"Hey Flame," Fire Lilly, Flash Fire's oldest sister called, "Tell me how did you wind up here in the EIZR. I never saw you much before the world came down"
Flash Fire, who is sometimes called Flame or Flare, sits there and sighs happily that his family is finally safe on the ESS Twilight Freedom an aircraft carrier and Equestrian navy vessel also used for transporting troops and especially the Wonderbolts or what is left of them. "I never knew that I would go from a pegasus who loved to fly and be free and loved to a survivor of this little hell of mine. Well, you want to know my dear sister how I ended up here, here in Rushoof, well I don't think it is a story my niece and nephew are ready to hear." as he says that his rational friend comes through the door of the bunk.
"Smart Stuff what's wrong," asked Flash as he grabbed his Augewehr and Desert Falcon," Are we under attack by 2rb?" Smart put a hoof on Flash's shoulder
"Whoa easy there dude put the guns back down," He said as he slowly took the Falcon and the Aug away and back into storage,"It's not that it's just that well this story I overheard needs to be talked about by us," he motions to Quick Thinking and Rushed Pace his friends.
"Fine but it is all the same," Flash Fire said as he eyed his personal arsenal, from the Grizzly 50 caliber sniper rifle to the small Colt m9, "But later I'm gonna go to the military base in hopes of finding a plane." Smart looked at Flash like he was stupid.
"But you can fly without one," he said looking confused why his pegasus friend would want a plane.
"It's not for me. It's for Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle and everyone else. Besides, we need jet fuel and the only place we might find some are the airport or Volk," Said Flash as he went and picked up his Nightraider with his suppressor attached to it, "but alas that is later it is time sis I, no we told you our story..."
Meanwhile, in the ruins of what was once the Crystal Empire, a certain 3 ponies are hiding out in once was known as Princess Cadence Island or PCI for short, hoping that the virus hadn't spread to it only to find out that they were wrong.
"Applebloom do you have the supplies?" Scootaloo, who at the point of infection and the world going to hell in a hand basket was 11, asked as she walked by her friends.
"Well, Scoots I got all we need: Food, water, and good spirits. We really need to find one of them vehicles what is it called again a car I'm still not used to all this tech crap," Applebloom said as she slung her Masterkey, a 20 gauge double barrel shotgun, on her back. "I still can't believe it this zombie pony apocalypse shit."
"Applebloom lower your voice I think I hear one of them," Sweetie Belle says quickly putting a hoof over Applebloom's mouth forcing Applebloom to go completely quiet.
They listen for a bit waiting and finally that ever so familiar growl.
"Where is it?!" asked Scootaloo in a hushed whisper while she pulled out her machete, "as long as it isn't one of those kinds we will be ok please pray to Celestia that it isn't a Mega we are not yet equipped enough for that kind of fight. I heard from that last group we helped, it can chuck a boulder from here all the way over to that military building. Wait! A military building?!"
She starts to approach it slow and steady machete out and ready when from behind she hears a male voice say "I would drop that if I were you." Scootaloo hears a familiar cock of a gun, "Don't make me say it twice oh and don't even try to call for your group we have them tied up in cable ties held at gun point and if you try and run our sniper can and will make short work of you. Now drop the weapon and no pony needs to get hurt," just then the rest of the CMC come in like he said cable ties around their fore hooves.
"Celestia damn it I should have known. This place was giving me bad vibes from the start. Who are you what do you want?!!" asked Applebloom.
"You, My Little Ponies don't need to know that. All that you need to know is that we are the Dark Descent and you are dinner," he says licking his chops.
Scootaloo stands there gun still to the back of her head and realizes what he means and with his attention drawn away from her turns and swings her machete hoping to hit him. She cuts his arm but it was minor. The unknown male whips back around recoiling over the fresh pain.
"You bitch!!!" he screams as he points the gun back at her and fires only barely missing and instead grazes her wing. Just then 2 ponies with assault rifles come in the tent.
"Hold it right there! I would drop that before I drop you." said the first. This time with Scootaloo looking right at her captures. One was a dark blue unicorn with a short spiky tail who looked to be a male wearing a military-grade vest and a bandana. The other was a white earth pony with a crazy look in her eyes wearing the same and looked alike. She then determined it must be his sister
Scootaloo drops the weapon and surrenders realizing that she was outgunned even if her friends stepped in.
"Nightlash what the absolute hell with wrong with you. We're here in the middle Albercolt, the second largest town on this island, and you're firing of a Celestia damn shot!" he exclaimed ready to punch who was now know as Nightlash in the face.
"What else was I supposed to do Dark Night let her kill me!?" Nightlash stated as he pointed to Scootaloo.
"Well, you better be happy that no zombies have turned up," just as soon as he says it four or five of the rotting corpses walks in snarling and growling and they all grab the white earth pony biting her and ripping her apart as more and more zombies come. "NO! Bright Day. DIE YOU ZOMBIE BASTERDS!!!!" Dark exclaims with a rage as he opens fire getting a little closer to Bright.
The Zs get through the window headed toward him slowly. He goes through an entire clip and while he is reloading a special zombie comes through the window, an acid spitter. Dark notices this and tries to reload faster but it was too late the spitter had already spotted him and with one quick motion spewed the bright blue acid all over him melting his skin on the spot but not fast nor slow, but slow enough to drive him mad. He stands there dropping his gun and starts batting at his skin like he was insane. Everypony knowing it was futile and that he would die in about one to two minutes. Nightlash with his Ace revolver shoots the spitter in the head killing it instantaneously.
