Episode 9: The Trotting Dead
BrownDog’s Comment
POV: Nightshade.
“Oh Why? WHY?!” cries Applebloom onto your shoulder.
“I-I…” you try to come up with an answer but you can’t. The bones of the poor filly stand out against the darkness. She couldn’t have been much older than Applebloom judging by their size.
Suddenly, you both hear a distant siren as the room around you appears to darken even more.
You have no idea what’s going on, but one thing’s for sure though, you have to get the buck out of that house. You steer Applebloom away from the bones in the fire place and start heading for the door.
“W-we gotta tell some guards or some town ponies or…” you pause as you see it’s even darker outside than it was when you went inside.
“H-how’d it get so dark?” sputters Applebloom.
You are about to answer, when from behind you, you hear…
ErisedtheInkMoth’s Comment
"I'm sorry..." a small hollow voice says behind you two. You and Applebloom whip around to see the same blonde filly you had both followed into town, only her form is barely visible, almost like she's made of air. The only thing that shows clearly are her two great yellow eyes.
"You found me... finally somepony has found me."
Applebloom can only gape in horror at the ghostly filly, so you step up to do the talking.
"What are you talking about? What the actual buck is going on here?!" you demand, and the ghost meets your angry gaze with a cool, hollow expression.
"My name is Ruby. I was murdered by my friends and family in this town for receiving my mark." she says and motions to the magnifying glass on her flank. Both you and Applebloom feel horrified by this sentence, but also the way she casual said it. She said it as though all sadness she could have felt had turned to simple acceptance with the passage of time.
"I only wanted to help Roneo find his jewel for Starlet, but when I came back to them, all they could do was glare at me and my mark. Then they dragged me in here, and burned me until... until everything went cold and dark."
Your stomach feels like it drops at that.
"Th- they killed you for earnin' yer cutiemark?!" Applebloom gasps "But why? Why would they- your own family! How could they do that?!"
"It made me different. They thought it was a curse." Ruby tells you plainly "But they didn't know the meaning of curses. Not until it was too late."
At that moment you hear a dry shambling and cracking outside the rotting walls of the house, followed by the most inequine moans you'd heard in a very long time. You and Applebloom look back to the smashed open door as you hear an unearthly voice call
"What the buck was that?!" you shriek as Applebloom whimpers and you two hold onto each other.
"It’s them…please help me break this curse." Ruby begs the two of you.
"Only Mitta tried to stop them, and they locked her away for it. She cried…oh how she cried. Now even she suffers in torment.”
“The crying mare…” Applebloom says aloud as her eyes widen, before Ruby continues.
“I was so mad at them for what they did, I didn't understand why they would kill me for being different, and somehow my soul lashed out at them when I died. It brought Him here and turned them into...things. But surely 800 years is long enough to have suffered, more than enough even. I've waited so long for somepony who could see me to follow me back and help me release them. Will you help me?"
You're skeptical about the whole thing; ghost's haven't been too trustworthy in the past. Heck, you just had to fight one two days ago because it made your Daddy turn into…that thing.
You shake your head from these thoughts and are about to question the Filly further, but Applebloom doesn't give you a chance to argue.
“What do we need to do?" she asks and wipes the tears out of her eyes.
"Take my remains." Ruby tells you and points to the bones in the fireplace "I'm certain they are what bind me here. Take them away from this place and bury them. I can only hope it's enough to break the curse."
You nod your head and grab a nearby sheet that hadn't completely molded away. With it you and Applebloom quickly dig through the ashes and start piling the bones into the makeshift bodybag, making extra sure not to miss any, not even the smallest tooth. Finally the ghost of Ruby tells you that you have all of her, and you bundle up the sheet. You then open up the Inventory to put them in, before a putrid odor exits and gags you.
“What in the…” you gag as you dump out a pile of rotten, slimy, blackened food onto the ground.
“Oh Luna, what is that?” Applebloom gags.
“With the illusion broken, the truth is revealed. The dead do not need to eat…” Ruby says.
“Wait, so all that food I ate back at the carnival was...” you begin to ask before Ruby finishes.
“Dead like me.”
After hearing that, you and Applebloom both lose your lunches behind the rotten couch.
“Oh Sweet Mommy, I’m never eating food again…” you whine as your stomach has betrayed you. With both your gut and your Inventory clear of rotten food, you and Applebloom carefully lower her bones into it.
Ruby's remains added to Inventory.
You and Applebloom then head to the door as Ruby follows you. You tug your Inventory tighter around you and share a look with Applebloom.
"Are you ready?"
Applebloom gulps as more groans and voices come from outside the house.
"As ready as I'll ever be."
You nod your head and tell her to stay right behind you no matter what.
You take a deep breath and put and face the open doorway, but a pair of glowing eyes catches your attention just before you exit. For the first time since you saw her, the ghost of Ruby doesn't look so empty and solemn anymore. In fact, you could almost say she looks... hopeful.
"Be careful, the rest of the town will not be eager to let you leave. Do not let yourselves be taken." she tells you before fading away, her last few words echoing into your mind, "Thank you both so much, and good luck."
Applebloom sniffles at this. “We’ll set this right…I swear…”
“You’re Gorram Right we will,” you add as you grab her hoof.
“Keep your eyes peeled,” you tell her before looking forward, “Now let’s go!”
You both then cautiously exit the house. Sure enough, it is pitch black outside, with no light source anywhere to be seen, and a heavy fog all around you. You light up your horn and Applebloom sticks close to you as descend the cabin stairs. As you reach the dirt, you notice in your limited light that the trail still exists.
“Alright,” you whisper, “All we have to do is stay quiet and hope noling sees-.”
“Join us…” you hear from right behind you.
BrownDog’s Comment
You both freeze, eyes wide, and turn around. Right behind you is a rotting carcass with pure black eyes.
“The Mark…she had the mark…” it mumbles.
“AAAAAHHHHH!!!!” both you and Applebloom scream as you both turn around and run back towards the town.
“What was that?!” yells AB.
“A Bucking zombie or something, I don’t know just run!” you yell.
As you near the town, you see one of the things dig it’s way up from the ground in front of you, and you both stop.
“Please…don’t leave us…” it moans.
“This is what Ruby turned them into?!” Applebloom yelps.
“Apparently! Eat Rocks Ugly!” you yell as you push your hooves out in front of you…but nothing happens.
