Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash find themselves lost in Equestria when the world comes to an apocalyptic event.
Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash are stuck in the middle of the worst event possible in the Equestrian World; An apocalypse. With Fluttershy's kindness getting in the way, and Rainbow Dash's brash behavior causing the undead to enter rampages, how will they be able to find a cure? Especially when there is something wrong with Twilight.
Try to think of a Picture Perfect Day again... Can you? I don't think I can... I don't think I ever will again, either. Is it okay if we cry? I feel like crying. It's alright. In the morning, everything will be okay again. Trust me.
Chapter One In the Mourning It'll be Okay
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Fluttershy woke up with a start, her creamy coat shaking with fear, underneath a hooded sweatshirt. Her pink hair falling back into her face. She breathed heavily, her wings fluttering softly.
Rainbow Dash cooly looked behind herself, her ear flicking. "What woke you up, Fluttershy?" Her rainbow mane tied up and herself wearing a sweatshirt, too. This one was black, unlike Fluttershy's creamy pale. In her hoof, a gun.
"Nothing Rainbow Dash," Fluttershy muttered. "just a slight nightmare. Do you think Princess Luna is still alive?"
"Fluttershy," Rainbow Dash spoke up. Her wings opening widely and flapping calmly. "The only way we'd figure out would be by going to her. We're in Cloudsdale, right now it is the most safe place possible. The only ponies I'm hoping are still alive are Pinkie, Rarity, Apple Jack and Twilight, and You of course."
"What if I weren't alive, Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy looked at her hooves, covered in cloud tufts. "What if I were dead and didn't even notice?"
Rainbow Dash laughed a bit. "That's unlikely, Fluttershy. If you were dead, though, I'd be proud to be zombified from you, though." Rainbow Dash wrapped her hoof, bloody, around Fluttershy's neck. "I wouldn't be able to kill you."
Fluttershy swallowed sharply, her hoof poking the cloud. "Should we start moving? Or would you like me to start watch?" Her bright blue eyes looked up at the Cyan pegasus, pleading with fear.
"Would you? I would be fine with moving, but only if you got enough sleep." Rainbow Dash untied her hoof around Fluttershy's neck and looked up at the moon, it glimpsed weirdly. Rainbow dash didn't think much of this, at least the moon was up.
"Where would we go? A new cloud?" Fluttershy looked around.
"Zombie Killing?" Rainbow Dash shrugged. "I don't know or care where we go, we just need one more weapon and we need to start saving ourselves. Are you hungry at all, Fluttershy?" She turned her head below the cloud, thinking that some sort of pon-zombie was down below them. Nothing spotted.
"Did you see something?" Fluttershy backed up in fear. Her wings were slammed against her sides and her hair was in her face.
Rainbow Dash shrugged. "Dunno," she turned back to face Fluttershy. "Should we start moving again?"
"It's up to you, Rainbow." Fluttershy muttered calmly, her wings relaxing more, now. Her blue eyes glaring down below. "If we are, we should start with an investigation of the ground."
"We have wings, Fluttershy. We can out-fly that beast at any moment." Rainbow Dashes hooves stretched out quickly, along with her wings.
Fluttershy looked up awkwardly, noticing something on the edge behind Rainbow Dash, drooling as it's jaw was half open, blood tearing down it's face and it's slimy veins showing with a bulge in the side. Within what felt like minutes, but was just seconds, the creature curled up over Rainbow Dash's neck and bit heavily. Ripping the skin and flesh off from Rainbow Dash, there was a loud booming screen of fear and pain. It didn't come from Rainbow Dash either.
Fluttershy opened her wings terribly with fear and flew away, with a massive amount of speed, unknown to Rainbow Dash. She was crying in the speed, pulling her tears down her face and hitting her flank. The fear and pain of Rainbow Dash being lost, it had caused her to run without looking. She stopped for a second, before looking behind her to see Rainbow Dash. Relaxing in the sky with spread out, flapping wings.
"Fluuuuutttterrrrrrr..... diiiiiieeeeee...." Rainbow Dash's corpse roared, her eyes glowing white and her veins showing out of her neck, the wound of feeding there with high visiblity. Fluttershy screamed once more.
"Fluuttttttterrrr.... diiiieeeee...." Fluttershy curled up in a ball in the sky, her tears flowing down swiftly.
"Flutterrr... Diiiee." Rainbow Dash's voice became calming, and not so gruff.
"Fluttershy." Rainbow Dash's voice was finally normal.
"Fluttershy," Rainbow Dash poked. Fluttershy blinked open her eyes, the cyan pegasus had her same dark maroon eyes, and her bright rainbow-colored mane. Calmness re-flooded Fluttershy, and her ears flattened softly.
Rainbow Dash laughed a bit. "I asked you if we should start moving again, you closed your eyes and started to doze off. Kicking and flapping your wings like crazy, I take it you still need more sleep?" Rainbow Dash set the pistol down and rested cooly on the cloud. "I could take a rest. Should we find a rain cloud and sleep inside of that? I heard that rain clouds are hollow in the middle, which is where the rain forms before it falls to the bottom of the cloud and drips down. You'd have to be careful not to kick in your sleep, though."
Fluttershy blushed awkwardly. So everything that just happened in my head was a dream? I didn't exactly see Luna there. Isn't she meant to come in your nightmares? Fluttershy looked up into Rainbow Dash's eyes. "That sounds good, Rainbow."
Rainbow Dash nodded. "It can't take to long to find one," she squinted her eyes and looked closely around. Not to many clouds were in sight, and others that were there, would be heavy soon and turned into fog. "just fly a bit that way." Her hoof pointed eastwards. Rainbow Dash's wings spread out widely. "Ready to go?"
Fluttershy looked down at the pistol and then back up at Rainbow Dash. "Seems dangerous."
"No pain, no game, right?" Rainbow Dash smiled softly, and flattened her ears.
"Unless we get eaten alive by this disease." Fluttershy looked down. "If we go east, we would be closer to Cloudsdale. Shouldn't we move away form there? Flying Zombie ponies." Fluttershy looked around, if they were too close, there would probably be many flying undeads around, some coming close to swallow the two living pegasi flesh, wings, and eyes. Gross.
Rainbow Dash sighed. "I don't know anymore. We could go to ponyville, maybe Time Turner is still alive, we could go back in time to stop the disease from spreading." She tapped her hoof slightly on her chin and looked back down. "I just don't want to risk you, either."
Fluttershy picked up the silvery gun, and looked at Rainbow Dash. "We can go find that Rain cloud. You'll need rest soon, and I can't work a gun for sleeping on these clouds. Moving up will help us find one, rain clouds form high." Fluttershy moved closer to Rainbow Dash and put the gun in her hooves.
Rainbow Dash muttered quietly. "I think this would be a good idea." She pulled out two silver bullets from her pockets and looked at the gun. It already had four bullets in it. She put the bullets back in her pockets. "Four shots ready for use, and we should be good."
Fluttershy nodded. "Lets go then."
Rainbow Dash's wings were already open, as she pulsed them down, Fluttershy had opened hers and did the same. Both were now airborne, flying upwards at a rapid speed. Well, Rainbow Dash, anyways. Fluttershy was working slowly to get up in the atmosphere, and her mane would fly back in her face. Her wings were starting to move faster, as Rainbow Dash's got slower.
