"It was rhetorical..."

The three of them just chuckled before helping him up. After a quick dust off and thruster cleaning, they were ready to go.

He opened the door and they immediately aimed for the vents and walls. While the Crusaders took notice of the yellow boxes in a corner.

As they were smashing them the lights went out making Isaac flinch and two of the Crusaders scream.

"Ah can't see!"

"Isaac! Where are you!?"

"What's wrong with you two?" Scootaloo asked letting her eyes flash blue while covering her friends in the soothing light.

The sound of metal hitting metal could be heard. They all jumped to their hooves and aimed at the walkway and vents to see nothing. They looked to see Isaac with his hand over the front of his helmet.

"You're scared of the dark, but not Necromorph's?" Isaac sighed.

"We're scared of them both! It's just... We can't see anything in the dark." Sweetiebelle said blushing under her helmet.

"You know, you have lights in the front of your helmets for a reason, right?"

"They give off enough light as when ah light the lantern in the barn to read at night... Not again!" Applebloom cried hitting her helmet once.

"Alright, let’s all just take a deep breath and calm down. Think we can all do that?" He aid doing it himself. 'Nope. Not working at all.' He thought.

The two Crusaders took in deep breath and released.

"Ah feel better, thanks." Applebloom said much calmer.

He started up the walkway and soon he found the source of the problem.

"Looks like the power core just went out." He said before picking it up with his kinesis and putting it in the hole.

The lights turned back on and the door turned blue letting them through.

They rode silently up the elevator, Isaac and scootaloo glaring at the corners until it stopped and the doors opened.

They did the usual check but only found a power node before going through the only door besides the elevator.

"What's with the candles?" Sweetiebelle asked looking around.

"Oh great, were in the cultist part of the outbreak now." Isaac groaned.

"Hey, I think I see some ammo!" Scootaloo said running into a room.

The body in the bathroom door way split in two and out came crawling three, boneless pieces of flesh.

"S-Spiders! Get them away!" Scootaloo shrieked before pummeling them with anything nearby.

Which happened to be Isaac.

"They're dead! Stop!" He yelled in between hits.

She dropped him and was rubbing the back of her neck sheepishly as he got up.

"Why on earth, would you use me to kill the Swarm?" He asked folding his arms.

"I thought they were spiders." She said tapping her hooves together.

He just face-palmed before going on.

He exited the room, checked where to go, disturbed more of the Swarm and got used as a hammer again.

"Seriously!?" He yelled throwing his arms in the air.

"It was Sweetiebelle!" Scootaloo said pointing at her friend with a poker face that would make Celestia jealous.

"She can't lift me! You're the only one who can!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Yeah-huh!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Yeah-huh!"

"Yeah-huh!" She said back smiling.

"Nuh-uh!" He said triumphantly before realizing what she had done. "Oh, you're good."

She gave a cheeky smile before trotting ahead and into a different room.

The others followed and soon they saw Isaac and Scootaloo lean against the doorway in a children's room for support.

"You're not Nicole! Nicole is dead! You're not really here." Isaac said looking to the bed.

They both looked back to each other and then back to the other two ponies.

"It was her, won't it?" Applebloom asked.

"Yeah, yeah it was. Come on, we still have a way's to go before you all get out."

He went through the door and swerved to the left and then right before waving them through.

The Crusaders went to the ledge a few step over and peered down.

"Weird, they must really like this stuff. I don't know why, it's so tacky." Sweetiebelle said scrunching her muzzle up. "And it smells like vomit in here."

"I think that's Isaac." Applebloom whispered to her.

"I heard that!"

They all giggled at him before following him through the next door. Applebloom saw a box and went to buck and as she did so, a Necromorph burst through the door next to her. She raised her plasma cutter at it and cut off its arms before it fell to the floor dead.

She reloaded and went to open the elevator. They all went down occasionally sparing glances at the vent above them. It stopped and they got out, the first thing they saw were the bodies out in the open.

"I don't like this. There are too many undamaged bodies lying around." Isaac said getting out his line gun.

"I don't like any of this." Applebloom said readying her Pulse rifle.

They all slowly entered, each of them guarding a side.

Applebloom spun and fired thirty bullets into a Infector trying to re-animate a corpse.

"Infectors. Don't let them near-not again!" Isaac yelled getting drenched in acidic puke.

Scootaloo turned and side-swiped the Puker getting ready to unleash more of the corrosive fluid.

Sweetiebelle was taking off arms with her Seeker rifle and Applebloom was picking the blade up and pinning the rest of them to walls. But she failed to notice the Infector sneaking up behind her.

It jumped and soon they were wrestling in a blur of spider-like legs and hoofs. She rolled it onto its back, grabbed the proboscis and pulled with all of her strength. She put down her back hooves until they were sinking in its flesh before the appendage came loose and snapped off.

"And stay off a'me ya mangy varmint!" She spit at it coldly before helping to finish off the remaining Necromorph's.

After they finished they stood there to catch there breathe. All except Scootaloo.

"I... hate Necromorph's..." Isaac wheezed leaning on his knees.

"Me too." Sweetiebelle agreed.

"Me three." Applebloom said popping her back.

"Where to know?" Scootaloo asked flinging a head across the room to smash on the wall.

"It's... It doesn't say. Now I really hate this. Unfortunately that's the only way." He said opening the door ahead.

"What's all of these things?" Scootaloo and Sweetiebelle asked running up to a table and pushing a play button.

"History lessons for the cult of the bat shit insane." Isaac replied walking ahead and letting them follow.