“What?!” you cry as you try to bend again, but only succeed in throwing a baseball sized rock at the thing, which does nothing.
“I don’t think it worked!” shrieks AB.
“OH COME ON! I just beat a goram Smoke Monster, but I can’t bend against a Zombie?! GAH Stupid Fleeting Powers! Buck You Lady Luck! Just Buck You!” you yell in frustration as the thing gets closer. Some moaning from behind you let’s you know you’re getting blocked in.
“Wh-what do we do?” asks AB.
“I don’t bucking know! I can’t just kick the dang thing, if I get too close, it might bite me! That’s Zombie 101!” you say in fear.
“C-can’t you fly us out?”
“NO! I can’t fly! Oh Buck, Oh Buck!” you shiver in dread.
“Can you do magic?!” shrieks AB as they get closer.
“…” you facehoof yourself.
How do I always forget that?
“MAGIC MISSILE!!!” you yell as you send a bolt of magic at the zombie in front of you, which knocks it back and blows a hole in it’s chest.
You both run past and see that it’s still twitching and trying to get up.
“It’s still alive!”
“I NOTICED!” you yell back. “But don’t worry, once we get to the town we’ll be...”
You both enter the town and see it is rotten, as dark as the forest, and more moaning and unnatural sounds are heard.
“…safer…” you mutter with scared eyes.
“AH! What do we do? What do we do?!” Appleboom starts panicking. You bite your lip. You are as scared as she is, but now’s not the time to panic. You panic, you die. So you turn to Applebloom and say
"We gotta survive and bury Ruby's body, that’s what.” She stops panicking after you say this and she nods. You both then hear more moaning from behind you.
“Come on let's get going."
POV Change: Bugze
You still can’t quite comprehend what you’re seeing. One second everything is bright and happy and sun shiny, and the next minute it’s dark, cold and horrifying.
“Where are all the ponies? Why is my message tube all staticy? Why am I alone in the dark? Why is everything becoming Silent Hilly?” you mutter as you spin around in the darkened mist, your horn light barely illuminating anything.
“And why was my food suddenly rotten and…” you have an epiphany about the other foods you ate.
“Oh No…” you mumble, intentionally losing your lunch. After a few more dry heaves, you look back up.
“Oh Luna, the only meal I’ve had in days and it’s all evil voodoo magic; it’s like I’m in a horror movie or something.” You then begin walking around in the fog, seeing that many of the structures have completely caved in on themselves and have not been cared for in years.
“Maybe I’m still sleeping back in that cabin in the woods and this is all a fever dream,” you say as you bring your hoof up to your mouth and bite it. Unfortunately you are not sleeping and that hurts.
“Ouch! Stupid bucking pain. OK, I’m not asleep. Oh, Nightshade where are you?” you whimper as you turn your head erratically. Suddenly to your left, you hear hoofsteps and turn towards the noise and raise your power glove in it’s direction.
Kersey’s Comment
Through the mist you see a few figures coming towards you. The static in your tube seems to rise and you want nothing more than to just blast whoever they are, but hold back.
I-I don’t know who they are. True this is a horrifying situation, but I can’t jump the gun here. They might be fellow lost souls who are caught up in this mess like me. And I absolutely bucking hate that cliché of accidentally killing an ally thinking they’re the monster/killer.
With this in mind, you tentatively call out,
“H-hello? Someling there?”
The figures in the mist stop after you speak and you can only make out their vaguely pony-like silhouettes. You then hear a warbling voice say
“Cold…so cold…”
“Lost…never found…never free..”
“I-I’m lost in here like you. Do you know what’s going on?” you ask the voice.
“We can’t leave…we’ll never leave…and neither will you…”
“Wh-why not?” you ask fearfully, but they don’t answer. “Who are you all? Show yourselves!” you demand.
After you say this, they begin to move closer to you and enter your range of light. And when they do, you immediately regret it.
BrownDog’s Comment
For the figures that come out of the darkness, are walking shambling corpses.
Otherwise known as
“ZZZZOOOOOMMMMBBBBIIIIEEEESSSSS!!!!” you shriek in terror.
“Please…stay with us…Join us…” demonic voices say as they try to grab you.
“Buck No!” you yell as you juke and jive around the monsters, only to run nose first into a crumbled building.
“GORAMIT!” you yell, holding your hurt nose.
“Join Us…”
“EEEKKK!!!” you yell as you turn your power glove towards them.
“Would You Kindly Fry?!” you yell as you send out an electro bolt.
It hits the monster right in the chest…and it does absolutely nothing but make it jitter slightly.
“WHAT?! Why you no work electricity?!” you yell as you switch your plasmid to Inferno.
“The Mark…she had the mark…” they mumble.
“I don’t care! Would you kindly Burn?!” you yell, setting two of them aflame. They groan as they are consumed by flame.
Kichi’s Comment
“Yeah! How do you like that you bucking corpses? Would you all kindly burn! Burn! BURN!!!” you yell as you set three others on fire, two of them even falling over.
Your eyes then widen in admiration at the welcomed flames.
“Oh fire, how I’ve missed your loving warmth and cleansing mercy. If only the whole bucking world could be set aflame in your glorious…”
Your arsonistic tendencies die in your throat however, as you see the corpses are still moving, and they are moving right towards you.
BrownDog’s Comment
“Fire…why have you forsaken me?” you whimper.
“We Burn as She Did…Burn…Burn…” they say closing the distance to you.
“AAAAAAHHHHH!!! Would you kindly Stay the Buck Back?!” you yell, and thankfully, the Telekenisis pushes them back, giving you a chance to run.
Through the darkness, you see more figures walking through the mist.
You point your glove at them and send another round of telekenisis at them, but it only momentarily pushes them back.
“Buck! Would You Kindly have a little extra kick?!” you yell sending out a wave of Bucking Bronco. The wave levitates the zombies who thrash and bend in unnatural ways. It doesn’t kill them, but it gives you more room to run.
You want nothing more than to get out of there, but you need to find your daughter first.
“NIGHTSHADE! NIGHTSHADE!!!” you call out as more zombies shamble towards you.
After a few more moments of running, you find yourself completely surrounded on all sides.
“BUCK YOU LADY LUCK!” you curse as hundreds of zombies surround you.
“Buck! Buck! Buck!” you panic. Your mind goes into overdrive as you think of your options.
