Ellis saw the chopper with his comrades` safely on board lift off from the helipad. He then brought his attention to the crowd of flesh eating infected that now surged toward him. Even though he was definitely screwed his self preservation instinct kicked in causing him to run as fast as his legs would carry him through the winding streets, dodging the hordes as they tried to grab him at every opportunity. Eventually his escape routes became few and far between, every time their claws getting closer and closer. He threw his pipe bomb over his shoulder as he turned into an alley only to see it had no perceivable exit. His lungs empty and his muscles sore he thought to himself “this is as good a place as any”
He loaded his last mag into his AK while running to the end of the dark alleyway. He stood with his back to the wall as the sound of an explosion rang through the streets. Cocking his rifle He brought it up to his shoulder and aimed at the entrance, as he began to see the infected stumble into the alleyway tears began forming in the corners of his eyes. He opened fire, shooting single rounds making sure that each found its way through the head of those who had turned. Thoughts began pulsating through his mind of all his accomplishments and acquaintances’ he had made throughout his short life. His thoughts then became solely concentrated on one individual, causing his eyes to water even more. His stern figure had now dissipated into a slump of a man holding a rifle to his hip blindly firing bursts into the hoard that rapidly advanced toward him. To Ellis the entire ordeal seemed to be lasting minutes as everything around him had slowed to a snail’s pace, he swore he could see the bullets souring through the air before hitting their target.
But this almost beautiful display was not to last, as the rifle clicked signifying he was fresh out of ammunition. This is when it hit home; Ellis fell back onto the brick wall and pulled his pistols from their holsters. Realising his efforts were futile he brought one of his pistols` up and rested it on his temple, he began to squeeze the trigger and scream at the oncoming wall of flesh “Come and get me you rotting piles of shit!” as he yelled at the top of his lungs, the only thing rushing through his head was thoughts of his best friend, his name echoing again, and again within his head
“Keith”
The horde drew ever closer, but something was not right. Ellis began seeing a white light from the edge of his vision. Before he had a chance to look at what it was, the wall he was leaning on seemed to give way as he fell back, the light consuming him.
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Twilight awoke to the sound a knock at her door. She rushed downstairs, brushing the effect the pillow had out of her hair. When she opened her door she saw a member of the royal guard standing proudly on her doorstep
“The princess requests that all the bearers of the elements of harmony go the palace immediately” he stated bluntly with a plain face
“Of course” twilight acknowledged with surprise in her eyes. She had no idea what this was about but was eager to find out. Twilight told the guards where each of the bearers lived, helped them out of their homes and into the chariot that awaited them, Fluttershy being a little uncooperative made them fall behind a few minutes. Eventually they were all in the chariot and on their way to Canterlot. The long flight allowed Twilight to mull over in her head the possibilities of their sudden summoning, but to no avail. When they arrived the confusion was only intensified. It seemed like the entire guard were at the palace and looked like they were sealing all the doors leading to the outside bar one that they used to enter themselves.
They arrived in the throne room to see the royal pair standing with a creature they failed to recognise, covered head to toe in what looked like the same armour worn by the royal guard. Twilight eager to get to grips with the situation immediately cantered over to the princesses
“May I ask what is going on?”
“We are going to be performing a rather powerful spell to allow our friend here to travel back to his homeland” Celesta responded in a serious tone that was unusual for her, from this Twilight inferred that there were complications to be dealt with.
“Why do you need to seal the exits if you are simply going to transport him home?” Twilight asked raising an eyebrow. Celestia gestured toward the tall bipedal creature to explain the circumstances. He knelt down and removed his facial guard
“Where I come from is not like this here place, my world has been going through a pandemic that’s turned most of the population into flesh eating shells of their old selves”. Twilight was shocked and after thinking for a few seconds responded
“Why would you want to return to such a terrible place?”
“It is a matter of principle” he said plainly as his eyes drifted away from twilights face and off into the distance. He was only brought back by Celestias hoof on his shoulder. He stood and pulled his blade from his sheath “I’m ready” he said with a broken voice. Celestia bowed her head before she took up position at one side of the throne room while Luna took up position on the opposite side
“Twilight you and your friends might want to move” Celestia urged as the mane 6 galloped to different sides of the room. The creature in the armour walked to the main entrance, closing the door and barring it with a large plank of wood. He stood with his back to the door, blade in hand he slammed the faceguard down and took a fighting stance. Celestia began to build up power that was represented by an orb just in front of the throne; first small then it grew slowly. Eventually there was a large flat disk of energy facing the alien creature. Luna now began merging her ability with the disk turning it into some kind of portal. As soon as a blast of energy shot out across the room the creature began running toward the source of all the power. But just before he could leap inside, a similar creature fell backwards through the portal screaming at the top of his lungs with a pair of pistols in his hands.
The one in the armour caught him as he fell and dragged him back along the marble floor before standing between him and the portal shouting “Close it, Close it!” Sadly his pleas fell onto deaf ears as the royal duo were too absorbed in the process of the spell that they had completely zoned out. Realising this he readied his blade for what was now wailing on the opposite end. Another creature flew through the disk covered in blood flailing its arms about like crazy, only to land strait on his blade and be thrown to the side. Before you could say applejack, more and more of these monstrous manipulations passed through to the other side screaming and diving for the creature in the armour. While he viciously fought toe to toe with twenty or more of these monstrosities the first one through the portal was trying to get to his feet, eventually succeeding he saw his ally on the verge of being overwhelmed and raised his pistols into the air and began to fire repeatedly at the infected that were now leaping through the air from the portal. As the shots reverberated around the curved throne room Celestia snapped out of her trance to see the two creatures fighting for their lives and immediately closed the portal, bringing Luna out of her state too. The few infected that remained were either hacked to pieces or shot in the head.
The room now had a small pile of bodies directly in front of the throne. Ellis who was now beginning to look around at his surroundings was being eyeballed by the one in the armour.
“Ellis?” a voice came beneath the helmet
“Who’s asking” Responded Ellis, who was slurring his words
“Who do ya think ya Retard?” called the armoured stranger as he lifted his helmet. revealing a face with a beard that ran from the bottom of his jaw to the top of his head, long black hair that fell just short of his shoulders and a scar that ran along his left cheek.
“Y`all gott`a be fucking Kidd`n me” shouted Ellis as he sprinted across the room and launching himself into the arms of a friend he thought he would never see again. The pair shared a mixture of laughs and with tears as they clung to each other. The ponies that were in the room could only look on in both confusion and intrigue.