"Wow, what a gorgeous day!" Twilight states while staring at the sky, walking around Ponyville with Spike on her back.
"Rainbow Dash must have gotten up early for once and cleared all the clouds away." Spike said.
"I bet all of Ponyville is going to be out enjoying the sunshine." She saw no one around. "What? Where is everypony?"
"Is it some sort of pony holiday?"
"Not that I know of."
"Does my breath stink?"
"Not more than usual."
"Is it... zombies?!"
"Uh... not very likely."
"Not likely... but possible?"
Twilight kept on walking trying to figure out what was happening, but narrowed her eyes in irritation once she saw a Thor hiding behind a tree that wasn't even a fifth of its size.
"Mike..." She sighed.
"Psst!" A voice came out of a building right next to the Thor. "Twilight! Spike! Come here!" It appeared to be Pinkie Pie. "Come! Here! Hurry! Before she gets you!"
Twilight just stared dumbfounded, Spike sharing the expression, but not after long a Viking flew down from the sky, crashlanded right behind Twilight, and with the momentum of the flight, drove both Twilight and Spike right into the building. It could be said most of the wall disappeared.
"Wooooah!!" Spike yelled, flying into the room and landing on the floor right next to the crushed Viking.
"Pinkie, what are you doing here alone in the dark?" Twilight asked.
"Yo what's up." Mike said, playing Alone In The Dark for the Koprustation 2.
"I'm not alone in the dark." Pinkie answered. Twilight looked around and saw that pretty much everyone was here.
"Okay then, what are you all doing here in the dark?"
"We're hidin' from her!" Applejack stated, moving towards the window where marines and marauders grouped up looking outside, and pointed at the strange being outside.
"I got this... I got this!!" Mike yelled as he travelled on the side of a building in Alone in the Dark. "I got t--NOOO!!" His fell to his death.
"Will you cut that out?" Twilight said after eveyone talked about Zecora, Mike of course being oblivious of the situation.
"Just look at those stripes! So garish!" Rarity stated.
"She's a zebra."
"A what?!" Every pony asked with surprise.
"A zebra, and her stripes aren't a fashion choice Rarity, they're what she was born with."
Rarity fainted.
"Question, what exactly is a Zebra?" Mike asked, turning around since the screen of the TV already flared of 'GAME OVER'.
"A zebra... Well... It'd be easier to say a pony that's black and white."
"...Michael Jackson?" A ghost asked.
"Just look out the window and you'll see what a zebra is!!"
The ghost stood up, walked to the window, stared outside for a moment, and then returned to his seat. "I don't see it dancing 'Thriller'."
Twilight sighed in annoyance.
"I say we shoot it just to be sure. And then shoot it again just to be sure. Again." A marine suggested while preparing his gun.
"What's that thing doing anyways? Digging the earth?" Another marine asked.
"It's sign language." A marauder replied.
"What? What's it saying?" The marine asked.
"It says it wants some good ol' fashioned cola."
The marine loaded his gun and shot the marauder. No one minded.
"Hey! Where's Apple Bloom?" Applejack asked.
"The door's open." Fluttershy noticed.
"She went outside!" Rarity stated.
"And Zecora's still out there." Rainbow Dash said.
"That silly lil' filly! I told her to stay put!" Applejack worried.
"Spike, you stay here in case Apple Bloom comes back." Twilight ordered before everyone left, with a Thor destroyed the remaining parts of the house as it stepped outside.
"Will do!"
"Apple Bloom?" Applejack, with the rest of the mane 6 and the Terran forces behind her, loudly asked upon seeing Applebloom entering the Everfree Forest. "You get back here right now!"
"Beware!" Zecora began warning the group. "Beware, you pony and overdeveloped hairless ape folk! Those leaves of blue are not a joke!"
The marines and marauders began shooting to no effect, the fog had become too thick. The rest of the ponies also began speaking out against Zecora over eachother, with the exception of Twilight.
"Can't see shit, captain!!" A marauder yelled.
"Who the Hell ordered you guys to shoot!?" Mike yelled, making everyone stop shooting.
"You told us all to shoot everything by default, remember?" A ghost reminded him.
"Oh yeah... That's right!"
"Oh brother." Twilight sighed in annoyance.
"Beware! Beware!" Zecora kept warning them, disappearing out of sight.
Applejack talked with Applebloom while everyone flamboyantly pranced around the blue flowers, then they all returned home.
One bizarre dream later...
"Ah pfurse!" Pinkie Pie yelled at Twilight.
"A purse? How could it be a purse?" Spike questioned.
"Pinkie? What happened?" Twilight asked.