I could Fus Ro Dah them…but that’d only delay the inevitable. The Bucking Bronco only lifts a few at a time. I’m certainly not going to try and punch them, one bite is all it takes.
They begin to close the distance.
“Gorramit! What do I do?!” you yell in panic as you see Nightmare Mist seep out of your shell.
“NO! NOT THAT! Anything but that!” you yell as you force it to dissipate. “There’s got to be another way!”
“We’re gonna get you, We’re gonna get you. Time to go to sleep, Not another peep…” chants a demonic sounding mare voice.
“Shut up you B@$%#! I’m not going to die! I’m not going to die!” you shout back as you dig through your Inventory as quickly as you can, as the zombified towns ponies get closer and closer, some of them giggling evily.
Stink Bombs? No! Vice Grips? No! Chainsaw…”
Amethyst Blade’s Comment
Kersey’s Comment
“Join us! The party will be fun!” one says as it reaches it’s hoof for your back.
The laughing begins again from many of the zombies.
It is cut short however as a glorious sound fills the air, as well as the Zombie’s hoof.
The zombie looks from it’s severed limb to you as you smirk and bring your salvation down on his head, severing it.
The other zombies stop momentarily at this. You take this time to smile and say,
“That’s right…Who’s laughing now?”
You then take your wonderful salvation and start cutting a swath through the zombies.
“WHO’S LAUGHING NOW?! AHA HA HA HA HA HAAAA!!!!” you yell manically as you keep slicing and dicing, with the gore beginning to cover you.
You send out a Bucking Bronco wave trapping those it was pointed at. You smirk at this as you begin slicing the hovering undead.
You cut so much, you give yourself breathing room from the rest as the zombies look at you.
“Oh you buckers tried to bite off more than you could chew with me!” you yell as you take out your duct tape and attach the chainsaw to your right hoof while switching the Power Glove to your left.
“You know, I’ve had a bad month. I failed to save another world, I’m haunted by deaths I did not cause, my most trusted friend and ally is comatose after she saved my life, I’ve alienated and hurt my friends and family, and I freaking ATE a guy a few days ago. All of this has made me feel guilt beyond measure” you finish wrapping the chainsaw to your hoof.
“I’ve tried not getting angry, forgetting about it and bottling it all inside lest I hurt someling,” you say as you pull your Boomstick out.
“But you’re all already dead! So nothing I do to you will matter. I get to kill your magotty carcasses guilt free!” you shout. “So come at me you buckers! Let’s have a little stress therapy session!”
They then begin to start swarming you again as they all say things like
“Purge the marked ones,”
“Kill the heretics,” and
“I’ll swallow your soul…”
To this you hold your chainsaw up and declare
“Come Get Some.”
You then rush forth and skewer a zombie on the end of your chainsaw, before blowing it off with your Boomstick.
You spin around 360 degrees, cutting a circle of heads off.
You liquefy a zombie with the Boomstick and all your clothes get soaked in gore as you start laughing.
“Blood! Hope this isn’t Chris’s Blood!” you say in a stilted manner and laugh at your own joke.
“I’m really powerful, especially against living things! But you’re all dead, so I’m even more powerful!” you say as you spear three zombies all at once through the gut while blasting Bucking Bronco over your shoulder at the others.
You then jump towards the floating ones and cry
“Falcon Chainsaw!” and give them all a combination punch, slice.
You start to lose yourself as for the first time in a long time, you are actually having fun.
“Who’d have thought it’d take zombies to make me get out of my funk?” you yell will glee while sticking the Boomstick into a zombie’s mouth and blowing up his head. Then you cheerfully begin singing.
TheRutherford’s Comment
I feel so good, I feel so numb yeah!
You chainsaw uppercut a zombie and begin juggling him in the air with multiple blasts of the Boomstick. You then turn around and give a Chainsaw Crusher through another group.
Yeah! Mud bath, acrobat, a midnight drive
Everypony’s slippin', everypony survive
Your tube starts screeching in static.
Radio talk show try to project,
Everything you need when you gotta connect
Your crushing spin stops as you start taunting the shambling corpses around you.
Come on, come on, come on, you feel it!
Come on, come on, come on, you see it!
Come on, come on, come on, you wanna make it all right!
You notice a Zombie whose head you didn’t sever trying to get up. You pick it up in telekenisis and impale it on a lamp post.
Come on, come on, come on, you feel it
Come on, come on, come on, you see it
Come on, come on, come on, you wanna make it all right
The others near you before you burn the impaled one, giving you a bigger light source as you charge forth.
Blacken the sun! What have I done?
I feel so bad I feel so numb yeah!
Blacken the sun! What have I done?
I feel so good I feel so numb yeah!
You think that Selena would enjoy this if she was awake, and your thoughts turn to her.
Sugar sweet brainiac on your mind
Get into tomorrow man I gotta rewind
A green world, blue girl on my team
Gotta wake her up 'cause I dont wanna dream
You then refocus and start taunting the zombies again.
Come on come on come on you feel it
Come on come on come on you see it
Come on come on come on you wanna make it all right
You build up for a big Ice Blast.
Come on come on come on you feel it
Come on come on come on you see it
Come on come on come on you wanna make it all right!
You freeze a whole group of them and you run forth and start smashing the corpsicles.
Blacken the sun! What have I done?
I feel so bad I feel so numb yeah!
Blacken the sun! What have I done?
I feel so good I feel so numb yeah!
You then slash a zombie down his back before shoving your glove inside and filling his insides with ice and electricity.
Yeah! Bugze drags a coughing nail across your back
Everypony want it, gotta take it back
You kick the corpse into the others, which causes an electrical ice explosion, taking out several others.
Brain trash ice flash what is why?
Look into forever revolutionize
You then twirl your Boomstick around you and point it at your next victims.
Come on come on come on you feel it
Come on come on come on you see it
Come on come on come on you wanna make it all right
You pump your ice and electric energy into the Boomstick till it glows and hold it above your head as the Zombies try to mob you.
Come on come on come on you feel it
Come on come on come on you see it
Come on come on come on you wanna make it all right
And you slam the weapon directly into the ground, sending out an electrical ice explosion, with the Boomstick increasing the ice missiles’ damage, and taking out nearly all the big groups. You rev up your chainsaw and go to town on the rest.