"I think I see a cloud over that way." Rainbow Dash shouted as her hoof pointed north. The noise that was happening in the background was unexplainable, and was thrusting against the pairs ears. It sounded almost like static, but it didn't at the same time.
"Rain cloud?" Fluttershy screamed almost, her voice would be too quiet to hear in this area. Yelling wouldn't do much.
"Probably, we can bring it down, though." Rainbow Dash moved forward quickly, leaving a rainbow trail behind her, Fluttershy would be able to follow that if she desired. Few seconds turned into minutes, and Fluttershy was all alone for a while. Rainbow Dash came back with a black cloud in front of her, rain dripping down slowly.
"I'm going to bring it down, wanna help?" Rainbow Dash shouted, her wings still as she rested on the cloud. The cloud, however, was slowly going down.
Fluttershy nodded and laid on the cloud beside Rainbow Dash, the weight was dragging it down and slowly making it towards a regular atmosphere. Once it got there, the two opened a small circle and crawled in. It was damp and warm, unlike the outside world.
The outside world is frost-bitten, dark, and not to mention dead. Everypony moans and moves around like they never learned to walk. Pegasi flap their wings helplessly, while unicorns only seem to remember levitation. Fluttershy shuttered as she looked around the dark cloud.
Rainbow Dash flapped her wings softly, entering the cloud with happiness. She turned to the entrance, and tapped her hooves lightly on the sides, shutting the entrance out. Her maroon eyes glowing warmly.
"I'm scared, Rainbow. What if we get attacked? What if the wonderbolts are patrolling for food? Even you can't out fly them." Fluttershy spoke with fear.
"We wont, Fluttershy. I'm sure of it. Just think," Rainbow Dash smiled, curling up for sleep. "In the morning, it'll be okay." Rainbow Dash muttered as she shut her eyes, the darkness of the cloud swallowing the two of them. Fluttershy closed her baby blue eyes, and got herself ready for sleep, too.
Fluttershy woke up with a pulsing feeling in her heart of worrying. Her wings were tucked away in her sides and her ears were down beside the temples of her head. She looked down to face Rainbow Dash.
There lay the sweet cyan pegasus. Nothing but silence filled the cloud, and the harsh breathing that exited Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash had looked perfectly fine, sleeping there.
But silence was a bad thing, too. Fluttershy would have to wake Rainbow Dash up from her sweet slumber and welcome her back to reality. Although Rainbow Dash did most all of the work, Fluttershy knew that she was too weak to manage for herself and would need as much help that she could get.
Tapping her creamy hoof on Rainbow Dash's side, she finally spoke up. "Rainbow Dash? You need to wake up now." She spoke in her sweet voice. It was sweet and quiet, which was a problem.
Rainbow Dash, instead of waking up, growled under her breath. It didn't sound too much of a familiar growl of Rainbow's, and that triggered an alert on Fluttershy.
"Rainbow Dash," she started to cry slightly, poking her hoof on Rainbow Dash's shoulder rapidly. "Please wake up."
Rainbow Dash was rolled over by this rapid tapping, and had shown her face within the darkness of the cloud.
Her maroon eyes were no longer ones of joy, but instead glowing white of hatred and hunger for love and kindness- not to mention flesh and organs. Her jaw rolling down, like a door on it's last hinge. Ugly, and disastrous. The neck veins were large again, and looked something of rolling hills on the side of a mountain. Her ribs were shown, and her stomach was pulsing in and out, digesting her saliva. Putrid. Everything about this vision may never leave Fluttershy's head again.
That is, if Fluttershy keeps her head. Her screams were loud, and almost curdled the milk inside of a cow. Fluttershy's screams were so loud, her face changed to the bright color of pink, like the pink on her friend Pinkie Pie, who might have died when the disease took control of Ponyville. Its a small town, and wasn't too difficult to start attacking ponies.
This image also opened another, of the first pony who was dead. Or the first pony who got attacked in front of Fluttershy. The three ponies were flying south, and were relaxing cooly. The grey pegasus that they were flying with during this time, looked down. She saw a familiar pony, who was her best friend. Relaxing her wings as she dropped down to the sky, she was pausing for a second.
Rainbow Dash shouted after her, before hearing a dark scream that made her want to scream in reaction, and the scream made it's way down to a moan. The grey ponies wings opened again, but they were oddly darker, and looked much more ominous then her bubbly grey and blonde looks. Her wings started to pulse, and she flew up high enough to meet eyes with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. She let out a moan.
Fluttershy shouted loudly, as she moved backwards, closer to Rainbow Dash. Rainbow couldn't respond in this case. This pony was like a student to her, and had taught her a few things in prior past. Fluttershy looked up and saw her friends face, flushed of color and wetness starting in her eyes.
"Derpy!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "You're all blood, and you're dark grey, what happened?" Rainbow Dash moved her hoof forward.
Derpy's face started to turn slightly. She was facing away from the two. Once her face made the turn, there was a glowing sensation from her eyes. Her jaw was mangled into pieces, and you could see her bone. Her throat missed a large chunk of flesh and was pulsing with the blood in her veins moving slowly.
Fluttershy screamed loudly, getting ready to clamp her wings shut. This was the beginning of the nightmares, and it would only be getting worse. Rainbow Dash shouted with fear, and had no weapon. Her wings looked ready to clamp, too.
Fluttershy woke up from the dark image to look back down at the current image in front of her. Until she felt a shove on her shoulder. Looking backwards, there was nopony there. Another shove. Fluttershy started to cry more, her whimpers louder than her screams, too.
Fluttershy blinked open her eyes again. Rainbow Dash had let her hoof off from the side of Fluttershy's neck. "You okay?" Rainbow Dash muttered, sweating. Her eyes were normal and her jaw was tight on her head.
Fluttershy was curled up in a ball, with water flowing down her eyes. The cloud wasn't too damp anymore and was actually lighter colored. This was a nice sensation on Fluttershy's body, but this also meant that the sun was out, and Rainbow Dash would now be in danger.
The color of their sweaters determined who would be a scout at the time, because of there being less danger at morning, Fluttershy would scout at this time. Always looking for a masacre and death- especially walking dead. At night, Rainbow Dash would hover low to scout out easy prey, but it didn't matter much to Fluttershy. She looked like a star during the night with her sweater.
"I'm okay... I guess." Fluttershy wiped the tears off from her eyes and looked up. The cloud was already losing it's top. Fluttershy could feel the sun's warm rays on herself. It didn't bother her too much, but wished it were night all the time. She could sleep her life away and prepare for the after life.
An after life world of ponies wouldn't be too bad, as long as a living pony disease didn't happen and there were limited amounts of ponies who could live and who couldn't. Rainbow Dash would be one of the first pegasi to be killed off. Her brutish ways would make her an almost invincible pegasus and murder would be easy for her.
"Thats good. Lets start heading out, now, though." Rainbow Dash spread out her wings, hooves and her back. She glared around the cloud, the emptiness of it was nice for safety, but rain clouds were easily dried up and flattened by the sun. This must mean that Princess Celestia was still alive. Good.
Fluttershy nodded and made her way to standing up, and watched as Rainbow Dash stepped back for the morning scout to look out. Nopony would possible notice her, right? Then again, there were not too many ponies left. Most were dead, and the ones that were alive were either being eaten, or running for their lives in a small chance of survival.
