The blue stock car eased to a stop in the late night rain and four people quietly exited the car and carefully shifted the six sleeping inside for safety. After they gently closed the doors, they hollered to some people on a large bridge just ahead of them.
“Hey! Down here!” shouted Ellis.
A lone figure walked across the metal walkway of the Rayford Bridge and leaned on the railing. The figure was wearing a red jacket and jeans.
“Uh, hello there, what do you want?” asked the girl standing at the railing.
“Hi! I’m Ellis this here is Nick, Coach and Rochelle. We were wondering if y’all could lower the bridge?” asked Ellis.
“Well… no,” she answered.
“Oh, do we, uh… have to know some sort of password or something?” asked Ellis again.
The girl shook her head, “uh, no… Generator is out of gas. If you can get to the other side and fill it up, we can cover you. Best I can offer.” She paused, “I’m Zoey by the way.”
Ellis stood by the car, muttering something under his breath.
Rochelle glanced at him, “Ellis, are you going to answer her?”
“She is so beautiful… she is so beautiful,” said Ellis quietly.
“He’s got it!” called Rochelle.
Inside the car, Rainbow dash shifted slightly and fell out of the backpack and onto Applejack, who scrambled out of the car like it was on fire.
“What the heck?!” she panted as Rainbow dash grunted and tried to get out of the car as well. She tried to stand inside of it but failed to do so.
“Ugh, how long do I have to stay in that?” she grumbled as she managed to climb back into the back pack. During this, she managed to wake the other four ponies, who also exited the car.
Zoey stared at the five ponies standing beside the car. She rubbed her eyes and blinked to make sure she wasn’t seeing things. She then turned around and shouted, “Hey Francis, get over here!”
There was a brief silence and then they heard a response, presumably from Francis, “what do you want?” he said gruffly.
“You’re going to want to see this.”
“Can’t you get Louis to do it?” asked Francis.
Zoey sighed, “If you remember, Louis can’t walk right now.”
“So? He got to the gun ok.”
Zoey rolled her eyes, “Francis, get your sorry ass over here.”
There was another pause before a tall, gruff man with tattoos all over his arms and a vest walked across the bridge to see what Zoey wanted.
“I’m here, now, what did you want me to-,” he stopped as soon as he saw the five ponies standing beside the car. He leaned over to Zoey, “uh, are they..?”
“Yep.”
Francis’s expression darkened slightly, “I hate ponies,” he muttered.
Ellis looked at the two confused, it seemed like they had seen the ponies before. “Do you uh, know each other?”
“In a way,” muttered Francis, “stupid ponies, needing the generator to get home.”
Twilight blinked and looked up at Francis and Zoey, “generator? A generator can get us home?”
Francis scowled, “damn it, it is one of them. And here I thought you just dyed them.”
Coach shook his head, “no, these ones can talk. We got one more injured in the car.”
“Um, excuse me Mr.…” started Twilight.
“Name’s Francis. I’m a cop,” said Francis.
“…yeah, so you said a generator can get us back home?” asked Twilight.
“What about it?” said Francis.
“Do you know how to get it to send us back home?”
Francis shook his head, “no. Bill might have known, but, he’s a bit… dead right now.”
Twilights face fell, “oh.”
Zoey sighed impatiently, “Well, if you want to get your car to the other side of the bridge, I suggest you get going.”
Coach nodded, “yeah, alright, gear up people, we gotta get to the other side and refuel the generator.”
The ponies nodded and took their weapons. Unfortunately, their previous ones had been dropped when rushing into the car back in the atrium. All they had were some pistols, Magnums, a fire axe and a golf club that was lying nearby. Ellis pulled the backpack with Rainbow dash inside out of the car.
“How are yah feeling?” he asked.
“Better that I was at the mall,” replied Rainbow dash as she grabbed a Magnum. Ellis crouched down and grabbed the golf club. Unbeknownst to him, she looked around for bill. To her dismay, her haunter was currently missing.
“I’m taking a driver,” he said as he swung it a few times. He grabbed the backpack with Rainbow dash in it and adjusted the straps to it. Despite her small size, Ellis found Rainbow dash rather heavy in the backpack. ‘Probably because I’m not used to having an incapacitated flying pony on my back,’ though Ellis.
The group walked down the street and over a hedge into a small park. Ellis heard the cackling of a Jockey.
“Aw shit,” he muttered, “hey Rainbows, watch out for the Jockey.”
Rainbow dash nodded as Ellis walked up some small stairs and walked across a narrow street and into a building. The others soon followed and Ellis found a pile of Pump shotguns and silenced sub machineguns.
“I’ll take this shotgun,” said Ellis as he grabbed one and passed Rainbow dash a machine gun. He opened the door to the hallway and opened the door at the end.
Fluttershy followed them and walked up the stairs. In a room to her right, there was a large gun behind a filing cabinet. Looking at it curiously, she attempted to hold it. To her slight dismay, the large machine gun was too heavy for her to pick up, let alone run with.
