Not Dead Yet

by Nebula Star


Chapter 3: We need an adult!

Not Dead Yet
By Nebula Star

Chapter 3: We Need an Adult!
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“It's Cadaver Cadenza!” Scootaloo shouted.

“And Rotting Armor!” Sweetie Belle squeaked, spotting the Stallion as he climbed up onto the roof next to his undead wife.

It had been a tragic coincidence that the day the zombies had first attacked Canterlot, Princess Cadence and Shining Armor had decided to pay a surprise visit to Twilight Velevet and Night Light. They'd stepped off the train and been immediately piled upon by the zombie hordes. They'd risen a few hours later, twisted shadows of their former selves. The princess of love became a creature of lust, her stalwart protector became her attack dog. The most powerful of the ints, having retained almost all of their intelligence – which wasn't saying much for Shining Armor – it wasn't long before they'd taken control leading the zombie ponies in taking down the living.

“Look at them, Shiny! They're so darling! And, oh! How tragic! They're all still virgins!”

“We're barely fourteen!” Scootaloo exclaimed.

“So? Oh I want them so bad! I know I shouldn't be having such thoughts...” She grinned wickedly. “But I am a naughty Princess!” She took a step forward. “They're so lovely, I could just eat 'em out!”

“Uh... don't you mean eat 'em up?” Sweetie asked, stepping back nervously.

She smirked “I know what I said.”

“Eeep!”

“Oh, Shiny, my hansom love machine! Catch them for me and I'll let you have a go at their cute little tushies too.” Cadenza said, giving her own rotting tushie a shake.

Scootaloo's eyes went wide as Rotting Armor started toward them. “Uh... Run!”

They all turned, Scootaloo grabbing her scooter, even as Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle jumped into the wagon. Immediately Scootaloo's wings began to buzz sending them across the rooftop as fast as she could propel them. Apple Bloom threw one hoof back, something flying back toward the former princess and her stallion enforcer. A moment later there was a loud bang and a shock wave further propelled them on their way, throwing up a cloud of dust behind them.

“Sweetie, three – zero – five through seventeen in sequence.” Scootaloo called back and Sweetie Belle's horn glowed as she put in the commands magically, her hooves hanging on tight to the front of the wagon while Apple Bloom held tight to her.

A blast went off ahead of them and a section of the roof began to collapse. More blasts could be heard going off down through the building as Scootaloo aimed them directly toward the collapse.

“COME BACK MY CUTE LITTLE BUNDLES OF NAUGHTY LOVE!”

“Hurry!” Sweetie Belle urged. “I do not want my first time to be with a morgue escapee!”

They shot over the edge of the collapse finding it had formed a ramp into a hall on the top floor, then tore through the hall, taking a turn and another new collapse let them down another floor.

“Sweetie, five – two – nine and ten, synchronized.”

A few magical taps on her computer and a couple seconds later, two explosions shook the building behind them and they heard the distinct sound of part of the building collapsing. Scootaloo continued without pause down through the building floor by floor, through the recently collapsed halls that formed ramps for their descent. As they bounced down, floor after floor, Sweetie Belle was only partially aware of Apple Bloom tossing some of the few remaining charges out the back of the wagon.

“Almost there!” Scootaloo called back. “One – zero – one and three – five – seven, eight and nine, synchronized.”

Sweetie punched in the command just as they reached the ground floor, the front doors strait ahead. A small charge went off in the doors, shattering the glass while Scootaloo aimed for a piece of fallen debris, using it as a ramp and they flew through the doorway. Just as they cleared it, the entrance exploded, the shock-wave propelling them half way into the street before they landed and skidded to a stop.

“Oh yeah! Action star exit!” Scootaloo cheered giving a hoof-pump.

It was of course, at that moment that they realized they weren't alone.

“Oh, ponyfeathers...” Apple Bloom muttered as hordes of zombie ponies closed in on them from both directions; impenetrable walls of undead blocking any chance of escape.

“Looks like Cadenza brought her minions...” Sweetie Belle moaned.

“Well that's good isn't it? We're suppose to be distracting them right? And leading them back to the ambush?” Scootaloo asked as the undead continued to close around them.

