slenderloo before walking through the door they had went out, followed by her new two armed companion.

In Canterlot castle.

"I-Is that Scootaloo?" Rainbow whispered eyes full of shock and betrayal.

"I-I think so." Twilight Said not quite believing what she had seen.

"She's a S-Slenderpony and she never told us. Why? We would have accepted her."

"I-I don't know... maybe it was how her friends would have reacted."

"Atleast there alright. That's good, right?" Rarity asked.

"Yeah, he's still going to get them out." Pinkie said letting her hair inflate back.

Titan station.

"Where now?" Sweetiebelle asked getting some of her will back.

"To the tram, still." Isaac replied sadly.

"Ah'm going to miss her." Applebloom said walking closer to her remaining friend.

"We all are. Now let's get out of here and too where we need to be." Isaac said pausing to go into a door.

They all saw a large room with small pillars lining around with a large one in the middle. On the wall to the left was a recharge station and on the right was the tram, burning and torn to scrap.

"Dammit... now what?" Isaac groaned out of disbelief.

They walked over to the tram and as they did Isaac stepped on a piece of glass breaking it, causing a small echo to resonate around the room.

That was all it took before a creature, large than a brute and far more deadly climbed on top of the tram and jumped down.

"Oh come on!" Sweeitebelle yelled.

It jumped into the air and landed with a thud, knocking Isaac down to try and dodge it's giant claws. The two Crusaders opened fire, Applebloom using her Line gun and Sweetiebelle was using her Seeker rifle. All the shots bounced off uselessly making it turn to them, it swung with one claw, and Isaac shot out a pulse of stasis and momentarily slowed it down.

They all ran over to the other side of the room to reload.

"Alright, we need to get attack the yellow parts on it. Now fire!" He yelled the last part before taking out a pulse rifle and fired at the Tripod moving freely again.

They all fired with their strongest weapons, Isaac managed to score a few hit while the crusaders mainly missed every shot they took.

"I can’t hit it! It's moving too fast!" Sweetiebelle whined agitated and scared.

"It's movin' to fast!" Applebloom yelled over its roar.

It jumped again and smashed into the wall behind them breaking the stasis recharge station. Applebloom was caught underneath the Tripod and as it was about to strike her down, she fired her Line gun, severing its lower arm from its elbow. It gave a loud screech before swatting her to the side with its free arm.

She had the wind knocked out of her; she felt blood trickle down her forehead. Isaac and Sweetiebelle were firing away at the monster while it made its way back to the one who cut its arm off.

It raised its arm, and she closed her eyes.

And she waited for the inevitable.

And waited, and waited.

She opened her eyes and saw one of those small things stabbing it with two of its tentacles.

The tripod let out a frustrated roar before grabbing the Lurker off its back and crushed it to a pulp. It raised its arm again and swung.

She saw it stop inches away from her face. When she looked to the side she saw its arm wrapped in four black smooth tentacles. And what was attached to them made her and Sweetiebelle scream.

They quickly ran back to Isaac as hey watched the Tripod take on a Slenderpony.

It saw what was holding it back and struck out with its tail; the pony jumped and opened its wings taking to the air. It tried to reach it with its spike tongue; but the pony kept flying away before it came close. It misplaced a step and slipped on a piece off scrap, the pony saw its chance and dived down onto the tripod.

It wrapped its tentacles around the yellow bit connecting The Tripod's shoulder before it started to get up. It put in as much force as it could before its tentacles met. With a sickening splurch and snap combo, the Tripod's arm came off in a glorious tiny explosion of yellow goo. It fell on the floor wriggling in vain to try and get to its attacker.

It got down and stood in front of the limb-less monster before taking two of its tentacles and wrapping them around its head. It started to pull more and more before with a sickening crack the head popped off.

"What the hell is that thing?" Isaac asked pointing his trusty plasma cutter at it.

"It's Slenderpony." Sweetiebelle squeaked out.

"A ponified version of Slenderman, great. It’s not like I have to deal with enough freaky shit, but now I get this."

It calmly started to walk towards them before Isaac raised his gun higher. It stopped in its tracks before putting its head down and resting on all fours.

"I'm sorry..." It said in a blood freezing voice that resembled Scootaloo.

"S-sorry for what?" Applebloom asked looking out from behind Isaac.

"For lying... I’m not just a Slenderpony... my name is Slenderloo or as you’ve come to know me... Scootaloo." It finished rolling its ears back in shame.

"N-No! She’s gone! Ya can't be her!"

"I'm sorry Applebloom, you too Sweetiebelle; I should have told you what I was, but I was afraid of what you might think of me. For what I am."

Slenderloo slowly shrank down, her legs shortening, her wings getting smaller and her white fur got an orange hue to it before it was the familiar bronze they all knew, the purple mane came back in a ruffled mess like before and the eyes and lips came after. The eyes red from crying and the limps in a frown.

"I'm so sorry... I never wanted you two to know. I didn't want you to know because I cared too much about you; I didn't want you to get hurt because of me... I'm sorry!" She finally wailed letting tears flow freely again.

Isaac lowered his gun and just looked down at her in pity for what her friends were about to do.

Applebloom silently stared at her best friend, crying her eyes out. She didn't care if she was a mythological monster, she was still the Scootaloo everypony knew and loved. She quickly ran over and wrapped her friend in a tight hug.

Sweetiebelle followed suit and soon Scootaloo looked confused but happy.

"Why are you hugging me? Don't you hate me for lying this whole time?"

"We don't care what ya are, you’re still our Scootaloo!" Applebloom cried in tears of joy knowing her friend wasn’t dead.

"We wouldn't care if you were a changeling!" Sweetiebelle said hugging tighter.

Scootaloo's eyes shifted between the two nervously before a small smile crossed her face.

"Funny thing about that..." She started making her two friends stop to look at her.

"You’re a changeling too, aren't you?" Sweetiebelle asked.

"I'm part changeling; my grandmother is that big changeling that attacked Canterlot a year back."

"Your grandma is queen Chrysalis!?" Applebloom nearly yelled.

"Yeah, my grandfather Stormflitter met her when she was stalking another couple." She shrugged.

Her friends slowly started to smile and before long were laughing. It wasn't soon that Scootaloo joined in and before long Isaac finally spoke.

"What the fuck is going on!?" He yelled throwing his arms up in emphasis.