Fluttershy poked her head out of the cloud, it wouldn't matter soon anyways, the cloud would be gone. Her small wings moving softly and she had crawled out. The cost looked clear, and everything she saw looked just fine. What if they weren't, though? Some of the lessons she learned from her unicorn friend, Twilight, was pulsing through her mind. "Don't judge a book by it's cover" was the first thing to come up. It looked so sweet outside, but she also had to look towards the ground and up, any chance of Pegasus Zombies would be their demise- or mostly Fluttershy's.
Rainbow Dash flattened her ears as the cloud started to lower near her head. "Hurry up, Fluttershy." Rainbow Dash whispered frantically.
Fluttershy's forehead started to sweat, and her ears were down. "I'm trying." She almost cried, looking up and down, searching for any sign of the undead. Nothing was there, but who knew what would be waiting for them near Ponyville, the pressure on her shoulders were crushing.
"All clear." Fluttershy whispered, or said. Her voice wasn't too loud. This had Rainbow Dash up through the "ceiling" of the cloud, her cyan/rainbow trail clearly making her mark.
Rainbow Dash nodded. "Lets get moving to Ponyville then," she waved her wings in the sky, like treading water. "Time Turner can't live forever, especially not if this zombie thing is going around."
Fluttershy whimpered and flew up beside Rainbow Dash. "Let's get going then?"
"Yep." Rainbow Dash flew quickly to her right, knowing this to be the direction to Ponyville, the land were Fluttershy (and most of her other friends) lived.
The travelling to Ponyville didn't take too long, and Rainbow Dash had scouted out a few zomb-ponies. They were all moving around, bumping into each other, colliding. Leaving trails of blood, flesh and even sometimes limbs. Fluttershy was trembling at the sight, and her wings were close to clamping, if Rainbow Dash hadn't gotten her pistol out.
"See any pegasi?" Rainbow Dash muttered, glaring around at all the ponies. There weren't that many, probably only four or five. Out of the most of them, only two were recognizable. Crescent Moon, a stallion who looked familiar to Time Turner, but with a crescent moon for his cutie-mark, and Blossom Forth, a creamy pegasus mare with a watermelon colored mane, freckles and everything. Blossom Forth had two flowers for her cutie-mark.
Both of the pegasi were undead, and had bright glowing eyes. Blossom Forth's death was obvious, being burnt to death and being chewed on just around her rib cage. Her back was arching with boils and blood, the liquids inside of the bubbles were disgusting, and her rib cage was tainted with a tan-ish yellow color. '
Crescent Moon's death wasn't as obvious as Blossom Forth's but you could assume his neck tasted something good, considering there were three large holes in it. His bones being the same color as Blossom Forth's, and his wings were moving quickly. He might have died in midair. This would mean many more pegasi died in flight, bitten and crushed.
Rainbow Dash let out a quick gag, and lifted her pistol up and aimed it straight for Blossom Forth's head. Cocking the gun and pulling the trigger, it had hit her deadly in her eye, screeching was heard from all sides, Blossom Forth had started to curl up in a ball and scream her head off. Fluttershy covered her ears and started to cry.
Rainbow Dash looked at Fluttershy and rubbed her shoulder. "Few more. You'll know their dead when you hear that scream." She rubbed Fluttershy's shoulder and moved her hoof to Fluttershy's back. The creamy pegasus looked up, the screeching stop and Blossom Forth was in a pool of red water, it was more liquid-y than blood.
Rainbow Dash lifted her pistol again, and cocked it once more. Crescent Moon was standing still, turning around and glaring at Blossom Forth. Zomb-ponies either still had compassion for their own type, or just wanted to take what was theirs for their own. Either way, they are just like a community. Working together just to lose it together.
Aiming this bullet was more difficult then the last, Crescent Moon's wings didn't stop moving, and this had made it particularly difficult for shooting the head. Rainbow Dash thought of how weird it would be, to never stop flying. She'd be extremely fast, and could win anything. Crescent Moon started to move again, Rainbow Dash's thoughts were starting to cloud her mind up.
The stallions glare started to move around, unable to notice much. Until he looked up. Fluttershy swallowed quickly and started to poke Rainbow Dash, her hoof pulsing with fear. "Rainbow, Rainbow! Cre... Cress..." Fluttershy started to tear-up, and her wings were getting tight.
Rainbow Dash shook her head. She started to look around before seeing the brown stallion come up for the two, her eyes widening. Holding her pistol oddly, she went for a shot. The bullet twisted through the air, going at a super sonic speed. Rainbow Dash held her breath with fear, and everything was moving so slowly for her. The bullet hit Crescent Moon, but not in the head. Directly in the wing- making a large hole before it piled down to the ground, shooting an earth pony in the hoof, falling over with shock.
Crescent Moon's flying became sloppy as he screeched, not for death, but because he was hungry- and possibly calling for the other pegasus ponies to come out. Rainbow Dash finally started to get a clear image of how many there really were. She was right, five of them. Including Blossom Forth. Each of the dead ponies would get half of a meal if Fluttershy were to give up now.
"Shoot them!" Fluttershy shouted loudly, her wings flailing helplessly, Rainbow Dash glared at Fluttershy and nodded weirdly. Her pistol was up in no time, and Rainbow Dash had a better chance of aiming now. Crescent was first to go, with a new bullet hole- sharp in the middle of his forehead.
More screeching was heard, as Crescent Moon was falling, bleeding, dying again. After falling for quite some time, he had hit the ground with a loud thump of pain- Fluttershy could hear it. Blood splattered like a painting on the fresh grass, that took care of itself, the stains of the undead were a mark and memory of the pain. Were any ponies alive anymore? Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were witnesses that there were, but it may only have been them.
Rainbow Dash didn't have much time to thing, taking the last bullet to penetrate the head nerves on the pony. Deep Blue, a mare pegasus, was next. Her curly brown hair and light blue coat was stained with real blood, and her jaw was hanging like a door on a hinge. She was too close to Rainbow Dash for comfort, and was an easy shot in the head. Falling down to her death, she twitched after hitting the ground and painting it with the red liquids.
Another pony was Milky Way, a fairly handsome white stallion with a dark brown mane. He looked nasty, with one of his hooves missing, and his tail ripped into pieces, he looked like he was devoured. His bones were broken, too, as if the undead couldn't get enough of him. Rainbow Dash cocked the gun with hope, ready for the murder of another. If something didn't stop her. The gun was out of bullets, and she had to put a few more in just to kill these last ponies.
"Fluttershy," Rainbow Dash shouted. "Take this gun and fill it up! You have bullets in your pockets, too!" Rainbow Dash threw the gun fearlessly, and it had hit Fluttershy directly in her face. Her hooves stuck out as it bounced off and she grabbed for the weapon, her grasp sweaty and hardly too tight. Slamming the bullets into the correct position, Fluttershy had forgotten one thing. She never learned to shoot.
Rainbow Dash was flying rapidly around in rings, trying to lose the few ponies on her trail. The zombies growling, trying to find their way to get a new meal. "Shoot them, now! Hurry Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash screamed as Star Hunter, another zombie, was grabbing towards her tail and trying to rip it back. With a wing power of 11.0, Star Hunter would be the fastest to catch Rainbow Dash and pull her back to devour her.