“Kinda hard to lead 'em anywhere when we have nowhere to go.” Apple Bloom pulled a stick of dynamite from her harness. “But then that's what high explosives are for.”

“I don't think we have enough left...” Sweetie Belle sounded worried as she huddled close to Apple Bloom in the wagon.

“Dang it, where is Rainbow Dash!?” Apple bloom lit the fuse on her dynamite...

“You girls are so adorably shy!”

...And threw it at the former princess.

The undead alicorn's horn lit up and they saw that even her magic had a sickly dead appearance as she tossed the dynamite away into the crowd of zombies. “I got it!” One of the zombies shouted excitedly, jumping up in the air and catching it in his teeth. It exploded a moment later killing near a dozen of her minions. She didn't care, she had plenty more where they came from.

“You all clearly have so much pent up sexual tension! Let me help you! I'll set you free!” Cadenza said stepping toward them. “Just stop resisting, I promise you'll enjoy it!”

“How 'bout, no,” Apple Bloom told her.

She smirked. “Then I guess I'll just have act out some of those rape fantasies Shiny and I use to do when we role-played.”

“Okay, I did not need to hear that.” Sweetie Belle deadpanned.

“But it really is better with willing partners... Oh I know!” Cadenza's horn lit up and a spell shot out toward Sweetie Belle.

“Look out!” Scootaloo shouted, pushing Sweetie out of the way at the last second. The spell hit Scootaloo in the side and she let out a yelp, dropping to the ground. Sweetie jumped back to her hooves and she and Bloom both turned to Scootaloo, terrified of what they'd find.

She appeared unscathed.

“Scootaloo?”

Slowly the pegasus filly got to her hooves again. She looked up and a wild and hungry look was in her eyes as she looked back and forth between her closest friends. “Oh... Oh boy, ooooh boy! Girls... I'm feeling desires that a filly my age shouldn't be feeling!” She exclaimed, her voice near panic.

Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle's eyes widened. They'd heard rumors of Cadenza's twisted version of the love magic she use to have. Spells that could cause a pony to be overwhelmed by lust to the point that they'd do anything to satisfy their sexual desires.

Before they could think of anything to do, however, there was a loud screech, accompanied by the roar of a precision engine from somewhere beyond the zombie hordes. Many of the zombies turned to look, but none were fast enough as a Bugatti Veyron plowed through their ranks at high speeds. Then the wheels screeched again, breaking hard as the super-car skid sideways through the last ranks of zombies to finally come to a stop right in front of the crusaders.

The passenger door opened revealing their favorite rainbow maned speedster at the wheel. “Need a lift?” Rainbow Dash asked giving a smirk at the bewildered crusaders.

Apple Bloom was the first to recover. “Go, go, go!” She shouted, all but throwing Sweetie Belle into the car while Scootaloo dove in as well, Apple Bloom right after, closing the door behind her. As soon as the door was shut, Rainbow punched it. Spinning the tires and kicking up smoke as they shot down the road, plowing through any Zombies that weren't fast enough to get out of the way.

They hadn't really expected Rainbow to be picking them up in a car of all things, but at least they'd escaped. Unfortunately the car Rainbow had picked was only a two-seater, which left the Crusaders all crammed into the passenger seat. One of whom was still under the effects of Cadenza's lust spell.

“Scootaloo! Get your hooves off of me!” Sweetie Belle screeched.

“Sorry! Sorry!” Scootaloo exclaimed.

“Don't even think about it, filly.” Apple Bloom growled as she saw Scootaloo's wild eyes on her. “You just keep your hooves to yourself!”

“I know, I know. I'm trying!”

“What's wrong with her?” Rainbow asked as they skidded around a corner onto one of the main avenues heading west.

“Cadenza hit 'er with a lust spell.”

Rainbow winced. “Yikes!”

“Speaking of Cadenza, she's right on our tail!” Sweetie Belle warned pointing out the back.

Rainbow glanced in the mirrors to see Cadenza flying after them. “Crap! I don't think we'll be able to outrun her on the ground...”

“Well why didn't you just bring a flying chariot!?” Sweetie exclaimed. “You're the fastest flier in Equestria! Even pulling a chariot you could have outrun her in the air!”

“Yeah, but I'm supposed to be your get-away driver! You can't be a get-away driver without a get-away car!”

