What would happen if the ponies we know were Dead Rising psychopaths? This would be the result
Dead Rising is well know for the psychopaths it has for boss fights. But what if the ponies we know became psychopaths. This is how I think it would look like. Read This Before Reading Not all locations appear in game. All psychopaths will have more then one ending. Just pick which one you like more and that one will be canon (At least to you) Most psychopaths will not be connected to each other (Unless it is marked x/x) These will take place in Dead Rising 1-3 But not any of the spin-offs (I may change it) And if you have any ideas for battle themes, feel free to send them to me (All current battle themes sent to me by Mitchboy)
Nick was riding around Los Perdidos in a sports car, he needed to go talk to Rhonda to see if she could help him find Annie but he had a few things to do before that, He had just stopped two neighbors from killing each other and was going to head to the construction site to help out a crying kid but on the way he got a call from Jamie.
“Hello?” Nick said into the phone.
“Um Nick” Jamie replied, “I’m pretty sure you're not going to believe me, but there’s a unicorn playing a turntable over at the new Mexican bar at Sunset Hill, you might want to check it out.” After those words Jamie hung up.
Nick was completely confused, the words “a unicorn playing a turntable” kept playing in his mind he had to find out what was going on, he turned onto the freeway heading to Sunset Hill. The kid at the construction site could wait a little bit. But as he went to the Mexican bar a part of him told him something bad was going to happen.
Nick had just walked up to the bar where Jaime said the unicorn was he found it odd that there were no zombies around the bar he checked his inventory and looked at what weapons he had they were the guan dao that he got from that monk, and three shotguns, he then opened the door to the bar.
“Hello anyone in here?” Nick said as he walked in to the bar.
As he looked into the main part of the bar he saw a lot of dead bodies, thankfully they all look to be zombies and as he looked around he saw a turntable.
"Someone was here." Nick thought.
He went to the turntable to see if anything was there, but as he did he heard something.
“Well hello there.” A mysterious voice called out.
Nick quickly turned around and was stunned by what he saw.
Just like Jayme told him there was a unicorn no bigger than a pony with a white coat and a blue mane and tail and a set of purple sunglasses covering it’s eyes standing in front of him.
“D-did you just talk?” Nick asked.
“Of course I did, I’m the only one here besides you.” The unicorn replied but judging from the voice Nick guessed it was a girl.
“Um ok, do you need some help?” Nick added.
“Look around you do you think I need any help?”
“No, hey can I get your name?”
“I’m Vinyl Scratch. Or you could call me by my stage name, DJ PON3.”
“Ok Vinyl what are you doing here?”
“Isn’t it obvious? I’m doing a show here I’m just taking a break before my next performance.” Vinyl answered as she started to walk to the turntable as she did that Nick notices two things
One she had a mark on her hind leg that looked like a music note and two she had blood spots all over her.
“A show? Look I don’t think anyone is going to go to your show because there's a zombie outbreak going on.” Nick said.
Vinyl looked at Nick and yelled, “THEY’LL SHOW UP!”
“Whoa, look I don’t think that will happen.” Nick spoke.
“Oh I see you're just like the others, you think I’m nothing like everypony else well look at me now I’m the best there is.”
“Hey, I didn’t say that.”
“So you think you're better than me, you think you can just go over to that turntable and upstage me well let me tell you something I worked hard to get where I am now and ponies like you are always making fun of me and, I WON’T HAVE YOU DOING THE SAME THING!”
After Vinyl said those words Nick saw her horn glow and he started to back away for fear of what that meant.
“Hey I didn’t mean anything” Nick said trying to calm down the unicorn.
“Sure you didn’t” Vinyl replied sarcastically.
Right as those words were said a record started to hover over the pony, Nick didn’t have time to question how, as it was quickly shot at him.
“WOAH!” He yelled as he rolled under the flying record.
Just as he got back up he saw the unicorn run to the turntable and pick up a gun that appeared to have a few modifications.
“I’M SICK AND TIRED OF PONIES MAKING FUN OF MY MUSIC!!!” Vinyl yelled as she pointed the gun at Nick.
The gun went off firing three small bullets at Nick, who had jumped to the right. Three more rounds were fired, all of which ending the same, and Nick ducking behind a table.
"Gotta think. What to do?" Nick thought looking from side to side.
BANG
A shot just barely missed him.
“Well, why not?” He got onto the table and lunged forward, jumping over a bullet that was just fired, somersaulting onto the ground right in front of Vinyl, grabbing the gun in the magic aura and throwing it off to the side.
Nick looked around for the unicorn who had disappeared. He turned around to see a hoof flying toward his face. Which he managed to grab the side of the hoof, move his head out of the way, and smash down on the Vinyl's stomach, knocking her to the ground.
Vinyl flipped back up, growling at Nick. She then swung a hoof at Nick, who smacked it away. She then swung her other hoof, which he grabbed, spun her around and pulled her hoof over her back, hurting her. She then jumped off the ground back flipping over him, and hitting him in the leg, tripping him. She then proceeded to punch his face.
Vinyl’s horn started to glow, and the gun began to glow the same color and moved to her, she then pointed the gun at Nick’s head.
“Shows over for you.” Vinyl said as she started to pull the trigger.
Nick quickly smacked the gun away from his face before the gun went off, and kicked her away from him.
Nick grabbed one of his shotguns and pointed it at the unicorn, but before he had time to fire the pony ran up to him and tackled him, and as he fell he hit his head on a table almost knocking him out
“Damn it! That hurt.” Nick thought, “If I don’t find some food, I’m done.”
He looked around for something to eat and he soon found a bear, but there was a problem, it was right next to Vinyl.
Nick had to get to that bear, he couldn’t see anything else to eat and if that pony hit him just once it would be enough to kill him, he needed to find someway to stun the unicorn for a few seconds then he remembered something Vinyl said “You think you can go over to that turntable and upstage me?” he looked over at the turntable it was his best shot, he ran over to it
Now, Nick was a mechanic, and he didn’t know the first thing about a turntable so he just started pressing buttons and turning knobs this was making a horrible sound that could make cats deaf he was sure the pony wouldn't buy it, thankfully he was wrong.
“Are you making fun of, MY MUSIC!!!!!” Vinyl yelled, at this point Nick could see rage overcome her but she wasn’t doing anything so he took his chances and ran over the bear and drank it as fast as he could but after he was done he saw that the pony was still standing there so he grab her and put her in a headlock and hit her face a few times before grabbing both sides of her head and slamming her face into his knee. “RRRGH!” Vinyl grunted and picked up a chair with her magic, and threw it at Nick. Who, unfortunately, did not move in time.
The chair smashed into his head and broke apart, creating large chunks of wood all over the ground. Nick fell on the ground holding his hands up to his harmed face , and rolling around in pain. Vinyl saw an opportunity, and picked up a leg of the char which was now splintered on one end. She threw it at Nick, who had just gotten over the pain, and saw the splintered piece of wood coming towards him. He grabbed another leg of the chair and swatted it away.
“I got to end this!” Nick thought as he jumped onto his feet still holding the piece of the chair he looked at Vinyl and swung his new weapon at her but she blocked it before it hit her and tried the same attack at Nick who blocked it as well the two of them continued this until Vinyl gained the upper hand and whacked Nicks weapon away from him. Nick knew this wasn’t good and started to back away from the pony until he saw another chair he ran up to it and threw it at Vinyl who caught it just in time but when she looked up she saw Nick run up to, and kick, her in the face.
Nick felt as if time was slowing down and a part of him said that the fight had just ended.
Vinyl stumbled backwards Nick could see that she was finished.
“You little prick! You think you’ve won? I can see it in your eyes!” Vinyl yelled out, “But I’m not done just yet I won’t stop until you're DEAD!”
Vinyl then jumped on Nick and pushed him over to the bar counter knocking a few bottles that were laying there, as her horn started to glow Nick did want to know what she was trying to do and tried to reach for one of the bottles and grab what he thought was a bottle and swung it at Vinyl but it wasn’t until it was too late that he saw he had actually picked up a knife.
“AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!” The pony screamed He had cut through her sunglasses and he could see some blood come out before Vinyl looked away from him.
“I-I can’t see wh-what did you do to me” Vinyl said as she started to walk around, “You blinded me you prick!!!”
She continued to walk absentmindedly before yelling out, “Why did you three leave me here?! We were stuck here together and you all run off leaving me to die!”
Nick notice that she was getting close to the exit and pushed open the door and walked outside, but unlike before there was a group of zombies right outside the door.
“HEY WAIT!” Nick yelled as he tried to get to Vinyl but by the time he got close a zombie had grab her and started to tear her apart and her screams only brought more zombies.
Nick looked away and covered his ears this was the third life he had ended but for some reason he felt that there might have been a way to save this one.
“AUGH! My face!” Vinyl screamed and stepped backwards. “YOU PRICK!” Vinyl started throwing punches at Nick, which he easily dodged.
Vinyl then caught his leg and tripped him. She jumped on top of him and started choking him. He tried to get her off, but she was too strong.
He finally had enough and grabbed a chair part that had broken off and smashed it against her head. She rolled off him, but got back up to her hoofs. She then lunged herself at Nick, Nick clenched his fists, and swung at her face, smashing her left lens.
Blood fell onto the floor, the glass shard had gone into her eye. “AAAAAAARGH! YOU BASTARD!” She screamed stumbling back, covering her bloody eye with her hoofs.
Nick stepped back as Vinyl waddled around in pain. She took her glasses off, and stared angrily at Nick, who had now backed up into the door.
“I’LL KILL YOU!” She shouted and started running toward him. Nick just stood there until she was a few feet away, and jumped for him. He moved to the left causing Vinyl to accidentally open the door and fall out of the bar, rolling on the ground outside. Where a group of zombies were. The zombies started to tear her apart, leaving her to scream.
Nick watched in horror as the zombies ate the unicorn. More and more zombies attacked until she was surrounded and Nick couldn’t see what was going on anymore. He closed the bar door, and thought about what had just happened. He dropped to the floor and rested for a bit.
“Argh!” Vinyl stumbled backwards. She had just been kicked in the face. She needed to get her gun some how. She got an idea.
She channeled her magic, waiting a few seconds before releasing the spell.
“WHOA” Nick had just been blinded by a flash of light. That should give Vinyl enough time. She looked around for her gun, and found it lying on the floor quite a ways away from her. She used her levitation on it and pointed it at the now blind Nick.
She pulled the trigger, but it wouldn’t go off. “OH NO!” She hit the gun a few times, but it did nothing. She finally just gave up and ran for the door.
Nick had just gotten over his temporary blindness right when the door of the bar shut. He ran to the door and got outside. Zombies were around. And one had Vinyl in it’s hands! Taking out his shotgun he pointed it at the zombies head, and fired. The zombie dropped Vinyl and fell back.
He ran over to the pony, thankfully she wasn’t bit but she was shocked and wasn’t moving Nick needed to get somewhere safe and zombies were already gathering around them he grabbed Vinyl and dragged her back to the bar and shut the door
He left the pony in the ground to recover and looked over at her gun it looked like she combined the barrel of three shotguns in one, he had that amount of shotgun and nothing else to do until the pony got back up so he decided to try to build the gun, after a few minutes he finally built the gun and he still had a shotgun leftover he looked over to the unicorn and saw she had gotten into a sitting position.
“Hey, you ok?” He asked
Vinyl turned her head to look at Nick and said “Th-Thank you”
“It’s ok, but why did you attack me?”
“Because ponies are always make fun of me and my music and now I’m stuck in this place filled with monsters and my friends ran off without me”
“There's more of you?”
“Yeah my three friends and I think I saw six others.”
“Ok, look it’s not safe here but I can get you somewhere safe.”