"Pee pah Zthecora! Sthe put a cursthe on me!"
"Hey, say it, don't spray it, Pinkie!" Spike said upon being showever by Pinkie's spits.
"Ow!" Rainbow Dash grunted, trying to get into Twilight's house by the window, yet unable to due to her wings malfunctioning and impacting against several objects instead. "Ow! She's-- trying to say-ow!- Zecora-- ow!-- she slapped us all with a-ow- curse!"
"I'm afraid I have to agree." Rarity, who now looked like a cheap carpet, stated while blowing the hair out of her face.
"I hate to say I told ya so, Twilight, but I told ya so!" Applejack, with a high pitched voice, told her so. Upon closer inspection, her size was ridiculous smaller than before. "It's a curse, I tells ya!"
"But Fluttershy... seems just fine!" Twilight said.
"Yes, there doesn't seem to be a thing wrong with her." Rarity agreed.
"Fluttershy?" Twilight asked. "Are you okay? Is there something wrong with you?" Fluttershy nodded. "Would you care to tell us?" Fluttershy shook her head. "So... you're not gonna to tell us?" She nodded. "Yes you're not, or yes you will?
"Good gravy, girl! What's wrong with you?!" Applejack hurried her.
"I don't want to talk about it." Fluttershy answered in a voice even deeper than a marauder's.
But before Spike could burst out in laughter, thuds could be heard coming from the front door which was now closed. Then from the walls, then from the ceiling, everywhere. And then moans of pain and exhaustion could be heard.
"Z-zombies!!" Spike yelled before running upstairs. "Zombies everywhere!!" He said running downstairs.
"W-what...?" Twilight asked herself dumbfounded. "Wait, where's Mike?! He was with us when we saw Zecora!!" She walked to a window to look at the comotion outside, but before she could have a good look a Terran marine banged its head against the window. A marine with broken visor, with rotten skin and what appeared to be tentacles sprouting out his armor. And its eyes were dark yellow. "AAH!" Twilight jumped back due to the fright.
"Move it! Move it dammit!" A voice was heard outside. "Yeah sure you all walk slow as hell but that ain't no excuse to stand around like damned idiots. Right, thanks." A second later, soft knocks on the door left everyone dumbfounded while the thuds all over the place like a zombie apocalypse didn't even stop.
Spike walked over and opened the door, revealing Mike with the same traits of the other marines.
"Yo what's up?" He greeted before walking inside, completely calm. He then walked over in front of Twilight. "I'm gonna be fair with you. I'm ridiculously close from breaking my agression inhibitor, so I'll be nice. What. Just. Happened?"
"Those zombies are yours?" Spike asked.
"YOU SON OF A--AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" His agression inhibitor blew up, sending an electric pulse that knocked him out.
"Well... There's Mike..." Twilight sighed.
Spike just bursted out laughing due to the events that took place.
"This is no joke, Spike. Now start looking for more books so I can find a cure!"
"I think we'll find a cure to this curse at Zecora's place!" Rainbow Dash said.
"It's not a curse!"
"I agree with Dash! We'll go to Zecora's and force her to remove this hex!" Applejack added.
"It's not a hex either!"
"I don't care what you say, Twilight." Rainbow Dash retorted. "It's time to pony up and confront Zecora. Come on, girls. Are you with me?"
"Ah am-pft!" Pinkie Pie tried saying.
"And I as well." Rarity confirmed.
"Uh, I don't know. Seems awfully dangerous." Fluttershy said in her deeper-than-marauder voice.
"How about you, Applejack?" Rainbow Dash tried asking, only to find out that she was nowhere to be seen. "Applejack?"
"Pf-she's gone-pft!" Pinkie Pie alerted.
"Aah! Or somepony stepped on her!" Rarity gasped.
"Yo, she went that way with Applebloom." An infested marine informed them while pointing at the Everfreeforest.
Time later outside Zecora's hut, after a disastrous yet hilarious trip...
"Oh. I look horrible!" Rarity stated upong realizing that she was covered in mud and branches.
"Plis place plooks horrible!" Pinkie Pie said.
"Oh my." Rarity added once Pinkie Pie lifted her hair, allowing her to see the hut. "That place really does look horrible. Nice decorations, if you like creepy!"
By now, they were staring through the window, almost in time for Zecora's arrival. Zecora entered her hut with a vase, and threw its contents into a boiling cauldron while speaking in her native language.
"I don't understand this negro language." An infested marine stated.
"Yo, that's racist." Another infested marine answered.
"Guy's an ex-confederate, it's almost a requirement of survival for him to be racist." Yet another infested marine answered.
"Touche."