Blacken the sun! What have I done?
I feel so bad I feel so numb yeah!
Blacken the sun! What have I done?
I feel so good I feel so numb yeah!
You then notice that the whole group is in pieces around your hooves, and yell out triumphantly.
Where do I run! What have I done?
I feel so bad I feel so numb yeah!
Where do I run! What have I done?
I feel so good I feel so numb yeah!
As you finish singing, you sit and pant and look over all the work you’ve done.
“I, *gasp* bucking *gasp* knew, *long gasp* that I could survive the Zompocalypse.”
You notice that the static from your tube is gone.
“Huh, must be a proximity thing,” you think as now everything is Silent as the grave.
You see all the mangled bodies and all the gore on you and can’t help but think.
Jeez, I really lost it there for a bit. But that was oh so satisfying…and shorter than I would’ve liked,” you pout. Suddenly from near your foot you hear,
You then twirl the stick and place it in your saddlebags like a bad flank.
You then see more heads twitching on the ground and speaking things like.
“Never free…Never released…”
You just shrug and say “Well, Rule #2 is always Double Tap. Gotta make sure.”
You then begin to make sure the dead stay dead.
A Few More Double Checks Later
You explode another head before a thought occurs to you.
“Wait a minute, aren’t I forgetting something?”
“The filly…the filly has cursed us…” one head croaks.
At the word filly, your eyes widen.
“OH BUCK! Nightshade!” you scream out. You got caught up having so much fun, you forgot about your little girl!
Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! You chide yourself.
*BOOM*
Suddenly, a large explosion goes off on the other side of town, with an accompanying fireball.
You jump to the obvious conclusion when explosions are involved.
“NIGHTSHADE!” you scream and run towards the fire ball. And as you do, the static returns and you realize there are still Zombies in this town.
“She burns…” a zombie moans and you slice through him as you continue running.
“I’m Coming to Get You Nightshade!”
POV Change: Nightshade
“Stay down you motherbucker!” you yell as you send another magic missile at another undead. Luckily it hits it right in the head and it goes down.
Another one comes from behind and you shoot it in the head.
“Huh, you’d think there’d be a lot more zombies for the Zombie Apoca-.”
“Watch out!” Applebloom yells.
You dodge a bite from your left and blow the Zombies head up.
“Ugh…” you hold your head as a slight headache starts growing from the many spells you’ve cast…
“Are you OK Shadow?” asks Applebloom.
“I’m fine, I just gotta take a second,” you say before a hoof pops out of the ground underneath you.
“EEEP!” you both shriek as you run.
Applebloom then opens a door to one of the run down houses and drags you inside. From what you can see, there are no zombies inside it.
“What are you doing, we have to-.”
“You said you need a second, well take a second! Otherwise we’re gonna be Zombie Chow,” Applebloom fearfully says as she closes the door.
“I just wanna go home…” she moans as tears leak down her face.
Kichi’s Comment
You hug your quivering friend as she blubbers and a few tears leak out of your eyes as well.
If only she could fight back as well she wouldn’t be losing it so bad. Heck, the only reason I’m not a jabbering mess is because I’ve seen scarier when Daddy…
You choke back this thought.
No, I can’t think of that right now. It wasn’t him…it wasn’t.
Your thoughts are interrupted as Applebloom sniffles and pushes away from you.
“Thanks Evening Shadow, I needed that. And sorry for being such a mess,” she apologizes.
“Don’t say that, I think you’re acting appropriately for a zombie town,” you say.
“I-I know, but still, I feel so useless right now,” she bemoans.
“Don’t say that, both you and I are getting out of this, as a team,” you pump her up.
"But, what can we do besides run and use your magic?" asks Applebloom.
"Well... From what my daddy told me about a zombie apocalypse, we need to do a couple things.”
“Alright, what do we do?” she asks.
“First we need to secure all the food we can…but since all the food here is rotten and evil, we’ll just forget about that one” you say holding your stomach.
“Agreed,”
“Secondly, we need to find weapons and a place to hide,”
“Well we got a place to hide for now, but we gotta get out of here. And we ain’t got no weapons,”
“Well when we find my Daddy we’ll be better off, he’s got all kinds of weapons,” you reassure.
“And lastly we can’t trust anypony we randomly meet. They will most likely try to take your food, weapons, and hiding place and leave you to the zombies…at least that’s what The Trotting Dead says anyway.”
“What about escaping, burying Ruby and getting help like from Zecora, or My Sister and Her Friends, or the Princesses?” Applebloom asks.
"That’s...actually a better plan" you admit. “But first, we have to find my Daddy. I’ve almost got my second wind,” you tell her.
“Alright, just let me know when you’re ready and…hey, what’s that?” Applebloom points to a wall covered in newspapers. The papers are all yellowed and rotting away, but what catches your attention is the words scrawled over them.
There Was A Hole Here, It’s Gone Now…
“What does that even mean?” you ask aloud.
“I don’t know, but it feels really…spooky,” Applebloom says.
You then walk closer to the papers and see that some of the articles are still visible and seem to chronicle the town. You both read some of the headlines.
Be Happy, Be Equal, and the Mark will not find you
To Be Blank Is To Be Safe
Preserve the Status Quo
Then one catches both yours and Applebloom’s eye.
Terror of the Cutie Pox
“Th-the cutie pox?” she says shocked.
You remember the morning when she got that disease. That was a fun day.
You read through what’s left of the rotten article and gasp.
With no known cure, the pox had claimed the lives of countless hundreds. Those afflicted could no longer function in society and were given mercy. Nopony knows the origins of the disease, or how it is spread, but countless settlements decided to take a stance of solitude, and segregated to the Everfree Forrest.
“Th-they feared cutie marks because of the pox,” you say aloud to Applebloom.
“Th-that’s horrible,” she responds.
Another Article Reads
The Mark Has Been Destroyed. All is Well
And shows a picture of Grey Hoof, Roneo, and Starlet smiling, but behind them is a mare crying.
And the last article, right in the middle of the rest reads
We Didn’t Know. Sweet Celestia Forgive Us. She Won’t Let Us Leave. HE Won’t Let Us Leave…
You both shiver at this.
“So they killed her because they didn’t know how the Cutie Pox worked…” Applebloom says aloud.
“And she cursed them for their stupidity with the power of the Everfree,” you conclude. “But who the heck is HE?”