Rochelle walked into the room and noticed this, “damn, that’s a big gun.”
Fluttershy continued to struggle until Rochelle suggested that she support it on her back. Rochelle lifted the gun and strapped it to her back so her wings could fire the trigger and also allow her to use her pistols.
Coach walked into the left room down the hall with Twilight and Pinkie pie accompanying him. A low growl was heard from the far end of the room that leaded into the streets. Their view of the infected was obscured by the tables of the small diner.
“Hunter,” muttered Coach to the two ponies, who each readied their shotgun and silenced machinegun respectively.
Another growling sound was heard besides the Hunters, a deeper more menacing growl. Pinkie pie looked around the room for what could make the sound. A loud shriek signified the attack had started.The Hunter leaped over a table counter and landed on Coach, Twilight quickly started shooting it with her shotgun while Pinkie pie held off an incoming infected.
By the time Twilight had killed the Hunter, the group of ten was in the small diner, now recognised as a small winery. They walked through the empty door frame and back into the rainy streets of Rayford. A loud roar followed by the sound of metal scraping across cement filled the air as a Tank threw a car at them, incapacitating Rochelle, Nick, Applejack, Twilight and Ellis, who had managed to pull off the backpack just before the car hit them.
“Damn it!” said Coach as the Tank bounded closer, “shoot it!”
Rarity, Pinkie pie and Rainbow dash were emptying their gun into the Tank while Fluttershy hid behind a nearby table. She heard the shouts for help just as she looked to see the Tank send Rarity flying into a van wedged between two buildings.
A sudden rage filled Fluttershy as the Tank advanced on her other friends. She quickly managed to fit her wings around the trigger of the M60 she had on her back and shouted at the Tank.
“HEY!”
The Tank turned its small head at the small yellow offender. Its gaze involuntarily moved onto its eyes. As soon as it did so, the Tank felt like white hot knives had been rammed into its eyes and desperately tried to cover them. But it was too late.
Fluttershy had opened fire on the giant infected; the bullets of the M60 tore away large chunks of flesh, covering Fluttershy in its blood as she angrily advanced on the Tank.
“You.”
The Tank tried to pull up a chunk of concrete, a bullet slammed into its hand, making it roar in pain.
“Do not.”
The Tank tried to punch Fluttershy, only for her to easily jump out of the way, sending bullets into its left side.
“Hurt.”
The Tank desperately tried to flee by trying to climb a nearby cobblestone wall.
“My.”
The Tank let out another roar as it lost grip on the stone and crashed back down to the street.
“Friends!” said Fluttershy as the last bullet of the gun slammed into the Tanks head, shattering it completely.
After standing at the mutilated corpse of the Tank for a good ten seconds to let out her excess rage, Fluttershy ran back to help up Twilight and Rochelle while Rarity and Pinkie pie helped Ellis, Coach and Applejack. After they all got back up, they had a quick breather to heal and set back to walking.
Nobody saw exactly what how Fluttershy managed to kill the Tank, only Rainbow dash saw the destroyed body of it as they walked down the street, up a ramp, and into some apartments.
Inside Rainbow dash blasted a hole into a female infected as Nick found some rifles and shotguns. Rainbow dash decided to take a Combat shot gun instead of an assault rifle just to see how it worked.
They walked up some stairs and exited into a park. Twilight’s ears perked up as she heard wedding music.
“Aw shit,” muttered Ellis, “I hated having to do this once.” He said as they walked right into the wedding. There was a gazebo, where the Witch was, some amplifiers, tents and a radio along with white chairs and zombies in tuxedos or dresses.
Pinkie pie’s eyes widened as she stared at the bride, now a Witch. “No, no, no, no,” she muttered as she backed away from it, terrified.
Ellis sighed and looked over his shoulder to Rainbow dash.
“Ok, I’m going to shoot the Witch. It’ll need you to get it while I run. Shout if it gets too close and I’ll hold it off.”
“Alright,” she said as she readied her shotgun.
Ellis walked over to the radio and pushed the button, changing the song and alerting the Witch, who stared at Ellis like he was the one who ruined her wedding. With a screech of rage, the Witch bolted after him as Ellis ran and Rainbow dash shot it.
“Run faster!” She shouted in his ear just as her Final bullet tore off its leg. The Witch stumbled for a moment before collapsing to the ground, dead.
The music however, was still blaring in the amplifiers and it attracted all the infected wedding guests. The cracks of bones exploding and guns firing echoed throughout the park as the ten ran through the gazebo, past the tents, onto the street, and finally into the safe house. Coach slammed the door behind him.
“You made me proud out there people!”
Rainbow dash and the others smiled weakly as they stocked up on supplies. Rainbow dash however, thought of two things:
Where Bill was and what did Fluttershy do to the Tank?