Star Hunter, finally getting close enough, grabbed tightly on Rainbow Dash's tail with his hoof, and readied himself to bite sharply onto her tail, rip it off and eat her cutie-mark off from her hip. Until a gun shot was heard, and screeching followed. Fluttershy was sweating rapidly, her mane down in her face. The pegasus falling, like the others, screeched louder and louder- as if to tell Fluttershy what she had just done. It broke her heart.
There was one last pony, and Fluttershy didn't have the heart to shoot this one, she threw the gun straight at Rainbow Dash. Flying by, the dare devil pegasus latched her hoof onto the weapon and stared down the undead, who sat in midair, dumbstruck. Their glowing eyes turned to face Fluttershy, and they started their screeching.
Fluttershy caught a glimpse of who this pony was, and she swallowed darkly as she tried not to clamp her wings shut. Death wasn't an option and didn't want to leave Rainbow Dash surviving on her own.
Wave Chill. One of the wonderbolts were about to die from their biggest fan. Rainbow Dash didn't even take the time to say her sorries, or to look at who it was. She instantly pulled the trigger and slammed it into the stallion's mind. Screeching with pain and agony. Falling to his death, the two ponies were alive, only with ruffled manes and tails. Not to mention scarred minds and broken hearts.
Rainbow Dash started to tear-up, unlike Fluttershy who was already crying. "It's okay, Fluttershy." Rainbow Dash muttered, as she started to fly closer to the small town. There weren't any more dead pegasi, and the two didn't know if there were any other live ones.
All they new as that they were together, bound to survive this dark age. They were meant to find more living ponies. Or so they thought.
Rainbow Dash moved along in the sky, she didn't know how she would get to the ground or when, she just knew that Time Turner may be alive and he may be down there. Her wings were flapping softly and looking around was difficult for living ponies.
Fluttershy looked around oddly before noticing some non-zombie-like movements, followed by some shushing. It was loud for safety, and by the looks of it, some zombies noticed. Tapping her hoof on Rainbow Dash's shoulder, she managed enough air to speak. "Look at that building." She said.
Rainbow Dash glared down towards what looked like the library. Her ears perked. "Twilight Sparkle! We can count on her to stop those zombies!" Her wings started to flap swiftly, and then she had bent down and swept the bloody grass to it's side, and looked in the window of the library.
Fluttershy was left in the air, mumbling under her breath. "Be careful, Rainbow Dash." She muttered.
"I have the gun, Fluttershy! I'm perfectly fine!" Rainbow Dash glared into the window. Nothing was in it, or so Rainbow thought. She tapped her hoof on the glass and took a deeper look in. She shrugged slightly and took a few steps back, her wings starting to flap swiftly, and her trot started. Only after a few seconds, her speed was at bolting experience, and she slammed her head into the window. Glass broke and was sent across the floor, along with minor blood.
Rainbow Dash rolled over and saw a small filly, along with a colt. Her eyes blinked oddly. "Scootaloo?" She said with curiosity.
"Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo cheered, her wings waving like a humming birds. Rainbow Dash could almost hear the buzzing that they sent off. "I've been sitting here with Pound Cake for days." She smiled with relief.
Rainbow Dash smiled widely. "How is that possible?" She started to laugh, sitting up and rubbing the wound on her head. It felt jolting with pain, but seeing the face of her biggest fan made her happy. Not to mention an adorable colt still alive.
Pound Cake was sound asleep, his wings still on his back and his eyes shut. There was no way this colt was starving, you could see every mark of his rib right there. The masacre of these days would have been terrible, yet nice at the same time.
"Fluttershy and I have some food, do you need any?" Rainbow Dash purred almost, taking Pound Cake from Scootaloo's hooves and resting him in her sweater. His body was warm, and you could hear him humming.
"Yes, Please." Scootaloo blushed, her ears flattened down.
As Rainbow Dash helped Scootaloo out, and put her on her back, they flew out safely. Nothing much happened in the library, and there were few moans on the outside. The zombies must've been migrating to a new town.
Once Rainbow Dash got next to Fluttershy, she had pulled an apple out of her pockets. They didn't look fresh, but they looked good enough to eat. Rainbow Dash took a medium-sized chunk out of it and gave the rest to Scootaloo. Looking down at Pound Cake (who she stuffed in the chest area of the sweater), she poked him to make him wake up, and gave him the apple.
He woke up without a fuss and chewed on the apple happily. It looked like he hasn't eaten in two years, and his mouth was finally growing to have some teeth. He was still extremely young, however, and couldn't say much but "Pinkie Pie", "Mum", "Dad" and "Scoot". He was learning names quickly, and this was good.
Scootaloo sighed, her wings flapping quickly. Rainbow Dash sighed, too. Her wings were getting tired and resting on a cloud would sound great right now, but it would also be extremely dangerous if there were any more pegasus zombies. Pound Cake would be in terrible trouble and Scootaloo, too.
"Are you guys ready to rest?" Rainbow Dash muttered. It wasn't a full day, yet, but it she was getting extremely tired. She couldn't do much about this, except for finding a way to get a full rest and keeping Fluttershy awake so she can keep her full rest. Fluttershy would have to scout.
Scootaloo looked at Fluttershy and yawned slightly. "I'm ready." Fluttershy let out a nod, followed by an innocent squee from Pound Cake.
Rainbow Dash let out a grin, and flew upwards into the sky, a few clouds visible in the next atmosphere. Pound Cake cheered, reaching the stratosphere. Scootaloo on the other hoof, was shouting and trying to stay up on Rainbow Dash's back. Fluttershy was calmly flying up, following the rainbow trail. It only took a few minutes for the group of survivors to reach the cloud. Scootaloo was dropped down on it first, and she held Pound Cake tightly, looking at the cloud with fear.
"Fluttershy and Myself will go get some more clouds to put together, we can have a bigger cloud where our tails aren't visible." Rainbow Dash smiled, although realizing this wasn't much of a problem for the filly and colt. Their tails looked like they were docked, but were just smaller than other ponies.
Scootaloo nodded. "When you get back, I can tell you what happened to Pound Cake and Me."
"Pound Cake and I." Rainbow Dash corrected.
"No," Scootaloo started. "Pound Cake and Me, you weren't there." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes slightly, and had a feeling that Scootaloo had been around Pinkie Pie for too long, and had just flew away without saying anything. This argument would become more of an objective type thing, and would take too long.
Fluttershy came back with a slightly small cloud, and pushed it under the current cloud Scootaloo was sitting on.
Rainbow Dash flew away, her wings pulsing rapidly as she bolted down the stratospheres like it was a room filled with corridor like turns. This wasn't an unfamiliar place to her, as it was important to get here if she were going to do a sonic rainboom. She was soon gone, looking for a cloud.
"So, what did happen?" Fluttershy looked at Scootaloo calmly. "How did you survive?" Her hooves reached out to grab Pound Cake, and Scootaloo gave him to Fluttershy without rejecting her offer.
"Well," Scootaloo started, her wings not moving anymore. "Me and the girls, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle, told Mr. and Mrs. Cake that we want to have Baby Sitter cutie-marks. I told the girls that I would take care of Pound Cake, of course, pegasus power. Plus, he's a good flyer. I knew I could tell him everything about the greatest pony in Cloudsdale!"
"Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy smiled.
"You called?" Rainbow Dash came back with a large cloud in front of her, jumping Fluttershy slightly. With help from Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash pressed the cloud near the one Scootaloo and Pound Cake was sitting on, and it ended up like a large floor to sit on. Even enough room to make a wall so Pound Cake could move around.