“Well what are we doing here, lets go!”
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mission Name, Scattered: The Best There Is
Nick was standing in Uncle Billy's Buffet, he had saved a prostitute from her pimp and got a attorney her briefcase that her assistant stole, and only a few seconds ago, saw a insane fat woman choke on her own vomit. But he still had some time before Red got the fuel for the plane and he had nothing else to do. That is until Jamie called him
“Hello?” Nick said into the phone.
“Yo, Nick.” Jamie started, “I think I see another pony over at the new candy shop in Almuda, looks like she’s cooking.” After that he hung up.
“Another pony?” Nick thought “Then again that last pony said she had friends could this be one of them?”
He had to find out, he ran out of the buffet and got in his car and started to drive towards the candy shop, but, like with the last pony, something told him that this wasn’t going to end well
Nick pulled up to the candy shop, he noticed that there were no zombies nearby, by this point, he knew that this was bad news, and there was something off something in the air, it was the smell, at this time in the outbreak all of Los Perdidos smelled like rotting flesh but not here, this place had a smell that was just like freshly made candy.
Nick had to know why this was and walked into the shop.
The smell was definitely coming from here, but that’s not what caught his eye, besides what you would you see in every other candy shop, there were a lot of ribbons and all of them had the same thing written on them “2nd place”.
Then the sounds of something moving in the back of the shop caught his attention he had to check it out but before that he had to make sure that he was prepared for anything, so he looked at his weapons, he had the two Sgt. Pistols he got after killing that insane lady and a Z.A.R., he felt that he was ready and walked into the back room.
When he got into the room he saw that it was a kitchen, and there was something in here but it wasn’t a zombie, like Jamie said, it was a pony
This pony had a beige color coat, pigment blue mane with a rose pink streak, a mark on her back leg that looked like three wrapped candies, and was more focused in a pot full of caramel then Nick.
“Um, hello?” He said trying to get the pony attention
The pony looked in his direction, her cerulean color eyes locking on Nick before she said, “You, are you the judge?”
“Judge, for what?” Nick replied.
“The candy competition.” She answered.
“I’m sorry what competition?”
“The competition were you decide who’s candy is the best in this town, but I guess you’re not the judge.”
“No I’m not and I don’t think there is going to be a competition any time soon but I can get you somewhere safe.”
“Why would I want to leave, I’m safe here”
“Look I don’t think this place is all that safe and can I get your name?”
“It’s Bon Bon, Ponyville’s second place-” She stops for a few seconds before she said, “Well now first place candy maker.”
“Why are you now first?” Nick asked.
“Well the first place candy maker was here with five of her friends as well, and I saw a group of those thing surround them and only four of them came out, she wasn’t one of them or that wimpy pegasus.”
“Oh my god, that’s horrible.”
“Horrible? That was the best thing that has ever happened to me.”
“What! How could you say that they were just trying to survive, like everyone else. And now she’s dead and you're happy about that?”
“HEY SHE HAS ALWAYS GOT FIRST PLACE IT’S TIME I GOT IT!!” Bon Bon yelled her face was full of rage.
“Look, if she got first place it was because she did something you didn’t do.” After Nick said that he regretted it
“So you’re saying I’m a bad cook, You don’t know , WHAT I’VE DONE TO GET AS GOOD AS I AM NOW! But that won’t be a problem soon” She said as she pulled out a knife, “Because you’ll end up, JUST LIKE SHE DID!!!”
Bon Bon started running for him, swinging the knife at Nick. Nick dodged the attack by jumping back a bit. She swung another, this time at his neck. He pushed his head back a bit so that it wouldn’t hit him. She swung several more times, little success.
Nick, not wanting this to last forever, kicked her away. He got in a fighting position.
But before he could do anything the psychopath jumped on top of him.
“You look hungry.” She said as she grabbed some candy from a nearby table, “Here, EAT UP!” She then opened Nicks mouth, and shoved the candy down his throat.
Nick was choking, he had to get the candy out of his throat but Bon Bon had him pinned, but after a little bit he wiggled one of his hands free and he used it to hit the pony in the face, knocking her off and allowing Nick to cough up the candy from his throat.
“YOU’LL PAY FOR THAT!!” The psychopath yelled as she ran up to Nick with the knife and jumped while swinging the knife at his chest.
He rolled out of the way just in time and when the pony tried to do it again he kicked her back.
Bon Bon growled, she had nothing better. She swung one more time, but Nick caught it and threw it away.
Now Bon Bon had no weapon. They both looked at each other. Bon Bon threw a punch, which Nick swatted away, he threw a punch but Bon Bon swatted it away. Bon Bon threw a punch, which Nick grabbed and twisted behind her back.
Bon Bon back flipped over him, and bucked him in the spine. He flew forward and landed face first on the ground. He flipped back up, and was ready to go again. He swung his leg at her, which she dodged and caught.
Nick twisted and smashed his free foot against Bon Bon’s face, knocking her to the ground.
“THAT HURT YOU JERK!” She yelled at Nick as she charged at him, Nick rolled away at the last second causing Bon Bon to slam head first into a wall.
“There’s got to be a way to stop her, but how?” Nick thought, he looked around for something to use to stun her and he saw, right next to him, a tray of freshly made candies. Nick saw an opportunity and waited for the psychopath to look at him, and then he knocked the tray to the ground.
“AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!, NOOOO, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?” Bon Bon screamed.
Nick looked over at her, she was in a panic state and paid no attention to Nick, he knew it was now or never, he ran over to Bon Bon and put her in a headlock, hit her in the face a few times then did a uppercut to her jaw.
Bon Bon grabbed his leg and tripped him. She then proceeded to punch his stomach. Nick then threw her off.
Nick grabbed his Z.A.R. and point it at Bon Bon, but right as he shot it at her she ran up to him and kicked him in the ‘land down under’
Nick let out a cry of pain as he fell to the ground.
Bon Bon smiled before she yelled out, “THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FOR RUINING MY CANDY, JERK!!!” she then started to kick Nick in the face.
After a few kicks Nick grabbed her leg and chest and flipped her over him, slamming her back onto the floor.
Nick got off the ground, along with Bon Bon, the two looked one another, waiting for one of them to make a move, finally Bon Bon ran up to Nick and jumped at him, but right as she got close enough Nick grabbed her front leg and started to swing her around, and after a few seconds he let go of her casing Bon Bon to slam into a wall.
Like every time Nick defeated one of these psychopaths time itself slowed down, he smiled this fight was over.
Bon Bon picked herself off the floor and looked right at Nick and said, “You jerk, do you know how long I waited to get that first place ribbon? And now that she’s gone I can finally get it, all that’s standing in my way now is you, now do me a favor, AND DIE ALREADY!”
She then charged at Nick, who jump out off the way, but she didn’t see that and she continued to run until she hit the stove she was cooking on before the fight, Bon Bon got up into a sitting position failing to notice that the pot of carmel was starting to fall and after the long time it had been on the stove both the pot and the carmel were very, very hot.
“HEY, LOOK OUT!” Nick yelled
Bon Bon then looked up but all she could do was put her front legs over her head before the pot fell on her, trapping her head and front legs inside.
All Nick could do was watch her roll and scream out in pain as the burning hot liquid slowly made it’s way down her, but it was not long before the screams slowly started to die out until the screams stopped all together.
Nick couldn’t stay in the candy store anymore and started to leave, but something caught his eye, it was a picture of four ponies, he recognized two of them, one was Vinyl and another one was Bon Bon, but he didn’t know the other two.
“So she was one of the friends, and the other two are as well I guess?” Nick thought as he continued to walk to the exit, and as he left he looked back at the building and, like with Vinyl, he felt that he could have saved the pony.
Bon Bon got up off the floor and glared at Nick, “You jerk!” She yelled. “You think that you can just do that?” She ran and tackled him.
She hit him several times, until he kicked her off.
Bon Bon started throwing punches. Nick grabbed one of the punches and threw her onto the counter. Bon Bon, however got up. But in the process, knocked a rolling pin off it, it rolled a few feet away from the counter.
Bon Bon hopped off the counter, walking towards Nick with a bit of a limp. Her left front hoof stepped over the rolling pin. Her left back hoof, however, stepped on it, causing her to trip backwards. Her back flew straight for the edge of the counter and.
SNAP!
Her spine broke apart. She screamed in pain for a few seconds before stopping. Nick walked up to her.
She fell onto the floor, dead.
Nick walked backwards to the door ready to get out of there. But something caught his eye, it was a picture of four ponies, he recognized two of them, one was Vinyl and another one was Bon Bon, but he didn’t know the other two.
“So she was one of the friends, and the other two are as well I guess?” Nick thought as he continued to walk to the exit, and as he left he looked back at the building and, like with Vinyl, he felt that he could have saved the pony.
Bon Bon got off the ground and stared at Nick with a face full of rage “You little jerk!” She yelled “I’m not going to let you stop me from getting the ribbon that I have wanted for years so why don’t you, DIE ALREADY!!”
She then ran at Nick, who started to back up until he got to the refrigerator and quickly thought of a plan, he waited for Bon Bon to jump and the he open the refrigerator door, hitting her in the face and knocking her out.
Nick started to run for the exit, until he saw a picture of four ponies, he recognized two of them, one was Vinyl and another one was Bon Bon, but he didn’t know the other two.
“So she has friends.” He thought, “What if she has a family as well? What if they're looking for her right now?” He looked back at the unconscious pony “I can’t just leave her here.”
He walked over to her and waited for her to wake up which took sometime, but when she woke up and looked at Nick her face turned into one of fear.
“OH NO, PLEASE DON’T KILL ME, I’M SORRY FOR WHAT I DID, PLEASE I DON’T WANT TO DIE HERE!!” She yelled while crawling away from Nick.
“Hey, I’m not going to hurt you.” Nick said
“Really? After all I did to you?”
“Look, you weren't yourself, this outbreak doesn’t bring out the best in people or ponies in your case.”
“Well, thanks for not killing me.”
“No problem, now let’s get to a safe house.”
“Ok, just let me do something.” She walked over to the picture and picked it up.
“Those your friends?”
“Yes, they're here to.” She stopped for a second before saying, “It’s scary thinking that this is all I’ll have of them, anyway let’s get to that safe house.”
Nick was in a safe house, he had given a crazy guy meat to keep his zombie family alive, and he had just gone to a XXX store, he’d rather forget what he saw there, and now he was sitting in the safe house, he knew he had other things to do, but he needed a rest, but then Jamie called.
“What is it?” Nick asked as he answers the phone.
“Hey man” Jamie started, “I don’t know what to make of this, but there’s a cello in that new rock store in Ingleton, and I think I can see another pony in there, be careful, that pony looks really mad” Jamie then hanged up, leaving Nick to his thoughts.
“I knew I get a call like this again” Nick thought, “But is it one of the friends in the picture, and what’s the pony mad about?” Nick then got up and left the safe house, he had to find this pony, he then got in his car and drove to the store, with that same bad feeling that he got whenever he went to one of these ponies.
Objective: Investigate Dave’s Rock Store ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nick arrived at the store and got out of his car, he looked around and saw that there were no zombies nearby, this meant something bad was near.
“Ok, I should check to see if I’ve got what I need to deal with this.” Nick thinks as he looks in his bag, he had a baseball bat, a 2X4, a container of OJ, and a pizza, “Well, this will have to do” Nick then enters the store.
The inside of the store was a complete mess, there were broken CD everywhere, selves were on the ground, and posters were torn apart, but out of that mess, a cello stood, unlike most of the things in the store it wasn’t on the ground and was in a good condition.
