Kathryn wakes two days after the Event that turned everyone on Earth into ponies... but even though she looks like an Earth Pony, there's more to her than meets the eye!
She now must somehow travel from Brantford, Ontario, Canada to Miami, Florida, USA in a very short period of time... read the story to find out why. 
Although... the title is kind of a dead giveaway 
Kathryn's story is going to be a combination 3rd person and journal entries; the former is normal format while journal will be with italics. Teen is for some strong language.
Based on the Last Pony on Earth saga written by Starscribe.
And if anyone wishes to write a spin-off story about any of the colonies Kathryn passes through *except Miami*, PM me and i'll give you the details! 
Chapters (33)
Heyo! Just read this first chapter, thought I'd drop my thoughts as I went. So don't consider these a list of things I would expect you to change, more... a direction to go in if you want future chapters to be even better.
The number one suggestion I'd made for your writing here is the common phrase you may've heard before "show vs tell." if you haven't heard it, show is:
"Kathryn kicked over the fruit display, dodging out of the way as apples tumbled all around her. "Yikes!" She called, as one of her front hooves caught on one and sent her sprawling. She grunted and got to her feet, and sniffed around until she found one that looked intact. She bent down and took the apple in her mouth, and the taste made all her struggles worth it."
Vs tell:
"Kathryn was really hungry so she found some apples. She couldn't reach the display so she kicked it over. She tripped, but wasn't hurt, and once the apples were on the floor she was able to eat as many as she wanted. They were so good."
What's the difference here? The first one is better, right? The first one is in "scene," it puts us into the action, so we feel like we're behind a camrea watching her. The second one is narration, and so it's much less interesting.
You used a lot of "tell" in this chapter. I don't think you should change it, but keep that in mind for future chapters. Try to make us feel like we're watching, not like we're hearing about what happened. Make us see it.
Oh, and please don't think I'm trying to cut down your writing or anything. I'm just telling you what I wish people had told me when I was younger, so I could've learned way faster. Hopefully it's useful.
Great chapter! All those things said about showing and telling don't apply when you're using the journal format. As a result, the tendency to narrate a lot work to your advantage this time. Also the extra effort with the images was super cool. I look forward to seeing where you take the story. One of its strongest points so far is its brevity. Sometimes these stories tend to slow down and as a result they can get boring. This one has not so far, and if the rest of it is paced as quickly as this chapter was, it should be great.
It's a good start. I'm interested in seeing where it will go .
7457509 My style of writing is more "Tell" than "show" and i've striven to try and change it. The journal entries are far more easier for me to do so I might change the format to total journal but i haven't decided yet.
*Walks up to you*
"Here, hold these."
*Hands you a green thumbs up and a star.*
*Walks off.*
Friendly word of advice, link to that story.
7486927 I fixed it.
Keep going. I am intrigued.
"Farmville. We named our settlement after a facebook game. We weren't feeling creative that day"
Of course his name "Joe Farmer" so creativity in naming probably wasn't his strong suit.
Wait, they aren't from Equestria? Why would they name themselves that then? I mean, I could see someone introducing themselves as "I'm Joe, this is my wife Amy, and we're farmers." But that other way seems quite strange.
Oh wow, art! Has a sort of "ms paint adventures" vibe to it, and not in a bad way. I can't do art, so I'm always impressed by those who take the time to do it.
“What the fuck Kathryn? Why didn’t you tell me about this??” Seems strange he would assume that she knew. Yes, he's correct, she did know, but it's not as if swimming would've been Kathryrn's first priority after the end of th world.
This is called passive voice. It is the absolute bane of your existence if you want to write fiction. It's hard to break the habit of writing with it, since so many schools let us get away with doing it. I'm sure you know what it is and how to get rid of it, but "Eventually, they decided to move me here" is all you have to do. Make it so that the people doing the actions are the subject of the setence. Probably too much detail, I'm sure you already know that, but there you are just in case.
"I'm not staying on land much. I'm driving to the Atlantic Ocean." I get that you were doing this, but it feels like "gather the merponies" is something you only just decided to do, even though you've known you wanted to go to the ocean for chapters now. Character motivation is important, and the main character's motivations are the most important of all.
The community pool is 15 meters deep? Forgive an American reader, that's like 45 feet, right? Is this a scuba diving training pool? That's twice as deep as most olimpic training pools (for good reason). Making pools that deep requires very specalized engineering, so it isn't usually done. Not that it couldn't be done, but...
I'm not sure how such a large population gathered so soon after the event (Alexandria didn't get into the double-digits for months, and it recruited from very large cities, and as far as I know this is a very rural area), but why the heck was this child permitted near the pool if he couldn't swim? Dang.
I mean, I know the plot reasons for it to happen, but I'm not sure if those reasons are matched by equally compelling in-universe reasons.