"Anyways," Scootaloo smiled as Pound Cake started chewing on a wall, his wings flapping. "Sweetie Belle took Pumpkin Cake, and Apple Bloom was trying to tell the Cakes that they can trust us and that we are the best at our jobs. Thats when we ran straight for the library to talk to Twilight about giving us a book on fillies and colts and babysitting and stuff!" Scootaloo let out a laugh.
"Then what happened?" Fluttershy muttered, as Pound Cake started chewing on Fluttershy's tail. He was still hungry and she could tell. Their rations were low, though, and there wasn't much food to go around.
"Twilight gave us the book, and told us to hurry along because she was working on something important. So she levitated out a few more books and then we left, this part isn't too important, anyways." Scootaloo started to hurry along her story.
"Then the disease started, I was running back to the library with Pound Cake on my back, and there I saw that Twilight was gone and nobody was in the library. I turned around and..." Scootaloo started crying, Pound Cake walking near her.
"Scoot. Scoot." Pound Cake muttered, his wings waving around quickly.
Fluttershy looked up, the sun was starting to go down slowly. She was confused, was the sun bringing itself down, or were the Princesses busy and don't know that there is a dangerous epidemic going on in their land?
"I'll go get a roof." Rainbow Dash muttered. Flying up and leaving her famous trail, she went off to find another cloud to pile onto the top.
"There were dead ponies, chasing after me. I didn't have a weapon, and I had to run around with Pound Cake. He was crying, too. I didn't know what to do. I felt so helpless." Scootaloo sobbed, Pound Cake sitting on her tail and starting to cry, too. His wings flapping slowly.
"It's okay, Scootaloo. Rainbow Dash and I are here to help you, and you will survive as long as you stay near us." Fluttershy tapped her hoof on Scootaloo's shoulder, her wings clamping and her eyes closing. "I'll be honest, Rainbow Dash felt helpless for the longest time, too."
"Really?" Scootaloo wiped the tears away from the underneath of her eyes.
"Derpy got bit." Fluttershy whispered, her ears flattening.
"Derpy? Derpy is one of Rainbow Dash's best friends." Scootaloo flattened her ears, too. "I feel... terrible." Her wings were clamped down, now, too.
Rainbow Dash came back, now, with a large cloud to cover off the cloud. "That's better." Rainbow Dash sighed, her wings stretching out. "Hey, I'm going to get some shut-eye, now. Fluttershy, wanna keep watch? You are a good sharp-shooter."
Fluttershy looked at the weapon. Getting closer detail to it, there was an extremely small opening, and she didn't remember how she'd fit her hoof in there the first time. Rainbow Dash threw the weapon at Fluttershy and shut her eyes calmly. It was so narrow, too. She held onto it, oddly, and noticed the notch where she had to tap down, or to cock it. Looking at the trigger, she lifted her ears and noticed how she could fit her hoof in there, putting her hoof tip in and flicking her wrist quickly. "Okay, Rainbow Dash."
Rainbow Dash, however, was already sound asleep, her ears flattened and her mane in her eyes. She needed a well deserved sleep, especially when Fluttershy continued to shout in her sleep and kick. Fluttershy knew that sleep wouldn't be an option tonight.
"Would you like to get some sleep, Pound Cake?" Fluttershy smiled at the young colt who curled himself in a ball on Fluttershy's tail. "How about you Scootaloo?"
Scootaloo shrugged. "I'll have nightmares."
"I have, too. Scootaloo, you still need sleep. Sometimes, you just need a good rest, weather it be scary or nice. Just have a nice dream about Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle." Fluttershy signaled her hoof for Scootaloo to get closer, which the young filly did.
"About that," Scootaloo started crying. "They said that they can't trust me, because I might be a zombie. I told them that it isn't true, and they tried to attack me." Scootaloo's eyes watered fast, and there was soon water falling from the cloud. A rain schedule might due soon, anyways.
"Well, they must not know much about Zombies. Zombies can't talk, they can only-"
Rainbow Dash let out a loud snore, jumping Fluttershy. Scootaloo let out a laugh.
Fluttershy's face turned red and she soon started to laugh with the filly, Pound Cake yawning for his sleep, too. Fluttershy pet Scootaloo's head and let her get her sleep. Fluttershy would be the only one awake now, in this world of undead ponies, yearning for food and flesh. Making more of their own, without true love.
Fluttershy sniffled a bit, her ears flattening as the time went by. Thinking about her friends, her pet, her Princesses, her everything. Even her Rainbow Dash. How were they going to live at this time. Especially when Fluttershy is slowing down? Fluttershy's thoughts consumed her in the darkness, and her head was spinning out of control with dark thoughts.
Rainbow Dash woke up with a jolt, her wings spreading out widely and her pupils smaller than usual. This made Fluttershy jump up, glaring around for a while before her eyes caught the frantic cyan pegasus.
"Rainbow Dash, are you okay?" Fluttershy said. Her wings were clamped, and she had tufts of cloud on her forehead. "You slept all night, even during the day. I wasn't sure if you died or not, from stress."
"I'm okay, just got scared." Rainbow Dash turned around, Pound Cake chewing on Rainbow Dash's wings.
"Rain-boh!" He cheered, his wings moving quickly. "Rain-boh, I... ah-pull." Pound Cake pointed at Rainbow Dash's jacket.
Rainbow Dash smiled and put her hoof in her pocket. An apple was pulled out coolly and a chunk was ripped off, and given to the small colt who asked in the cutest way if he could be fed. "I have a feeling this little guy is going to be best friends with Apple Jack." Rainbow Dash smiled, her wings out spread.
"That's good," Fluttershy smiled softly. "Apple Jack can always use more help on the farm." Her wings softly starting to relax, and un-clamp.
"If she's alive." Rainbow Dash sighed, her ears flattened down. "I mean, I would say lets go check the apple farm, but,"
"You don't trust it." Fluttershy finished Rainbow Dash's sentence with ease, her ears flattening down, too. "I'm sure I could go check. We need food, anyways. My pockets are almost empty. All I have in them is a bullet shell, not much use." Fluttershy's wings spread out and started to move up and down slowly.
"If you want to check," Rainbow Dash smiled. "feel free. We could make this cloud, mobile, though. Have a slight home." Her legs stretched out, and her front hooves did the same. It took Rainbow Dash a few seconds before noticing that Scootaloo was still asleep, as if this apocalypse didn't even start.
"Scootaloo slept all night, too." Fluttershy spoke up. She smiled softly and flicked her ear. "I was impressed, she said that her friends tried to kill her. She might not have been so afraid of you because she knew you were a protector."
"Funny," Rainbow Dash muttered. "She didn't say much about the girls when I rammed into the window. She didn't seem too scared." Rainbow Dash looked carefully at Scootaloo, there weren't too many cuts on her. She looked just about fine.
"Rain-boh!" Pound Cake smiled as he started squashing remains of apple on her tail. Rainbow Dash let out a slight smile, and her wings flapped warmly. "I ca eee ah-pull!" Pound Cake cheered. "Rain-boh wan ah-pull?" Pound Cake lifted up the squashed remains and brought it to Rainbow Dash's face.
Rainbow Dash's face went into awe, the last time she saw the colt, he was too young to say anything, and now during the apocalypse, he almost has a full dictionary. She laughed warmly. "No, Pound Cake. It's yours."