This got Nick’s interest so he walked over to it, but when he got a few feet from it he heard someone yell, “NO. NO. NO, WHERE IS ALL THE GOOD MUSIC IN THIS POOR EXCUSE OF A STORE!!”
Nick turned around and saw a mare with a gray coat, cool black mane and tail, and a treble clef on it’s flank.
This pony was definitely the one who destroyed the store, she was grabbing CD’s and throwing them of the shelves, and every now and then she would tear a shelf of the wall, it was clear to Nick that this pony was crazy.
“Hey, what are you doing?” Nick asked.
The pony turned and looked at Nick with her pink eyes, looking at him before she said “You, you look like you work here, where is the good music?”
“Um, no I’m a mechanic, I don’t know what’s in this store.”
The pony just rolled her eyes and went back to tearing the store apart.
“You know, I can take you to a safe place.” Nick said trying to reason with the pony.
“I’ve been fine here since that ‘thing’ fell out of the sky, so I think I’ll be fine if I stay here, and I know it’s not safe out there, I saw two unicorns and an earth pony get torn apart by those monsters outside, now go back to whatever hole you came from and leave me alone!” The pony yelled back.
“Hey, I’m just trying to help you.”
“If you want to help me, go find some good music and give it to me, or go away, peasant.”
“I lived in an apartment before this started.”
“And I lived in a mansion when I was a foal, which do you think is better?”
“.........Ok, you got me there, but at least I had a job”
“I had a better job then whatever you did, I am the best cellist there is, not that it means anything, but soon, the name Octavia Melody will be know all across the world.”
“But right now it’s just known to a sad little pony.” After Nick said that he thought, “Great, that’s sure to make her mad.”
“Oh, like you know anything, you don’t know anything about music, well let me tell you this!” Octavia says as she grabs a brass horseshoe, “You’re in big, big, treble now!”
Octavia swung a hoof at Nick, hitting him with the horseshoe.
Nick landed on his back. He looked up and saw a horseshoe coming straight at him. He rolled to the side as the horseshoe connected with the ground. Nick picked himself up from the ground and hit Octavia.
Octavia fell backwards onto the floor, but quickly got back up. She growled at Nick. She threw something at him. Nick had little time to react, but he was able to duck right before it hit his head. The thing that had just been thrown had hit the wall behind him, and he looked to see what it was. A CD. Now shattered.
Octavia attempted to throw another one, but it was kicked out of her hoof. Nick then proceeded to try and kick her, however his kick was blocked by a hoof, Octavia then proceeded to turn and buck him in the face.
Nick got back up and grab his baseball bat and hit Octavia in the face with it, the pony grabbed her face in pain as she fell to the ground. But Octavia soon got up and swung her hoof at him, trying to get the horseshoe to hit him.
Nick managed to roll out of the way and get another hit on Octavia, but she wasn’t done, she jumped on Nick and hit him in the face over and over, until Nick kicked her off.
“If you give up now, I won’t kill you!” Octavia said.
“Why? So that you can get beat up the next poor person who comes here !” Nick replied.
Octavia then grabbed some CDs and started to throw them at Nick, but he rolled out of the way.
Octavia then caught Nick and threw him into a few musical instruments.
She then walked up to him and then proceeded to hit his face.
He then lifted up his leg and slammed it into her chest. He got up and kicked her into a shelf. The shelf then proceeded to fall down on her.
“I got to stun her…….Somehow.” Nick thought as he looked around for someway to stun Octavia and soon found the cello, or at least the bow for it.
Nick ran over to the bow, grabbed it, waited for Octavia to look at him, then he slammed the bow against his knee, breaking it.
“AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY DID YOU DO THAT!!!!!” Octavia yelled, as if Nick had killed a kid in front of her
Nick then ran up to her, put her in a headlock and hit her face a few times, then did a hook punch to her jaw.
“Omph!f” Octavia grunted as she fell to the ground, but she soon got up and threw her horseshoe at Nick.
Nick didn’t have time to move and the horseshoe hit him in the chest, hard, he fell to the ground as Octavia ran at him, she then jumped on Nick’s chest.
“You should have left when I gave you the chance!” Octavia yelled.
“I’m not done yet.” Nick said as he grabbed one of Octavia’s hoofs and slide it from underneath her, causing her to fall to the ground, Nick then got back up and drank the OJ.
Octavia got back up and tried to hit Nick with her hooves, but he dodged it, Nick then grabbed his baseball bat and swung it at Octavia, who dodged the attack as well.
“Enough of this, I’m ending this waltz now!” Octavia yelled as she ran up to Nick, and when she got a few feet away from him, she jumped at Nick, but Nick was ready for this, he waited for the pony to get within a inch from him, then he swung his bat at her, the attack hit her and she was sent flying in into a shelf, Nick felt the world around him slow down, it was clear to him that he had won the fight.
Octavia slowly got back on her hooves, and let out a cry of pain and grabbed one of her front hooves.
“My hoof, my hoof” She said in a voice that had rage and sadness in it, “You’ve injured my hoof, you’ve ruined my career, you’ve ruined MY LIFE!” She then ran at Nick and jumped at him again, but he managed to move away before she hit him, the next thing he heard was the sound of glass breaking, he turned around and saw that one of the front windows was broken, Nick then ran outside and covered his mouth when he saw the pony
Octavia was on the ground, cuts all over her body along with a lot of her blood, she was holding her chest and Nick could see that there was a large, deep, cut running down her chest, at first she was crying out in pain, but soon it went to her twitching, and then she stopped moving altogether
Nick slowly backed away from the body, he could see the zombies making their way to the now dead pony, so he closed his eyes and ran away, he felt that like the other two ponies, he could have saved her
Octavia got back on her hooves and hollered in pain.
“You idiot!” She shouted, “You think you can get away with that?!” She ran towards Nick, while limping, turned around, and bucked him in the face. He fell onto the, now broken, stack of instruments again. “Why don’t you just die?!” She yelled running towards him. She jumped for him, ready to punch his face in, but he saw a cello bow that didn’t break, he picked it up and swung towards her face. However, he swung too early, and it ended up going straight through her mouth, and came out the back of her head.
Nick dropped the bow, along with Octavia, as blood dripped from her mouth. Octavia’s eyes rolled to the back of her head and she was no longer alive.
Nick slowly backed away from the body, so he closed his eyes and ran away, he felt that like the other two ponies, he could have saved her.
Octavia got back up and glared at Nick before she said, “You think that could stop me, there’s only one way for this fight to end.” She then ran at Nick, but he managed to get out of the way, he then heard the sound of a shelf falling down, he turned around and saw that the shelf had fallen on the lower half of the pony.
And then Nick heard the growling of a few zombies behind him, he look at the source of the noise and saw three zombies making their way towards him, Nick then started to run for the exit until he heard Octavia say, “W-Wait, don’t leave me here!”
Nick looked back at the mare and saw that she was trying to get out from under the shelf, but she couldn’t free herself, and the zombies were heading right for her.
Nick stood there, debating on whether to save her or not, but then he remembered the picture, he knew that she had found herself in this outbreak with her friends, and that she had gotten separated from them, and that behind that anger was a mare who was afraid for her life.
Nick grabbed his baseball bat and swung it at the first zombie’s head, smashing it open, he did the same thing to the next zombie, with the same result, he then raised the bat over his head and bought it down on the last zombie's head, Nick then walked over to Octavia and removed the shelf from her.
“Th-Thank you, I thought I was done for.” Octavia said as she got back on her hooves.
“It’s ok, you’re going to be fine, but this place isn’t safe, but I do know a place that is.” Nick replied.
“I suppose I should go with you, it can’t be worse than this place.”
Nick didn't know where he was, well he knew he was in a restaurant, but he didn’t care what the name of it was, or what part of town it was in, and after what had happened to him, who could blame him, he had be taken captive by an old woman in a wheelchair, saw his best friend Diego die, met a scientist who said she could help him, fought a bunch of mechanical arms, got trapped in a subway station, escaped from that, and now he had to meet the scientist at the hangar, gather up all of his friends, and escape.
Now that would be bad enough, but on top of that he had a few more people to help out, apparently the wimpy kid from a few days earlier had taken some poor girl hostage, some of his Illegal friends needed help, and there was an old woman at a hotel who was surprisingly calm given everything else that was going on.
And poor Nick was as overwhelmed as he could be, he needed a moment for himself, that’s why he was in this restaurant, eating a week old doughnut and drinking a cold cup of coffee, Nick really missed warm food, but even this would be interrupted, as his phone started to ring, Jayme was calling once again.
Nick sighed, picked up the phone, answered it, and said “Hello?”
“Hey Nick.” Jayme started, “I just saw another pony, it ran into a hardware store in Central City, I think it had wing, and it looked pretty scared.” Before Nick could say anything, Jayme hanged up.
Nick knew he would get another call about a pony, but the call still got him off guard, he thought the call would be the last friend of the other three, but from what he could remember about the picture he saw in the candy shop, the pony didn’t have wings.
Curiosity got the better of him, he got out of the restaurant, and ran to the nearest car, and as he got into the car, the same feeling he got whenever he had to fight a psychopath came over him, this wasn’t going to be as easy as he wanted it to be.
Nick arrived at the hardware store, already dreading something he was afraid to see , there were next to no zombies outside of the store, which usually meant he was about to have another fight for his life, as he got of the car, he checked the weapons he had, one shotgun with 4 shots remaining, a 2X4, a metal pipe, and a combo drink he liked to call an Energizer, figuring that was the best he could do, he walked into the store.
The main part was just like he expected it to look, ransacked with a lot of tool missing, and a few blood spots could be seen, along with a door that lead into the back room, which Nick knew was the place he had to go into, he walked over to the door, took a deep breath, and went inside.
Upon entering the room, he heard the sound of something wet squishing beneath his feet, and that the room was pitch black, Nick let the door close behind him, and looked for a source of light and found a flashlight next to him, picked it up, turned it on, and looked at what he just stepped on, which turned out to be a piece of flesh.
Nick jumped to the side of the flesh, and used the flashlight to look around the rest of the room, finding a lot of dead zombies, and after seeing at least five dead bodies, he saw something that looked like a rainbow, moving the light to the source of the rainbow, he saw a cyan pony with magenta eyes, and a rainbow mane, her mouth taped shut, and her hooves and what looked like wing were tied with rope, this pony was panicking, trying to free herself, and when she saw Nick, she froze.
“It’s ok, I’m not going to hurt you.” Nick said as he started to make his way to the pony.
The pony seemed to calm down a bit, but when Nick got about halfway to her, her eyes went wide with fear. and she started to yell something through the tape, Nick couldn't understand what she meant, but it sounded like she was saying “Behind you.”
Nick turned around, and saw a mint green unicorn with sunglow eyes and a cyan mane staring at him with a deranged look on her face, if Nick removed the blood spots from it’s coat, he knew who this pony was.
“The last friend.” Nick thought.
“Well, looks like another one got in.” The pony, who was clearly a girl, said.
“Hey, I’m not one of those things.” Nick replied.
“Oh, you can talk, doesn't make you any different from the rest of your kind.”
“Miss, I’m telling you, I’m not one of those monsters.”
“Say it all you like, you’re not going to fool me, I thought I knew everything about your kind, but now, after all I’ve seen, I can tell that everything I thought I knew was wrong. you monster just eat and eat, and after that thing of yours fell out of the sky, I lost all of my friends! And I have been left all alone in this room for the last seven days!” The mare yelled.
“Look, Miss-” Nick started but got cut off.
“Lyra, if you can understand what I’m saying, unlike the others that came into this room, you should at least know my name before you end up like the rest.”
“Ok, Lyra, let this pony go.” Nick said as he pointed at the pony behind him, “She doesn’t want to be here.”
