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// Chapter 1 
// Story: When The Zombies Came 
// by MyLittleBronyDude 
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When the zombies came, we had no idea about where they came from. All we knew was that they were dangerous and had to be stopped. This is the the story of zombies. This is my story.

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As I woke up on one fine morning, I noticed something felt different than it usually did in the small town of Ponyville. There was no hiss from the hot air balloons as the early tourists came in to see Twilight Sparkle’s great crystal castle. There was no idle chatter that sometimes floated through my window. But, the most surprising thing was that I couldn’t hear Pinkie Pie doing anything! After that, I knew something was up. So I grabbed my fedora and flew out the door.

-2 minutes later-

After doing a full lap of town, I realised that no ponies were here! “Hello? Anypony there?”, I shouted, but no Ponyville responded. I went to the Town Hall and I found something stunning: every single pony of Ponyville was gathered there to listen to a speech put on by Twilight. I ran in and just caught the end of it.

“... and so, I urge all of you to stay in your homes. It is to keep you all safe from the... things. On that note, everyone back to your houses at once!” As the meeting broke up, I caught snippets of info from the speech as I trotted up to the stand. It was all about these things and an attack of some sorts. I flew over to Twilight to talk to her about her speech. “Hey, Twilight, what was your speech about? Because I might have missed it from the safety of my warm and comfortable bed.” As she stared at me, I got the feeling like something wasn’t right. 

“Twilight? Hello, Ponyville to Twilight!” She blinked twice and shook her head. 

“Sorry, what was that? I was thinking about the attacks on Manehattan and Fillydelphia. The world is getting weirder by the day, isn’t it Ace?” As this information soaked in, I had a sudden realisation: Vancouver was far away from there. My parents are safe! 

“This isn’t great. What are the things that attacked?” That was probably the wrong question to ask as she shivered at the thought, but she answered it. 

“The ponies that survived are saying that they were zombies.” In my mind, I started panicking. I was not ready for zombies yet. This is going to get ugly.