Applebloom just shakes her head.
“Once we get her out of here, we can end all of this, are you ready yet?”
“Y-yeah, I’m ready let’s-.”
*BOOM*
You both hear an explosion that rocks the very house you’re in. You both rush out the door and see a fire ball going off not too far away.
You jump to the obvious conclusion when fire is involved.
BrownDog’s Comment
“DADDY!” you yell out.
You have to get to him, he’s still weak, and will need help. Plus he’s yours and Applebloom’s only shot of getting out of here.
You grab Applebloom’s hoof and say,
“Come on! We have to get to my Daddy!”
She nods and you both start moving, when out of the darkness comes the corpse of Three Leaves
“The curse had befallen her this very night. She had the mark! She had to go!”
“MAGIC MISSILE YOU SICK BUCK!” you blast the undead mare and run past.
POV Change: Bugze
“When there’s no more room in Tartarus, the Dead will Walk the earth, but you’re walking too bucking slow!” you scream as you cut a zombie in half who was in your way. The thing is, it and more zombies are walking away from the fire.
“He comes…He comes…” the zombies moan as they shuffle away.
“I’m already here you piece of-.”
“Daddy!” you hear to your right.
“Baby!” you yell in relief as you see your sweet little girl running right at you with
“Applebloom?” you say aloud in confusion. Luckily she doesn’t hear you over the chainsaw.
Nightshade stops herself from glomping you as she sees all the blood and guts covering you.
“Oh Sweet Celestia Daddy Gross!” she gags.
“It’s good to see you too honey, I’ll hug you later, but…” you point out the gore again, “yeah…”
“Yeah, definitely hugs later, I’m just so glad you’re OK, and Awesome Chainsaw by the way” she says.
“Thanks, and you’re glad I’M OK? What about you? I was worried sick, and this is exactly why you don’t run off without me.”
“But you were sick and needed food Daddy! Aren’t you still sick?” she asks.
“Yeah…I’m kind of running on an adrenaline high right now, so I’ll probably feel it later, but right now I’m alright,” you tell her.
“OK, but we have to get out of this town Daddy. And why are all the Zombies walking away from us?”
“I don’t know, guess they’re too afraid of me,” you smirk.
“Mr. Please, can we please go now? We have to end this curse,” says Applebloom impatient and scared.
“Uh…who’s your friend honey?” you awkwardly ask since you already know the answer.
“What but you kno- I mean, this is Applebloom!” she corrects. “I met her here in town before everything went to Tartarus. She got lost in the Everfree”
“We’ve been in the Everfree this whole time?!” you shout in exasperation.
“Eyup,” Nightshade says.
"Why in the name of all that is holy do we keep ending up in this forsaken forest?! Is this some sort of punishment for all those times Grandbuggy and I set fire to everything?!"
Ignoring you Nightshade turns to the Apple filly.
“Applebloom, this is my Daddy.”
“Pleased to meet you Mr…” she trails off.
“Oh I’m…uh…”
Buck, What Name Do I Give? I can’t say El Hunko because she’ll tell her sister about this. Plus I don’t exactly look like him with all this gore on me and how raggedy they clothes have gotten. Mr. Tennant is dead, She Might still have mixed feelings about the Hooded Offender, and I sure as heck can’t tell her I’m a changeling.
Buck! I need a new alias and disguise after this is all over.
“Let’s not worry about that right now Applebloom, but don’t worry, I’ll keep you and my daughter safe. I’m a uh…Hunter.”
“A Bounty Hunter?” she asks.
You were more thinking along the lines of Monster Hunter but,
“Sure, Let’s go with that,” you say.
“Alright, but we have to hurry and bury Ruby before the monsters come back,” she says impatiently.
“Bury who know?” you ask.
“She’s a little filly that was killed by this town hundreds of years ago because she got her cutie mark and they believed those were cursed, so she cursed the town for their sins, but now she's a spirit and wants us to put her at peace by burying her bones and end this nightmare once and for all,” Nightshade says in a Pinkiesque manner.
“Yeesh,” you say processing all of that. "Crazy freaking town ponies. So this whole thing is because the spirit of some dead filly?"
"Uh-huh," Nightshade says opening up her saddlebags, "These are her bones, we have to put her in a proper grave."
"Why don't we just, you know, salt and burn her bones right here? The Winchesters do it all the time," you point out.
"Daddy! She came to us for help! We are not burning her!" Nightshade growls at you and closes her Inventory while Applebloom just looks confused.
“Alright, alright, fine, but I need you guys to get in my saddle bags for safety. And no arguing honey. I know setting that explosion was cool and all, but I need you safe!” you order.
“Wait, I didn’t set off that explosion,” she says.
“You didn’t?” you ask shocked.
“No, I though you did that,” she points out.
“So wait, if you didn’t set off that explosion, and Shadow didn’t, then who did?” asks Applebloom
SHRNK
Suddenly, the three of you hear a sound of scraping metal coming from near the flames.
“He comes…” the shambling Zombies warble in…fear?
You see a Zombie come around the corner in front of the fire before a mass of bugs swarms it and ignites it, blowing it up.
“What in the…” you say in shock before you hear the noise again.
SHRNK
“He is here…” A Zombie moans before you all hear a sickening sound of metal on flesh and a metallic sounding groan.
A figure walks around the corner and in front of the flames, and your blood runs cold.
The figure walks on two legs, a bloody apron around it’s body. In it’s elevated legs it holds two things in it's Minotaur like hands. One, a squirming Zombie which it quickly rips the limbs off and throws into the fire. In the other arm, it holds a massive rusty looking blade.
“D-daddy…what is that?” Nightshade says fearfully as both the girls hug your legs.
It turns it’s metallic triangular head towards you and the static on your tube screams louder than before as it gives a muffled growl.
Your mind screams in panic as you shout to the heavens.
"OF ALL THE BUCKING VIDEO GAME BOSSES YOU HAD TO CHOOSE FROM LADY LUCK, WHY THIS BUCKER?!"
WHAT DO YOU DO?
Uh oh! Looks like a certain monster is here to play! Time for a fight!
Rules:
1. No nightmare cloak for obvious reasons.
2. You can kill for a change! So go crazy! 
For Last Chapter's Question:
I liked all your guys Halloween ideas, mine are to scare whoever comes to my door and eat all the left over candy!