“You think I’m going to let her go? Well you thought wrong! I finally have a friend in this place and I’m not letting you take her away!”
At that point, Lyra pulled out what looked like a hacksaw with a lot of blades on it, Lyra quickly swung the weapon at Nick, who moved back, avoiding the attack, but the flashlight he was hold got hit, destroying his only source of light, the sounds of hoofsteps running away from him told Nick that the Lyra had moved away, leaving him in a dark room with a psychopath.
Nick looked around, to no avail, he couldn’t see anything. However, he could hear the ponies hoofsteps, and he quietly tried to sneak away. Listening to the pony, and avoiding it at all costs.
Nick knew that there was no chance he could win the fight if the room was left in it’s dark state, so he wandered around the room, listening for the pony’s hoofsteps and making sure that he didn’t go near them, when he got to a wall, he felt around for a power switch, and wasn’t able to find one. However, he heard something right behind him, and he kicked it, knocking the pony to the ground, and he began to search quicker, and ended up finding a power switch, and turning it on. The light flickered on, allowing Nick to see the bloody room with some zombie corpses lying around and the tied up pony who was at the other end of the room, but something was missing, he couldn’t find the psychopathic mare. He took a few steps away from the switch and looked to his side, Lyra wasn’t there, the only spot of the room he hadn’t checked was behind him, Nick turned around. His eyes widened, and he ducked, and a saw swung right above his head.
“Careful there.” Nick said, “You could have killed me.”
“That’s what I was trying to do.” Lyra growled.
“I kinda figured.” Nick then dodged an incoming attack, and kicked the pony away. His kicked backed him up into the wall. He quickly took out his gun, and looked around, but couldn’t find the pony. He was suddenly hit in the back of the head, and knocked to the ground, on his stomach.
Nick quickly turned over, onto his back, and stopped the incoming attack from the mare, by grabbing the hoof of the mare, before his head was cut open. The mint green pony then tried to force the saw to go down into his skull, and the pony also put her other hoof on Nick’s free arm.
Nick then lifted up his legs, having them smash into her hindquarters, and Lyra came forward, and Nick headbutt her, just under her horn. He then used his legs to get under her stomach, and he kicked her over his head, and she landed on her back, in pain.
Nick quickly got up and grabbed his pipe, and readied himself as Lyra got back on her hooves, glared at him, grabbed her weapon off of the floor, and swung her weapon at Nick , which was easily blocked by the pipe, however, it appeared as if Lyra wanted this to happen, as this was followed up with a hoof to his shin, causing Nick to kneel to the ground in pain, but he was soon sent to the ground by the same hoof.
“Take that you monster!” The crazed mare yelled out.
Nick’s only reply was a groan of pain.
Lyra readied her weapon to finish Nick off, but Nick saw this, grabbed his pipe, and threw it at the mare, hitting her right in the head, Lyra yelped in pain and stumbled back, giving Nick enough time to get up.
Nick’s body was in pain, he didn’t know if he could take another hit from the mare, so he did the only thing he could do, grabbed his Energizer, and took a long sip, he could feel his body getting better, and his adrenalin levels rising, making him feel like nothing could hurt him, this effect was temporary, but it would give him an advantage in the battle.
By this point, Lyra had regained herself, and was more then ready to continue fighting the mechanic, without warning, she charged at Nick, who jumped to the side, Lyra, unable to stop, ran into a small pool of blood, the liquid was slippery enough to make the mare loss her balances, and after a second of trying to regain it, she ended up falling face first to the ground, she then sat up, and started to rub her head, realizing that this was an opening, Nick ran to the mare, put her in a headlock, punched her in the face a few time, then realised her, but this was soon followed up with a kick in the chest, sending the mare stumbling back a few feet.
“Ow, you’ll pay for that!” The mare yelled as she readied her weapon.
“You don’t have to do this!” Nick tried to reason.
“Don’t you understand, I’m not giving up until you end up like the other member of your kind that ended up in this room!” Lyra screamed as she once again charged Nick, who wasn’t able to jump out of the way, and was sent to the ground, thankfully the adrenalin boost prevented him from feeling anything.
Nick got onto his hands, and knees, but was kicked to the ground by Lyra.
Lyra picked up her saw, and swung down at Nick, who fortunately rolled away, and got up, and uppercut Lyra, who fell backwards, and flipped back onto her hooves in one swift movement.
“I am going to kill you!” Lyra shouted, as she looked at Nick, angrily.
“And you’ve said that how many times?” Nick asked, then dodged an attack, but was less fortunate when he was kicked where the sun don’t shine, and to make things worse, the adrenalin boost had worn off.
Nick made the natural human movement, and covered his hands above his unmentionables, and started to weep.
Lyra then uppercut Nick, and smacked him away.
Nick knew that neither one of them had much energy left, and that he need to stop this fight as soon as possible, grabbing his 2X4, he looked at the psychopathic mare, who was just as ready as he was, Nick had to focus, any mistake now could cost him his life, along with the lives of his friends.
Lyra charged at Nick again, swinging her weapon in the process, but it was stopped midway by Nick’s 2X4, Lyra then tried kicking Nick again, but he jumped back and tried to swing his own weapon at the mare, but was blocked in the same way he blocked her attack, the two of them continued to fight in this way for a good minute or two, before Nick kneeled to the ground, out of energy.
Lyra smiled, knowing that victory was in her grasp, she raised her bladed weapon high in the air, but just before she could bring it down and end the mechanic's life, Nick got a second wind, and using both of his hands, he grabbed the 2X4, and swung it as hard as he could at Lyra, hitting her in the face, and sending her to the ground.
Nick could feel everything around him slow down, he had done it, he had beaten the last of the friends, Nick could hear a little fanfare in his head as he rose to his feet.
Lyra slowly got back on her hooves, one of them was holding on to her jaw, Nick had clearly done some damage to it, but her expression turn pain to rage once she got another look at Nick.
“Your kind killed my friends, your kind tried many times to kill me, and your kind forced me to seal myself in this room with almost no food or water, all I’m trying to do is keep myself and my new friend safe, but you just want to come in here and rip us both apart.” Lyra spoke.
Nick wanted to point out that he didn’t want to hurt her, and that she was the one who attack first, but he knew it would do no good.
“Well, your reign of terror ends here, I’ll rip you apart, just as your kind would do to me!” Lyra yelled as she ran at Nick weapon at the ready, however, she failed to notice a pool of blood in between the two, and once she ran into the blood, she started to lose her balance, and fell, as she fell, she put her front hooves up to try and catch herself, unfortunately, she also raised her bladed weapon to the spot where her neck would be once she hit the ground, bladed side facing upwards.
Upon hitting the ground, the blades went into her neck, cutting her jugular vein, along with cutting off her ability to breath, Lyra tried to get the blades out of her neck, but even if she was able to, it would be of no use, Nick could only watch the poor mare struggle for her own life, at one point, the two locked eye, and Nick could see the fear in them, she wanted help, she wanted to live, but he could do nothing, but watch the life slowly fade from her eyes, after that, her body stopped struggling, and stopped living.
Nick would have ran out of the room, the only thing that kept him here, was the pony in the corner, tied up, and starting to cry, Nick ran over to the pony, and undivided her restraints, upon being realised, the pony pulled Nick into a hug.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you.” The pony said.
“It’s ok, you’re safe now.” Nick replied.
“I-If you hadn’t come when you did, I don’t know what she would have done.”
“Don’t think about that, try to focus on something else.”
“Like what?”
“Well, you could tell me your name and if you have any friends.”
“M-My name is Rainbow Dash, and I was stuck here with five of my friends, but they’re all-” Dash didn’t finish her sentence, but the quiver in her voice told Nick all he needed to know.
“Look, I’m sure your friends are in a better place, speaking of which, let me take you to a safe place.”
Dash nodded, the the two started to make their way out of the room, but before Nick left, he took one last look at Lyra’s body, and a part of his mind told him that she could have been saved.
Lyra slowly got back on her hooves, one of them was holding on to her jaw, Nick had clearly done some damage to it, but her expression turn pain to rage once she got another look at Nick.
“Your kind killed my friends, your kind tried many times to kill me, and your kind forced me to seal myself in this room with almost no food or water, all I’m trying to do is keep myself and my new friend safe, but you just want to come in here and rip us both apart.” Lyra spoke.
Lyra ran up to Nick, and slashed at him, he moved out of the way, but he tried to punch her. She, however, ducked, and slashed into his right side.
“AUGH!” Nick yelled in pain, and he grabbed Lyra, and threw her onto the wall behind him. While Lyra was recovering, Nick ran up, and put his left hand on the right side of her head, and his right hand covered her muzzle, and he stood her up straight, holding her head against the wall.
Nick could tell by Lyra’s eyes that this wouldn’t end well, and Lyra then slashed into Nick, causing him to back up, still holding onto Lyra, though. Lyra kept slashing into him, and he kept backing up, as he finally had enough, and started to try and turn her head away. However, her body continued to stand straight, until Nick had enough, and put as much force into turning her head away as much as possible.
However, Nick’s eyes widened, as he heard a snap come from the mare’s neck, and she fell to the ground, with a thump, and Nick backed up, not quite surprised at what he just did as he should have been.
Nick would have ran out of the room, the only thing that kept him here, was the pony in the corner, tied up, and starting to cry, Nick ran over to the pony, and undivided her restraints, upon being realised, the pony pulled Nick into a hug.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you.” The pony said.
“It’s ok, you’re safe now.” Nick replied.
“I-If you hadn’t come when you did, I don’t know what she would have done.”
“Don’t think about that, try to focus on something else.”
“Like what?”
“Well, you could tell me your name and if you have any friends.”
“M-My name is Rainbow Dash, and I was stuck here with five of my friends, but they’re all-” Dash didn’t finish her sentence, but the quiver in her voice told Nick all he needed to know.
“Look, I’m sure your friends are in a better place, speaking of which, let me take you to a safe place.”
Dash nodded, the the two started to make their way out of the room, but before Nick left, he took one last look at Lyra’s body, and a part of his mind told him that she could have been saved.
Lyra attempted to stand back up, but the pain she was feeling made what should have been a simple task really hard, once Lyra was able to stand, she tried to grab her weapon, but upon grabbing it, it managed to send the fragel mare back to the ground, with the weapon landing just out of reach of her hooves, Nick then walked over to the weapon, and slid it even farther away from the mare.
Lyra looked Nick in the eyes and said “Alright, I give up, you’ve won, just kill me already…… But if y-you have any sense of m-mercy, could y-you please make it painless.”
The events that would proceed this point was something that Nick had never seen a psychopath do, Lyra closed her eyes, putting her front hooves over them, her body started to shiver, she started to whimper, and finally, she began to cry, and as she cried, she would say things through her tears like how she wanted to go home, or how she wanted to be with her friends again, and for this nightmare to be over.
Nick was in shock, the pony who less than a minute ago tried to kill him, was now openly crying, a quick look in the corner of the room revealed that even the tied up pony was shocked about Lyra reaction.
Part of Nick’s mind told him that it was a trick, and that if he were to comfort the mare, she would attack again, but another told him that this wasn’t a trick, and that she was just a mare who couldn’t handle being alone, it was this side of his mind that Nick trusted, so he kneed down, and pulled the pony into a hug, Lyra almost immediately hugged back.
Lyra cried for a minute or so, but as time went on, she cried less and less, until she stopped all together, it was then that Lyra realized that she was hugging the thing that she thought would kill her.
“W-Why didn’t you kill me?” Lyra asked.
“Like I tried to tell you, I’m not one of those things, they try to kill me too.” Nick answered.
“So you’re a good g-guy?”
“Yes.”
