A/N: Thanks all for reading and following this! Just a quick nod to you all! And to all new people, please rate and comment! Thanks!
A/N 2: Remember, the groups is separated doing their own things. Last chapter was Matt and Shadow with Dash and AJ. Now, prepare for insanity with Mig and Beans and their day adventure with Twilight and Fluttershy! :D
Driving off to a local university, things were awfully awkward in the car for the four. Beans was driving with Twilight riding shotgun, and Mig and Fluttershy had the window seats in the back. Beans decided to break the silence after a few minutes.
“Well since we are on our own, I figure Matt is probably teaching the other two, uh..” trailing as he forgot AJ and Dash’s names.
“Applejack and Rainbow Dash” Twilight filled in for him.
“Yeah, those two,” Beans still not really comprehending the situation. “since he’s probably teaching them defense and Pancho and Xoch teaching the others, god knows what, we will work on the other important part of living in this world: Scavenging”
“What exactly are we scavenging?” Twilight quizzically asked.
“Anything and everything. Food, water, medical supplies, ammunition, fun stuff” Mig answer her, a slight smirk on his face when he said the last part.
“Do you not have that much of it in this world?” Fluttershy spoke up, making Mig smile and internally fanboy like crazy.
“No, we do…” Mig responded, trying to contain himself. “it’s just since we live together and use up all this stuff, we gotta go find it. No markets to buy from, we just take at this point”
“So you’re stealing?” Twilight asks, judging.
“It isn’t stealing if no one is selling it” Beans sarcastically cuts in, getting an annoyed face from Twilight. “Listen, since the zombies hit, it’s a free for all out here. Grab what you can, how you can. Otherwise, you’re done for. Right Mig?”
“Yah.” Was all he got out. He was too focused on the scenery, the bleak amount that was left.
“Well, anyway, we are gonna look around a university for some medical supplies. Nothing too crazy, just basic cold medicine stuff and what not. If they have food or water, even better.” Beans authoritatively stated, laying out their plans.
“Wait, have we cleared that area out yet?” Mig asks, realizing the possibility of putting the girls in danger.
“Actually no, so yeah, it could be dangerous. If it’s packed we book it, if not, we stock up.” Beans said, seeming like he thought of this beforehand.
“So how are we going to learn from this?” Twilight asks, still judging, HARD.
“You will see what kind of stuff we need and use, and learn to sneak around in case you need to be sneaky. And some medical stuff as well.” Beans responds, still sounding as confident as ever. “Hey, look, there it is.”
Up ahead they see giant towers and buildings, all in matching styles. The grand university is one to behold, and the girls take it in.
“You like how the place looks?”Mig asks the girls. They both just give him a nod and stare in awe. “Just wait, Twi. If we can get to the library, you’ll really fall in love.”
“Is it as big as the Royal Canterlot Library?” Twilight asks, teaming with excitement of a whole library as big as her favorite from back home.
“Bigger.” Mig smiles. Twilight smiled even larger at the thought of this.
They finally park and head over towards the library, but not without a lesson along the way.
“Okay girls, we will work on sneaking on the way to the medical center.” Mig takes over for this lesson. “First off, never run. Crouch walk, and try to keep on your toes.” Mig gives an example. The girls struggle, much like RD and AJ did, but they weren’t running, so they got it a lot faster. Plus it was Twilight and Fluttershy learning, something they both do very well and fast.
“Whisper when talking. It’d be better if you didn’t, but if you do, whisper. We prefer making hand signals, which you girls can learn later. For now, we whisper.” Mig keeps smiling at Fluttershy, but she averts her gaze every time they make eye contact. Disappointing Mig each time it happens, which was quite a lot.
After some brief practice, they make their way to the medical center near the center of campus, zombie free. Something no one was expecting, but they weren’t complaining.
“Wow, I’m surprised we haven’t run into any zombies yet” Mig thinks outloud.
“Shut up Mig! You don’t want to jinx us!” Beans quickly snapped back. Upon saying this, they hear a groan down the hall.
“God dammit Mig. Remind me to kick your ass later for doing that.” Beans said in an annoyed tone.
“Hey don’t blame me! It was already there!” Mig defended himself, laughing at the same time.
“Uhh, excuse me. Guys? Shouldn’t we run? That is, if you think we should.” Fluttershy interrupted, scared to death of the monster about 15 feet from her.
“No, I GOT DIS” Mig said as he ran up, unsceathing his machete, and cleaning cutting off its head.
“SWEET CELESTIA” Twilight blurted out at the sight of the decapitated head.
“Oh, I guess you still aren’t used to it huh?” Mig responded, seeing Fluttershy cowering from him behind Twilight, saddening him.
“GUYS. BE QUIET” Beans quietly, yet sternly commanded. “If you want to invite all the zombies here, be my guest. Just do it when I’m nowhere near you.” He sarcastically remarked. Just as he said that, they heard a whole armada’s worth of footsteps and groans close in on them.
“Oh shiznet…” Mig quietly said. “I think it’s time we..”
