//------------------------------// // Cutie Mark Cru-Traitors // Story: Hurting Wings // by Mint_Chocolate_Pony //------------------------------// I, for one, personally don't have anything to go up here. Deal with it c: Chapter Three Cutie Mark Cru-Traitors --------------------------------------------------- Rainbow Dash moved along in the sky, she didn't know how she would get to the ground or when, she just knew that Time Turner may be alive and he may be down there. Her wings were flapping softly and looking around was difficult for living ponies. Fluttershy looked around oddly before noticing some non-zombie-like movements, followed by some shushing. It was loud for safety, and by the looks of it, some zombies noticed. Tapping her hoof on Rainbow Dash's shoulder, she managed enough air to speak. "Look at that building." She said. Rainbow Dash glared down towards what looked like the library. Her ears perked. "Twilight Sparkle! We can count on her to stop those zombies!" Her wings started to flap swiftly, and then she had bent down and swept the bloody grass to it's side, and looked in the window of the library. Fluttershy was left in the air, mumbling under her breath. "Be careful, Rainbow Dash." She muttered. "I have the gun, Fluttershy! I'm perfectly fine!" Rainbow Dash glared into the window. Nothing was in it, or so Rainbow thought. She tapped her hoof on the glass and took a deeper look in. She shrugged slightly and took a few steps back, her wings starting to flap swiftly, and her trot started. Only after a few seconds, her speed was at bolting experience, and she slammed her head into the window. Glass broke and was sent across the floor, along with minor blood. Rainbow Dash rolled over and saw a small filly, along with a colt. Her eyes blinked oddly. "Scootaloo?" She said with curiosity. "Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo cheered, her wings waving like a humming birds. Rainbow Dash could almost hear the buzzing that they sent off. "I've been sitting here with Pound Cake for days." She smiled with relief. Rainbow Dash smiled widely. "How is that possible?" She started to laugh, sitting up and rubbing the wound on her head. It felt jolting with pain, but seeing the face of her biggest fan made her happy. Not to mention an adorable colt still alive. Pound Cake was sound asleep, his wings still on his back and his eyes shut. There was no way this colt was starving, you could see every mark of his rib right there. The masacre of these days would have been terrible, yet nice at the same time. "Fluttershy and I have some food, do you need any?" Rainbow Dash purred almost, taking Pound Cake from Scootaloo's hooves and resting him in her sweater. His body was warm, and you could hear him humming. "Yes, Please." Scootaloo blushed, her ears flattened down. As Rainbow Dash helped Scootaloo out, and put her on her back, they flew out safely. Nothing much happened in the library, and there were few moans on the outside. The zombies must've been migrating to a new town. Once Rainbow Dash got next to Fluttershy, she had pulled an apple out of her pockets. They didn't look fresh, but they looked good enough to eat. Rainbow Dash took a medium-sized chunk out of it and gave the rest to Scootaloo. Looking down at Pound Cake (who she stuffed in the chest area of the sweater), she poked him to make him wake up, and gave him the apple. He woke up without a fuss and chewed on the apple happily. It looked like he hasn't eaten in two years, and his mouth was finally growing to have some teeth. He was still extremely young, however, and couldn't say much but "Pinkie Pie", "Mum", "Dad" and "Scoot". He was learning names quickly, and this was good. Scootaloo sighed, her wings flapping quickly. Rainbow Dash sighed, too. Her wings were getting tired and resting on a cloud would sound great right now, but it would also be extremely dangerous if there were any more pegasus zombies. Pound Cake would be in terrible trouble and Scootaloo, too. "Are you guys ready to rest?" Rainbow Dash muttered. It wasn't a full day, yet, but it she was getting extremely tired. She couldn't do much about this, except for finding a way to get a full rest and keeping Fluttershy awake so she can keep her full rest. Fluttershy would have to scout. Scootaloo looked at Fluttershy and yawned slightly. "I'm ready." Fluttershy let out a nod, followed by an innocent squee from Pound Cake. Rainbow Dash let out a grin, and flew upwards into the sky, a few clouds visible in the next atmosphere. Pound Cake cheered, reaching the stratosphere. Scootaloo on the other hoof, was shouting and trying to stay up on Rainbow Dash's back. Fluttershy was calmly flying up, following the rainbow trail. It only took a few minutes for the group of survivors to reach the cloud. Scootaloo was dropped down on it first, and she held Pound Cake tightly, looking at the cloud with fear. "Fluttershy and Myself will go get some more clouds to put together, we can have a bigger cloud where our tails aren't visible." Rainbow Dash smiled, although realizing this wasn't much of a problem for the filly and colt. Their tails looked like they were docked, but were just smaller than other ponies. Scootaloo nodded. "When you get back, I can tell you what happened to Pound Cake and Me." "Pound Cake and I." Rainbow Dash corrected. "No," Scootaloo started. "Pound Cake and Me, you weren't there." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes slightly, and had a feeling that Scootaloo had been around Pinkie Pie for too long, and had just flew away without saying anything. This argument would become more of an objective type thing, and would take too long. Fluttershy came back with a slightly small cloud, and pushed it under the current cloud Scootaloo was sitting on. Rainbow Dash flew away, her wings pulsing rapidly as she bolted down the stratospheres like it was a room filled with corridor like turns. This wasn't an unfamiliar place to her, as it was important to get here if she were going to do a sonic rainboom. She was soon gone, looking for a cloud. "So, what did happen?" Fluttershy looked at Scootaloo calmly. "How did you survive?" Her hooves reached out to grab Pound Cake, and Scootaloo gave him to Fluttershy without rejecting her offer. "Well," Scootaloo started, her wings not moving anymore. "Me and the girls, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle, told Mr. and Mrs. Cake that we want to have Baby Sitter cutie-marks. I told the girls that I would take care of Pound Cake, of course, pegasus power. Plus, he's a good flyer. I knew I could tell him everything about the greatest pony in Cloudsdale!" "Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy smiled. "You called?" Rainbow Dash came back with a large cloud in front of her, jumping Fluttershy slightly. With help from Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash pressed the cloud near the one Scootaloo and Pound Cake was sitting on, and it ended up like a large floor to sit on. Even enough room to make a wall so Pound Cake could move around. "Anyways," Scootaloo smiled as Pound Cake started chewing on a wall, his wings flapping. "Sweetie Belle took Pumpkin Cake, and Apple Bloom was trying to tell the Cakes that they can trust us and that we are the best at our jobs. Thats when we ran straight for the library to talk to Twilight about giving us a book on fillies and colts and babysitting and stuff!" Scootaloo let out a laugh. "Then what happened?" Fluttershy muttered, as Pound Cake started chewing on Fluttershy's tail. He was still hungry and she could tell. Their rations were low, though, and there wasn't much food to go around. "Twilight gave us the book, and told us to hurry along because she was working on something important. So she levitated out a few more books and then we left, this part isn't too important, anyways." Scootaloo started to hurry along her story. "Then the disease started, I was running back to the library with Pound Cake on my back, and there I saw that Twilight was gone and nobody was in the library. I turned around and..." Scootaloo started crying, Pound Cake walking near her. "Scoot. Scoot." Pound Cake muttered, his wings waving around quickly. Fluttershy looked up, the sun was starting to go down slowly. She was confused, was the sun bringing itself down, or were the Princesses busy and don't know that there is a dangerous epidemic going on in their land? "I'll go get a roof." Rainbow Dash muttered. Flying up and leaving her famous trail, she went off to find another cloud to pile onto the top. "There were dead ponies, chasing after me. I didn't have a weapon, and I had to run around with Pound Cake. He was crying, too. I didn't know what to do. I felt so helpless." Scootaloo sobbed, Pound Cake sitting on her tail and starting to cry, too. His wings flapping slowly. "It's okay, Scootaloo. Rainbow Dash and I are here to help you, and you will survive as long as you stay near us." Fluttershy tapped her hoof on Scootaloo's shoulder, her wings clamping and her eyes closing. "I'll be honest, Rainbow Dash felt helpless for the longest time, too." "Really?" Scootaloo wiped the tears away from the underneath of her eyes. "Derpy got bit." Fluttershy whispered, her ears flattening. "Derpy? Derpy is one of Rainbow Dash's best friends." Scootaloo flattened her ears, too. "I feel... terrible." Her wings were clamped down, now, too. Rainbow Dash came back, now, with a large cloud to cover off the cloud. "That's better." Rainbow Dash sighed, her wings stretching out. "Hey, I'm going to get some shut-eye, now. Fluttershy, wanna keep watch? You are a good sharp-shooter." Fluttershy looked at the weapon. Getting closer detail to it, there was an extremely small opening, and she didn't remember how she'd fit her hoof in there the first time. Rainbow Dash threw the weapon at Fluttershy and shut her eyes calmly. It was so narrow, too. She held onto it, oddly, and noticed the notch where she had to tap down, or to cock it. Looking at the trigger, she lifted her ears and noticed how she could fit her hoof in there, putting her hoof tip in and flicking her wrist quickly. "Okay, Rainbow Dash." Rainbow Dash, however, was already sound asleep, her ears flattened and her mane in her eyes. She needed a well deserved sleep, especially when Fluttershy continued to shout in her sleep and kick. Fluttershy knew that sleep wouldn't be an option tonight. "Would you like to get some sleep, Pound Cake?" Fluttershy smiled at the young colt who curled himself in a ball on Fluttershy's tail. "How about you Scootaloo?" Scootaloo shrugged. "I'll have nightmares." "I have, too. Scootaloo, you still need sleep. Sometimes, you just need a good rest, weather it be scary or nice. Just have a nice dream about Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle." Fluttershy signaled her hoof for Scootaloo to get closer, which the young filly did. "About that," Scootaloo started crying. "They said that they can't trust me, because I might be a zombie. I told them that it isn't true, and they tried to attack me." Scootaloo's eyes watered fast, and there was soon water falling from the cloud. A rain schedule might due soon, anyways. "Well, they must not know much about Zombies. Zombies can't talk, they can only-" Rainbow Dash let out a loud snore, jumping Fluttershy. Scootaloo let out a laugh. Fluttershy's face turned red and she soon started to laugh with the filly, Pound Cake yawning for his sleep, too. Fluttershy pet Scootaloo's head and let her get her sleep. Fluttershy would be the only one awake now, in this world of undead ponies, yearning for food and flesh. Making more of their own, without true love. Fluttershy sniffled a bit, her ears flattening as the time went by. Thinking about her friends, her pet, her Princesses, her everything. Even her Rainbow Dash. How were they going to live at this time. Especially when Fluttershy is slowing down? Fluttershy's thoughts consumed her in the darkness, and her head was spinning out of control with dark thoughts.