Epilogue: Welcome Home
Left 4 Derpy
Epilogue: Welcome Home
Derpy could feel herself falling, tumbling to the ground. Suddenly, she opened her eyes the instant before hitting the ground. The first thing she realized was that there was a moist, cloth-like material wrapped around her, blocking her view of the world. The new material made her panic, kicking at it and batting her wings to try and escape. But the more she fought, the more the thing seemed to wrap around her.
Ditzy’s struggle for escape continued until one of her kicks landed on something hard, resulting in a creak and a sharp crash as something fell to the floor. She froze instinctively, listening for any other noises. The pause in the battle gave her mind time to focus, realizing that the cloth-like object was, in fact, not moving at all.
After a brief moment of concentrated struggle she pulled the blanket off her head, resulting in a sudden bombardment of light on her corneas. She blinked and raised a hoof in-between the light’s source and her eyes, allowing them to adjust to the sudden change. As her eyes embraced the light, her surroundings began to grow clear. The morning sun’s bright beams shown in through the bedroom window and across the bed, gleaming off Ditzy’s morning-encrusted eyes.
The confused mare blinked, unsure of what she was seeing. She looked down, realizing that her sweat-drenched, sky-blue blanket was wrapped around her upper body. After struggling to get free of the constricting piece of cloth, Ditzy stood and looked around her room. All the pictures of her and Dinky (and/or muffins) hung in their respective places, her clothes hung on the adjacent wall where she had left them, and the cloud-mattress bed’s sheets were twisted and disorganized.
Ditzy turned around to see what she had kicked a moment ago, seeing that her bedside table was leaning against the bed. All of its contents had been dumped on the fluffy bed, save for one. The mare leaned over and picked up a picture frame from where it lay on the floor. Turning the picture over in her front hooves, she was greeted by a picture of her and her filly beaming happily behind what was left of the frame’s shattered glass.
As Ditzy continued looking at the picture, a tear crested her eye and fell onto the blanket. She clutched the picture to her chest happily as more tears fell. She was home. Her moment of solemn rejoice was interrupted, however, when the bedroom door creaked open. A blond manned, purple unicorn filly’s head poked into the room and looked up to Ditzy.
“Mommy, is everything alright? I heard a crash.” Dinky stepped into the room and looked at her mother worriedly. “…Why are you crying, mom?”
Ditzy placed the broken picture on the bed and sniffed, wiping the tears away with her open hoof. She looked down to her child, her derped eyes red from the crying. A gentle, reassured smile spread across her face.
“Oh, it’s nothing. I just had a really bad nightmare, and accidentally knocked over the bedside. I broke my most favorite picture of us together. Do you remember? That day at the Summer Sun Celebration two years ago?”
The filly’s smile widened, forcing her eyes shut. “Of course! I think that’s my most favorite day I can remember!”
“Mine too, muffin.” Ditzy looked down to the picture. “…Mine too.”
“Well… don’t worry about the picture. We can always buy a new frame, right mommy?”
“Right, sweetie.” She paused. “…You go on downstairs and have some muffins. I’ll be down to make breakfast after I’ve cleaned all this up.”
Dinky nodded happily and skipped out the door. Ditzy could hear the filly as she made her way down the hall, then down the steps and into the kitchen. Realization dawned on Ditzy as she went out to get the broom and dust pan from the closet across the hall. It had all been a dream. The zombies, the city, the helicopter …even her four friends. It was quite possibly the most realistic, life-like dream she had ever had, but a dream none the less.
She walked back into her bedroom and set the broom and dust pan on the bed’s sheets before looking down at the wrinkled blue mass that was her blanket. The picture frame’s broken glass was between it and the tilted bedside table. Ditzy picked the mass of cloth up and tossed it behind her, so as to give her more space to sweep the glass.
The blanket let out a muffled, yet very audible clatter as it fell to the floor, causing Ditzy stop and turned to the blanket slowly. The last time she checked, blankets did not clatter. Perhaps something else from the bedside table had fallen onto the blanket and gotten wrapped up during her brawl with it.
Shrugging slightly, she turned around and grasped the first corner she saw between her hooves. The blanket un-jumbled as she lifted it as high as she could, followed by the sound of something falling to the floor heavily. Ditzy tossed the blanket onto the bed, looking down at what had fallen out of the bowls of her cover. However, the grin disappeared and her blood ran cold as her eyes came across what had been revealed.
The strength in her legs failed and she fell to the floor, though her eyes never left the item lying before her. Fear suddenly washed over her mind, causing her to shuffle on her back as far away from the item as possible. Pain shot through her side as she realized she was shuffling into the broken glass behind her.
She winced at the sharp pain and leaned the other way, gripping her side with a hoof. A drop of fresh blood ran across her hoof as she brought it in front of her. Another twinge of pain shot through her side, causing her gaze to shift from her hoof and to the wound. Her eyes widened in terror not at the trickle of blood running down her side, but at the three lines of pink scar tissue that ran across her ribs.
Her mind was in a frenzy at all that was conspiring. She continued staring at the scar for what felt like hours before turning her attention back to the item on the floor before her. Shock, terror, and disbelief continued to wreak havoc in her mind as she stared at the half-sheathed katana. The red liquid covering the exposed blade gathered along the sharpened edge before dripping to the floor. Through all the terror and shock reeling in Ditzy’s mind, a single thought continued to echo above the chaos.
“It was all real.”
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1830042
Notice that the narration points out how Francis now has two itchy nubs on his shoulder blades. He's turning either into a pegasus, or a human/pegasus hybrid that isn't a centaur. Personally, I'm hoping for a pegasus-- I find the idea of Derpy/Francis kinda cute.