Pound Cake cheered and put the apple on his face, not so much chewing it as breathing the squashed bits in. The apple looked good, but Rainbow Dash had to sacrifice herself so that the young colt could live.
"I can go get some apples from the farm, Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy smiled. "You can stay here with these two, and I can grab some more food." Fluttershy spread out her wings and exit through the top of the cloud, pushing away a small circle.
Rainbow Dash watched her fly away, a smile edging on the cyan ponies face, even more. She looked down at Pound Cake and hugged him warmly. "Good thing you're here, too. Scootaloo sleeping would be boring. Do you have anything to say?" Rainbow Dash stopped hugging the colt and looked at his warm face of joy. His eyes were a sweet chocolate brown.
"Ah-pull tase..." Pound Cake started to imitate eating an apple, and he let out a large smile. "Scoot has. Like ah-pull, too?" Pound Cake pointed at the sleeping filly. Her mane covered her eye strangely.
"I'm sure Scootaloo likes apples, too, Pound Cake." Rainbow Dash smiled, petting her hoof against the colt's head.
Meanwhile, Fluttershy was flying at full pase, spiraling down to the apple orchard. Her pistol in her coat and her mane swaying backwards. She look nothing like her original self at this state, and her wings were flapping almost uncontrollable. Rainbow Dash would have been impressed if her wing power test were this good.
Fluttershy made her way to the barn, now. It looked empty, and it was nice to Fluttershy to see that it was empty. The rest of Ponyville was filled with the undead and ugly creatures who were looking for food, and flesh. Fluttershy let out a large sigh of joy, and her hoof was sweating with worry.
Making her way into the barn was totally different, though. She felt pressure on her stomach and didn't know what to do now. She was just going to grab a few apples and run, run with all her might. Run like she was being chased and never stop running. She looked up and saw her home cloud, drifting softly.
As she entered the barn, she noticed a few things. There were cows, some dead, some about to die. Either way, they were diseased and were no good for milk supplies. It was be idiotic to try that. Looking straight out, she saw a pile of hay and something that stuck out brightly.
"A... knife." Fluttershy smiled. An extra weapon would be ultimately handy for killing of unexpected guests. Even in a Zombie Apocalypse, you never know which pony is nice or bad. Fluttershy knew Rainbow Dash would love to have this weapon, and she stuck it in her pocket with her pistol and sighed.
She continued walking, hoping there would be a few apples. She didn't think of going to the trees just so soon, she would think there would be apples inside. Fluttershy looked around in awe, her hooves trying to be dead silent, and her eyes almost wet with fear. "Hello? Is anypony here?" She called out, her ears flattening. "I just need some apples."
There were few rattling sounds behind her, Fluttershy had looked behind her in worry, and tried to keep her calm. "Hello?" She whimpered, her ears flattening down and her wings clamping. "I don't mean harm. I just need some apples." She repeated, in worry.
Nothing made another sound, except for a few moans. Fluttershy screamed and started to run out of the barn, leaving anything behind her. She didn't care, she was going to pick some apples and leave. No longer would she dare go for anything else. Disgusting images rampaged in her mind, and she tried to out run them. Her wings opened, and she had started to fly away as she got out of the barn, it felt endless.
Her wings were flying quickly, but not as quick as her heart was racing. Making a quick turn, she wet by the apple trees. Her eyes were too watery to see for any of the red fruit, but has started to notice a small amount of them. She blinked the tears away, but verbally cried. Her hooves out in front of her, ready to grab any apples in her face.
This task was finished quickly, as she soon had five apples in her grasp. This would be a good amount, and she turned back around and head for the cloud. The entire time she had done this, though, she never looked behind her to see what was truly chasing her. Her eyes made it quick to look behind her, and her head joined in.
Nothing was there, so her wings stopped pulsing to send her forward and she stopped breathing so hard after a short while. "What..." She muttered. "I thought I was being chased." Fluttershy looked down, nothing was there either. Her heart's rapid pacing was slowly down as she took in a gulp and went back to the cloud slowly.
Rainbow Dash was still there with Pound Cake, and Scootaloo was still sleeping. How long was she really gone? To her it felt like days went by, and like she had a disease slowly killing her and her pride. This disease was gone now, though. Rainbow Dash spoke up.
"You brought some food!" Rainbow Dash smiled. "I'm impressed." The pegasus smiled, her sweater having a large bulge in the pockets. Pound Cake was sticking his hooves inside to see what Rainbow Dash was holding. Nothing, really. It was strange. Just a few bullets, and that was it.
"That's not the only thing I brought." Fluttershy took out the second weapon, the look on Rainbow Dash's face was awe-filled. The knife hit the cloud and sat there, gleaming brightly and looked like it had never been used. Except for the hay that was spilled on the sides.
"A knife. A weapon!" Rainbow Dash cheered. "That barn was good for more than food, wasn't it. Were there ponies there?" Rainbow Dash's voice suddenly changed. "Did you kill 'em?" She asked, her ears flattened.
"No." Fluttershy looked with worry at Rainbow Dash. "Why would I do that, if they were living, we'd want them on our side." Fluttershy sat down onto the cloud, and started to yawn. "Anyways," she started up again. "I'm starved." She dropped all the apples and picked one up. "Would you like half?"
"Sure." Rainbow Dash, shook her head. Snapping out of a trance, almost, if she was in one. "Pound Cake already ate and we should probably wake up the Scoot-ster if we're gonna get a move on." Rainbow Dash pointed her hoof at the sleeping filly. She almost looked dead, but if it weren't for her breathing motions.
Fluttershy nodded. Breaking the apple in half, using the knife, she gave one half to Rainbow Dash and the other half to herself. Her body turned around and she lightly tapped her hoof on Scootaloo's shoulder. "Scootaloo, wake up." Fluttershy said in her regular voice, calm and collected. Very beautiful indeed.
Scootaloo rolled over, her wings waving rapidly.
"Not like that, Fluttershy." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes quickly. "Watch," Rainbow Dash snorted as she got up and walked closer to the orange filly. Taking in a big breath, and soon shutting her eyes, Rainbow Dash let go of her breath, as wind blew coldly on Scootaloo's ears.
Scootaloo was disturbed by this and blinked open her eyes, her wings stopped fluttering and her hooves curled up. "Whats the big idea? I haven't slept in forever!" The orange pony shouted, her scowl looking almost deadly.
"You mean you have slept forever. You practically slept for a quater of the day already. Thought we would just wake you up to give you some food in that starving stomach of yours." Rainbow Dash eyed the filly's stomach, it looked just fine, and, actually, it looked like she ate before Rainbow Dash caught her.
"Oh, I slept my hunger away." Scootaloo flicked her ear. "I could use a bite, though." She smiled oddly and lifted her body from the slouching position she was in. Rainbow Dash broke her own apple in half, then gave some to Scootaloo. Scootaloo bit into hers and chomped loudly. "This is really good." Apple juice spurred from her mouth, and after finishing a few bites she coughed.
"Well," Rainbow Dash blinked her eyes open. Pound Cake was crawling around and getting ready to fly around, he bumped into Rainbow Dash's rump. Rainbow Dash tapped the colt away softly. "We all got some good sleep, right?" Rainbow Dash smiled.
Everypony nodded, except for Pound Cake who didn't know what was going on exactly.