This weeks question is
What is your favorite zombie movie, t.v show or video game?
Zombies are everywhere Hive Mind, so tell me what your favorite media of them is.
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Be thankful its not an orne, it may still be instant death, but at least it can't fly, and doesnt destroy your soul.
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My favorite is Resident Evil 2, not sure why but I like it
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"Okay... We need to defeat Pyramid head... Any ideas?" Ask Bugzee to Appl Bloom and Nightshade
"Uhhh... My sister don't let me play violent games, if it was Sweetie Belle, maybe she could know as she seems to have a crush in Button Smash" Comment Apple Bloom
"Really? That colt addicted to video games? Strange..." Say Nightshade
"Yeah... Wait, how you know Sweetie Belle and Button?" Ask Apple Bloom
"Uuuh... Daddy, how you defeat pyramid head in the game?" Ask Nightshade as she try to change topic
"Well, it all depends of the game... In one game you can kill him after he is halved in two pyramid heads, but in the other games, you can't defeat him" Comment Bugzee
"So..." Begin to say Nightshade
"Run!!!!" Shout Bugzee and the three begin to run away from pyramid head.
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Yeah, out of ideas, I'm not very good in boss fights, and Pyramid Head is like Nemesis. No one can stop him.
Not really into zombies. I read the Zombie War novel, but I've yet to really be into a movie.
(Spoiler alert; humans win)
Anyway...
Attack with chainsaw, fire, and lightning, with all your biggest attacks really, and hope for the best.
uh do they all count?
Headcannon idea for backstory; Over 1000 years ago, Princess Luna found this village and was so filled with disgust and rage at what they did out of paranoia that Nightmare Moon (aka Selena) made one of her earliest appearances in feeding on Luna's rage to curse the whole village. Pyramid Head is merely a demon she created to enforce that curse (perhaps it has the spirit of Ruby trapped inside it and you need to destroy Pyramid Head it to set it free).
Think of it like Anakin slaughtering that Tusken Raider village. One of the steps that led him to the path of becoming Darth Vader.
First things first, SHOVE NIGHTSHADE AND APPLE BLOOM INTO THE INVENTORY ASAP!!! This is WAY too dangerous for the little ones to be out.
Quick! Throw a Pokeball at it!... Only to realize you don't have one.
Repeatedly slam the Boomstick into the ground to keep Pyramid Head at a distance.
NOTE: BOOMSTICK IS NOT A PROJECTILE WEAPON! THE ONLY WORKS WITH PHYSICAL CONTACT AND EVEN THEN THE END OF THE STAFF NEEDS TO BE SLAMMED BEFORE IT RELEASES A SMALL SHOCKWAVE.
Use "Mix Up Smash" to combine "Incinerate!" and "Bucking Bronco" to blast Pyramid Head high into the air with a lava geyser, allowing you ample time to RUN!!!
Pyramid Head shatters your chainsaw with his giant blade.
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Favorite zombie movie is Zombieland.
I like world war z (the book).
But for movie or game...id say shawn of the dead or night of the living dead. Played some zombie games, but none of them were what i wanted
My favorite zombie story (in the loosest sense of the term) is The Nameless Witch by A. Lee Martinez. It is about a girl who was born undead (however that works). However, if that doesn't suffice, 28 Days Later works too. Also, I still think Sombra's spirit will be making an appearance in Bugze's mindscape.
Mine would have to be zombie island. The reason is its a bit funny and it give some tips on how to survive an zombie outbreak. (for example: double tap.)
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"What's that thing going to do to us?" Appleboom asked shacking with fear.
"I don't know and I don't want to find out" nightshade replied
after standing around for a few minutes none of you have moved a muscle.
"Why is it standing there?" Nightsade asked
"I think he is trying to smell us?" Applebloom asked
"With that pyramid thing on his head? I don't believe he or she has ever smelled himself. He or she smells like rotten corps." you replied
This cased him to look at you directly and tightening the grip on his giant clever.
"I think he heard you dad." nightshade replied
The thing started to walking towards you.
Oh double Luna. come on brain I need options know. you thought
“Wh-what is he Daddy?” Nightshade fearfully says.
“It’s freaking Pyramid Head! Pyramid Head! How the buck is he even real? What is he even doing here? He’s supposed to be in Silent Hill!”
“He’s here…” a zombie warbles.
The figure then begins movie towards you, the Great Knife in his hands dragging a trench in his wake and the giant hoofball sized bugs around him begin attacking nearby zombies.
“Girls…get in my bags, now…” you command, trying to keep your teeth from chattering.
“Alright, Come on Bloom,” Nightshade says as she opens the flaps and jumps in with her.
“What the hay, this is just like Mr. Tennants saddle bags. Where in the heck do you even buy a bag like this?” asks Applebloom.
“I have no idea, but hold that though” says Nightshade as she sticks her head back out.
“Daddy, look at me,” she yells.
You take your eyes off of the bipedal butcher and look at her.
“Baby, I told you to-.”
“You CAN’T get angry,” she commands.
“Honey I-.”
“DON’T USE THE CLOAK!” she shouts causing you to wince. “Fight for and protect us, but don’t hurt mommy. There’s enough monsters here already, I don’t want you to become one of them,” she says. You nod to her before she ducks back down. You then give out a sigh.
“Getting chewed out by my own daughter huh? I guess I deserve it,” you mutter before looking back to the poster child of Silent Hill.
As Pyramid Head walks towards, he slashes a few zombies in his path.
“OK, Calm Down Bugze, you’ve fought tougher. You just gotta hit it till it dies. Sure he may be the manifestation of punishment for the wicked, and nigh invincible and you can’t actually beat him in the game, and…UGH Focus Bug!”
As he closes the distance you say, “Wait a minute, I don’t need to be punished, I’m not a wicked spirit, you shouldn’t want to attack me like these Zombos,” you tell the metal headed monstrosity.
The horrifying Executioner stops and points his finger out at you and groans.
“OK fine, I’m not an angel, but come on who is?!”
The monster then roars again and to this, you rev up your chainsaw and point it back at him, “Alright fine, Let’s Go!” you yell as you rush the monster.
“Chainsaw Punch!” you yell, but your skewering punch is blocked by the great knife, which shuts it off.
“Buck!”
Pyramid Head then grabs you by the horn and lifts you up.