He opened the door and jumped as he went up the steps. There was a loud shattering noise, Isaac yelping and guns being fired. The Crusaders ran up and soon their oxygen packs were starting to drop as they watched a barrage of bullets come from the ceiling.

Isaac nudged them and started to run under them to the doors ahead. They ran against the wall.

The doors closed and they took note of their surroundings. Including Isaac shaking his head.

"What is this place?" Applebloom asked looking at the large room. "Looks like the queen's castle... Only creepy."

"Welcome to hell Crusaders. This is a Untitologist church." Isaac said taking a step back with them.

"Creepy." Sweetiebelle said.

"Ugly." Applbloom said.

"Comfy." Scootaloo said getting looks from the others. "What? I like the creepy stuff."

Isaac sighed before heading to the right. The Crusaders shrugged and followed.

They entered a room full of candles and corpses. After rummaging around and finding a few clips to their already, gross amount of ammo, Isaac's screen popped up again.

"Isaac? Isaac, I know you see the symbols too. They mean something!"

"Stross. Yes, I see the symbols." Isaac said border-lining between annoyed and bored.

"Were a threat to them. I know it. We have to work together!... Oh, my nose is bleeding? When did that start? Uhhh..."

"Work together? Who's them? You mean Tiedmann? Stross? Work with me Stross!"

His screen flickered out and left the others silent before Isaac started up the stairs.

When they went through a door. Sweetiebelle groaned.

"What? You don't like libraries?" Isaac asked.

"I do, but now Twilight's going to want to see them... Sorry Twilight."

Ponyville.

"Hey! That's not true!" Twilight said angrily.

"Twilight, you're eyes glazed over the second the door slid up." Rainbow Dash said.

"Did not!"

"You did!" The fairly larger crowd said in unison.

"Quiet! Something’s going on!" A colt in the front yelled. "Look!"

Titan Station.

Isaac and the others were running around the elevator avoiding the Necromorph's while still shooting back.

"Get to the elevator if you want to live!" Isaac yelled putting the mob of Necromorph's in stasis as they all went into the elevator.

The doors slid closed and were opened a second later as a Necromrph tried to get in before getting shoved out by Isaac's boot connecting to its face.

Once the elevator opened, they all ran to the doors ahead, ran in and Scootaloo dented the door so it wouldn't open again.

"Remind me... How two Brutes came from the damn ceiling again?" Isaac panted.

"I just pulled a book out of a shelf and then, boom! Those things were there trying to kill us!" Scootaloo yelled.

There was a sudden pounding at the door making them all run into the room ahead of them.

It was small, filled with organized chairs, a small projector and a large, very breakable, glass window.

"Ok, no one fire directly ahead." Isaac said before noticing the locked door and the control room next to them. "Looks like we need to unlock the door." He stated.

They all looked at the locked door and then to the open one before going in. A panel flying off in sparks startled them and sent them running to the other side of the room.

Isaac pulled off the other side and grimaced.

"We need another plug-in."

"A what?" Applebloom asked.

"A plug-in, as Isaac called it, is a small circuit used to connect larger more energized ones and make sure they won’t use too much electricity and damage the system." Scootaloo said getting looks from everyone else in the room. "I read the manual."

As they all looked around, Isaac saw a panel on the wall, he pulled it off revealing a second plug-in. He pulled that out and swiftly put it into the empty slot in the wall.

Outside the door began to rapidly open and close in quick succession.

As they opened the door, three Necromorph's dropped from the ceiling and started to walk towards them.

Scootaloo froze them in stasis as she walked out into the front of them. She shot out four tentacles and latched onto the floor before taking out her Force gun.

"You all may want to step back." She said to the others before firing at the window making it shatter.

The Necromorph's flew back with anything else in the room that wasn't nailed down. Scootaloo just sat there idly inspecting a hoof.

"That was awesome!" Sweetiebelle said running up to her friend to hug her.

"Eww! Quite with all this mushy stuff! I don't want to the others seeing this! They might try and hug me when we get back!" Scootaloo protested.

"If'n yall are done," Applebloom said. "We need to go before more of em' show up."

Isaac and her went to the door and as he stasis-ed it, she went under. As he waited for the other two, Scootaloo just grabbed it and tore it from the wall before flinging it to the side.

As soon as Isaac and Scotaloo were in, they both stopped in their tracks and before Applebloom or Sweetiebelle could say anything, Scootaloo smashed all the screens in front of her as Isaac stomped on the pieces.

"I don't like you're ex-girlfriend Isaac." Scootaloo said rubbing her head.

"I'm starting to see why myself." He said wobbling into the next room.

"Alright kiddies, into the vent." He motioned them into the vent as if it was a Limousine and he was the driver.

They all, one by one, crawled in.

Scootaloo exited first followed by Isaac and the other two got the biggest shock so far.

Scootaloo was trying to stab Isaac in the eye with a needle. He was struggling to force her back but even he was starting to strain. Luckily, they both snapped out of it and just stared at each other before she dropped to the ground.

"I-Isaac... I-I don’t know what happened! One second I was crawling t-the next I see that woman and then... and then... I'm sorry!" She finally cried out wrapping her four tentacles and hooves around him.

He caressed her back slowly trying to get her to calm down.

"It's alright, shh, shh. It's alright, I saw her too. It’s alright... She’s just trying to separate us. And I won't, I repeat, won't let her." He looked right into her eyes before smiling. "I Pinkie promise. Cross my heart hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my ey-ow! Why’d I do that!?" He was gripping his eye he just poked.

She giggled before seeing her two friends.

"Applebloom? Sweetiebelle? Are you two alright?" She asked as Isaac looked behind him.

They just nodded before falling to each other’s sides with a thud as their helmets hit the floor.