"Jump!" Isaac yelled as he stepped on the rail to vault himself over. "Nexus, Sweetiebelle, get the door over here!"

As Nexus helped Babs and Applebloom cross, the guard was firing into the other doorway where the Regenerators were trying to get through. He looked back and saw Sweetiebelle tearing the other door open while Nexus was coming back. Getting a running start after leaving a Regenerator to block the way of the others, he cleared the gap and slipped.

Nexus helped him up and soon they were all running on the second level of a new room. Isaac went around and began to descend the ladder while Sweetiebelle helped Applebloom and Babs down to the floor, Nexus watching Sweetiebelle took the guard and jumped down with him.

"Alright," Isaac said as they all took to the back wall. "Alright, listen for a second. Maybe they're gone?"

"We need to keep running." Applebloom whispered back. "They know where we are!"

"No, they don't," he replied. "If they can't see us, then they'll lose interest. They'll go into the vents again and start to look somewhere else."

"And if they don't?" Babs asked.

"Then we run." The guard said.

They all stood in the dim lighting of the cavernous room, staring at the platform above, at the door as they waited for the Regenerators to move in. After a moment, the noise of the Necromorphs died away and eventually went away completely. As they stood there, the vents around them were torn out and Feeders began to pour out.

Applebloom and Isaac ran into the fray, swinging or sweeping the Feeders over or under them, the guard, Babs, Sweetiebelle, and Nexus took up the spot against the wall and fired a volley of magic and bullets that tore through the Feeders that managed to pass Isaac or Applebloom. With only more than a dozen Feeders, the fight ended in seconds.

Panting, Isaac backed up to the wall again while Applebloom stood still, staring up at the entrance. The guard was leaning against the wall, Nexus and Sweetiebelle were watching the vents, and Babs was staring at the entrance alongside her cousin.

"They're not coming," Sweetiebelle said breaking the silence. "Me or Nexus would have heard them as soon as they came out of a vent. They actually lost interest because they couldn't see us."

"Thank god," the guard said. "I hate Necromorphs. I really hate them."

"If ya hate them so much," Applebloom said. "Then ah want em' all gone. Ah got stabbed through the chest."

"Damn." He said putting a hand to his chest. "Is there a hole?"

She just looked at him silently for a moment before shaking her head. Looking around, she saw a set of large double-doors to the right. Going over to them with the others in tow, Isaac opened it for them and quickly let it shut. With the first few steps in the hallway, the vents exploded and a pair of Exploders came out, gurgling and shrieking before having their puss sacks detonated. Exiting through the other doors, they came into a locked room with only a ladder leading to an exit.

Picking up Applebloom, Isaac set her on his shoulders as he climbed the ladder, the guard put Babs on his shoulders and followed him with more difficulty, Sweetiebelle and Nexus climbed the wall and climbed up to the others.

Going through the door on the right, the spot in front of them was dark until Isaac's visor illuminated it. Going around to the right, he used his kinesis module to turn the small wheel. Going across the bridge, they turned left and were going through the door when it locked and the orange emergency lights turned on.

Putting their backs to the wall, Issac and the guard aimed at the Feeders as the poured out from the vents. As they dealt with them, Applebloom, Babs, Sweetiebelle and Nexus all shot or clawed occasionally, at the two Feeders who made it through the bullets. As they tore through the two Wasters that emerged when the Feeders were gone, the alarm lifted and the door slid open.

On the other side, it was more fairly lit with molding bulbs, a bench, five lockers and another door. Passing the bench and heading for the door, it opened into another room without any lights. Looking around, Babs pushed the holo-board on a lift's controls to the left. Crowding onto it, they had their weapons raised as they stepped on and on when it finally buckled to a stop.

A Waster came out from a vent on the right and ran towards the guard, he yelled slightly as he shot the legs. It fell and was starting to crawl when Applebloom walked onto its back and decapitated it. Isaac and Babs were dealing with another two, each of hem aiming at the legs before moving to the arms. Sweetiebelle and Nexus were tearing another two apart. Sweetiebelle was tearing chunks out of one's torso while Nexus burrowed through the other.

Standing in the carnage, they all either sat against the wall, on bodies, or stood. Isaac kicked an arm away when it twitched and the guard was reloading his rifle.

"Well," Isaac sighed. "This has been interesting."

"Ah guess." Applebloom muttered. "Are we takin' a break?"

"I guess so." The guard said as he laid against a wall.

"Ah'm gettin' kind'a sleepy." Applebloom said yawning. "Ah wonder what time it is back home. What do ya think Babs?"

"I don't know." She said watching Sweetiebelle and Nexus sit idly on a Waster corpse. "Hey, have you noticed those two? They've been inching closer and closer every time they sit together."

"Who? Me and Nexus?" Sweetiebelle said scooting away. "We've just been sitting closer, what's so noticeable about that?"

"Sweetiebelle and Nexus sitting in a tree," Isaac sang receiving a snicker from most of the group.

"That's not true!" She yelled indignantly but the crack in her voice made the group finally laugh.

As the laughed died a little but still kept strong, she bared her teeth and readjusted her vocal cords. Taking in a deep breath, she let out a Tripod-like roar that made Isaac lose his balance and fall back. The guard accidentally fired a few shot from his rifle, Babs sucked in a breath so fast she choked on it, and Applebloom just looked at her.

"He is not my coltfriend." Sweetiebelle said spraying the ground in front of her with a red mist.

"Right," Isaac said getting up. "And we all don't have a deadly dementia."

"He's not." She said crossing her fore-legs. "Right Nexus?"

He kept the same dis-interested look, blinked, and then pulled her into a one-legged hug. She sighed and glared straight ahead.

"You're not helping." She said as he let her go. "Stop encouraging them."

He blinked and shrugged back a response. She sighed and sat back further on the Waster corpse.

"Lets go before the two love birds start calling each other pet names." Isaac said as Sweetiebelle flushed. "Lighten up, you did the same thing to me back on Titan when you found out I liked Ellie."

"Yeah, but we weren't as open about it as-" Sweetiebelle was saying before she put a hoof to her mouth.

"See! I know that look when I see it." The guard said. "It's alright Sweetiebelle, I'm sure he's very hansom to you. You know, because you're both ponies." The guard said.

As they all got up Applebloom was left in the back with Sweetiebelle and Nexus. As They waited, Applebloom folded her helmet up and just smiled at Sweetiebelle.

"You're not going to let me down on this, are you?" Sweetiebelle asked.

"Eenope." Applebloom smiled as she trotted away.

"Nuts."

Author's Notes:

Nexus is her coltfriend. Denial just proves it. Admitting it is just as good... Not as funny though.