Both Sweetie and Apple Bloom facehoofed. Scootaloo would have as well, but she was too busy resisting the urge to put her hoof somewhere else.

“Sweetie. Detonate all the rest of the remote charges,” Apple Bloom said finally.

“Why, we just left the wagon in the street...”

“And my scooter... I'm going to miss the feel of those handlebars. I bet they'd feel amazing...” Apple Bloom jammed her hoof in Scootaloo's mouth.

“You don't want to finish that sentence.”

“Why detonate the charges though? It might kill a few zombies, but that doesn't really help us.”

“I tossed out a few extra charges while we were going down Scoot's escape route. Should be enough to take down the building.”

“Okay, why?”

Apple Bloom smirked. “Rotting Armor can't fly, which means he probably tried to chase us down the escape route. I didn't see him come out of the building before Rainbow showed up so he might still be inside...”

“...And if Cadenza knows that then when the charges go off she'll be worried about him and go to make sure he's alright!” Sweetie Belle finished for her with a grin, her horn lighting up even as she did, punching commands into her fetlock computer.

A moment later fire bloomed behind them and the thunder of all the rest of the charges exploding at once shattering the glass of nearby towers. The Crusaders watched as the tower they'd spent the morning on was enveloped in flames and began to twist and fall. It almost seemed like it was in slow motion as it fell in the direction they were traveling, smashing into another tower next to it, which in turn began to fall as well. It crashed into a third tower, and this one, considerably taller than the others, began to fall toward them.

“Uh oh...” Sweetie Belle murmured.

“Uh... oops.” Apple Bloom said sheepishly. “Guess that's why we usually have Scootaloo set the charges.”

“GO GO GO!” Sweetie Belle screamed and Rainbow floored it, spinning the tires as they shot down the street, trying to escape the shadow of the falling tower.

“We're not going to make it!” Apple Bloom said fearfully as she watched the crumbling tower blocking out the sky.

“TURN!” Sweetie Belle shouted pointing toward a narrow alley not far ahead.

Rainbow didn't have time to consider her options. She braked hard and wrenched the wheel around, the tires squealing in protest as their momentum fought against them. They were going too fast. Skidding into the alley, their momentum carried them all the way across and the last thing they saw was the front of the car smashing into a wall.

~~~

Horn glowing, Luna looked back and forth between her fetlock computer and the Security door interface, rapidly punching in commands on both. Twilight and the rest of her team were gathered around waiting while Luna attempted to bypass the locks on the Big ol' Security Door. It wasn't a description, though the door was indeed very large, it was actually the name of the door as it was written on a plaque above it.

Applejack and Pinkie were both on lookout; Applejack simply watching the main hall while Pinkie Pie had donned her stealth suit and night vision goggles and proceeded to form a perimeter, appearing at random to keep watch seemingly everywhere at once. Zecora was simply waiting near the door. While Twilight was staying close to Luna and the Zebra, guarding them as they were both vital to the plan.

“How's it coming?” Twilight asked.

Luna grunted. “The owner of this place wasn't just a moron, he was a paranoid moron. This door has three pass-code locks to open it, each protected by 128 bit encryptions... it's going to take a bit.”

Twilight frowned. They hadn't counted on this delay. “Well hopefully we continue to go unnoticed.”

“Ah just hope Rainbow got the Crusaders out alright.” Applejack said softly, throwing a worried glance toward a nearby window where they could see smoke rising in the distance.

“I'm sure they're fine,” Twilight told her. “You know Rainbow would never leave them hanging.”

“Ah know, but Ah can't help but worry.”

Twilight deadpanned. “Applejack, they blow up buildings for fun. If it comes to a fight, I think the Crusaders can handle themselves.”

“Ah know that, Twi. But Bloom's still my little sister; Ah'm allowed to worry,” Applejack sighed, turning back to watching the hall.

Zecora stepped forward and put a comforting hoof on the farm pony's shoulder. “Applejack, my friend, there is no need to fret, for little Apple Bloom is not dead yet.”

“How can ya know?”

“A feeling I have for my youngest friend; though trouble may find her it is not her end. Help shall come from an unlikely source; allies that will make an unstoppable force.”