“Oh…… S-Sorry for attacking you, I was afraid that you were trying to hurt me like those monsters, so I may have jumped to conclusions.”
“It’s ok, I’m not mad, but from now on, give people, or ponies, time to explain themselves.”
Lyra nodded.
At this point, Nick let go of Lyra, and made his way to the other pony, and removed the tape and rope.
Once the pony was free, it looked at Nick and said “Thanks.” However, once she looked over Nick’s shoulder, she froze, Nick looked behind him and saw Lyra, who had gained enough energy to stand up and move, standing behind him, she didn’t have a weapon or anything, so Nick guessed that the pony was still scared of her.
“I-I’m sorry.” Lyra said.
“Y-You tied me up and put me in a dark room.” The pony replied.
“I know, I wasn’t thinking straight, I was trapped in this place with my friends, but we ran off one day, and I haven’t seen them since, and I’ve been stuck in this room, too scared to leave, so when you came, I didn’t want to be alone, so I took you and made sure you stayed, but I’d never do it again, I promise.”
“You lost your friends too?”
Lyra nodded “I’m not sure if they are dead or alive.”
“Mine are, I saw all of them die.”
“I’m sorry for your losses.”
“Ok, I hate to break this conversation, but we need to go.” Nick said.
“Ok, let’s go.” Lyra said.
“I’m ready to leave this place, my name is Rainbow Dash by the way.” Dash replied, Nick could see that she had warmed up to Lyra a bit, but she was was still uneasy around her.
“Alright, let’s go.” Nick said as they started to make their way to the exit, but on the way, Nick found Lyra’s weapon, and upon closer inspection, he figured out how to make more of them, and he decided it was a good idea to hold on to it, he needed all the weapons he could get, and with that, the three of them left the room, with the goal being a nearby safe house.
To say that this was the first time that Chuck Greene had found himself surrounded by zombies would be a lie. In fact it was the third time. The first time was in Las Vegas, where he lost his wife and where his daughter got infected. And the second was in Still Creek, nothing of any importance happened there. But this time around, he was going to spend a lot longer. He had to wait three days before help came, and as of right now, he was on day one.
During his stay here, he had managed to save a few survivor, fought a few looters, bought stuff from the friends of those same looters. And now he was standing in the Yucatan Casino with a new companion. Said companion was a tiger named Snowflake, and he had just killed her trainer a few minutes ago. Still he could use the help, though he wasn’t sure what he was going to do with her. He didn’t know if he could bring a tiger into the safe house, and if it was ok, what would he do with her.
“Maybe I could give it to Katey.” Chuck thought, “I’d score some dad points with her, but she’s seven…… Still, it would be a really awesome gift, but it could maul her to death.”
His thoughts were cut short as his phone started to ring, pulling it out, he figured that it would be safe to answer it here, as the tiger was doing a good job at killing off any nearby zombies.
Chuck answered the phone and said “Hello?”
“Um…. Yeah…….. Chuck I don’t know how to say this, so I’ll just say it.” Stacey started, “ There’s a pony, on a stage, shooting fireworks, while doing magic tricks in Fortune Park.”
“.......... What?” Was the only thing Chuck could really say to what he was just told.
“I don’t believe it either, just check it out.” Stacey said before hanging up.
Chuck scratched his head, he didn’t know what to think of what he was just told. He needed to see this for himself. But first, he had to figure out what to do with Snowflake.
Turns out, tigers were allowed in the safe house, and they make great gifts to seven year old girls. Sure many people would question his parenting choices, but he cared for Katey’s safety. However, he wanted to find out what was going on in Fortune Park.
As Chuck walked out of the Royal Flush Plaza, he could see that there was a makeshift stage near the Atlantica Casino, with what appeared to be a few firework shooters both on and around the stage. But there was no pony doing any kind of magic tricks.
Still, he wasn’t going to just leave the stage alone, there could be something of use in there, so he made his way over to the stage, dodging and killing zombies along the way.
Once he made his way over to the stage, he started to look around. However he didn’t get to see much, as when he had his head turned away from the stage, he heard a poofing noise. When Chuck turned his head to look at the stage, he locked eyes with a pony.
The pony, or Unicorn as the horn on the head gave away, was a aqua blue color, the tail was a lighter color of blue, and Chuck assumed the mane was the same color, but the pony was wearing a wizard's hat with a start pattern on it, she was also wearing a cape with the same pattern. The pony also had a start wand with a blue crescent moon on her flank.
“Well, Trixie takes it you’ve come to see The Great and Powerful Trixie’s show!” The pony, who Chuck assumed was Trixie, said, her magenta eye twinkling with every word.
“What?” Was all Chuck could manage to speak.
“You’ve come to see Trixie’s show, why else would you be here.” The mare announced.
“You’re seriously doing a show, do you have any idea what’s going on?”
“Yes, Trixie has eyes, but that’s not enough to stop a good show.”
“I think a zombie outbreak is enough to stop most things.”
“You’re clearly not a performer.”
Chuck was starting to get a little upset with this mare, however, he didn’t want to leave her here alone, and said. “Look, I’m not going to argue with you, but I think it would be in your best interest if you come with me, there’s a safe place not to far away.”
Trixie merely rolled her eyes and replied with, “Trixie is more than capable of looking after herself, now if you don’t want to watch this show, please move along.”
By now, Chuck was fed up with the mare, and he may have let it get the best of him when he said “You’re an idiot if you think that it’s better to stay here and perform some two bit show than to save your own life.”
It was clear that Trixie did not like this one bit, as she growled. “Oh, Trixie see who you think you are, you think magic is easy, and that anypony can do it. I bet you think that Twilight is better at magic than me!”
Chuck had no idea who this Twilight was, but he was more worried at the pony who was starting to show an evil grin.
“Well then.” Trixie started, “If you think it’s so easy, then why don’t you come help me, Trixie assures you, it will be easy, all you have to do is DIE!”
Trixie’s horn then lit up, and one of the firework stand lit up with the same color as her horn, it then turned to point at Chuck, and started to shoot fireworks at him. Chuck managed to roll out of the way in time. When he looked up at the pony, he could see she was ready for a fight, Chuck only had a spiked bat, and two cartons of OJ, but he wasn’t going to let that let him lose
Just as Chuck got back to his feet, he immediately ducked, as a rock was thrown at his head. He got back up, and ran for the stage. However, right before he got to it, it had disappeared. Chuck looked around, and then noticed a ball of light heading straight for him. He ducked again, and the ball exploded into fireworks behind him.
“This is going to suck.” Chuck thought. He quickly ran for the stage that was now to the left of where it previously was. He dodged a few rocks that were flung his way. He decided to follow Trixies idea, and picked up a rock on his way. Once he got close enough, he threw it at her. Trixie dodged the rock, however, she was distracted by how close it actually was to hitting her. Once she turned back around, she saw Chuck hopping onto the stage.
Chuck, still not entirely on his feet after landing on the wooden stage, slid his leg towards where Trixie was standing. Trixie easily hopped over, however, Chuck used his other leg to kick the unicorn in the chest, knocking her away, giving him time to get up. He spin-kicked his left leg at Trixie, who ducked, however, Chuck quickly switched legs, and kicked straight forward, towards Trixie, with his right leg. Trixie didn’t jump, or move to the side. She used some sort of magic to launch herself off the ground, just above his leg. She then flipped around in the air, and looked as though she was going to kick Chuck with her hind leg. However, before Chuck could block it, in a flash of light, she disappeared, and reappeared to his right, and was able to kick him off the stage, all before landing on the ground. Chuck didn’t have as elegant a landing as Trixie. He landed flat on his back, landing on the ground hard, Chuck was in pain. Mostly from the kick of a freaking pony. Once he opened his eyes, he saw the mare charging up her horn, and then blasting a firework at him. His eyes widened, as he rolled out of the way. However, the firework colliding with the ground ended up exploding, and launching Chuck off the ground, with his ears ringing.
Of course what comes up must come down, and Chuck really went down, it wasn’t a high fall, but it still hurt. Through the haze of the pain ringing through his body, Chuck managed to stand up and look at Trixie. She was saying something, but Chuck’s ears were still ringing so he couldn’t hear, but he was sure it was a taunt, or a bad pun, or both. Knowing full well that he was close to death, he grabbed one of his OJ and took a long drink, when he finished he was barely able to move out of the way of another firework.
Now more than a little mad at the mare, Chuck charged to the stage, moving out of the way of a few fireworks, once he got close enough, he jump on, grabbing the end of the stage and started to pull himself up. Until Trixie released a dove from out of nowhere at Chuck. The dove didn’t do any real damage to him, but it was enough to make Chuck let go of the stage, and it gave Trixie enough time to grab a rock and throw it at Chuck, hitting him in the face.
“Do we really need to keep this game up, just give up and Trixie will try to make your death painless.” Trixie said, the ringing in Chucks ears having gone down enough to hear this.
“How about you give up first!” Chuck yelled.
“That’s not going to happen.” Trixie said as she aimed another firework shooter at Chuck and shooting a few fireworks, all of which he managed to dodge.
Chuck quickly found a tree to duck behind, while fireworks were shooting at him.
“If you stop, I’ll give you a cookie, or something.” Chuck suggested. However, a rock hit against the side of the tree, almost hitting his face, “So no cookie, then?” Chuck called out, then he got an idea. He took out his spiked bat, and looked over at the mare, who was busy aiming her firework shooter. Chuck then ran out from behind the tree, dodging the incoming fireworks, he reared up the spiked bat, as a firework came right for him. He winced, ready to completely fail at what he was about to do, and he smashed right into the firework, launching it back at the magician mare.
“WHAT THE F-” Trixie shouted, as she ducked, before the explosion from behind blocked out what she was going to say.
Chuck was shocked at what he just did. He then got a giant smirk on his face, and laughed at the blue unicorn. Trixie looked at him, angry. She then turned around to notice the background of her stage was on fire. She looked back at Chuck, who still had the smug look on his face, but was running towards the stage.
Trixie then took some of the fire in her magic, and threw it at Chuck. Chuck was able to dodge easily enough, and jump back on the stage, and swung his bat at Trixie, who ducked, and teleported behind him, kicking him down onto the wooden stage.
“You’re going to pay for that stupid little stunt!” Trixie yelled, using her magic to get some more of the fire and throwing it at Chuck, who tried to get out of the way, but got a little singed as he moved.
Chuck then tried to jump kick the pony in the face, however Trixie charged her horn up, and teleported not only herself, but the whole stage away from Chuck. Unfortunately for Chuck, he didn’t realize this until it was too late to correct the landing. He ended up landing by doing a split, something he could not do before this, and never wanted to do again.
“Is that enough to make you give up?” Trixie asked.
Chuck would have made a witty remark to this statement. But he was in too much pain, and trying to stand back up. Once he did, a firework whizzed past his head.
Chuck quickly hobbled his way to the nearest tree, jumping over a rail to get to it. He needed to find someway to get back to the stage again, looking around, he found a rock next to his feet and quickly came up with a plan.
Grabbing the rock, he moves away from the tree, aimed the rock at the mare, and threw it at her. The rock managed to hit Trixie’s horn, this made her magic go away, and from the look on her face it was very painful.
Chuck took this opportunity and ran to the stage, or as close to running as a man can do after doing the splits. And jumped back on the stage, once he did he punched Trixie in the face, hard. Trixie, who was still dazed, tried a punch of her own, but missed and only succeeded in moving her closer to the end of the stage. Chuck capitalized on this by kicking her off of the stage, Trixie landed head first on the ground. When Trixie realizes that she was no longer on stage, she charged her horn up, and in a flash both her and the stage were gone, Chuck managed to catch himself before he fell completely to the ground. And only a few feet infront of him, Trixie appeared, back on the stage.
