Out of All The Worlds...

by gordobraveheart

Day Two Of Eight: Moving Out.

Ever since I’ve been left alone to fight the infected, everyday my eyes immediately open wide when my brain gives the signal. And everyday, I have gotten up in a hurry and such around the house, incase any zombies have entered my home. Today was no different, aside from the ponies sleeping in my mothers room. I was already fully dress, so all I did what get up and put on my shoes while I was still sitting on my bed. Even though I woke up quick as hell, I still felt a bit groggy. I wiped my face, dragging it down like how toons usually do when tired or annoyed.

I got up from my bed and left my room, closing the door quietly. Deciding it would be best to check up on the ponies and Nino, I walked towards my ma’s room. I opened the door, and noticed how they were all hiding behind the covers. I thought it was just a little playful game, so I walked up to them quietly and lifted the cover.

To my horror, all of the ponies were...dead.

Their organs have been gut out, blood surrounded the bed everywhere. It was as if the whole bed soaked up all of the blood from the mane six, and looked like a bloody sponge with cartoon ponies on top. I could feel my heart grew heavy every time I breathed, and I threw up on the floor, which mixed up with some blood. Twilight’s horn was broken off, where I can see the bone and it’s veins gush out a river-like flow of blood. Rainbow Dash’s wings were all chewed up, and her guts were ripped out of her, and the feathers from her coat were all displaced around her lifeless body. Rarity’s body was to mashed in and ripped to pieces for me to make out her entire body. I could only tell it was her because of a deep, dark red and purple mane.

Pinkie Pie’s body was also a mangled, but I could still see her face. She had a sad frown, and tears in her eyes. Her hair was also completely straight. Applejack’s eyes were scratched out, and her face had look of pain and horror at the same time. Then, the last was Fluttershy. Her entire face was scratched off, and I swear the skin peeled every time I tried to look away.

In the middle of the bed, was my dog Nino. Only, there was something completely different about him. I could no longer consider him my dog, because he had turned into something I fear into ever turning into.

He noticed me looking at the bodies, and quickly jumped on me. I wanted to scream, but I couldn’t. I was just too shocked and scared to do anything, yet the pain of my neck being ripped apart felt very real.

I closed my eyes, feeling my whole body go numb.

I wake up quickly in cold sweat, forcing the blankets off of me. I immediately start feeling my neck and check everywhere on my body. There was no blood, no bite marks and no pain. I sigh in relief, but then panicked when I realized Nino was still alone with the ponies. I turn around quickly, but was stopped by something standing in my doorway.

It was Nino and Applejack, who had a worried look on her face. I look down at Nino, who had his head down and wincing. I tried to talk, but then Nino ran up to me and knocked me back down on my bed. He was laying on top of me, wincing quietly.

“Shhh..” I say, petting Nino. “It’s okay, I’m fine. You’re fine. We’re all fine.” I was too busy comforting Nino to care what Twilight was thinking, and fighting back tears at the same time. That dream was too fucking scary, and it felt so very real. That’s when Nino got off of me and started walking towards Applejack, where she got my attention.

“Are ya alright, partner?” She said, still standing in the doorway. “This little feller and Ah could hear ya from all the way down the hall. Ya were sayin’ some weird stuff. Somethin’ bout “Infected” and you were saying “No” too.”

“Yea, I’m fine.” I said, wiping the sweat of of my face. “It’s nothing serious. Just a really bad dream. Are the others awake too?”

“Don’t change the subject, partner.” Applejack said, this time walking into my room. I had no worries, because all the stuff I was hiding was under clothes. But I was worried about Applejack asking questions. “The title “Element of Honesty” mean somethin’ ya know. Now tell me what’s botherin’ ya.”

I knew I couldn’t lie to her. But maybe twisting the truth a bit can sneak by her? “Alright. I had a dream where six very important people died. and I died in that dream too.” I looked at Nino, and he kept his head down. I think he knew which people I was talking about. “It was a really scary dream. That’s why I didn’t feel like talking.”

