"Ugh what is that smell?"
Carrot covered her nose with her hoof as a sudden, rotting stench over came her. It permeated through the air and suddenly grew stronger in strength. Giving off the wretched odor of decaying flesh.
"Oh my Celestia!"
She backed up slowly turning her head every which way in absolute disgust.
I have to get out of here.
As she quickly aimed to make her way out of the memorial grave yard, she stopped after seeing a strange shadow appear in the short distance from her.
What is that thing?
From the small green fog that had slowly begun to envelope the area, the shadow before her begun to slowly show itself along with a range of other red pupils.
It walked roughly and as it came clearer into view, she couldn't help but notice the disfigurement of the thing before her. It was ragged and old, carrying upon its body no flesh. Whatever left of life it did have was now a nest for squirming worms that dropped one by one as it walked. It was clothed in rusted armor and its sockets were nothing but bleeding red dots where its white orbs should have been.
It was a pony and with it came its company.
Carrot screamed.
"Carrot?"
Derpy lifted her head up from a bin of armor that she was fooling around with as a sound echoed through her ears. She heard another scream and then her name perfectly clear through the silent place and immediately recognized the voice of her panicked friend.
"Carrot!"
Derpy immediately dashed off and after her friend as she followed the sound of the echoing screams. Trying to pinpoint her very location. She eventually made it to the neighborhood where she was and flying over it to the very site of the screams. She never flew so fast in her life as she finally made it to the scene.
The pale mare was being cornered by a mob of the undead which reminded her all too much of her beloved zombie apocalypse comic books.
Still in the air, she screamed back. "Carrot!"
Carrot looked up and saw the grey pegasus in perfect view.
"A little help here!"
"I don't know what to do!"
"Then figure something out!"
Derpy looked down at the ground both ways and a light bulb went off in her head as she saw a small piece of rubble on the ground. She swooped down and grabbed it before flying back up.
She whistled, catching the attention of the mob that cornered her beloved friend.
"Hey!" she threw the rock at one of their heads. Creating a hollow rattling sound. "Why don't you pick on someone your own size!"
The mob, around ten total, removed their attention from the pale earth pony mare and to the grey pegasus, walking mindlessly towards her as though possessed.
"Carrot! Go! Now!"
Seeing them distracted, Carrot ran right passed and through the mob, being sure to not even so much as touch one of them as she did.
Derpy followed after.
"What happened?"
"I don't know!" Carrot huffed. "They just appeared out of nowhere!"
"This is so cool! Its like a zombie apocalypse! We the survivors running-!"
"Derpy! Life and death situation here!"
"Oh yeah...right." the pegasus looked around. "I don't think their even following us."
Carrot begun to slow down. "Their...not?"
"Doesn't seem like it."
The earth mare skidded to a halt. She turned around as she breathed heavily with Derpy flying down next to her.
"Where are they?"
Derpy shrugged her shoulders.
"Well, I guess we were too much-"
"Derpy! Spoke to soon!"
As if offended by their words, the thick foliage shook as multiples of the undead came towards them in frenzy pursuit.
Derpy shuttered and flew after her fleeing friend.
"Their a lot faster than I thought!"
"Yeah, no joke!"
"Where are we even headed? We don't know where we're going!"
"Who cares! As long as it's some place far away from them!"
Carrot paused to catch her breath as Derpy checked to see if the zombie like ponies were out of view. Scanning the area shall anything approach.
"Isn't this the...?"
"The plaza. We're back at the plaza." Carrot huffed. "Wait! The door shouldn't be far from here is it? We can go back through there!"
"Isn't it just a little distance from here?"
"Back through the thin path. Passed the city entrance."
"Right!"
A smell of decay came over them and the area.
"Their not letting up are they?"
"Nope." Carrot stated in worry "Not one bit."
With the smell as a signal they left and pursued through the thin path that they had came through before. Leaving the undead ponies behind as they brushed through the thick foliage. The two mares looked frantically around the small area.
Carrot looked around. “The door! Wasn't it Here?”
“I remember it being here!” Derpy proclaimed.
Carrot trotted over to the place in which the door once stood. Nothing stood where it once was.
“Derpy...I think it's...gone.”
“What?!”