"Good. I have a plan," Rainbow Dash started. "Since it looks like only the pegasi have lived, there is only one place to go. It's huge, it's free and there is no way nopony survived. Las Pegasus." Rainbow Dash's wings were out spread in ten seconds and she lifted herself into the air, her hoof pointed straight up and she had almost looked like Celestia without her horn. Her Rainbow trail never leaving her.
"Las Pegasus is huge," Fluttershy flattened her ear. "but that could also mean more ponies got bitten."
"Well, 50/50 chance, Fluttershy. But what's adventure without a little chance?" Rainbow Dash winked as she came down, spiraling and doing outstanding tricks.
"The chance of death maybe." Scootaloo snorted, her ear flicking.
"Whats chance without adrenaline?" Rainbow Dash retorted, starting to come down and landing on her own four legs, perfectly balanced on the cloud.
"Ah-dren-ah-lin." Pound Cake muttered, his hooves clapping widely. Pound Cake must've been a bigger fan of Rainbow Dash then Scootaloo now, his entire interest based on her, and the fact that Rainbow Dash acts like a mother to him more than a friend.
"Exactly, Pound Cake. See, if baby Pound Cake is on my side, you two should join this bandwagon, too." Rainbow Dash winked. Fluttershy had thought about it for a while then let out a sigh.
"Well, the adventure to Las Pegasus begins, right?" Fluttershy gave out a weak smile, followed by a snort of Scootaloo. A near death experience didn't exactly sound nice, considering that those two have gotten most of them and Pound Cake have only a half experience of it, they wouldn't be the first to agree of this "chance".
"The adventure to Las Pegasus!" Rainbow Dash cheered, her hoof in the air.
"Bee-gin!" Pound Cake followed, his language becoming more and more clear.
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.
I have two quotes today. Sexy Strongness. Yeah... Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy. I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'
Chapter Six Leaving a Blank (Flank)
(Warning; Chapter contains verbal images of Sexual Assault.)
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Getting back to the clouds, Fluttershy let out a slight yawn. "Pizzelle, you must be starving."
"Oh no, I'm... I'm fine." Pizzelle looked down at her hooves as she reached the cloud. "I... I lost my appetite. Thinking about my past and before the undead life. All these-" Pizzelle became hesitant to reply. Her eyes twitching around. "ponies. All these undead ponies, searching for flesh." Her back got chills and looked away from everyone. "I just, don't want to eat much."
"That can't be true." Rainbow Dash flicked her ear sharply. "How long were you in there? Months, a year?" Rainbow Dash's maroon eyes glared at Pizzelle, who was breathing weirdly. Pizzelle's eyes were wet and were about to spring a leak. "And, What happened? What do you mean you're dangerous?"
"I killed somepony." Pizzelle swallowed air, her eyes twitching around again. "I... It... It was Thunderlane. At the time, we were... we were best friends. You saw." Pizzelle pointed her hoof straight at Rainbow Dash. "Back the academy, Thunderlane and I would always be talking. He... he was... such a sweet pony. I remember him flying off to the gun shop with me. He stopped. I remember him saying something about never returning to our original homelands, with the undead crawling with hate.
"I told him, though. No. No, I said. We can return to our original homelands, I said. He told me that its impossible, and that we were born to love then die. I." Pizzelle stopped. Tears forming in her eyes again. "He came up next to me and started to pin me down!" Pizelle screeched, her ears flattened. Her voice cracking with hurt, and her wings clamped tighter then Fluttershy's. "He pushed himself onto me, and would laugh loudly. I knew he thought I enjoyed it, I knew he liked me that way, too. I was being attacked, though. It wasn't supposed to be like that. It never was." Pizzelle cried, broken and torn.
Fluttershy's pupils were smaller than normal. Her wings shut down sharply. Rainbow Dash looked behind her and flattening her ears. "I'm sorry to hear. Did. Did you kill Thunderlane? Was he the pony in the corner?"
"Yes." Pizzelle cried. "He was supposed to love me, forever. I killed, him, though." Pizzelle started to shout. "I just wanted to be safe! I wanted to kill zombies, not ponies! I don't want to die! I don't want to live in this world, anymore!" After Pizzelle's rampage, she started to sob.
Rainbow Dash shushed Pizzelle. "Try to stay quiet," Rainbow Dash trotted close to the distressed pony. "If you make a sound too loud, We'll get caught. Zombies are everywhere." Rubbing her hoof on Pizzelle's shoulder, Rainbow Dash tried to calm her down. "But, hey. You did what you had to. It could have been Snowflake, and way worse." Rainbow Dash smiled a bit.
Pizzelle shoved Rainbow Dash's hoof away. "Where is our next stop? I need a break." Her sorrow turned around, and became rage. Pizzelle's tears were brushed away by her hoof and she looked up at the cyan Pegasus.
"Our next stop?" Rainbow Dash glared at Fluttershy, then at Scootaloo. "We aren't for certain. I would say, Appaloosa?" Fluttershy gave out a nod.
"We can look for Apple Jack there, too. She may be with family if she's alive." Fluttershy muttered, her hooves tapping on the cloud. "Maybe Apple Bloom is alive, and Scootaloo can have a friend." Fluttershy looked at Scootaloo who was coughing and shrugging slightly.
"It'd be cool to have Apple Bloom, she may even know where Sweetie Belle is!" Scootaloo perked up quickly, her ears up and wings pulsing. Her eyes darted to the left softly and went back to face Fluttershy.
Fluttershy smiled. "That sounds good Rainbow Dash?" Her creamy wings waving up and down with joy and excitement.
"Sounds like a good plan. We'll just let the wind drift us there, though. Pizzelle could get a few winks of sleep." Rainbow Dash glared at the crying, red faced, raging pony. Pizzelle's mane was still scruffy, and she winced at almost everything that made a noise. "Being paranoid might drive her to insanity. I think I could use some sleep, too." Rainbow Dash's hoof stretched out, curling over Pound Cake.
"How much more food do we need?" Rainbow Dash glared at Fluttershy.
"We can survive. Once we get to Appaloosa, we can probably just get a lot more." Fluttershy's eyes glanced over at their rations. "They'd have a lot more than ponies there, I assume." Her pink mane dropped down into her eyes.
Pizzelle's eyes started to water up again. "I'm sorry." She muttered. "I'm so sorry."
Rainbow Dash flicked her ear oddly, glaring at Pizzelle. "What are you sorry for? You didn't do anything to us. Yet?" Her maroon eyes cut through Pizzelle's throat and bodice. "If you're planning something, you better stop. We can easily kill you right here." Rainbow Dash pulled out the knife sharply and lifted it.
"No! No, no! I'm not planning-" Pizzelle let out a dark cough. "I'm not planning anything." Her hoof grabbed the knife softly, and she could feel the heavy blade of silver. It was cold and sharp, she could feel it slipping into her flesh and almost slitting a wound. The bloody texture on it, too. It was majestic and felt like water. Water was now pouring like rain in Pizzelle's head. No. It wasn't Rain, it was her tears. Tears of pain, though. The knife had slit into her hoof, forcing blood out of her skin. "I was saying sorry to him."
"Who is this "him"." Rainbow Dash snorted, pulling her knife back. The salty bloody of real living life looked quere, now. Her ears flattening down.