“Oh. My bad if the topic was sensitive to you. Ah just don’t like lying. But, no, the other ponies are sleepin’. I’m a country pony, I would wake up pretty early.” She smiled at that, crossing her front right foreleg over her supporting left foreleg. “Us Apples are alway hard workin’.”

“Hard workers huh?” I say, grabbing my shoes and placing them on. I always have them on in the house, just incase I need to run away. The laces are already tied, so I just slip in my fit forcefully. I was calming down a bit, thanks to Nino and Applejack being here with me. “My dad’s family is filled with hard workers. His dad owns a farm, actually.”

“Really?” Applejack said, raising an eyebrow. “What would he do?”

“A whole bunch of stuff.” I say getting up from my bad. I cracked my back again, loud enough for Applejack to ask how I do that. I told her I just twist my back a bit, but not too far. But I went back on topic. “Anyways, I never really knew my grandpa like that. He lives somewhere far away.”

“Family’s important, fella.” Applejack said, walking closer to me. “They’ll always be there fer ya.”

“I know.” I said, picking up my phone and glasses from the floor. I put on my glasses and placed my phone in my pocket, fitting it nicely. “I just wish I knew that before they were all taken away from me.” I say that to myself quietly, but I knew Applejack heard. She didn’t say anything though, because I’m sure all the ponies heard me say they are somewhere better, yesterday in the living room.

I walk out of the room, looking the the large window that was right at the end of the hallway. I look outside through the shades, and saw that the sun was still in it’s sunset mood. I opened the window just a little bit, licked my finger and stuck it out. While I was doing this, Applejack gave me a confused look.

“Um, Giovanni? What in tarnation are you doin’?” She said, pointing to my arm. “Why did you lick your finger and stick it outside?”

“I’m trying to see how cold it is outside. It’s what the pioneers would do when trying to figure out where the wind is blowing, and how cold it was going to be for the day.” After I was done trying to figure out how cold it was, I pulled my arm back inside, closing the window.

“Piowhatnow?” Applejack asked, boggled. “Y er talkin’ about the pioneighrs? You know, like the old ponies who tried to figure out things without the advances of technology?”

Now I was confused. I know they had similarities in city and state names like ours, but now pioneighrs? “Um...yea, those ponies.”

“Was it necessary to lick yer finger then?” She said, keeping the questions rolling. “Ah mean, ya could’ve just stuck that finger out their without lickin’ it. Ya humans have no fur, after all.” She stuck to her point like glue, smiling. She waited for my retaliation, but I had none. “Well?”

“...You win this round, Applejack.” I say, wiping my finger on my shirt. “Anyways, it’s still pretty cold out. Even colder than yesterday.” I started walking down stairs, hearing both Applejack and Nino follow me. I was thinking about how this houses’ heating system was still working, or if it ever did work in the first place. Either way, I was still pretty cold, so I put on a heavy, black hoodie. The hood was large enough to engulf my whole head in warmth if I ever closed it tightly. It had no zipper, so I had to put it over my head through the bottom like other hoodies.

I walked towards the kitchen and grabbed the gallon of milk and what was left of some crushed cereal. I looked around for anything to use, and I found a medium sized plastic container. I poured the cereal in the container, than the milk. I had no spoon, so i just mixed it together by swishing the milk in the container. Before I ate, I looked down at Applejack and Nino, who were both staring back at me. I Knew Nino was hungry, so I hurried up and finished my food, and made a second helping for Nino. I placed it on the floor, and he was eating the wheat flakes first, and decided to drink the milk later.

“You want some cereal?” I say, looking at Applejack. “We have crushed wheat flakes, crushes Frosted Flakes, crushed Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cereal.” I listed the cereal’s I brought back from my dads house while looking for a bowl. In fact, I have a whole bunch of plastic containers here that we never used, so I pulled out enough for the ponies to eat out of when they wake up. “So, you want some?”

