The Diamond Dogs were trashing the village when they heard a male voice yell, “HEY, YOU!”
They then stopped and looked around for the voice.
“YES, YOU! WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A WORD WITH YOU!”
They turned to see a funny creature with a megaphone and a pony wearing large bracelets on a stand near the castle.
Discord then gave the megaphone to Sunset and she shouted, “WE ARE THE CANTERLOT ROYALS AND WE DEMAND THAT YOU CEASE RANSACKING THE TOWN RIGHT NOW!”
The Diamond Dogs stood silent before bursting into laughter. The medium-sized dog, Rover, taunted, “You can’t tell us what to do! You do not have shiny gems!”
Discord said, “Oh, we’ve got loads of shiny gems right here!” He conjured up a huge bag of gems, which he tossed up and down as if it was a regular ball. He then conjured up a bat and threw the bag in the air. “Go long!”
He then swung the bat and the bag of gems went flying over the horizon to the woods. Some of the gems fell out, but the Diamond Dogs only chased after the flying bag.
Discord leaned on the handle end of the bat and said, “Discord hits a homerun.”
Sunset turned to him and commended, “Wow, Discord! That was really good!”
“Well, when you’ve been in the lair of the Diamond Dogs, you tend to learn a few tricks of the trade.”
Just then, they heard a creepy groan in the distance. They froze as Sunset asked in a scared tone, “What was that?”
“Oh, boy. I hope it isn’t what I think it is.”
After a few moments, strange figures began to emerge from the fog. They had sickly green coats and stitches all over their bodies.
Discord and Sunset both cried, “Zombies!”
Sunset then asked, “What should we do?”
“Sunset, there’s only one thing to do…” He then faced the castle and was about to run when he shouted, “Run for your life!” He disappeared in a flash.
Sunset took his advice and ran at super speed into the castle. Before the zombies had a chance to breech the gate walls, bolts and planks of wood barred every door, metal shutters shut every window, and a huge iron wall encircled the castle, complete with barbed wire and a barrier spell.
Discord and Sunset were inside the castle panting when Spike ran up to them and asked, “What’s going on? Are we under attack?”
The draconequus said, “We’ve got a major zombie invasion! Huge!”
Spike cried, “Zombies?! No! Are you serious?!”
Sunset explained, “We’re keeping them out now, but we don’t know how to stop them!”
Spike suggested in a panicked voice, “Well, Twilight would look in the library for anything about zombies!”
Discord said, “Then that’s where we’ll look!”
After only a few hours in, the trio fell asleep while searching through the books. If the sun was still rising on schedule, they would’ve slept till the next morning. Since it was still dark out, the fillies weren’t sure until they looked at a clock.
Screwball said when she saw the closed windows and barred doors, “Wow. What happened last night? Or whenever last night was.”
Apple Jewel said, “I don’t know, but it must’ve been pretty bad.”
Snow Pea suggested, “Let’s go look for the grown-ups. I’m sure they know.”
Screwy took out a tracking device, and when it beeped, she exclaimed, “Ah! Found Daddy! Come on, let’s go!”
The two fillies followed Screwy to the library and were surprised to find all of the adults sleeping there.
Snow Pea remarked, “I think we found all three of them.”
Apple Jewel said, “I hope they’re not under the sleeping curse.” She nudged her dad and said, “Daddy? Daddy! Get up, Daddy! Please wake up!”
Spike opened his eyes and groaned, “What time is it? Why are you up?”
Screwy explained, “Uncle Spike, it’s 8:00 in the morning. Well, it’s supposed to be morning. The point is we slept in.”
Discord rubbed his eyes and yawned, “Don’t tell me today’s a snow day.”
“Dad, there is no day, remember? The curse, eternal night, all that stuff?”
He then remembered and said, “Oh…right.”
Sunset said as she woke up, “I suppose it’s pointless to even say ‘good morning’ now, huh?”
Screwy shrugged, “Pretty much.”
Snow Pea asked, “By the way, what happened to the windows and doors?”
Before anyone could answer, Spike’s stomach rumbled.
Discord said, “We’ll talk about it…after breakfast.”
As the royals walked down the hall, Discord whispered to Spike, “You know, Spike, I’m impressed with how you’re keeping a cool head in front of the girls.”
Spike whispered back, “Well, we are supposed to be the examples.”
Sunset suggested, “If we act brave when we tell them about the zombies, maybe they’ll try to emulate us.”
“ZOMBIES?!” all three fillies cried.
Discord muttered to Sunset, “Well, there goes your brilliant idea of role-modeling.”
She hissed, “Well, I didn’t hear you making suggestions!”
Screwball asked, “Um, guys? The zombies?”
Discord tittered nervously, “Oh, heh-heh. See, er…the zombies came out last night – no, wait, a while ago - and so Aunt Sunset and I barricaded the castle.”
Jewel asked, “Is that why it’s so dark in here?”
“Only on the outside.”
Screwball flashed into general attire and spoke as she walked back and forth, “All right, ponies! We’ve got a zombie invasion on our hooves! We need to drive them back or eliminate them at all costs! Aunt Sunset, have you, Dad, or Uncle Spike found anything about how to get rid of the zombies?”
