Four Man Cheeseburger Apocalypse

by Dihinner


Pray For Passing

The group of four survivors and six ponies were taking a brief break in the safe room right by the bridge they were supposed to lower. They stocked up on ammo and first aid kits while Ellis started to tell a story about his friend, Keith.

“I ever tell you the time me and Keith went to Hollywood? It was the most awesomest place in the world. We saw..."

Nick cut him off, "Ellis, if you don't shut up, I am going to find this Keith, zombie or not, and wring his neck."

“Well too bad for you, Nick. He was one of the first to get on the whirlybirds,” replied Ellis as he tossed Pinkie pie his spare bottle of pills.

“Thanks!”

“Don’t mention it.”

Rainbow dash sighed in the backpack Ellis was carrying, although she was thankful that she didn’t have to go through she sewer water, she had been in here since around yesterday afternoon and desperately wanted to stretch her wings.

“How are you holding up, Dash?” asked Ellis in response to hearing her sigh.

“I want to get out of this stupid backpack,” she muttered.

Ellis chuckled, “don’t worry; I’m sure you’ll be outta there in no time.”

Coach and Rochelle were telling Twilight and Fluttershy what the plan was while Rarity was trying desperately trying to get the sewer water out of her mane and coat.

“Ugh, how can you can you stand this?!” Rarity asked as she tried to pull out who knows what out of her mane and coat, which had taken a dirty brownish white colour.

“You think you got it bad? This suit is worth three thousand dollars!” retorted Nick.

“Not anymore it doesn’t,” muttered Applejack.

The safe room was silent for a moment before Ellis decided they had rested enough and decided to get a move on.

“Come on, I miss my car!” he said as he open the safe house door and ran into the rain.

The other eight soon followed as they climbed a couple of stairs until they found Ellis talking to Zoey, Francis and Louis, who had a damaged leg.

“Hey, you made it!” exclaimed Louis, “so, where you heading?”

Ellis shrugged, “well, we’re going to New Orleans but we’re dropping these six,” he gestured to Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie pie and Rainbow dash, “off at Ducatel.”

Louis raised an eyebrow, “they’re from Equestria, right?”

Ellis narrowed his eyes, “how did y’all know that?”

Zoey cut them off, “gentlemen, we have a bridge to lower.”

The ten walked over to the steel elevator left of the raised bridge Zoey, Louis and Francis were standing on. Once everyone was inside, Coach pushed the button and the elevator began its decent.

“Now remember, get the cans and stay close to each other. Got it?”

They nodded in agreement just as the elevator doors opened, causing a rather loud dinging sound.

The ten then spit into five groups of two to gather the gas cans faster. The groups were Ellis and Rainbow dash, Fluttershy and Rochelle, Nick and Rarity, Coach and Applejack, and Twilight and Pinkie pie.

Ellis ran towards the bar that was just beside the bridge and north of the dull orange generator they had to refuel. He ran over and grabbed the orangey yellow gas can that was located behind the counter and ran back to the generator.

As Ellis poured the gas into the generator, Rainbow dash turned to her left and saw a vaguely familiar something lying in front of a gigantic green electrical generator.

“Hey, Ellis,” said Rainbow dash, “what’s that?”

A loud ding reverberated throughout the area, signifying that the generator had been filled with some gas, and causing all the infected in the area to slowly make their way towards it.

“What’s what?”

“That thing in front of the generator, it looks familiar,” said Rainbow dash.

“Huh, well, might as well go have a look see, I think a can is nearby anyways,” said Ellis as he walked over to the giant generator.

When they got there (it was about ten meters from the orange generator they were refueling) Rainbow dash beamed at when she saw was and who was standing beside it.

Bill was standing by what Rainbow dash now saw was a dead body, Bill’s own corpse to be exact. Rainbow dash stared at the ghostly figure that was standing beside his body and shrugged.

“Well kid, here’s where I’ve been for that past few hours, lamenting at my own dead body,” said Bill’s ghost as he lit his ghostly cigarette.

Rainbow dash continued to stare at Bill and his body until something dawned upon her:

She had first met Bill she was at Canterlot castle when a Jockey had incapacitated her with an injured leg. The second time was about a day ago in the mall when she was nearly killed by a Charger. Both times her legs were injured. ‘Well,’ she thought, ‘this time I’m not going down because of some stupid zombie.’

Rainbow dash turned to Ellis, “Ellis, let me out of the bag.”

“What? But, what about your injuries?”

Rainbow dash stared at him, “let me out of this bag.”

Ellis sighed, “Alright, just, don’t hurt yourself. I don’t think it’s very sanitary to have you bleeding all over this bag again, especially with all that sewer shit all over you.”

Ellis but the grey backpack on the floor nearby the big generator as Rainbow dash crawled out of it. When she got her entire body out of it, she grabbed her combat shotgun in her hooves and started to hover in the air with her wings. Ellis smiled and started to head over to where the gas can was.