“Would You Kindly Let Go?!” you yell as you shoot electricity into his helmet. You hear a groan and he drops you. But before you can do anything else, his leg shoots out and punts you hard, sending you flying.
“Oof!” you exclaim as you land.
He then starts making his way towards you at a fast walking pace.
“Oh, is that all you got? Well guess what?! I’m tougher than Sunderland, I actually know how to hold weapons properly!” you yell as you start up your chainsaw again rush the monster.
You dodge a swing from the Great Knife, which cuts a gash into your already raggedy top hat and slice at his legs.
You hear another groan as his blood flies, but the chainsaw doesn’t cut all the way through his legs, and only leaves a gash.
When he swings the knife again, you dodge under and slice him across the chest, causing him to grown, but this time he headbutts you. And Armored Shell or not, that pointy helmet hurts.
“Agh!” you cry out and hold your face, which gives him time to swing the knife again. You jump back just a little too late and he slices you across the right shoulder.
“AAAAHHHH!!! Mother Bucker!” you yell holding your bleeding shoulder.
You back up from the monster as your shoulder starts to heal, but all of a sudden you feel a crawling sensation on your back. One of the bugs is on your back.
“Get off of me!” you yell as you hit it with your boomstick. Unfortunately, hitting a bug that can explode with a boomstick is not very wise, and the resulting explosion sends you flying right at ol Pyramid Head.
You hit him in the gut, and your horn goes through it. He groans, but grabs you by the back of the neck and throws you into the dirt.
“Oh…I hate boss battles…” you moan in the dirt.
POV Change: Nightshade
Inside the Inventory
“Are you sure you’re daddy is OK? It sounds bad out there,” says Applebloom.
“Yeah it’s fine, he can take a beating. We just gotta make sure he doesn’t get angry and everything will be fine,” you tell her.
“Okay…” says a confused Applebloom. “But seriously, what the hay is a Pyramid Head? It was hurting the zombies, I don’t get it.”
“Hmm…” you think as something clicks in your mind. “The zombies kept talking about Him coming remember? That newspaper said the same thing,” you deduce.
“Wait…so Ruby brought him here?” asks Applebloom.
“Maybe? Let’s ask,” you say as you open up your own Inventory and talk to the bones.
“Hey! Ruby! Ruby!” before a voice behind you says.
“Yes? What do you need? Why have not buried me yet?” she asks.
“We’re working on it,” you tell her. “But first, what in the buck is that Pyramid Head guy out there?”
She looks downcast at this.
“Oh…him…” she says sadly. “He is a spirit of punishment. He comes every day to punish the Town for what they did to me. To punish the wicked. But they’ve suffered for so long by his hands. Once I’m at rest, he will be gone as well…I hope.”
“So for the last 800 years, he’s cut up the zombies?” asks Applebloom
“Yes, and at the beginning of every day, they are reformed, forced to live about the day they did this to me, and are slaughtered every night.”
“Wait, if this thing is supposed to punish the towns ponies then why the heck is this thing attacking my dad for then?” you ask.
“It is?” she asks confused.
“AAAAHHHH Motherbucker!” you hear from outside the bags.
“Unless he’s yelling for his health, I’m pretty sure,” you tell the ghost.
“But he only attacks the wicked…is your father pure of heart?”
“Yeeeeaaaa….No not really,” you admit, “but he’s not like bad either.”
“Then your father must flee! He cannot beat this foe!” Ruby says in panic.
“AAAAAHHHH!” you hear Daddy shout in pain.
“Uh-Oh,”
POV Change: Bugze
Sometime during the fight.
“Alright, that’s enough, in the game of life, Chainsaw is Always Better than Sword!” you yell as you swing your blade, meeting his.
You hear the motor sputter and die, and a horrendous metal on metal sound…and your chainsaw’s chain breaks and flies off, making it useless.
“Oh Come ON!” you yell. You then point your Boomstick at him, but he grabs your hoof before it connects, and starts squeezing.
“Gah!” you shout in pain. “Would you Kindly Get Zapped!” you yell as you send Electricity into his hand.
He groans, but it only causes his grip to get tighter, and you feel your bones start to crack.
“AAAHHH!!!” you scream, before you witness him raise the knife over his head, preparing to swing it down on you.
“NOOOO!!!” you yell as you hold the broken chainsaw hoof up.
You see the blade coming down, but then it stops abruptly.
Confused, you see a tendril of shadow coming from your chainsaw wrapped hoof.
PH groans in anger, but you take the opportunity to throw the blade back and stumble him. Then you use the tendril to pierce the arm holding your other hoof. He lets go and groans.
You then take a step back and mutter.
“OK, gotta calm down, no more cloak, no more…huh?”
The thing is, none of the rest of your cloak has appeared, and your eyes aren’t glowing.
“What the…” you mutter as the tendril fades away. You don’t have much time to think about this though, as the Monster Roars and comes towards you again.
“Daddy, you can’t beat him! Run!” you hear Nightshade’s voice from the saddlebags.
“Alright, Buck It!” you yell, realizing that even in videogames, there are just some bosses you literally cannot beat, and you bravely flee into the forest…which is still full of Zombies.
Favorite Zombie Book: World War Z (Screw That Movie!
)
Favorite Zombie Game: Resident Evil Series, and Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare
Favorite Zombie Movie: Zombieland and Original Night of the Living Dead.
Favorite Zombie Comic: Marvel Zombies
OK favorite zombie media:
Movie: Scooby Doo: Zombie Island
Book: Zombie Survival Guide
Game: Recently gotten into The Last of Us
After you have been fighting Pyramid Head for a while
Bugze's P.O.V.
This is not working. I have to do something. But what can I do? It seems like every time I hurt him, he just heals back.
Dark Male Voice (DMV): RUN YOU FOOL! That monster cannot die! Run and get out of here while you still can!
Bugze: Who are you and why do you sound like you're in my head like how Selena is?
DMV: Now is not the time for questions. Get out now so we can both live long enough to have this chat! DODGE!
You jump to the left as PH's giant blade cuts a trench where you just were.
Bugze: Yeah, let's talk later. But for now, let's get the Buck out of Dodge Junction!
