Death is just life's next, big adventure.
Chapter Five
The Journey to Las Pegasus (Ends)
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Travelling on a few clouds, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pound Cake and Scootaloo had finally started to see the large city of Las Pegasus. Except for one thing, and it caught Fluttershy's eye right away.
"Rainbow Dash!" She cried. Her hoof pointing at how many pegasi were there, and all of their eyes were a bright, glowing yellow. There was also another thing that caught Rainbow Dash's eyes.
A weapon store. It was bound to have ammo and more guns and everything else, and they could possibly get some food there, too. Everything was pulling on Rainbow Dash's hearts, and she was thinking of a way to get in. Her eyes turned to Scootaloo quickly.
"How did you get in the library again?" Rainbow Dash muttered.
"I ran in." Scootaloo coughed, her ear flicking and her hoof slightly shaking.
"We need to run in." Rainbow Dash snorted. "Theres a weapon shop right over there, it can't be too difficult to find a gun or some ammo. A knife isn't going to cut it."
Fluttershy tilted her head and let out a slight laugh. "Actually, knives can cut a lot of things."
"Not that way, Fluttershy. Take Pound Cake. Scootaloo and I will get in that shop with ease, with our speedy flying, those zombies would never see it coming." Rainbow Dash flexed her wings, and gave Pound Cake to Fluttershy. "I'll be waiting for you, Scoot." She winked and soon flew away.
Her rainbow trail slamming into the sides of the zombies, and their heads turned for the cyan pegasus. All of the zombies were still flying, and they could easily chase after her. The pegasus zombies seemed to be the fastest, and they rarely saw any unicorns attacked. Maybe the princesses were okay because they were both races. Rainbow Dash kept her calm, though, and bolted away from the attackers.
Not too many familiar ponies were there, nopony ever really visited Las Pegasus because it was a dangerous source of attacking and gambling. Most ponies would get drunk here and attack others. For creatures so lovable, they can still do harm.
"Freedom!" Rainbow Dash shouted as a few ponies came closer to her tail, starting to wave their hooves out to catch her and eat on her. Making her one of their own, until Rainbow Dash pointed her hooves out, too. Her speed unfathomable. Reaching the building, her hooves were ready, feeling the zombies get close to her.
She turned left, all the zombies crashing sharply, and her wings stopped, standing on the cloud ready to kill. "Fluttershy, start shooting!" She laughed, her tail flicking. A shot was fired, and hit one pony directly in the eye, the screeching painful to Pound Cake's ears.
Zombies started to crawl closer to Rainbow Dash, bright yellow eyes catching her attention. Taking out her new knife, she grinned widely. "C'mere little zombies." Her hoof waved with joy as one got closer, growling and roaring unlike ponies would. Rainbow Dash's blade was grasped sharply in her hoof.
The zombie came closer, and Rainbow Dash's knife had, too. She slashed her knife against the ponies neck and watched as the red liquid dripped out. Although it didn't kill the pony, this next step would damage them good. Rainbow Dash jumped forward, spinning in the air, getting the zombie behind her. Her knife slashed backwards, slitting off the ponies wings.
Without their wings, the ability to stand on clouds would fail. The zombie started to sink, as they ran towards Rainbow Dash, growling. Before the fell to hit the ground. This blade does wonders, and it's leather grip was sweet for comfort and not just the sharp blade made out of what looked like iron.
As the zombie fell, Rainbow Dash noticed something was wrong. There were supposed to be more zombies, more ponies for her to attack. Something caught her ears, though. Fluttershy started screaming, and as Rainbow Dash turned her head she jumped with fear. Zombies were chasing after Fluttershy, and she only had the gun. This close combat failure may have cost Fluttershy's life. Rainbow Dash didn't accept that.
Her wings started pulsing like nothing in the world mattered, and her hooves were pointed. Ideas started popping in her head, but what she was about to do wasn't planned, and she would just let the adrenaline attack the zombies for her. Now, she was going at a rapid speed. Her speed she would need for a sonic Rainboom. This attack was gaining power already. Finally getting close enough to the zombies, Rainbow Dash started to fly at a faster pase, circling around the undead and breaking her own speed record, as she tightly wrapped the group into a ball, Rainbow Dash pulled up, and sent the many ponies into the air without desire. Some wings started to fall into view. Red water drenching the air, raining with half-blood.
Pound Cake cried loudly, watching all the ponies fall to their death and some continuing to fly up. "Come on!" Rainbow Dash shouted, Scootaloo hadn't helped Rainbow Dash at all, but instead was sitting on a cloud. Rainbow Dash flew down to her and snatched her up, soaring for the weapon store. Fluttershy following with tears in her eyes, and Pound Cake, too. The doors felt like they were locked, and were extremely difficult to get open. The windows were boarded up and it seemed like they all had wasted their time.