Sunset sighed, “We were all tired, so we didn’t get very far.”
Discord said, “And I tried to conjure up any books about repelling zombies, but no luck there.”
Screwball said, “Well, when all else fails, turn to harmony.”
The adults exchanged looks and said simultaneously, “Harmony?”
Jewel then asked, “How does harmony get rid of the zombies?”
Screwball answered, “In every video game I played with zombies in it, a perfect three-part harmony always blows their heads off.”
Snowy grimaced, “Eww!”
For a moment, Discord rubbed his chin and contemplated on what his daughter said. Then, a mischievous grin crept on his face and he said, “Screwy, your crazy idea might just work.”
Outside the iron wall, zombies were still trying to get in when they heard a loud feedback screech. When the iron wall lowered itself, the zombies saw two ponies and a draconequus on a balcony. Screwball was wearing a black and white dress with a large triangle along the side of the dress. She was also wearing a blonde wig and a black and white mask.
Sunset was wearing a cherry blossom pink outfit with a fan tail resembling that of a phoenix’s. She also had tannish eyeshadow and a red streak bordering the lower part of her eyes and was connected above her muzzle. She wore a pink neckpiece with her cutie mark in the middle and it was connected to the garment she wore on the front.
Discord was wearing a black suit with pointed epaulets and a downwards triangle in the front with two lightning bolts. He was also wearing a black wig and white paint on his face with black paint around his eyes in a houndstooth pattern. He wore silvery gauntlets that stopped at the hands, a silvery belt, and black leather boots with lightning patterns on them.
Screwy spoke into the microphone, “Zombies and gentlecolts, I’m Screwball. They’re my Daddy Discord and Sunset Shimmer, and together we’re Chaos Sunrise Pink!”
Sunset added, “I never agreed to that name.”
“Hit it!” With a flick of her tail, the karaoke machine began playing a song.
As the zombies edged closer to the castle, Discord said, “Uh, Screwy? Our lives may not be worth this.”
Following the lyrics on the screen, Sunset began to sing, “Friday night…We're gonna party ‘til dawn…Don't worry, daddy…I've got my favorite dress on?”
Screwball then sang, “We're rollin' to the party…The boys are lookin' our way…We just keep dancin'…We don't care what they say…And all the boys are…Gettin' up in my face…”
Discord sang, “Boys are a bore…Let's show 'em the door…”
All three sang together, “We're taking over the dance floor! Oooh Ooh…Girls do what we like…Oooh Ooh…We're taking over tonight…
“Oooh Ooh…Girls do what we like…Oooh Ooh…We're taking over midnight…We're queens of the disco!”
As the group sang, the zombies’ heads began to explode. Spike and the other girls saw this from a window.
Spike remarked, “I don’t believe it! It’s actually working!”
The trio on the balcony continued to sing, “Oooh Ooh…Girls do what we like…Oooh Ooh…We're taking over tonight…”
Sunset finished, “Taking over tonight!”
Just then, a zombie climbed onto the railing of the balcony. Sunset let out a shriek when she saw it.
Screwball said while she charged a party cannon, “Duck!” She then blasted the cannon at the zombie and it flew a great distance away from the castle.
When the music ended, Screwball said, “Thank you! We’ll be here all night!”
Discord laughed, “Deal with it, zombie idiots!”
Snow Pea ran out on the balcony just as Discord, Sunset, and Screwball made their outfits vanish. She praised, “That was great, you guys!”
Jewel followed her and said, “You were awesome!”
Spike said, “Looks like we got rid of the zombies for good.”
Screwball then glimpsed at something on the shore and cried while pointing there, “What’s that?!”
The royals then ran to the railing and looked in the direction Screwy was facing.
Sunset breathed, “Oh, no…”
Discord told her, “Don’t tell me that’s them!”
“I think it is.”
The royals’ hearts dropped as skeleton ponies emerged from the sea. Discord summoned the conch shell and tried to blow into it, but he sputtered and the conch calls were distorted and weak. The frail blows caught the attention of the skeleton ponies and the bony undead started heading for the palace.
Sunset asked, “Discord, what are you doing?!”
Discord answered, “I’m trying to call the kelpies for help, but I’m too scared to blow correctly!”
Snow Pea then remembered the story her mother had told her and her sister about how she and the fillies’ father first met. Snowy distinctly remembered the part where her mother had to use a conch shell to summon the kelpies to stop Caballeron from getting away.
Snowy said, “Let me try!”
She grabbed the conch shell with her magic, and with a new burst of courage, she blew into the shell with all her might. Her tiara glowed and thus multiplied the effect of the blare. The force of the blow literally shook the skeleton ponies until they became a pile of inanimate bones. When Snow Pea took a breath from blowing the shell, she was amazed by what she saw.
She asked, “Did I do that?”
Sunset wrapped her hoof around her niece and smiled, “You sure did, kiddo. You sure did.”
Discord lifted Snowy up and twirled her around while he cheered, “Way to go, Snow Pea!”
The other royals cheered as well until a voice said, “We’ll take it from here.”
The group turned and the fillies gasped when they saw figures in the sea. They couldn’t believe their eyes. They were actually seeing kelpies and mermares!