I don't think I've ever worn one of those in my life. When I was little, they didn't let me in the pool without a teacher until I knew how to swim. Seems strange to take the halfway step of life-jackets.
“Tomorrow, we’ll figure out a wheeled set up for you, Sarah, and then we’ll hit the road," This ought to be interesting. Transporting live animals is a huge pain. At this this live animal can help you while you're doing it, but still...
Also, I applaud your speed. Not many authors can write as much as fast as you are.
AND you haven't given up, so kudos on that too. You're already further than many writers on the site get.
Oh, I see! You aren't going to try to bring water for her at all, just to let her move around. Interesting question raised here: Can this pony survive outside of the water? Or is she going to dry up like a fish when kept out of it? Let's see if it comes up.
Sarah’s face lit up with joy as she trotted around the parking lot, followed by Amy for safety...." So apparently sea creatures can survive completely without water? Bit bummed out by that, seems too convenient. I wonder if there will be negative conciquences when it's used too often at least.
Again I'm getting the sense that there are hundreds of ponies in this town. For some perspective: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l-5AsQ8UdqvKH8IvGgcrU_o58-ytDVNWnNmFoMc4NB4/edit This chart shows the number of humans on earth at any given year. According to this chart, by the end of year one there were 1508 people on the whole planet. The US has 4.5% of the world's population, so that means about 67 people were in the entire country. (there were 8 in all of canada)
This is not my way of saying the story's wrong or needs to be changed. Rather, it's possible that the places your story went were somehow exceptions. Just... make sure you keep that in mind. If your story starts very early in the timeline, than there aren't that many people. Finding them was so rare in the orginal story because people are rare. If a village defies the odds and has tons of people, then just keep in mind that every village won't be like that. IN GENERAL if a place has <1,000,000 people living in it, not a single pony from that place will be around post-event in the first year. Of course there are and can be exceptions, just keep it in mind for the generalities.
As much as I'm bummed that her being a merpony isn't going to make the trip harder, I did want to say I thought it was neat you were doing something creative with the merponies. Not making them one species, but making them have tribes sorta like regular ponies do. It's interesting. It might get even more interesting if their tribes don't precisely line up with land tribes. Like, a pegasus merpony doesn't make much sense, so is there something to replace it? An interesting thought.
Oh, something else (not a bad thing). In stories we set expectations. You have set the expectation that at some point we're going to know why the main character can change between pony and merpony and Amy can't. I do hope it comes down to more than her cutie mark. Maybe her specific breed, or maybe something else, who knows. I do want to know, though. (in the course of the story I mean. I don't want someone to tell me)
"A moment or two later, the earth pony spat out a good mouthful of water and started hacking." Damn lucky pony. Most people who stay under for more than three minutes don't come back.
And one last positive thing for this comment: I'm super glad you aren't afraid to make things actually _happen_ in your story. There are lots of slow-moving side stories out there. This one isn't, and it's a good change of pace. Keep up the good work!
Interesting. Clearly not 'canon' with the rest - far too many ponies. Also - is geology different - that would be interesting if true - and I don't think has been mentioned elsewhere.
There are no actual diamond geodes, and no large diamonds found in the US.
(large in normal contexts - a diamond the size of the end joint of your middle finger is of course quite valuable)
Geology in Equestria is clearly comedically different - might we see what a rock farm actually is?
7503057 I never said he found the diamond geode in the ground... it might have been "liberated" from a museum for all Kathryn knew
Another new chapter, nice log one this time!
I like that the water pony needs water, at least a little.
I’m a little confused about how they know things. Like, how do they know a pegasus can actually fly? It’s only been a month, I doubt very many are flying after so little time to practice. Where’d they come up with the name “the Event”?
A little surprised they’re having so much trouble looting. A large grocery story has enough food in it to feed a family of five for _twenty years_, if they’re willing to eat every kind of food and the animal foods as well, so long as the food is eaten in the correct order.
I say this because they’ve come back so soon after the event that just about every store they pass will be fully stocked with everything. They could completely fill their truck with supplies from the very first store, if they wanted to.
Similarly, it’s a little strange to me people are treating things as scarce right now, when the population is so low that they can totally go to the stores and just get what they want. They’re very lucky to be around at exactly this moment, future returnees will not be so lucky.
Couldn’t they just lie to the guy with the gun? I actually like his inclusion in the story though— I don’t recall any bad guys who were just a dick but didn’t actually cross the line into killers in the story. It’s a nice middle ground that we haven’t seen in PaP stories yet.
Though I question the need to characterize so many ponies given the caravan is passing through town and probably not coming back, I am impressed with all the effort you spent doing it here. It's quite impressive, actually. I'm also impressed by something else that sets your story apart from some others.