6524869 D.M.V. is what's left of King Sombra.
And his new abilities should be called the "shadow cloak"
6526095
my thoughts exactly. but I like the new cloak idea. wish i had thought of that
6526919 Thanks.
Best zombie related thing: The Walking Dead the VG from TellTales. Why? Because it's the only one that genuinely made me cry! That's why. Screw the second season of the game, the first will forever have Lee Everest as the one true guy of the motherfucking apocalypse.
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"Please!"
It is like an echo. You hear it, but it is a deafening voice in your head. Without knowing, your changeling sense locks on to the overwhelming emotions of a certain deceased filly.
"No! Not now," she sobs. "Not when I'm so close!"
"Who are you?! What's going on?!" you shout back toward the voice.
However, when your changeling sense pulls you toward Pyramid Head, you feel confused. Suddenly, you recall how a filly is keeping this place cursed along with Pyramid.
"Oh, no way. She and the big guy are one and the same?!"
Nightshade's ear perks up from this. "What do you mean?"
You can't reply since Pyramid Head already starts to swing wildly. You roll away from a slash that can behead you effortlessly. Not wanting to run away, you slam the Boomstick to the ground, causing a shock wave of ice all around you. The monster doesn't even flinch!
It slices its blade towards, but you manage to hope away just in time.
"Phew! That is close!" You then see a small piece of your top hat fluttering in front of you. "Way too close!" you cry out.
With a grown, Pyramid Head begins to trudge toward you.
"Oh no you don't! Would you kindly eat lightining!"
The shot of electricity didn't hurt it, but it knocks it back and causes it to slip from the ice. You then jump into the air, summon a barrier, and give it a shielded body slam. The town of zombies hears a resounding smack, which proves its power. You immediately roll away across the ice to avoid a wide swing from the rusty blade.
In a low pouncing positions, you smirk. "How do you like ice, blockhead?"
It replies by slowly standing up. Too slowly. Impatient, you lob fire balls at it. The flames explode in an exotic wonder, but it only illuminates the monster as it progressively stands upright. The flames instantly vaporizes parts of the icy ground and forms a bit of mist.
Suddenly, you hear a short boom, the polluted air disperses as though air pressure broke, and the huge thing is gone! You feel the Killing Intent. Your eyes widen. With a yelp, you dash forward just in time for the huge monster to land from its jump and plunge its rustle blade into the place you are previously! It's landing causes the ground to shake—Holy buck it shatters all the ice! The entire area is suddenly free of frozen and slippery ground!
Your cloths flutters along with the winds from the shockwave. Bits of dirt and ice flies into your open mouth, your jaws down.
"Well, buck."
Suddenly, Nightshade pops out of you r saddle bag. "Daddy! I have an idea on how to beat this! But I need something real quick."
It takes a second to get yourself out of your stupor before you shake your head and focus on the monstrosity before you. "Well, not like I have any better ideas. What do you need?"
"I need that plushie that make ponies fall asleep."
Your eyes widen. "No. No!" You give a stern glare into the saddle bags. "You know Silent Hill! If you go into the dreamscape, you'll go craz—!"
"Zzzzz..." Apparently, Nightshade accidentally stumble upon it anyways.
You hear the Silent Hill monster's heavy footsteps, approaching you steadily.
In fear, you shout, "Oh, Buck! Apple Bloom! Quick! Wake her up!" When you hear nothing from the filly. "Apple Bloom! You need to! Right now!" you cry urgently.
However, unbeknownst to you, Apple Bloom also falls asleep from the Luna Plushie.
"Bucking Lady Luck!"
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(Nightshade)
Applebloom jerks her eyes open. "Bwah?! Huh?!"
"Oh good, your here!" you say in good cheer. "Welcome to the world of dreaming!"
Your friend stares at you in shock. Not like you can blame her. After all, all around you, the dreamscape is nothing but bloody. Fresh ooze litter the tiles of the floor, and morbid cages hangs around the massive room. You've are being go-lucky, what with experiencing a few monstrosities just...recently. But still you—
"Nightshade?!" Applebloom shouts.
Oh, right. You haven't bring along your disguise in the dreamscape. Stupid, Nightshade! Stupid! Calmly, in a blink of an eye, you summon you disguise. The instant change in disappearance along with your quizzical expression confuses her.
"That friend of yours?" you say in an act of confusion.
Applebloom blinks in confusion before looking away, sad. You withhold a sigh, feeling dirty for tricking her like this.
Suddenly, you all flinch as something... Dark and foreboding; pressure coming from the center of the dreamscape. There it is: Pyramid Head. It groans toward you. Behind it is a cage that contains the ghost of a filly that you know, who seems to sleep peacefully under the guard of the monster before you. The thing looks as though it is...expecting them.
Applebloom whimpers soundly. "H-how are we going to get through him? What are we going to do?"
"It's easy to create things in your own dreams, so there's the how. Just wish what you want to appear."
Applebloom gives out one last shudder before falling silent. "I just wish all of this to end..." she finally utters.
You give a sympathetic look. "We will." With a smile, you put a hoof onto her shoulder.
The country filly sniffs, before turning to face you with a nod. You smile, and she smiles back. Mysteriously, between the two of you, you both feel warmth from one another. However, neither of you notice your wings flapping and twitching without your consent. As if your presence is giving her holy aid, Apple bloom stares resolutely at the monster with a pyramid head.
You blink in surprise. You wonder, just what is this feeling between the two of you? However, you shake your head and begin to focus on the task at hoof. After all your, your daddy is still fighting out there!
"And as for what we are going to do..." You summon a plethora of cute and cuddly sheep. "Throw cute things at it." Then, everything explodes in pink and calm blues.
Well, it works on Sombra. Why not now?
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Out of desperation, and running out of better ideas, you went back to spamming fire balls.
"Burn, burn, burn! Come on already!"
Although, you half expect the flames to have no effect, just like the last few times, but, to your surprise, Pyramid Head stumbles. You can only stare wide eyed as you began to see its skin actually scorch! Unfortunately, the injuries began to recover regardless.
Still, you are ecstatic! "Nightshade! I don't know what you did, but keep it up!" you shout. With new hopes and renewed confidence, you charge back into the fray...
"Air bending edition: Flaming Psycho Crusher!"
...And slam right into Pyramid Head as is it finally, oh so finally, screams in genuine pain!
*insert jack nicholson the shining reference here*
Apple... Boom? welp, time to go stuff apples with c4 charges.
It's a shame. It would be nice to see apples bloom if they could...
I'm sure you see my point.