Chuck looked at Trixie, angrily, he had enough of her. Though, the same could clearly be said about Trixie. Trixie shot a firework at Chuck, but he rolled out of the way. He looked back towards the stage, but it was gone. He looked to the right, then to the left, he didn’t see it. From under his feet, however, something launched him upwards. Chuck wasn’t able to stay straight, and turned over in mid-air, with his back facing the ground. The stage reappeared beside him, and Trixie smashed her hoof down on his stomach, before he could go too far upward. He landed onto the stage floor, that appeared under him. Trixie took this opportunity to kick him while he’s down. She rammed her hoof into his shoulder, and arm, several times, and when he tried to get back up, she just punched his face back down.
Chuck was pretty sure he was bleeding from the mouth, and nose, and also had a few broken bones by now. He was hurting super bad, and tried to think of a way to get out of this. In hindsight, it was rather simple. All Chuck did was reach over, and grab her hoof. He pulled her off the stage, with himself following after.
Trixie landed on her back, and Chuck landed on her, though, rolling off quickly. Trixie struggled to get back up, as did Chuck. But once they did, they faced each other, and squinted. They both charged for the other, Trixie jumping up to his face, with a hoof raised, ready to slug him. However, Chuck knew what was about to happen, and instead of going to block the punch in front of him, he looked to the left, and caught a teleporting mare's hoof. He threw her towards the stage, where she smashed into the side.
Before she could fall down, Chuck placed his palm to her chest, keeping her up, “Stay down!” Chuck said, gritting his teeth.
“Never!” Trixie exhaled, nearly out of breath.
Chuck grabbed Trixies side, and threw her to the ground, away from the stage.
Trixie hit the ground hard, she looked up and glared at Chuck, she wanted this fight to end, and she wanted to be the winner. She quickly teleported back on to the stage behind Chuck, and said “Trixie has to admit that you put up a good fight, but there’s only one way this can end.”
Trixie’s horn lit up, and she used her magic to move one of the firework shooters behind Chuck, put into on the ground, firework shooting side facing up, and lit the fuse on the fireworks.
Chuck had no idea what this mare was doing. That is until he looked back at Trixie, seeing her charging at him was all he needed to see for him to roll out of the way. Trixie however was running to fast to stop, and she ran off of the stage, and right onto the firework shooter, falling right into her own trap.
She didn’t have any time to react before the fireworks started shooting. Some of the fireworks went right through her body, but most lodged themselves into her body. Knowing full well that this could only lead to one thing, Chuck turned around and ran off of the stage, jumping off right as the fireworks in the mare’s body exploded.
The result was just as bloody as you’d expect, with guts and flesh flying everywhere, the zombies were going to love it. Chuck even saw the pony’s wizard hat fly in front of his face as it made it’s way to the ground. Chuck looked back at the firework shooter the pony had landed on. Only to look away as soon as he saw what the pony’s body looked like.
“Well…… That’s one way to go out with a bang.” Chuck said, fully aware on how bad his joke was.
Chuck then started to walk away from the stage, only to have a sudden, painful headache. He grabbed his head and yelled in pain. He could see visions flash before his eyes, he could see others ponies, dead, cut up, missing eyes, legs, heads, and he could hear the sounds of someone laughing. It didn’t take long for him to realize that it was his laughter, and once he realized that, the visions and the headache went away.
When Chuck had regained enough of his senses, he looked back at the remains of Trixie. Part of him told him that her death and triggered that.
“Whatever that was, it can’t mean anything good.” Chuck thought as he started to walk away from the scene. And as he did, part of him wondered if there was another way.
Trixie hit the ground hard, she looked up and glared at Chuck, she wanted this fight to end, and she wanted to be the winner. She quickly teleported back on to the stage behind Chuck, and said, “Trixie has to admit that you put up a good fight, but there’s only one way this can end.”
Trixie shot Chuck up in the air, like she did before, but this time she did the same thing on top of him, making him slam back down almost as quick she launched him up.
Chuck got up, slowly, but was then launched off the stage by the same magic. He got back up, and then noticed something. There were off shadows on the ground. He looked up, and saw that there were many, many fireworks hovering above him. And Trixie had a giant insane grin spread across her face.
Trixie lit the fireworks one by one, shooting them downward towards Chuck. Chuck’s eyes widened, as he ran from the fireworks. They landed on the ground behind him, exploding on impact. He ran for a good thirty seconds before the fireworks stopped landing.
Chuck looked back, and didn’t see the blue unicorn mare on the stage. Chuck looked forward, and saw Trixie traveling very quickly towards him, though not by running, but by the magic she used to launch both herself, and Chuck up into the air.
Trixies hoof was arched back, ready to smash Chuck’s head in. Chuck, however, decided enough was enough, and jumped out of the way. However, in doing so, he grabbed Trixies cape, and pulled forcefully, causing Trixie to flip in mid air. And as she was still being propelled, her backside continued to move forward, as her neck snagged on her cape, snapping her neck, killing her instantly. Her body landed on the ground, with a thud, and Chuck let go of her cape, realizing what he did.
Chuck breathed in deeply, as he looked at the dead unicorns body. Chuck then started to walk away, only to have a sudden, painful headache. He grabbed his head and yelled in pain. He could see visions flash before his eyes, he could see others ponies, dead, cut up, missing eyes, legs, heads, and he could hear the sounds of someone laughing. It didn’t take long for him to realize that it was his laughter, and once he realized that, the visions and the headache went away.
When Chuck had regained enough of his senses, he looked back at Trixie. Part of him told him that her death and triggered that.
“Whatever that was, it can’t mean anything good.” Chuck thought as he started to walk away from the scene. And as he did, part of him wondered if there was another way.
(Ending 3)
Trixie landed on the ground, and almost immediately looked up and glared at Chuck. By now, all that was on Trixie’s mind was beating Chuck. So she did the first thing she could think off. Grabbing the firework shooter with her magic, aiming it at Chuck, and firing.
Chuck was quick to jump off of the stage before the fireworks hit, the stage was not so lucky. When the fireworks hit it, the stage exploded, destroying not only the stage, but the firework shooters, save for the one Trixie was holding.
Before Chuck could do anything, he saw that Trixie was once again aiming the firework shooter at him, all she said was, “Trixie wins!” Before firing, or at least Chuck thought that’s what she tried to do, as nothing came out.
Trixie was confused as to why this was the case, she tried a few more times to get fireworks to come up, even shaking it up and down a few times. Until she realized she may have run out of fireworks. This put Trixie in an odd spot, she wasn’t the best hoof to hoof fighter, and Chuck had shown that he could easily beat her, so she went with plan B. Throwing the firework shooter at Chuck, and running away.
Trixie was able to do the first part successfully, even though Chuck easily dodged it. However when it came to the second part, there was a bit of a problem, as it turns out, zombies are attracted to noise, and with a whole battle involving fireworks and explosions, a lot of zombies had gathered around, no doubt wondering what pony brians tasted like.
Trixie briefly considered teleporting past them, but she couldn’t see the end of the hoard of zombies, and was afraid she would just teleport herself right in the middle of the zombies and get eaten. So she did the only thing that made sense to her, ran over to the nearest railing, jumped over in, and covered her eye with her hooves, screaming the whole time.
Chuck had done nothing but watched the whole thing play out. He saw that a few zombies had made their way to the railing Trixie was hiding behind, but none of them got over it. For a brief moment, Chuck considered leaving the mare to her fate. However, the better part of him told him that it was not right to leave her like this. As much trouble as she had put him through, she didn’t deserve to die like this. Running over to the mare, he pulled out his spiked bat, and made quick work of the few zombies around the railing.
Once this was done, he jumped over the railing, and gently poked the mare’s side.
“STAY BACK!” Was the response Trixie yelled at him, while springing to her hooves.
“It’s alright, I’m not going to hurt you.” Chuck replied.
“Yeah right, you attacked Trixie, and now you say you won’t hurt her!”
“You attacked me first.”
“Oh……. Right……… Trixie is sorry about that, she thought you were going to upstage her like Twilight and……. It’s not like Trixie has another job to fall back on, being a showmare is all she can really do.”
“I understand, but as you can see, it’s not safe out here. So unless you still want to keep doing your shows, you should come with me to the safe house.” Chuck offered.
“Trixie sees your point, and how she went overboard before when you tried to help her. Plus the crowd is a little dead.” Trixie then laughed at her own bad joke, “So yes, Trixie will follow you.” At this point, Trixie stomach growled, fighting can really make a mare hungry, so she asked, “Trixie is wondering if that cookie you offered is still available?”
Chuck merely rolled his eyes, and motioned for her to follow him. And as they walked away, Chuck felt as if he had done something good, not just because he was helping someone, or in this case pony, but something told him that he had made things better in someway.
“Not sure why I feel this way.” Chuck thought, “But I’m sure I’ll find out…… Anyway, I hope Trixie doesn’t mind spending sometime with Katey, I just know Katey would love to meet a talking Unicorn that does magic tricks.”
Today was not going the way Frank had thought it would. When he got information of something going on in Willamette, Colorado, he had assumed it would have been something like riot. Newsworthy, but nothing too out of normal. He would have never guessed that a zombie outbreak was going on.
Yet, that’s exactly what was going on. And now he had three days to wait until the helicopter came back to pick him up. Now he could have just sat in the safe room for those three days, and let Brad and Jessie do all the work. But he came here for a story, and he was going to be leaving with the best story ever, assuming he survived. And while he was doing that, he might as well help the people who were still alive get to a safer place.
So far, Frank had figured that he had been doing a good job at saving those poor souls, even if they would seemingly lose track of him if he didn’t call out to them on a constant rate. Regardless, he had just help a few people get to the safe room. One of them was trapped behind a bunch of boxes for a while, even though Frank had no problem removing them and was sure he could have as well. There were also those two boys, one of whom attacked Frank while the other coward in fear. And then there was the mother, or would it be former mother, who Frank had to carry back. He was about to head off to go see what was wrong with the ride in Wonderland Plaza, but he got a little sidetracked in the process.
Witch was the situation he currently found himself in. Running through the zombie infested Central Park, holding a girl’s hand so such could keep up with him, while being cached by three convicts who were driving a military humvee that they had somehow stole and got it into the park. As weird as that was, Frank didn’t care, as he was more worried about surviving this encounter. While the odds were stacked against him and his companion, they weren’t that far away from the Paradise Plaza entrance. If he could get there, they would be safe from the convicts. All he needed to do was run a few more feet, and from the looks of things, nothing bad was going to happen.
So of course now was the time for his phone to start ringing.
“Oh come on Otis!!” Frank yelled in his mind. For some reason, the man picked the worst times to call.
Knowing the answering the phone would slow him down, as he couldn’t hear the old man very well when he was running, and that answering the phone and hanging up would just make the old man call him back and scold him. Frank just let it ring, witch in turn brought the zombies towards him. So by the time the two had gotten close to the doors, instead of being clear, it was now covered by a group of zombies. Knowing full well that turning around to go to another exit would most likely mean getting both him and his companion shot to death by the convicts, Frank did the only thing he could think of. Putting his arm over his head, and charging into the horde, something that, based upon the scream of his companion, she was not a fan off.
As soon as he ran into the group, he could feel their cold hands grab at him, trying to pull him away from his companion, and into their mouths. Yet Frank did not give in, he kept pushing forward, never letting go of the girl’s hand. After what felt like hours, but was really only a minute at most, Frank got to the door, opened it, and shoved himself and the girl inside, before quickly closing it.
As soon as the door was shut, Frank turned to the girl and said “Did they bite you?!”
The girl shook her head, no. The look on her face telling Frank that the recent event would be in her nightmares for the rest of her life.