It makes appreciable forward progress. I can't say this enough, but this story actually advances us towards a goal (reaching the Atlantic) without getting bogged down. It's so awesome, and rare for the genre. Keep up the good work!
It's true what they say that it takes ten positive comments to overcome the weight of even one negative comment. Even when, like that one, the comment isn't malicious or intended to be taken in a mean way-- sometimes the most sincere comments can be more of a bummer than the mean ones.
Keep writing. You've already made it so far-- further than many stories do. At the same time, see writing as a skill-improving exercise. It took me a million words before I could write well. That isn't to say there aren't already things to like about your writing. I love the obvious passion for your idea, and for the craft itself. Everything else will come of practice.
So keep writing, and I'll keep enjoying this story.
And I'm current, yay!
My one thing I noticed in this chapter is Patrick's journal sections. I've seen a few stories where characters all write in the same journal, so that didn't confuse me that much, but one thing I've noticed is they all kinda have the same "voice" when they do it. What do I mean by this? I mean that the goal is for us to be able to tell which character is writing even without the color (but don't take it away it's quite helpful). Patric wrote in the journal this chapter, but he had the same propensity to use frequent excamation points and chatsymbols (LOL, ect) as both of the girls do.
This is a really tricky thing to master, one of those things that takes much practice. I point it out as my way of hoping you'll keep it in mind. Try to make every character's first person sound unique somehow. It's very hard-- the reason I didn't have any sort of shared journals in my stories. It's hard to keep it all straight.
I like that, even though you don't know these locations, you're taking the time to do the research about them. It feels like you at least read up on all the places you mention, even if you haven't been to them.
These ponies are really lucky (and on top of things) when it comes to setting up colonies. Everywhere they go they seem to find one (almost). That's pretty lucky. I like how each one they run into is unique. That helps grant the story a versimilitude of realism, a suspention of disbelief that isn't easy to achieve for many writers (including myself sometimes). This really is a story about the people and in that sense it's doing a great job.
And the white house. I'm sure Washington will turn into something eventually, but I didn't write about it, so I don't know what.
And the trip is almost over. There are stories about a trip that started a year ago that aren't done, and you're almost done in a few weeks. Not bad at all.
A lot has happened. I'm surprised that they haven't found anymore survivors. But then again,. They would be hiding out.
7560897 I've been accused of putting in too many ponies so I kept this group small... for now
7561608 well, I re-read the comments and all I can really say about it is: okay, I understand. I must say you are much farther along with your story than I am with mine. Kudos to you. You deserve a
. Keep the updates coming.
Switching pronouns for the same character was pretty confusing, I thought I'd suddenly stumbled upon a brand new character. You could make an argument for either direction with this character, but whatever choice you make I would suggest sticking with it.
That's some powerful earth-pony magic right there. As I understand it, many fruit trees can take up to twenty years before they have fruit for the first time.
Look forward to see where this goes, in particular how building an underwater colony would be like. Basically everything we do in our civilizations wouldn't work under a layer of water, so that will be interesting to see explored when you get there.
Keep it up!
How is this story in the recently updated list without a new chapter? I don't get it.
7601058 I goofed up. The stupid "Publish" button is directly next to the "Edit" button. i kept hitting the wrong button... my bad!
Now I got the newest chapter posted!
Sorry for any confusion earlier... I like to see the colors & pictures while I modify the stories so I will often switch from Edit and non-edit mode so I can see my progress. The problem is that the Publish button is right next to Edit and I kept clicking the wrong one by accident. 
Depends on how much milk they were producing when the tanks were installed. Though for a dairy farm with the setup you described I would expect a much larger herd than 5-6 animals. The other issue would be the tanks would be bolted to the ground. Milk like water is going to weight at least 8lbs per gallon
7611363 I explain the size in the next chapter, don't worry. And thanks for that about those vats
7612253 Ok did a little searching at least 1 site listed a 283Gallon milk tank at 560Lbs empty. AS for salvaging any of the milk modern dairies aren't really in the practice of storing unprocessed milk for over a month
7612389 You have to remember that there's been no one to empty those vats, hence them being so full
7612474 Wouldn't take that long to fill the tanks. Most places ship the milk out daily with few excepts holidays ect
7612482 It's a story... i was bound to get a few things wrong
Really loving this :) i love the idea of merponies!
Nice chapter, not the largest seen pictures of.. Not sure if its a yacht or a artificial island personally
7618919 It was designed to be a floating house... there wasn't much actual detail of the interior so i fudged it
7621158 the overall shape and design is what makes me wonder. As said not the largest such craft I've seen proposed. your interior probably is tame compared to some yachts.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3244528/Forget-mega-yacht-tomorrow-s-billionaires-buy-portable-ISLAND-Incredible-floating-home-comes-helipad-80metre-high-penthouse-suite-WATERFALL.html
Finally made an account, so now I can comment here! This story has been a great read so far, and I look forward to future chapters, keep up the good work :D
7621928 I was going a tad tame on this floating thing... didn't want it too inviting that nopony would want to leave!
7642196 fair enough I think regardless of how inviting people would still want to leave. Also such setups wouldn't be completely self sufficient. Though it might be much closer for a merpony
7642234 no, no... I meant that they would not want to leave the luxury of the Surface Ship
... not want to give that up for an empty sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean 
Oh hey, this story's back! And with a fun song too.