“It's not here.”
“Are you sure?"
“Of course I'm sure!” Carrot snapped. “The door dropped us here! It was here not to long ago!”
"The book...it stated it disappears....at sundown?" The pegasus tried to remember.
"Sun down when? You can hardly see the sun with these thick clouds!"
"It never specified which sun! We don't even know if were in Equestria anymore!
"Great....just great."
“What do we do now?” Derpy asked.
“How am I'm supposed to know?”
Soon the repulsive stench of rotting flesh and decaying corpses filled the air around them. Carrot and Derpy backed up as they held their nose. Squinting their eyes as they fanned their hooves at the invading odor. From the bushes around them stepped the undead ponies whose eyes were glowing a harsher red. It seemed as though the more angrier they got the more repulsive the smell came to be. The two ponies could see their non-existent eyebrows furrow.
"Retrorsum converti."
"What are they saying?"
"I...I don't know."
The mob continued to whisper in unsynchronized moans and speech. "Retrorsum converti..."
“Listen, we can argue later, but for now, we need to find a way out of this mess!” Derpy stated.
“This place is a dead end Derpy and were surrounded. What are we going to do?”
“We'll have to go back through the path.”
Carrot looked at her. “How in the world are we going to do that? We're surrounded!”
“I'll distract them. You just run right through once it's cleared a little!”
Doing as told, Carrot prepared herself as Derpy picked up a piece of rubble and lead some of the undead from the opening of the path. She threw the piece of ruble at the head of one of them. Enjoying the way it's head rattled when she did. Carrot ran passed the ponies behind them as she once again found herself by the fountain in the middle.
Derpy flew after her as the skeletons made a dash after them. The duo ran through the path straight ahead, dodging the debris and rubble that laid across it. The under brush was becoming thicker and a quick glance behind them showed the undead up to speed with them.
They had to keep moving. Eventually the two stopped when they realized the path had led them through a much larger clearing than the one they had came in before. Thick brush was everywhere but the sight of it seemed much more like an adoring civilization had once stood.
Large buildings were scattered across the place as well as signs, billboards and tools. As much as Carrot and Derpy wanted to explore the setting, they knew it wouldn't be long before the grotesque abominations caught up to them.
Another look behind her, and Carrot stood correct. With the horrific odor, was none other than the very ponies themselves. Unremitting in their approach. But from the look of it, she swore that there was now more of them than before.
“There's more of them!?”
“What do they want with us?” Derpy pondered.
“I don't know but whatever it is, probably isn't friendly!” Carrot answered. “C'mon! We got to go!”
Without question, Derpy flew after her as the undead made their way. They made their way back into the city, into the plaza and through the city running without destination. They looked behind themselves and saw the undead ponies, now more than before, pursuing them at great speed. Speaking the same exact words and language that was unknown to the ponies ears.
"This is getting ridicolous! What are we to do?" Carrot huffed as she glanced back to see her pursuers.
"Carrot!"
Startled the pale earth pony skidded to a stop and from in front of them, from the building covered foliage, appeared others to join the already large mob. They appeared this time almost growling and some bigger than the undead that chased after Carrot and Derpy. They were heavier, larger and one, that resembled that of a decomposing rhinocerous emerged from the lot and carried more rusted armor on it's body than all of the rest.
It shouted in a heavy male and masculine voice. Like one of an elite soldier.
"Relinquo haec loco!"
"Carrot...I think our situation just got worse!" the mares backed themselves up and turned around and ran once again from the mob that now were present only a few feet from them. The ground seemingly shook as the hefty...beast came storming after them. They dared not turn around.
They pushed themselves through the thick leaves and trees before Carrot slipped and fell into a wide ditch. She managed to break her fall grabbing hold of some vines and carefully but hurriedly made her way down. Small waterfalls flowed from the top of the ditch and flowed down into it. Ruins of once a glorious city, now nothing but cracked pillars surrounded it as nature had all but engulfed it.
Derpy joined with her and their eyes immediately laid sight upon an opening that glowed with a faint reddish orange. They took no time to discuss as they made their way inside. The aggressive pursuers caught up seconds later and too without thought, swarmed into the small entrance as the giant stood and watched.
"They cannot be allowed to continue."