“Sure, Ah’ll have the Frosted Flakes.” She said, nodding. I poured the cereal in a container, then the milk, and gave it to her. I placed it on the table, and she sort of looked awkward when sitting on a chair, kinda like Lyra, but she wasn’t laying back. I was about to look for a spoon for her since I didn’t wanted to seem like a bad host, but she just started munching down already.

“Wow,” She said after swallowing the cereal. “This is pretty good. You humans know good food.” I nodded, walking into the living room with Nino following me. I sat down on the couch, sighing and thinking about how to get them all back home. Nino laid down on the floor across from me, also thinking about whatever goes on in his mind.

I thought to myself about this whole situation I was stuck in, along with the ponies. I kept thinking about the whole witchcraft theory, about how little magic Earth actually has. I wondered how week Twilight Sparkle was, since needing what little amount of magic she had could still be useful. I knew Applejack and Pinkie Pie were Earth Pony’s which means that Applejack could be great with planting and strength, and Pinkie could be great with keeping others happy. Rarity is great at finding gems, but would good could that do? Maybe she could make clothes and blankets out of things old things. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy could fly, so they could scout an area from above.

Then, all of a sudden, the power in the entire house went out. Nino immediately got up on all fours and started growling. I walk calmly to all the window’s around the bottom floor, checking through the creeks of the boarded windows.

“Calm down Nino, don’t see a thing.” I say, petting my dog. But I knew how strong a dog's senses were compared to a humans, so I was on point at all times. I walked looked for the flashlight I had, and found it sitting on the living room table. I grabbed it and turned it on. I walked into the kitchen, where only the sunlight from the window shined into the kitchen, right where Applejack was sitting.

“Hey, what happened to the lights?” She said, looking at me. I pointed the flashlight at her, blinding her for a bit. “Be careful where ya swing that thing! Nearly burn a pony’s eye out.”

“Sorry,” I say, shining the light all around the kitchen. I walked towards the basement, looking back at Applejack. “I’ll be back, I just gotta fix the lights.”

I walked down the stairs and walked up to what I needed to fix. I never learned the name, but I knew what do and change. I opened up the box, and to my confusion, all the little knobs were still working. To assure this, I pulled out each quickly, but none of the bulbs were burnt out. “That’s weird.” I say, out loud. “The only way I know the lights could go out is as if someone cut the..”

The sudden realization made me sick to my stomach. I rushed upstairs loud enough to wake up everypony in the house. I knew that because I heard Rainbow Dash yell “Knock off that racket!” I walked to the nearest window that shows me the power box from the inside. It was forced open, and all of the wires were cut off. Little sparks of electricity flew through the air like nothing, than evaporating as quick as it came. There could only be one explanation for this.

“Marauders…”

“You were running faster than a bull seeing red.” I turn around to see Applejack looking up at me. I knew she could see the look of worry I had on my face, and she couldn’t help but ask. “Is everything alright, sugarcube?”

“No, this is not good.” I say. I then start to hear Nino barking loudly, and run into the living room. He was barking at the front door, growling and barking menacingly. “Fuck, ! They’re trying to get in!” I say, backing away into the kitchen.

“Who’s tryin’ to break in? A robber?” Applejack said, looking at me. “Ah can handle them, no worries!”

“It ain’t robbers. Well, they are, but much worse. Stay here with Nino, but for the love of God, don’t confront whatever comes through that door!”

I began to run upstairs and I burst into my ma’s room, scaring the mares. Rarity was the only one to scream. “Don’t you know to knock before you enter! No manners!”

“Yea yea, look I need you all to get up from the bed now.” I didn’t have time time to explain, so I just threw off the blanket they were all sleeping in.

“Woah woah woah, hold up bud.” Rainbow Dash flew up to me, not all up in my face but close enough. “Why do we need to get off the bed? Answer me bub-”

“Because there is something bad happening, now get out of this room, go downstairs until I get there, and stay behind Nino, NOW!” I yelled out my final word from that sentence, but I didn’t care. I needed them to know that we had to leave the house.