Ships are designed not to sink, so much so that there are whole disciplines in the navy for scuttling them. Even so, I'm not sure I can complain. Being able to sink so many ships in such a short time might not be entirely realistic for a crew without specalized knowledge of each one's design, but I think I'd rather have this than several weeks of chapters about calculating exactly where to cut on each one and how to work underwater welders.
Brevity is the soul of wit, after all.
Water-hammocs? So, I can only speak as a scuba diver (never been a seapony), but many creature strive for neutral boyancy (human divers included). This means they won't go up or down, but just float in the water without any effort. Essentially, most sea creatures are like astronaughts. To be fair, a hammoc might be made to keep them from floating away. That might very well be the case.
Hah, I dunno if sharks don't have a pure heart. They're just animals doing what they're built to do, no animosity or anger to it (despite the sharnkadoes).
"replace my seaweed/kelp bandage (for some real ones in a med kit kept on each boat)" Oh hey, diver again: no "waterproof" bandage will stay on when you're going in and out of water a lot. In paticular when you're going down more than a few feet. The tiny bit of air trapped in there creates a pressure differential that will make it leak in 0 time. If you get cut and you want to keep diving, go for liquid bandage instead. It's basically medical superglue, and it won't leak or break while you dive, since it doesn't trap any air inside.
These are of course, stupid minor details that don't matter, but I notice them anyway because diving.
Well, magic healing made it not matter that the bandage wasn't going to work.
Oh, another fun fact. Sharks are only attracted to the blood of the creatures they eat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU9CQT-snIo . For instance, they will smell one drop of fish blood for a pool's worth of water, but won't smell human blood at all. Who knows what would happen after the event, though.
That's a dang useful spell.
Yay new chapter! I was hoping this would be back soon
In all honesty, I think that it's good that you seem to be taking your time on your chapters, this just means that they will be all the better. As they say: quality over quantity.
Another great chapter, keep up the good work
Don't worry, Katherine. You learn to tolerate the smell of the innards of a deer if you kill them. Then again, I am an American human, not a Canadian pony, so take it with a grain of salt.
Now are we going to have scootaloo the Roadrunner Sweetie Belle the cockatoo and Applebloom the kitten going on adventures
7731881 Nope. just this one kitten.
Probably not. What most writers call "writer's block" through lack of experience more often boils down to not having a plan. I think you've experienced this yourself, given how quickly you used to update. Earlier in your story, you had a definite goal in mind for the story, that seemed rather clear. Setting up your undersea city was very clearly your goal, and that's good! It gave you direction and purpose in your writing, because you were moving towards a specific project.
Lots of people see writing as some kind of mythical endevor, where there's a magical unicorn of inspiration that lands on our word documents and bestows us with brilliance. This unicorn exists, but the reality of the craft is that it isn't around most of the time. I think that unicorn landed and gave you the (great by the way) idea for this chapter. But you don't need to wait for that selfish bastard to write, you can write all the time and never get stuck like this.
I mean, if you want to. Writing is just a hobby for many people, and it's not wrong not to treat it more seriously if that isn't what you want.
But if it is, I would suggest making a plan. Figure out where you see your story ending. If you have an endpoint in mind, that alone might very well be the impetus you need to give guidance to your ideas and ensure you finish your story. Look around you on fimfiction and you'll see many writers here do not have that impetus. The vast majority of stories posted here die unfinished because their creators didn't know where they were going.
Planning in more detail can help too-- some authors like to plot out the whole story, and write things down in enormous detail (Brandon Sanderson and JK Rowling are two popular writers like this). You don't need to if you don't want to... but just planing the ending will do so much for making all the dots connect in your mind that you won't believe how much it improves things. It's all the planning I've done for many of my stories, including LPoE. Just having that ending can be what drives you forward.
Did you make that cover art yourself?
quite confused why she is going to miami when she could go to new york would be lot more easy
8046644 Yes I did... on Paint program
8046722 have you ever watched the weather stories about New York City? it's like, -10F all winter and that's just the air... imagine the water?! I decided that these merponies would not be polar bears and that they needed warmer waters lol
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Yeah, I fixed that spot in Orchard chapter.... after a while, it really did not sound right anymore.
This story has been interesting and kept me enraptured to it, not being able to set the story aside,
so I'm really looking forward to the next one~