Rainbow Dash went into a fury. She had to cut off many wings just to get cut off by a few boards. Her wings started to power up quickly- and her head slammed into the wood. Her head was bleeding worse now, from breaking too many things. She coughed. "Get in, I'll be fine..." Rainbow Dash spit out some blood and pointed her hoof into the store.
Fluttershy flew in with the crying colt and looked inside carefully. "Hello?" She muttered softly. "There are four of us here, looking for some weapons to use." The store was dusty, and looked unused. It was disgusting, and didn't look like anypony could live in here. If it weren't some movement in the corners. "We aren't here to hurt you."
Rainbow Dash finally made her way in, rubbing her head. "Anypony in here?"
Fluttershy shook her head. "I'm not sure. I can't see much." Rainbow Dash looked behind her, the window needed to be boarded up again. Rainbow Dash started to put the wooden planks up so they wouldn't be seen if zombies came back. The atmosphere was darker, now.
"Please... Don't hurt me..." The sweetness of a voice muttered darkly. "I... I was just... resting." By the sound of the angst, it was either a female or a young male. It was hard to make out, but once they got closer to the voice it was obvious. Pizzelle, a pony who desired so much to be apart of the wonderbolts as much as Rainbow Dash did. She was a pale-cream colored pony with Blonde hair and three cookies for her cutie-mark. Her talent wasn't known to many, but most assumed it was because everypony liked her. She looked sore, though. Her eyes were red and watery, and her mane was scruffy.
Rainbow Dash stepped closer, her head tilting. "What's wrong with you?" Her hoof stuck out, and Pizzelle jumped back.
"Oh, please no!" Pizzelle shouted. "Don't do that. I don't want any trouble. I don't want to die. I don't want to kill. I just want to get back to my home. I wanna get back home to safety, where it is warm. I..."
Rainbow Dash saw the disstress this pony was in. Her wings were clamped tight, she looked like one of her wings were broken. Her left one was scruffy, similar to her mane. "We won't hurt you." Rainbow Dash stopped her. "We want to help you. We're all alive, and we're all here to get a gun and stop these ponies. You're Pizzelle, right?"
Pizzelle nodded. "You... want a gun? To kill? Me or the Zombies. Tell me." Pizzelle sobbed instantly, her hooves covering her face. You could still see the tears dropped from her platinum green eyes.
"The zombies." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes.
Fluttershy came closer and tilted her head. "Pizzelle. You are so brave. Staying here all by yourself. How about staying with us. Staying with us for safety."
Pizzelle took her hooves away from her face. "I'm dangerous, though. I wasn't bitten, but touched. They rested their hooves on my head, before I could run. I'm dangerous. I'd be risking my sanity and your life." Pizzelle pointed her hoof over at the right corner. Blood stains rested on the ground. "I killed a pony. They were looking for a gun, too. Then they lied." Pizzelle's eyes watered worse. "I... I can't tell you what they did. It... hurt." Pizzelle was stammering.
"It's alright, Pizzelle. We wont hurt you, we can't. If you want, you can follow us. We have a cloud and food and everything. Ready for pegasi like you who need a good rest from this mayhem." Fluttershy came closer to Pizzelle and sat beside her with a warm smile.
Pizzelle didn't move back, but she did jump slightly. Fluttershy's sudden movement shocked her. "Would you... let me."
Fluttershy let out a quick nod. "Of course! We'd never want anypony to die." Fluttershy brushed her hoof on Pizzelle's mane. Pizzelle let out a squeak and she started to sob again. "What happened to you, Pizzelle?"
Pizzelle shut her eyes. "Can we get to the cloud before I tell you. I want to be safe."
Fluttershy looked at Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. Pound Cake was crawling around on Fluttershy's tail. "Fine," Rainbow Dash nodded. She walked around and grabbed a few boxes filled with bullets and two more guns. "We can't pick everypony we see up, though. It'll be dangerous." Rainbow Dash threw a pistol for Pizzelle. It looked similar to Fluttershy's, except that it had a leather grasp like the knife did. The last pistol was the slightly larger and could hold five bullets compared to the other's four. "Fluttershy, give me your pistol. You're getting an upgrade." Rainbow Dash tossed the pistol was Fluttershy threw hers, too. The swap was fair and it looked like thats all they would need.
Pizzelle looked at the gun and started to sob. "Please make sure we don't pick any stallions up." Fluttershy blinked with a confused look tied on her face. Rainbow Dash nodded.
"Fine, but Pound Cake has to stay with us." Rainbow Dash pointed at the colt who was chewing on Fluttershy's tail now. "He's going to help us on this journey, by spreading a smile. I guess." Rainbow Dash laughed slightly at the colt's adorable sounds and faces.
Pizzelle nodded. "That's okay."
"Well. We're on our way, then. Right?" Scootaloo snorted, her tail lashing.
"Yes." Rainbow Dash retorted. The pegasi got Pizzelle up and settled down a bit. Opening the window and flying out, shooting a few zombies on their way. Forgetting about food, just wanting to get to their cloud home.