I ran into my brothers room and found a really big backpack he used for school. I emptied out all of the stuff he had in there and quickly rushed into my room. I placed some clothes into it, a dew shirts, socks, pants and underwear. It still had enough room, so I placed the knife sharpener and the box in the bag. I took out six bullets from the box and quickly placed them all in the revolver. They all seem to fit, but I still wasn’t sure if they were able to fire without a possible chance of blowing up in my hand. I put the revolver in my pocket, hoping to God that it wouldn’t go off.

I heard all of the ponies quickly run downstairs, where I heard loud chatter coming from them. I quickly ran back into my ma’s room and found a large bag. I took that with me as well, ran back into my room, and put the bottles of Alcohol in them. I’m not that good in chemistry, but I know making a molotov would be pretty easy.

I grab the machete and strap it behind me, like I was sheathing an actual sword. I strap the backpack and the large bag together,putting them behind me and giving me enough room to move.

I quickly run downstairs, where Nino’s growling became a lot more fierce than he already was before I went upstairs. All the ponies were centered around the living room while I run into my older sisters room, frantically looking for the car keys. The car was big enough to fit all of us, and if we needed extra room, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy could fly above the car. Finally, I found the keys and ran into the bathroom, taking a few towels and some toilet paper rolls just incase. I then run back into the living room, noticing that they all had their necklaces on them, while Twilight had on her crown. Then all the ponies looked up at me asking questions non-stop.

“What in Tartarus is goin’ on?”

“Rarity, I don’t think this is funny.”

“Neither do I, darling.”

“Who’s at the door?”

“...”

“Giovanni, is there something you are not telling us?”

“Everyone, listen to me right now.” They all looked at me, but Nino kept growling at the door. I calmed down, but I walked towards the kitchen and stood in front of the back door. They all followed me to the kitchen. Nino did as well, but he was still growling loud enough to even make Fluttershy look at the door with worry.

“There are things that I can’t explain right now, and I well once we get the hell out of here. But there are humans like me, but they aren’t all nice as me. I’m letting you know this right now, because whenever a time comes when I’m not there, you can’t trust just anybody in this world.” I look outside, seeing how it was all clear. Did they all run into the front?

“Giovanni? What are you planning to do?” Twilight says to me as I turn around and look at her and all of the ponies. “Is something after us?”

“Yes, something very bad. You don’t want to get touched by them, because they would turn you into something you don’t want to be, ever.” I started unlocking the door, and opening it slowly. “I’ll explain when we are out of here, but right now you all have to trust me. On the count of three, I want you all to run behind me and don’t stop running, no matter what. When we reach the front of the house, we are going to reach a big, grey metal vehicle, and you’ll all have to go inside of it.” Rainbow Dash was about to speak, but I stopped her. “But Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy can fly above it and follow us. But Fluttershy, I highly suggest that you stay in the car, since you don’t look like you can fly very fast, no offence.” She nodded but did not speak.

“Good. Is everypony ready?” I asked that one more time, just to make sure everypony was ready to run. I nodded at them and counted. “Good. One..Two...Three!!”

I swing the door open fast enough to smack the wall and break off it’s own handle. On my way running down the steps, I grabbed my SwitchAxe from the nearest corner I placed it in and held it in my left hand, with the car keys in my right hand. I led them to the side of the house, where they all followed, including Nino. I looked at both sides of the street until I found my car: A grey, Suburban. I quickly run towards it, leading the ponies behind me.

I’ve always left the doors unlocked just incase of an emergency, and right now, it’s a fucking emergency. I opened the door widely, not even giving a single fuck if it breaks off. “All of you get it, NOW!!!”

They did as they were told, and Nino entered the cars hastily. He took the passenger seat, and I just shoved all of the bags into the car, and kept the machete strapped onto me. I closed the door and was about to enter the car until I realized the fucking jumper cables were still downstairs. I cursed loudly, reminding myself to facepalm when I have the time. I opened the door, talking to the ponies. “Stay in this car no matter what, and make no noise! Understand!?”

Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Rarity were sitting in the far back, and Twilight, Fluttershy were sitting in the-Wait. Where is Rainbow Dash?! I look above the car to see her hovering in place . She had a look of horror and confusion on her face.

“What..what are those things!?”

I look to the direction she was looking at, and I nearly screamed. A horde of zombies were slowly walking down the street, making their way towards all of the noise. I cursed loudly staring at the horde. I look up at Rainbow Dash, telling her to get in the fucking car.

“Tell them all to be quiet and make absolutely no noise. At all!!” She nodded and entered the car, still looking at me. “I’ll be right back, I need to get something important.”

I quickly ran towards the house, and there were three Marauders. I called them that because they resemble humans, with fresh skin and all, but they are a lot tougher. They still have the senses of a human, but are slow walkers. Their eyes worked greatly, and so did their hearing.

I put the keys in my pocket and placed my right hand on the handle of the SwitchAxe. I ran up to the first Marauder and swung the axe side of the weapon with full force, slicing it’s neck with a hacking, squishy noise. I quickly pull it out and bring it down upon the second Marauder, right in the center of his bloodied skull. The other one was coming up on me, but I just kicked it down the stairs. I had no time to watch it fall on the ground, so I quickly broke my sisters window, broke off the boards and ran into the house. I moved as quickly as I could and ran into the basement, looking for the cables.

“Come on, where the fuck-there!” At last, I found the jumper cables and quickly ran upstairs. I ran through the back door and through the side of the house, looking for the car. Then, I heard screaming coming from my right ear.

By the car was a zombie trying to get in by breaking the window, and I was too far away to throw the SwitchAxe at the zombie. I placed the cables over my shoulder and pulled out the revolver. I pointed it at the zombie’s head, with the cold metal shaking in my hand. I dropped the SwitchAxe blade on the ground placed both my hands on the gun for better accuracy. I took a deep breath and pulled the trigger.

A loud bang was heard around the entire street, and the roar of zombies filled my ears. The back of the head of the zombie had a giant hole into it, and it’s lifeless body fell to the ground. I put the gun in my pocket and picked of the SwitchAxe and ran to the car. I opened the back door and placed the my weapon and the cables there. I only kept the Machete with me and the gun in my pocket. I quickly enter the car, pulled out the keys and turned on the car. I only knew the basics of the driving, but at time like this, I felt as if every memory of practicing how to drive entered my brain. I drove down the street quickly but calmly and made a sharp turn to the left, leading us to the freeway.

I knew it was getting cold, but I had no map at the time, and I just kept on driving. Right now, the only place that I knew where their was a map of michigan was at my aunts house. She kept a big map of michigan for whenever we would travel with her to a water park, Michigan Adventures or something like that.It was at least twenty-five minutes away from my house. I’m not sure if the freeway is packed, but even if it is I’ll take the long way there.

I slowed down the car a bit, stopping at an empty road by a gas station. I checked the gas, and we were full, but I knew that we were going to need more gas wherever we were going. Lucky there was a Jerry Can in the back.

I turned around to the ponies, and they all had the same look on their faces, fear. Their necklaces glistened in the light, while Twilight was just holding hers. Her hooves were shaking, and my hands were shaking as well. I turn off the car, but not before checking all around the area of the car for zombies. I then spoke, breaking the silence.

“Those things you saw back there...they are not human. Not anymore. They are infected. The walking dead. Zombies.” I look at all of them through the rearview mirror, looking at all of their faces. “When that..When that zombie was hitting the glass, you all saw it right? It’s lifeless eyes and it’s skin rotting off?” They all nodded their head.

“But..how do you know all of this?” Fluttershy said. I looked at her, and she already had tears in her face. I don’t blame her. The things I’ve seen also make me want to ball out. But I kept my calm and spoke back.

“...I’m going to tell you all about what has happened this past month.”