While Zecora wasn't looking, an infested marine broke through the roof by sheer dumb luck and fell right into the cauldron. It didn't scream of pain nor tried to escape. "Needs more cinnamon." He said.
"Cinnamon... Of course. Now, where could that pony Applebloom be?" Zecora said. But not a second later she could hear the moans of pain and exhaustion of the infested Terrans saying 'Zecora...' all over the place outside. "I-It's a zombie apocalypse! The mayans were right!!"
"Uhhh... Mike?" Twilight asked outside.
"Yeah?" Mike answered, drinking a can of Kopru-Kola(tm) next to her.
"We're supposed to make her cure us, not scare her to death."
"Only the dead can know peace from this evil."
She sighed. Mike sighed too in annoyance before grabbing an infested marine by the legs, spinning him around and hurling him right into the hut, breaking a giant hole in it. The poor infested marine impacted on the cauldron, sending the other infested marine that was trapped inside right at the wall. "Needs more salt." The infested marine said.
"Cinnamon." The other argued.
"Salt!"
"Cinnamon!"
"Salt!!"
"What about cheese?" An infested marine clinging from the ceiling suggested.
"Cheese seems nice."
"Cheese, of course, why didn't I think of that earlier?"
"I'm about to drop the hammer and dispense some indiscriminate justice!!" Mike yelled, entering through the hole he created.
"What's the meaning of this?!" Zecora asked.
"You want to know the meaning of this?! I'll show ya the meaning of---GAAAAHMAHINHIBITOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRR--dead." He fell unconscious.
"We're onto you Zecora. I didn't want to believe that you cursed us, but the evidence is overwhelming!" Twilight accused her.
"How dare you! You destroy my home, destroy my work. Then rudely accuse me of being a jerk?" Zecora retorted.
"You put this curse on us, now you're gonna uncurse us." Rainbow Dash said.
"It is unwise to venture down this road. Your actions will make my anger explode!"
"Where is Applebloom?!" Twilight asked with fury. And then Applebloom entered the room.
"Zecora! I think I found all the things ya asked for. What in Ponyville is goin' on here? Oh, hey Mark. --I mean Mike."
"Yo AB." Mike greeted her before falling unconscious again with smoke coming out of his ears.
"Apple Bloom! You're okay!" Applejack gasped.
"Why wouldn't I be?"
"Because Zecora is an evil enchantress who cursed us and was gonna cook you up into soup!" Twilight stated.
"That soup needed more cinnamon, by the way."
"And salt."
"And cheese." The three infested terrans added, while the remaining hundred infested terrans just walked around like zombies.
"Hahah, Oh Twilight. Did those silly fillies finally get in yer head? You know there's no such thing as a curse."
"Apple Bloom, sweetie. You can't just stand there and tell me this isn't a curse."
"This isn't a curse."
"If you will remember back, the words I spoke were quite exact." Zecora said.
"It was a warnin'. About that blue plant. It's called Poison Joke."
"That plant is much like poison oak. But its results are like a joke."
"What in the hay does that mean?" Applejack asked.
"It means this plant does not breed wrath. Instead this plant just wants a laugh."
"... Will somepony please talk normal?"
"I think what she's saying is that when we ran in to save Apple Bloom, we ran into the poison joke. All our problems are just little jokes that played on us." Twilight stated.
">Little" Applejack said.
"Ok, fine. But what about the cauldron?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"And the chanting?" Marauder-Fluttershy asked.
"And the creepy decor?" Rarity added the barrage of questions.
"Those blue flower things played jokes on you with that hocus pocus genetical DNA manipulation that not even the Protoss understand. The decoration was of her native land. The chanting was some sort of nursing rhyme. The caldron was the bubble bath cure. Get on with it." The author of the fanfic hurried them.
"Yes, get on with it!" The proof reader agreed.
"Yes!! Get on with it!!" The readers agreed even further.
Time later, the mane 6 and the Terran forces were tasked with another thing. Finding the medicinal herbs to end their 'joke' suffering. From Ponyville everyone saw several silhouettes in the horizon, which were no other than the mane 6 and the Terrans, with an infested marine blasting the A-Team from a radio. The ridiculously slow walk speed of the infested marines added a slow motion effect that made this turn into a great sequence.
Everyone in Ponyville was still scared beyond imagination though.
Dear Princess Celestia,
My friends and I all learned an important lesson this week: Never judge a book by its cover. Someone may look unusual, or funny, or scary. But you have to look past that and learn who they are inside. Real friends don't care what your "cover" is; It's the "contents" of a pony that count. And a good friend, like a good book, is something that will last forever. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle.
Did I mention Mike almost started a Zombie Apocalypse?