Once that was out of the way, Frank grabbed his phone, answered it, and said “What is it?” Trying to make sure his anger was too noticeable in his voice.
“Frank.” Otis started, “I need you to go check out the North Plaza, a lot of zombies there are dead and….. Uh…. There might be a unicorn running around in there.”
“A unicorn?” Frank asked, “Are you sure your eyes are working properly?”
“I’m just as confused as you are, just go see for yourself.” Otis responded before hanging up.
Frank had no idea on how to think of thing. Zombies were one thing, but a unicorn running around in this mall. Either something was wrong with the cameras, or Frank was about to get an interesting addition to his scoop. But before that, he had to get the girl to safety. Taking her hand, he resumed his trek to the safe room. But as he did, a part of his mind told him that he was in for a fight.
After getting the girl to the safe room, and dealing with those annoying convicts, Frank made his way to the North Plaza entrance. With the feeling of an upcoming fight remaining, he look at his equipment to see if he was ready should something happen. With a baseball bat and metal pole as weapons, and two cooked pizzas, Frank figured that he was good to go. And so, he made his way inside to North Plaza.
The first thing he took note of was the high amount of dead zombies. When he was he had defeated the crazy gun shop owner here earlier, he didn’t kill that many zombies, so it stood to reason that there would still be a lot of zombies in the area. But now the whole fountain area was almost clear of them, all that remain were a few coupes. Upon closer inspection, the whole area seemed clear of any living zombies. Looking at of of the now dead again creatures, Frank noticed that while most of the zombie’s body was a decayed and bloody as one would expect, the teeth were perfectly white. Examining another corpse showed the same thing, bloody and destroyed, except for the teeth. Checking a few more of the nearby bodies showed the same oddity, crystal clear teeth.
That’s when Frank heard something. The sound of someone giggling right behind him. Almost immediately, Frank turned around, only to have something fly in his face. Knocking him to the ground, unconscious.
When Frank groggily woke back up, he was now in one of the many vacant rooms in the plaza ,strapped into a chair that, from what Frank could tell, was a quickly assembled dentist chair built from random parts being attached to a normal chair. Before he had a chance to attempt to escape, he heard the sounds of somebody humming. Quickly looking around the room, it didn’t take long for him to find the source.
Standing with its back facing him, next to a few piles of canisters, was a pony. Frank could only get a good look of its tail, something he’d rather not have seen, but he was sure this was the unicorn Otis had mentioned. Now all he had to do was get out of the chair. But before he could, the pony turned to face, its dark blue eyes widening upon seeing Frank was awake, but its face held a sick smile.
“Oh, you’re awake, guess I didn’t hit you hard enough to keep you out through the procedure.” The pony spoke.
From this position, Frank now knew for sure that this was the unicorn. And from the sound of her voice, this was a girl. Her coat was Maya Blue, witch Frank had never seen on a pony before, but he had also never seen a talking unicorn before, so that color might have been normal for them. And both her mane and tail reminded him of toothpaste. While this was a shocking sight for the photojournalist, he was able to set his surprise out of his mind long enough to say something.
“Hey, what’s going on? Why am I strapped to this chair?” Frank asked.
“So you don’t move while I work on you.” The unicorn replied, “And I must say, I’m glad some of you can talk.”
“What do you mean ‘work on me’?”
“I’m going to fix your teeth, those poor thing are all yellow.” The unicorn answered, “Oh, I’m sorry, I don’t believe I’ve told you who I am. My name is Colgate Minuette, and I’m a dentist… Or at least, I’m trying to be.”
Now Frank, like most people, wasn’t a big fan of going to the dentist. In fact, that was up on his most hated list, right next to clowns. So his face wasn’t the in the a very excited expression when he was told the unicorn was a dentist. Something she was clearly able to pick up on.
“What, are you afraid? Don’t be, I’m a good dentist. Just because my cutie mark is a hourglass doesn’t mean I can’t be a good dentist. So don’t be afraid, I’m just as good as any other dentist.” Colgate rambled on, before her horn started to glow, along with what looked like an oxygen mask that was connected to one of the canisters. Said mask then levitated until it was in front of her face. She then started to take deep breath, laughing a bit as she did.
Frank was confused as to what was going on, something that Colgate must have noticed as she start talking again.
“It’s Nitrous Oxide, or as you probably know it as, Laughing Gas. I give it to my few patients all the time, so I started to try it out myself. And let me tell you, it can help make even the worse day into something amazing. Like right now, stuck in this place with all of you monsters. But enough about that, let’s get to work” The mare said, giggling every now and then.
Colgate then made her way over to Frank, and said “Open wide.” Before she, somehow, grabbed Franks jaw with one of her hooves and force it open. Her horn started to glow again, and Frank’s eye widen in fear when he saw what was heading for his mouth, a power drill. Struggling with all of his might to escape from this crazy ponies grasp, hoping that something would happen. As it turned out, his struggles were enough to break the chair he was in, sending him to the ground.
Frank jumped to his feet as fast as he could, looking right at the crazy unicorn. He could she that she was surprised at what just happen. But she grabbed the mask she had just used, and started to breath it in again.
“I’m telling you, I’m a good dentist, I was the best in my class. And those teeth are in need of help. So weather you like it or not, you’ll be leaving here with those teeth fixed!” She then dropped the mask, and picked up the drill, “But I may not keep everything else in good shape!”
Frank knew that if he wanted to live, he’d have to fight this pony. Quickly checking his inventory, he saw that still had all of hist stuff. Now, he just had to defeat this unicorn.
Colgate ran at Frank, swiping the drill at him, Frank dodged, and kicked her, however, he fell onto the ground. Colgate stumbled, but she regained her footing quickly. Frank tried to get up as quick as he could, but Colgate ran up to him with the drill, and moved the drill towards his face. He, however, was able to grab her hoof, and threw her away, giving him time to grab his metal pipe.
While Colgate was still stumbling back, Frank reared back his arm, and swung at her, colliding her face and the metal pipe. She fell onto the ground, and rolled for a bit, before stopping. She then grabbed the mask of the laughing gas tank, and inhaled it. She let out a small giggle, and picked up her drill again, getting up off the ground. She swiped at Frank with the drill, however he just hit it away with the metal pipe. That went on for a few more swings, before Frank ducked under the drill, and hit Colgate, again.
Colgate, however, retaliated and was able to swipe at Frank with the drill, slicing into his arm.
“Argh!” Frank grunted, pushing the pony away with his foot.
Frank backed away, and Colgate took another swipe at him, that he wasn’t prepared for, and the drill knocked the pipe out of his hand. He grabbed part of the recently destroyed chair, and threw it at her, hitting her on the left side of her forehead. Her head was knocked to the side a bit, but other than that, she had seemed relatively unphased.
“Seriously?” She said.
Frank shrugged, “Worth a shot?” And then made a dive for the metal pipe. He landed right next to it, and was about to grab it, however, Colgate ran up, and drilled into his hand. It was only gotten about half an inch deep, and probably would have gone farther had Frank not pulled his hand away, grabbing the pipe with his other, and smacking the mare away.
He got up, and punched her once again, and she backed away. She looked up at him with a scowl on her face, and she then screamed , and ran for him. Frank tried to back up, but Colgate ran straight into him, and he fell onto the ground, where she then pinned his arms down with her back hooves. She grabbed the drill, and leaned in close, and pointed the drill at his face. The drill slowly inched closer, and closer, as Frank looked around for anything to help him. He then looked at how close her face was to his, and got an idea. He head butted her nose, and she fell back, releasing him from her grip.
Colgate reached for the mask, and inhaled even more of the gas, before looking at him with a crazed look in her eye. Frank got up, and Colgate swiped at him again, however, he leaned back far enough, dodging out of the way, causing Colgate to turn around, due to the force of her swing. Once she was nearly turned all the way around, she lifted up her back legs, and kicked him straight in the gut.
He fell back, again, and rolled onto the floor. He then looked up, and saw the drill coming straight for his face, so he rolled out of the way, causing the drill to slam into the floor. The drill was then lifted up again, and tried to slam into his face once again. He, however, kept rolling out of the way, as this happened several more times. He then grabbed his metal rod, and smacked it out of the way.
He got up, and threw the pole at Colgate’s face, hitting her on the nose.
“Would you stop hitting me with that?!” She yelled.
“I’ll stop when you give up!” Frank yelled back.
“I refuse to give up on good hygiene!”
Colgate revved up her drill, and lunged at Frank, who quickly pushed himself back. The drill barely missed hitting him between the legs, and Frank silently thank the deity that was responsible for that miss. He jump back on his feet, and readied his pipe for whatever came next.
The mare glared at Frank, and once again attempted to stab him with the drill. Frank quickly swatted it back with his pipe, only to have the crazy pony attempt the same thing again, which was just as easily blocked. The two of them continued this back and forth for a few more attempts, before Colgate came up with a new plan of attack. When she sent her drill in for another attack, she dropped it out of her magical grasp as soon as Frank started to swing his pipe. Before he had time to react, Colgate quickly grabbed one of her unopened laughing gas container and threw it at Frank, who had no time to dodge it, and was sent flying into a wall, before landing back on the ground.
Colgate wasted no time, and ran over to Frank, drill at the ready. Frank tried to push himself back up, but the unicorn was able to slam into him and pin him against the wall before he got up.
“You know, if you had just brushed your teeth twice a day. All of this could have been avoided.” Colgate mocked as she started to bring the drill to Frank’s face.
Frank, not wanting to get his face mutilated by a drill, started to struggle against the pony. But Colgate had a good grip on him, so the best he could do was move his head away from the drill everytime she went in for the kill. This was slowly getting on Colgate’s nerves. Who was starting to bring the drill down faster and with more strength behind it with each miss.
Eventually, Colgate yelled, “Will you stop! I know what I’m doing! Let me fix your teeth!”
Frank, unable to reset himself, quickly responded with “If you’re so good, then why are all of your patients outside dead?”
This had an effect on her, and her grip on Frank loosen slightly as she said, “They were trying to kill me! Yet I still fixed their teeth because I care that much! I don’t think anypony else would say or do the same!”
Quickly realizing this was his chance at freedom, Frank replied “Does it matter, they’re still dead. Maybe you should quit and get another job. You clearly can’t do this one.”
Colgate’s response was to yell out in rage, and raise the drill up once more to finish Frank off. However, this loosened her grip on Frank enough for him to break free from her. As soon as he was free, he used one of his legs to kick her in the chest, sending the mare across the room. Frank jumped back on his feet, and Colgate got up as well, picking up her mask and taking a few more giggled filled breaths.
Frank went to ready his pipe for another attack, only to realize that he had dropped it after the container hit him. Figuring that he didn’t have time to look for hit, Frank readied his baseball bat instead. Colgate’s crazed smile returned as she set the mask down, she then picked up her drill, and charged in for another attack. She lunged the drill straight at Frank, who blocked it with his bat, only to notice that the drill was drilling a hole right through the bat. He move the bat out of the way, only to use it to block another one of Colgate’s attacks almost immediately after. Causing another hole in the bat to form. It was clear to Frank that the bat would not be as good of a weapon in this battle as the pipe was. But for the time being, it was all he had.
Frank backed away from several more attacks, and then rolled forward, going under an oncoming attack, and kicked one of Colgate’s hooves out from under her, causing her to face plant, and to drop her drill. She rolled over, facing Frank, and started kicking, and punching him. Frank blocked his face with his hands, and started kicking her as well. They struggled for a bit, before Frank’s arm was knocked away, and she ended up punching him in the face, causing him to writhe around in pain for a minute, giving Colgate enough time to get up, and grab the drill again. Colgate turned once again to look at Frank, but she was too late, and he was in the process of tackling her. They rolled on the ground, and eventually, Frank pinned one of her hooves to the ground. She, however, was holding the drill in her other hoof, and launched it at Frank’s face. He dodged, and pinned the leg to the ground. However, he had forgotten about her back hooves, which lifted up, and pushed on his stomach. He got thrown off her, and landed on the ground opposite her head. They both got up, and Frank swung at her with his bat, smacking her over the head.