@Edmar
...Sequel?
What happened to Francis? Will there be a continuation onto Crash Course or Death Toll? Will Derpy got back or will a new pony take her place? So may questions unanswered but all in all one hell off a story well done you, you magnificent person you.
When In Doubt, Count on EDMAR MOTHER FUCKING FECLER!
I demand a Sequel!!
Aw ShIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII~!
I, like a few others, do hope that there's a sequel. I, however, shall not demand one. Too much of a good thing and all. 
Awesome story, one of the best I've seen yet. I'm keeping this in my faves for a long time.
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Beautiful.
Just...fucking beautiful.
you do know that's a shit way to end a story without a sequel, right?
SEQUEL!!! PLEASE!!!!!
Yesh needs sequel but amazing
Ya Derpy is alive
So, whats next? I know you aint ending it like this.
Oh, goody. Not only a rather obvious sequel hook but also a traumatized pony.
Huh. I should read this.
Or maybe the outbreak was the beginings of ponykind. Francis spread the pony plague and ponykind arose from that.
Celestia: And that's how Equestria was made!
Derpy, The owner of the most well used and deadly hand held weapon in Equestria and more combat experience than the rank and file of the Royal guard.
Scary isn't it.
best way to do "it was a dream all along"
Stupid sequel hooks, why you so attention-grabbing
DUDE! You need to continue this! Maybe not with Derpy, but at least with another pony from Equestria! Awesome story by the way!
Zoey: "Hey, Francis, I think that rash is finally going away!"
Francis: "Ya, I know. And here I was thinking I was gunna get turned into some dumbas-"
Bill: "Cut the chatter you two! ...You here that?"
Zoey: "A witch?"
Bill: "No, it's too quiet"
Lois: "A survivor?"
Francis: "Hold on, Ill check it out"
...
...
...
*Chomp*
Francis: "NOOOOOOOOO!"
what will happen to francis?
plus! for the sequal, you can do the next parts leading up to The Sacrifice OR do Left 4 dead 2 survivors(you could still have derpy again)! WHOS WITH ME!?
Haha.
Curing the infection, one DERP at a time. Tht's awesowme.
1831607 Me.
WENEEDMOAR!
ERMAHGERZ MADNESS!
SHE LIVES!
Fiery helicopter crashes have got nothin' on the Ditz!
You could leave it off here, or you could go through the twin adventures of Ditsy having to explain where the wounds came from and Francis slowly turning into a pony. Decisions, decisions...
Heh, that's a pretty big sequel hook.
Wait. That's it? Your ending there!?
Okay, I can see why whether or not you intend a sequel.... but.... -_-
Epilogue?
EPILOGUE??
*flips table*
YOU BETTER MAKE A SEQUEL OUTTA THAT DAMN HOOK OR I'M...
I'M GONNA BITE YOU, OR SOMETHING!
...I'm screaming at my computer. I should probably fix the table and sit down now.
And where was Doctor Whooves during all this?
You know there has to be a sequel. And let Ditzy tell the elements and princesses about her adventure. I want to see Luna join the Left 4 Dead group! And Fluttershy faint like a goat...
That was....some ending. And I loved it!
This requires a sequel, in which a zombie outbreak happens in Equestria, and Derpy is like "I got this."
Oh Celestia, please let there be more.
It was an amazing story, but you can't just leave it here. What happens to Francis? Can Derpy readjust to normal life? Is there absolute truth? Why am I still asking questions? I Need Answers!
Well, I find this ending to be perfect. Not the best ending but for this kind of story, Yes. Only because it leaves a mark in people's minds. and that they as the audience should just let their imaginations take over and imagine what will happen next. But nevertheless a wonderful story, and if possible, but not necessary, make a sequel. Miasma ~
Epilogue?!
Epilogue?!
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If there's a sequel, i hope she doesn't bring the green flu with her to equestria :(
What happened to Francis?
Is he gonna turn? 
Will she tell the Doctor about this? And I don't mean the medical one.
The next night Derpy goes to sleep and wakes up in a storage closet, and is promptly found by Francis.
there must be a sequel
SEQUEL IS A MUST HAPPEN OR I WILL GET SLENDY TO RIP YOUR THROAT OUT AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR FLANK
but your lucky it will never happen
1836173 read my latest blog.
1836198 OK
My head has now exploded.
Best ending ever, seriously
I'm just glad the sword came wit hher, I like to see her try to explian it all
But I love this the way it is, I see no need for a second one, amazing, amazing job
1845145
you sir i have most of your replies every where and i will not tolerate this this
i don't know how to explain it all i mean there needs to be a sequel
why?
well it will explain everything going inside the l4d universe, the scar, and on top of that why derpy got there
if you dont care about my comment then just watch stephen hawking vs. albert einstein in a epic rap battle [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&list=PLQ-7WiWmOuK-55mfcd_tdcvy-57VMCkOW&v=zn7-fVtT16k]
1853134 I disagree, sometimes it's best to just allow others to have their own thoughts on the matter without the author having to say anything, I seen published work like that before so I guess for some stories (such as this one) it's alright.
1853168 1853134 well, whether or not there will be a sequal is not a debatable subject guys. i've had the sequal planned out since i first posted this story.
also, electricgearshock: you're doing the youtube imbedding wrong.
instead of posting the whole youtube link, just use everything after the watch?=
like this:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sJxmSqdwIeM
[ youtube=sJxmSqdwIeM ]
[youtube=sJxmSqdwIeM]
bam. there ya' go.
1853665 Huh......sure, I'm down then, just hoping Derpy keeps her blade, I like that sword, wonder if anypony or creature else will join in,
1853891 *SPOILERZ*
Dinky.