“RRRRRUUUNNNNNN” Fluttershy screamed at the top of her lungs.
They all made a mad dash back to the car, across the entire campus. Screaming and yelling and flailing their arms in the air the whole time. By the time they made it back to the car, they all couldn’t help but giggle at their scaredy-cat-ness.
“Hot bout the supermarket?” Mig asked, getting a laugh and a nod from everyone else.
They made their way to the market, and one they knew should be empty or near empty.
“Ok, this should be a lot better. Hopefully.” Beans commented as they walked on in.
The dark, quiet atmosphere of the market gave it a very eerie feeling. The smell of rotting meats and fruits filled the air, and instantly made everyone uneasy.
“I don’t like the looks of this place. You sure it’s safe?” Twilight asked, cautiously taking each step behind Beans.
“Yeah, I said its fine. We cleared this place out ages ago” Beans proclaimed. “Ok, let’s look for the canned food mainly.
Actually, Mig, you and Flutters go find water. Twilight and I got food.” Mig nodded and grabbed Fluttershy’s arm as they
walked to find water. Beans and Twilight headed towards the opposite side of the store.
Mig and Fluttershy found a surplus of water bottles, untouched and ripe for the picking. They found a cart and started loading the water up. Mig decided to start up a small conversation.
“Hey Fluttters,” She looks up, curious as to what he has to say. “I want to say I’m sorry for earlier. For scaring you. I didn’t want to do that, I really didn’t. But I want to protect you and Twilight. Especially you. That’s why I did it.” Mig was looking down, loading bottles the entire time.
Fluttershy had effectively stopped loading to gather her thoughts, and responded.
“But it’s just that you killed that poor innocent creature. What if they are just sick? You’re just killing sick people who need help! That isn’t a nice thing to do!” Fluttershy snapped at Mig, effectively breaking his heart into a million pieces.
“But…” He had no response. He was so caught off guard from her response he was left speechless.
“No butts!! You’re all killing these things!! I’m very disappointed in all of you! Especially Matt! He leads you all into doing this!”
This hit a soft spot in Mig, causing him to snap back.
“Leave him out of this! You don’t know his whole story! Don’t judge him if you don’t even know what happened with him and his family! You realize we don’t our parents or siblings with us? We all lost them. But Matt, his was, just… bad. He has his reasons for all this.” Mig defended his cousin, as he was sure his cousin would do the same for him.
The argument didn’t do much in Fluttershy’s mind, however.
“I. DON’T. CARE.” She claimed, staring into his eyes. This stare, just froze him. She stared at him, and he quivered like a baby.
“Ok!! I’m sorry!! Just stop staring at me like that! It’s freaking me out!!” Mig pleads to Fluttershy.
“HEY GUYS. SHUT THE HELL UP. IS THE MARRIED COUPLE READY TO LEAVE? CAUSE WE ARE” Beans yelled from the other side of the store.
“YEAH WE GOOD” Mig yelled back, though, things were far from good. Things were horrible, actually. Fluttershy just gave Mig The Stare, made him quiver like a little bitch, and broke his heart by her harsh attitude towards what they do to the zombies.
*Meanwhile, on the other side of the store*
“Ok Twilight, we want these, look for them.” Beans threw a can of soup towards her, which she dropped. “Careful. Anyway, anything that has that logo or same can design, throw in the basket. We will need it.”
“So we are only getting one type of food? Isn’t that kind of, dull?” Twilight questioned.
“Yeah, it is. But it’s the only food out there for now that isn’t bad. So we have to take advantage.” Beans quickly responded.
“Alright” At this point they were beginning to hear voices. At first, Twilight cowered and Beans went into defense mode, but soon realized it was Mig and Fluttershy yelling, seemingly at each other.
“I wonder what they are arguing about…” Twilight thought outloud.
“Whatever it is, it’s annoying as hell.” Beans commented, continuing his search for soup cans, grabbing the last of them.
“Well, this should hold us up for another week or so. Ready?” Beans asked Twilight, who nodded in response.
They could still hear the yelling, and Beans had enough. “HEY GUYS. SHUT THE HELL UP. IS THE MARRIED COUPLE READY TO LEAVE? CAUSE WE ARE”.
“YEAH WE GOOD” was the only response they got, it was good enough for Beans since it shut them up.
“Why did you call them a married couple? They don’t seem to even get along at all” said Twilight, who was thoroughly confused.
“Because that’s how married couples are” Beans said chuckling.
Twilight was still confused, but figured to learn about it later. They met up with the other two and went on towards the car.
The moment they walk outside they immediately notice smoke in the distance.
“Huh, wonder what that’s from” Mig asks no one in particular.
“Yeah, me too. Probably a random car exploding. A lot of those recently” Beans reasoned.
*ring ring*
Beans' phone was going off, it was Matt.
“Hey Matt what’s up?”
The others just watched as Beans froze, dropping his phone on the ground.
“GUYS WE NEED TO BOOK IT HOME, NOW”