“Oh yeah, that feels way better,” she said as she soared through the air briefly before Ellis told her to hurry up. She took a quick glance at Bill, who had started to walk towards the bar where Zoey and Francis were shooting any infected that got too close to the generator.

“Where are you going?” she asked Bill.

“I’m going to say good bye to the people I gave my life for,” he replied as he picked up his dark green war beret. Bill looked at his old hat and sighed before tossing it up at Rainbow dash, “keep it, hell knows I don’t need it.”

Rainbow dash looked at the Vietnam War beret for a moment and turned back to where Bill’s ghost was. To her surprise, he was gone. “Thanks, Bill,” she muttered under her breath before flying away to catch up with Ellis.

A flash of lightning illuminated the generator and six shadows vaugly resembling equines were burnt into the brick floor...
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A loud crack signaled doom for the infected caught in the way of Applejack’s automatic shotgun firing.

Coach had retrieved a gas can from a store up the street and was running back down to refuel the generator. They needed a total of thirteen gas cans to refuel it. So far they had two, judging from the ding they had heard earlier.

The rain had died down a little since earlier, but was still pounding on Applejack and Coach’s head.

“So you say you’ve done this before?” asked Applejack as they ran back up the street to collet another gas can.

“Yeah, except the first time we had no idea what we were doing, now that we know, it’s a hell of a lot easier,” replied Coach as he grabbed the second gas can from in the abandoned store.

Applejack felt kinda bad for making coach collect the cans without her helping. Coach had re assured her that as long as she kept the infected away from him, she was helping.

Another crack echoed down the street as the brains of an infected exploded into the night sky. That was her seventeenth headshot tonight. ‘Why am I keeping track of that?’ she worriedly thought to herself, ‘back home I would never hurt something that’s sick, let along keeping track of how many heads I cause to explode.

“Come on, come on,” muttered Coach as the third ding echoed throughout the docks.

All of a sudden, the groans and shrieks of the infected fell silent.

Applejack looked around, confused at what was going on. “What’s going on? We couldn’t have gotten all of them, right?”

Coach shook his head and grabbed some bullets from the ammo pile beside the generator. Just by looking at him, Applejack could tell something was going to happen, something bad.

Then, Ellis’s voice was carried throughout the street that confirmed Applejack’s fears.

“TAAAAAAAAAANK!”

Ellis tore down the street as fast as his legs could carry him. To Applejack and Coach’s surprise, Rainbow dash was flying right next to him. Ellis skidded to a halt when he arrived at the generator with another gas can as Rainbow dash crashed into Applejack.

“What the?! Rainbow! Get off me!” Applejack muttered as Rainbow dash got off her friend and took flight again.

Rainbow dash turned to the spot where she and Ellis had come from just as the Tank smashed through the large building where she and Ellis had exited from left of the bridge. Ellis, Rainbow dash, Coach and Applejack opened fire on the Tank as Zoey shouted at them to lead it back to the bridge where Louis had a mounted machine gun.

The four lured the gigantic infected to the bridge just as Twilight and Pinkie pie appeared beside the generator in an explosion of purple light.

“What the fu-!” yelled Coach as the Tank roared in pain from the onslaught of bullets.

Twilight jumped in surprise when she was the Tank and reloaded her hunting rifle and peered into the scope before firing seven direct shots to the Tank’s head. While Pinkie pie started to spray bullets everywhere from her AK-47.

Finally, with a mighty roar the Tank fell to the ground, killed by the efforts of the nine.

Coach turned to Twilight and Pinkie pie, who both had a gas can of their own, Pinkie pie’s strapped on her back and Twilight’s floating in the air with a purple glow.

“How did y’all appear in that explosion of light?” asked Coach as Twilight filled the generator.

“Oh, I just used a simple teleportation spell to get here faster with Pinkie pie,” replied Twilight as the generator dinged again.

“Teleportation huh? Well, maybe y’all can teleport yourselves to Ducatel to save us the trouble of getting you there?”

Twilight shook her head, “it’s really risky to teleport to somewhere without knowing what it looks like. And with the infected attacking us, I don’t think it’s a really good idea.”

Coach chuckled, “yeah, I guess it isn’t. Now, back to getting the cans,” he said as he walked down the street beside the bar to collect some more gas.

“Is it really that risky, Twilight?” asked Applejack.

Twilight nodded, “yes it is.”

Applejack sighed, “Well, I guess we really do have to travel this U.S.A fighting zombies huh?”

Twilight nodded and the generator dinged again as Pinkie pie filled the generator herself. “Alright, eight more cans and the generator is full! Come on, Pinkie.”

“Okie dokie,” she said happily as she bounded off after Twilight into the rain.

Applejack sighed and decided to go in the direction Coach went in. she ran down the street, gunning down some infected as the sixth ding reverberated throughout the port.