Meanwhile, while he was distracted Scootaloo grabs her machete and cuts the ties. "We have to go. NOW!" she states.
"But Scoot your wing," Sweetie Belle said while grabbing her saddle pack with all their supplies.
"There will be time for that later," Scootaloo said as a crawler headed their way. Scootaloo knew that these were special they have a low chance of actually biting and infecting you but they will make you bleed like crazy and in a world like this they were going to need all the blood they can get. Scootaloo machete ready raises it for a killing swing on the crawler when Applebloom blows its head off with her Masterkey.
"What?" she asks, "It's not like they don't know we're here." as she shoots the crawler for good measure but a sprinter comes into the room running faster then any other zombie.
"Oh shit! Run!" says Sweetie Belle as she turns to the stairs that they were next to and bolts up them.
"Oh no, you are not going anywhere," Nightlash says after killing the sprinter with a shot to the back of the head. Sweetie Belle puts her hooves up and looks at his belt.
He doesn't know that that's his last clip, and judging by the way he aims it I'd say he has about four or five shots left, Sweetie thinks.
"Everything was going well. If we wouldn't have ran into you. They would still be alive. But oh no they're dead and so will you be," he says as he cocks the hammer. He hears growling behind him, and when he turns and faces the horror there standing at about 7 feet tall on its hind legs and smelling like a huge rotting corpse, was what the CMC had feared they might run into.... A Mega Zombie the big daddy of the zombies. "Oh buck me!" Nightlash says as he opens fire aiming for its head.
"Quickly girls to the roof!" Applebloom says while Nightlash fires three out of his five shots into the mega's head before having a bolder the size of a small dresser gets flown at him hitting him in the head cracking his skull instantly.
The CMC run up the stairs with the mega close behind Sweetie manages to get the assault rifle of Bright Day by levitating it to her as she runs while running she sees that it's not an assault rifle but a sub-machine gun. It was a honey badger and she knew that it was internally suppressed. To her surprise, she also noticed it had a one hundred round drum and it is fresh.
"This might come in handy," Sweetie says as they get to the roof and barricade the door. The girls turn around and see the sniper not noticing them because he set up a platform to the next building. They don't say anything and sneak across staying out of sight.
"Shit! Shit! SHIT! I bucking knew this was a bad idea!" said the sniper, "Now Bright is dead, Dark is too. FUCK! Well, at least I still have my life and my Timberwolf and my booze. But I can't believe it! All because of that idiot Nightlash firing off a shot here, in Abertiacolt what a dumbass he was. But wait did he say over the radio that they were a group of cannibals. Oh, sweet Celestia, I'm getting out of here and never falling for that kind of crap again. Good thing I didn't eat anything while I was there. But can anything else go wrong!"
"Hey you!" says Sweetie, honey badger trained on the sniper's head, "Drop the rifle and the SMG,"
"Me and my big mouth," says the sniper slowly turning around to see Sweetie Belle pointing her Honey Badger at him to his left and Applebloom pointing her Masterkey at him to his right With Scootaloo getting close with his machete to take his guns. "Hello, there little ladies look I don't want any trouble I was just doing what I was told."
"Give us one reason bucko just one," Applebloom says while Scoots takes his guns.
"Look can we talk?" he asks hooves up, "I mean fillies as pretty as you are could see I just want to talk."
"Sorry but flattery don't charge these batteries sugar cube," says Applebloom
"Let him talk," says Scootaloo, "I want to hear this. Go on Mr. sniper"
"Well first," he says, "My name is Night Hex. Well, that's my code name. My real name is Technical Hex. Just call me Hex,"
"Well, then Hex tell us all you know about..."
"Look I hate to burst your bubble but I have to get rid of this platform," he says interrupting Sweetie Belle as he slowly gets rid of the platform from the military building to the small Skyscraper. "Now you were saying?"
"I was saying for you to tell us all you know about the Dark Descent," Sweetie said.
"Well that they are apparently cannibals and I am leaving them before they feed me, anyone I could have known," says Hex.
"Is that all you know? And don't lie,"
"They don't tell the new recruits anything other than that they are for remaking pony kind and make it better, and I believed it," Hex said, the unicorn furious with himself, "Look I will tell you everything I know but right now we need to get out of the city. I promise I'll tell you then,"
"Ok fine but you owe us an explanation," says Scootaloo. They get out of town but on the way are chased by a couple of Zs. Hex now without a weapon keeps up with the girls
"Did we lose them?" asked Sweetie Belle when they were safe.
"I think so. Hopefully...."
"Shh, you hear that!?" asked Scootaloo interrupting Applebloom they look up to see a plane fly overhead and drop a box right over them.
"Thank Celestia for the EIZR!" said Sweetie Belle with hope in here eyes.
"Let's not stay long there could be bandits," said Applebloom reasonably.
"Right," says Sweetie agreeing with her.
"Hey, can I have a gun? At least just to protect myself," Hex asked.
"No! We just met you and we don't know if we can trust you," the CMC say almost in unison.
"Ok, I understand," says Hex
Meanwhile as the newly dropped airdrop comes down, in the distance what are more of the Dark Decent kill the zombies quietly. "What the buck happened here?!" asked a light orange and gray pegasus with a rage. "Nightlash you dumbass I heard the whole thing on your radio you fired off a shot and got everyone here killed everyone except those 3. And where the hell is Night Hex! I fear of his betrayal. Find them and bring them to me dead or alive they need to learn," he says stabbing a knife through what was once Summer Day's skull as she was starting to come back. "That you don't mess with a family member of me.....Dark Descent."