She backed away, clearly hurting from the attack, however she just grabbed her gas mask once again, and inhaled. She took it off, and was starting to breath heavily out of anger. She ran at Frank, swiping at him with the drill. He stepped to the side, causing her to miss. She then tried to hit him again, however, the same thing happened. It was about to happen once again, but Frank then lost his footing, leading to Colgate grabbing him, and sticking the drill into his stomach.
Frank yelled in pain, and grabbed her head, pushing her away, along with that, the drill left his wound, causing more pain.
He backed away from her more until they were on opposite sides of the room, staring at one another. Frank gripped his bat tight, and got ready to charge. They stood there for a solid minute, and waited for one another to make the next move. Eventually, it was Colgate who started running at first, and he did as well, soon after. Colgate reared up her drill, ready to strike him with it, and Frank pointed his bat towards the ground, confusing Colgate. One they were almost at each other, Frank landed the end of the bat on the ground , and started to lift himself up with it. He launched over her, the bat slightly cracking under his weight, but it was still in tact after successfully pole vaulting over her. Colgate was confused at what just happened, and turned around, ready to strike, however, once she did she saw the bat fly at her with all Frank’s might, hitting her head, causing the bat to smash into splinters over her skull, and causing her to drop the drill, and fall to the ground at full force.
Frank knew that Colgate could take much more, if she could even bring herself to keep on fighting. Deciding that the fight was most likely over, he looked around for his pipe, as it was now his only weapon, and saw it laying not far away from him. Walking over and picking it up, Frank was about to make his way out, when he noticed that Colgate had not only picked herself up, but had the laughing gas mask in her magical hold, and was about to start breathing the gas in again. Knowing full well that if she breathed in that stuff again, the fight would carry on, Frank did the only option he had to bring the fight to an end. He threw his pipe at Colgate.
The pipe hit Colgate just as she was about to start breathing the gas, hitting in the side of her head. The mare let out a cry of pain as she dropped her mask, nearly falling back down to the ground. To Frank, it appeared as if everything around him was slowing down. And in his mind, he knew that at long last, the fight was over.
Colgate barely steadied herself on her hooves. Her whole body was in pain, and her mind, due to a combination of the fight and the gas, was in complete disarray. Yet through the haze, part of her mind still told her that in order to show that she was a good dentist, she had to finish the job. Looking back up at Frank, she readied herself for another attack.
“There’s only one way I’ll let this end. With those teeth as white as snow.” Colgate said.
“Come on, just stop fighting already!” Frank yelled back.
“No! This is how I prove everypony wrong! This is how I show them what I can do!” Colgate exclaimed as she managed to summon enough strength to charge at Frank, jumping at him when she was close enough. Frank, acting in pure instinct, threw a punch at the unicorn, hitting her in the face and sending her flying backwards. As she flew back, Frank though he saw something fly out of the mare’s mouth.
Colgate, still refusing to give up, attempted once again. to stand up But she stopped midway, her eyes looking at something on the ground. Frank, not sure what was going on, followed her eyes to try and find what she was looking at. It didn’t take long for him to find it.
Laying on the ground, was one of Colgate’s teeth.
“M-My tooth.” Colgate started, “Y-You knocked my tooth out….. W-Who will go at a dentist who’s m-missing of their teeth…… M-My j-job…… The one thing I-I’ve always wanted to be……… YOU’VE DESTROYED MY DREAMS!!!” Colgate the turned to look at Frank, the gap in her teeth clear as day to the man. Her eyes told him that whatever sanity was left, was now completely gone.
Colgate looked behind Frank, and saw her drill laying on the ground. Picking it up in her magic, she turned it on and sent it flying towards Frank’s back, while she charged him head on. Frank, only seeing Colgate charging at him, sidestepped out of the mare’s path as soon as she got too close to him.
The next things Frank would hear would most likely stick with him for the rest of his life. He heard the drill hit something, followed immediately by Colgate screaming in pain. Turning around, Frank saw Colgate on the ground, struggling to get the drill out of her left eye, or what was left of it. But her struggles only seemed to make thing worse, as it only helped the drill go deeper into her eye. And Frank could only stand and watch the mare struggled to survive from her own poorly planned trap.
After a minute of fighting for her life, Colgate’s body went limp, and the drill continued to drill into her eye socket, causing a bloody soup of eye and brain part to leek out. It was at that moment Frank was able to bring himself to move. Walking out of the room as fast as he could.
What had just happened was awful, and Frank knew that. Yet another life had been taken in this outbreak, and in front of his own eyes. Seeing someone die is not something Frank could say he was used to, even if that someone was a pony who tried to kill him. And Frank had always assumed that if he did, he would feel bad about what had happened.
So why did part of him enjoy it. Why did he like seeing that mare’s last few minutes alive. And why did that same part of him want to do it again. It didn’t make sense, Frank wasn’t a bad person. Yet he enjoyed seeing Colgate’s death.
Frank shook those thoughts out of his head. He had a lot more to do in a small amount of time, so he made his way out of the plaza and got ready to do the next task on his list. But as he left, a small nagging thought in his head refused to go away, no matter how hard he tried. A short and simple thought.
“Could I have saved her?” ______________________________________________________________________________
(Ending 2)
Colgate barely steadied herself on her hooves. Her whole body was in pain, and her mind, due to a combination of the fight and the gas, was in complete disarray. Yet through the haze, part of her mind still told her that in order to show that she was a good dentist, she had to finish the job. Looking back up at Frank, she readied herself for another attack.
“There’s only one way I’ll let this end. With those teeth as white as-” She was then hit it the face with something messy, and from the smell of it… Cheesy.
Colgate had no idea what it was, but from Frank’s point of view, he had just thrown a pizza at her.
The room was silent as the pizza slowly slid off her face, eventually splatting onto the ground, leaving a few traces of different food items slathered across it. Afterwards they still stood in complete silence.
“Why a pizza?” Colgate asked, clearly confused.
“I wanted to test my options.” Frank answered, looking around for anything else.
Colgate charged at Frank, who jumped out of the way. Colgate turned, and ran for him again. Frank looked over and saw the cans of laughing gas close by, and near it, the drill. He dove for it, just barely missing Colgate’s attack. Colgate took a second to adjust herself, but once she saw him crawling towards the drill, and gas. She charged for him, ready to take the drill. Frank noticed the oncoming unicorn, and quickly grabbed the drill, and one of the canisters of laughing gas, rolled over, and pointed the bottom of the can at her. He then turned on the drill, held his breath, and punctured the top of the canister at an angle where it then went flying out of his hands, and towards Colgate.
It smashed into Colgate's head, and sent her flying to the end of the room, crushing her head between the wall, and the canister. Eventually, the canister fell to the ground, and Frank saw what was left of the left Colgate’s head. Her smashed in brain was stuck to the wall, along with her destroyed left eye. The right side of her head was still intact, and with the weight of her body, seperated with the other half, and fell onto the floor.
What had just happened was awful, and Frank knew that. Yet another life had been taken in this outbreak, and in front of his own eyes. Seeing someone die is not something Frank could say he was used to, even if that someone was a pony who tried to kill him. And Frank had always assumed that if he did, he would feel bad about what had happened.
So why did part of him enjoy it. Why did he like seeing that mare’s last few minutes alive. And why did that same part of him want to do it again. It didn’t make sense, Frank wasn’t a bad person. Yet he enjoyed seeing Colgate’s death.
Frank shook those thoughts out of his head. He had a lot more to do in a small amount of time, so he made his way out of the plaza and got ready to do the next task on his list. But as he left, a small nagging thought in his head refused to go away, no matter how hard he tried. A short and simple thought.
“Could I have saved her?” ______________________________________________________________________________
(Ending 3)
Colgate hit the ground, the world around her moving from side to side in front of her own eyes. Attempting once more to end the fight the way she wanted it too, she tried to get back on her hooves, but ended up slipping on her own hooves a few times before being able to stand. And despite being on her hooves, it did little to stop the dizziness in her head. Yet she wasn’t going to let that stop her.
Frank could easily see that the mare was on her last ounce of strength. The outcome of this battle was clearly in his favor, no matter what Colgate did. But instead of outright attacking Frank, she instead tried once again to grab the mask and breath more laughing gas into her system. Without missing a beat, Frank ran up to Colgate and kicked her away from the mask.
The kick was strong enough to knock Colgate into a pile of the canisters. And that was enough to cause the pile to fall over. Colgate barely had enough to look up, see the pile about to fall on top of her, and cover her head with her front hooves, before the pile fell. The canister quickly buried the mare. And Frank was amazed that he was responsible for all of that.
Rushing over to the pile, he tried to find the mare. Frank quickly found part of Colgate’s mane sticking out the pile. Moving a few of the containers away, he was able to reach in and pull the mare out. She was out cold, but still breathing.
Frank wasn’t quite sure what to do at this point. This mare had spent the last few minutes locked in a battle to the death with him, but at the same time, she was now completely helpless. If a zombie or another psychopath came in here while she was like this, it wouldn’t end well for her. So Frank did something that he thought was crazy. He waited for Colgate to wake up, and hoped she wouldn’t fight him again.
It took less than a minute for Colgate to wake back up. And upon seeing Frank staring down at her, she bowed her head in defeat.
“Alright…… You win….. Just please make it painless…. My head is killing me already.” Colgate mumbled, her voice was void of any emotions.
“I’m not going to kill you if that’s what you mean by make it painless.” Frank replied.
“Really?... Well…. I’m a little surprised….The rest of you seem pretty eager to kill me…. And after that battle, I was sure you would if I lost.” Colgate said, it was evident that whatever high the laughing gas gave her was now completely gone. And the pain of the recent fight had caught up to her.
“Yeah, well I’m not one of those things, the fact that I can talk should have given that away. And you seem to have regained at least some of your sanity, so I don't think I’ll be having to worry about fighting you again.” Frank answered.
“Oh… Sorry… I’ve been dealing with a lot of stress recently… And waking up with all of those.. Things… Didn’t help….. Plus I think using that gas for so long that it’s starting to… Take its toll on me.”
“You should probably stop, I’m not a doctor but that can’t be good for your health.”
“It probably isn’t, but it used to be a good way to...Escape all that stress.” Colgate said as she tried to stand up, only to fall back on the ground, “I swear if I get out of here, I’ll stop breathing that gas.”
“I might be able to help get you out.” Frank stated.
“How?”
“I know where a safe house is. And I’ll take you to it as long as you understand two things. One, you’re probably going to get a lot of weird looks, so you better be ready to handle it. And two, you can not force any dental surgery on anyone in there.”
“Deal.” Colgate then attempted once more, only to fall down again. “I might need some help getting there… I took a beating during the fight… And the gas has made me dizzy.”
Frank reached down, and picked Colgate up, putting her on his back in a piggyback position. Frank then started to move out of the North Plaza. As he did, he felt something warm inside his heart, a feeling that told him that he had done the right thing. And part of mind told him that he was a hero, but not just from saving Colgate. But Frank couldn’t figure out why.
As the two made their way through the park, Frank couldn’t stop himself from saying “Do you mind if I take some pictures of you when we get there? I’m sure the existence of a talking unicorn would be an interesting twist to my story once I get out of here.”
“We’ll talk about that when you get me there.” Colgate replied.