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“Ugh, well, at least this rain is getting some of the sewage out of my coat,” grumbled Rarity as she and Nick walked through Rayford port on their way back from collecting gas cans.

“Well lucky you, this rain doesn’t get this sewage shit off my suit,” replied Nick as he shoved an infected down to the ground and resumed walking quickly.

The two continued to travel in silence until they ran into Rochelle and Fluttershy, who each had a can of their own.

“Hey, Nick was that suit of yours always brown?” asked Rochelle, chuckling.

“Shut up,” muttered Nick, “it’s bad enough I have here complaining.”

Rochelle laughed again, “I guess it’s a taste of your own medicine.”

Nick rolled his eyes and continued to the generator. Rarity, meanwhile had decided to speak with Fluttershy before having to refuel the generator herself.

A cough echoed around Nick just as he turned a corner and saw the generator. “Careful, I hear a Smoker,” he told Rarity, who he noticed wasn’t beside him anymore. “Shit.”

Nick suddenly dropped his gas can to the ground and slowly continued to walk down the seemingly empty street, watching out for the Smoker.

“AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOWWWW!”

There! The Smoker revealed itself on top of one of the walkways right next to the generator and just out of reach of Zoey and Francis’s aim. Nick open fire on the Smoker just as he felt the long tongue wrap around his chest.

“NO!” he shouted as he started to get dragged away towards the Smoker and started to get strangled to death.

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“Hello? Um, Nick? Where are you?” called out Fluttershy quietly.

She had been the first to notice that Nick had gone ahead and left Rarity with them. She had also noticed a loud ‘NO!’ in the wind that made her fear for him.

“Come on, he has to be around here somewhere,” said Rochelle as they turned a corner, “wow!” she yelped as she tripped over a bright yellow gas can lying in the top of the street. ‘This can’t be good,’ she thought to herself as she, Rarity and Fluttershy walked down the street.

“Help me!” shouted a voice from down the street.

Rochelle Ran over to see Nick desperately struggling against a Smoker’s tongue as it strangled him from the walkway. Rochelle opened fire on the Smoker just as Nick felt like he had been shoved to the ground.

A second later the Smoker exploded into a cloud of smoke and Nick fell to the ground, incapacitated. By this time Rarity and Fluttershy had caught up with Rochelle just in time to see her helping Nick off the ground.

“Thanks,” he said as he got to his feet. He looked past Rochelle and glared at Rarity, “what the hell?! Where were you?! I nearly died!”

Rarity blinked and looked slightly stunned as Nick glared at her. When she finally managed to get a hold of her voice she told him that she was extremely sorry about leaving him alone.

Nick gave her a harsh laugh, “yeah? Well sorry wouldn’t have cut it if I had died.” He put extra emphasis on the word ‘died’ as he limped past her and Fluttershy to get his gas can.

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The four arrived back at the generator just as Ellis, Rainbow dash, Coach, Applejack, Twilight and Pinkie pie arrived there as well. The ten put the final gas cans into the generator and the loud sound of metal scraping on metal filled that air.

Fluttershy looked over at Nick, who was leaning on the generator and clutching his chest where the Smoker’s tongue had been roped around him.

“You’re hurt,” she told him as she walked over to him.

“I’ll be fine,” he said, coughing a little.

Fluttershy shook her head, “no you’re not. Stand still, I know what I’m doing,” told him as she used her health kit on him.

When she was finished, Nick smiled at her, “thanks, Flutters.”

Suddenly, the ground started to shake and twin roars, each coming from either side of the port, echoed throughout the area.

“Oh SHIT!” said Ellis as two Tanks ran into the generator area.

The thirteen opened fire on the two Tanks and Rainbow dash swore she saw Bill’s ghost shooting at one of them as well from atop the walk way on the bar where Zoey and Francis were.

The Tank that came from the left fell first after receiving multiple bullets form Zoey, Francis and Louis. The second Tank fell just seconds after the first with the combined fire power from all thirteen of them.

“That, was for Bill!” shouted Louis from his spot near the bridge.

A loud crashing sound came from behind them when the bridge lowered, making the path back to the car clear.

“Everyone back to the car!” shouted Coach as hordes of infected came rushing at them from up the street.

The ten ran around the fence guarding the generator and towards the car. Rainbow dash quickly turned around and raining to the large generator room where Bill's body was.

“What are you doing!?” Rochelle shouted at her.

“Getting the backpack!” Rainbow dash shouted in return as she grabbed it and flew towards the car, catching up with Rochelle and the others in seconds.

“Get to your car!” shouted Louis over the machine gun fire.

The horde of infected at arrived at the bar and were getting mowed down just as Coach and Applejack arrived at the car.

“Don’t worry baby I’m coming!” shouted Ellis, presumably at the Jimmy Gibbs junior.

When all ten of them scrambled into the car, Ellis floored the gas pedal and they went speeding off down the street and headed west towards Griffin Country, Georgia…