"Thunderlane." Pizzelle started to sob again. "It was my fault. I promise it was my fault for killing him." Her face flushed to a deep red, a deep red of pain and embarrassment. "I should have let him continue. Killing him was wrong. Even if it weren't meant to be, it was our last chance. I miss him, too. That's the sick thing."
Rainbow Dash snorted. "He deserved to die, Pizzelle. He was obviously going to go insane and kill you after he was done. You did the right thing." Rainbow Dash's wings lifted herself up, and her wings started pulsing faster in place, causing a drift to form in the cloud.
Pizzelle looked at her new bloody hoof. It looked amazing to see normal blood again, until her mind thought of Thunderlane. He was bleeding when she shot him, the way he had toppled over in death and curled up, screeching in pain. Her mind slowly processed everything again. She could feel the pain over and over and over again.
Pizzelle trotted into the gun shop with a slight smile. "Thunderlane?" She said with a start, her mane slickly in a bun. "We're going to get weapons for the rest of our group, right? And medicine, too?"
A black stallion rolled in, his slicked back grey mane looked good for the apocalypse. He was wearing his wonderbolts outfit with pride, and so was Pizzelle. "Yes, Pizzelle, but first. I have something to tell you." His hooves slowly reached for the door and he shut it darkly. "Something extremely important that only a mare like you would understand." Stepping closer to the mare, Thunderlane grinned. His hoof reached near her head and his hoof let her bun go, dropping her hair in her face. "You look beautiful with your mane down." He purred.
"Thank you, Thunderlane. What's all this about?" The creamy pale mare pushed his hoof away slightly. "We're only supposed to be getting supplies."
"I have all the supplies I need right now." Thunderlane grunted, his hoof reaching into one of the pockets with ease. He pulled out a small packet. Ripping the packet open, he pulled out a rubbery type of glove for something that wasn't his hoof. Slipping off the suit, and revealing his long (and slightly pink) shaft. Opening the glove and putting it on with a smile. "If tonight is our last night, we must love while we can."
He lifted his hoof again and started to tear down on Pizzelle's suit, ripping it apart and ripping it off from her sweet, slender bodice. Pizzelle was in shock, and in pain at the thought of what he was trying to say. He face flushed red. "Thunderlane, we can hardly take care of ourselves. We shouldn't be doing this." Thunderlane only moved closer, his hooves starting to rest on her shoulders as she was pinned in a corner. "Stop." Pizzelle whimpered, her eyes wincing slightly. "We can't do this."
Thunderlane smiled warmly. "Why not, Pizzelle. Do you not love me?" Pizzelle shook her head with pain. "No" was the only word released from her jaws as Thunderlane started to move closer, his shaft gently waving slightly- trying to poke it's way into Pizzelle's opening. Once it had found it's way to Pizzelle, Thunderlane had started his rapid thrusting, Pizzelle letting out screeches of pain. His thrusting was fast and strong, and she could feel her bodice being slammed into the corner. Thunderlane's face was one of ecstasy and he started to laugh with joy. Pizzelle's screaming was dark and painful.
Pizzelle swapped her hoof around for anything as Thunderlane let out his release, spreading seed around Pizzelle. Her grasp caught on something sleek and leathery, though. Her eyes shut completely and she lifted the gun close to Thunderlane's dark face. "Stop!" She screeched, the gun right for his forehead and brain. Tapping her hoof sharply on the trigger and pulling it, blood (and seed) splattering all over Pizzelle. Her face in horror of what she had just done. Not only would the weapon attract zombies, but she had just killed the one who loved her. She only took a second to realize this, too. The rubbery condom had broken off, and seed had gone all over her body. She gagged instantly.
Pizzelle woke up with a jolt, her hooves slamming down on Scootaloo's stomach and her wings flapping open widely and brushing Fluttershy's side. "I'm sorry!" She screeched loudly. "Stop haunting me, stop it!" Her mane wasn't scruffy anymore and her wings were tucked into her side slightly. She was still on the cloud, though. She felt odd.
"Pizzelle!" Fluttershy cheered, her hooves wrapped around the creamy pegasus. "We made it too Appaloosa while you were sleeping. Must've had some terrible dream, though." Fluttershy stuck her hoof on Pizzelle's forehead and sighed. "You have a slight fever. Maybe one of the other ponies are a medic."
Pizzelle looked around. It was bright and sunny, which felt odd to her. She hadn't seen sun in a while. But then a thought crossed her mind, how was there sun if they were inside a cloud. Her eyes opened wider and saw a missing panel, and a missing Rainbow Dash. "We got attacked?" Pizzelle sobbed.
"No." Fluttershy smiled. "Rainbow Dash is just getting more clouds to thicken the bottom layer and make more room. We're getting a few more passengers for our team." As Fluttershy said this, Rainbow Dash bolted by with a few high-strung clouds and some rocks that weren't too heavy. Flying under the cloud and back in to place the flat rocks down.
"Glad you're awake Pizzelle. We'll need you to stand up for a second." Rainbow Dash smiled as Pound Cake flew in, too, carrying a small rock. Pizzelle, Fluttershy and Scootaloo lifted themselves up, Scootaloo with a little support, and Rainbow Dash placed the rocks down. "I'll be back with three more passengers. Scootaloo, Apple Bloom is here, too. You may want to see her." Rainbow Dash winked happily, her hoof sticking out to grab the filly.
"That'd be great!" Scootaloo smiled as she grabbed for Rainbow Dash's hoof- both of them spiraling towards the ground.
Pizzelle shook her head. "How'd we get here so fast?"
Fluttershy frowned. "It wasn't fast at all. You were just sleeping for so long. It was probably a good day, although we didn't get too much trouble from Zombies. We did get some food from another survivor and now we have more ponies to help. Although they're all earth ponies, so a cloud isn't too good anymore."
Pizzelle shut her eyes. She knew this journey would be a long one, and that death was only waiting for them at the end of the trip. Fluttershy smiled. "We'll be okay. We just need to stay strong."
Pound Cake muttered happily as he flew up to Pizzelle and poked her nose. "Peee-zhull." He laughed and sat down on her stomach and started to blink softly, so innocently. Pizzelle winced at his soft poke with fear of stallions and colts. She was hesitant to meet the new passengers.
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
Chapter Seven The New Passengers
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Rainbow Dash smiled as Pizzelle came down near the survivors. "Everyone, this is Pizzelle. She's a survivor, too." The variety of orange and green and red ponies lifted on their back hoofs and shouted with joy, letting out Yeehaws and Woo-Wees. "She'll be helping us get your passengers around."
Pizzelle blushed slightly, Fluttershy flying down towards the group of ponies. "Is Applejack ready?" Her pink mane touching the ground before her hooves, her tail and mane extensions obvious.
"Sure, Howdy!" A tan stallion nodded. "Cuz is just grabbing some apples for the long journey, then she'll be on her way. My name is Braeburn, Pizzelle. Proud member of the Appaloosa community, and here on behalf of our Barn, I am happy to say that I will stop this disease if I can." Braeburn smiled. He had a tan coat with a darker, dirty blonde mane that was underneath a hat, a cowboy hat. He held his hoof out closer to Pizzelle and her ears flattened sharply.
Rainbow Dash pushed Braeburn's hoof away softly. "Braeburn, Pizzelle is under some stress." Her cyan eyes twitching anxiously. "Anyways, we have the entire cloud set up for earth ponies to walk on. The underneath of the cloud is thick and the cloud's flooring is rocks. I'm sure you'll like it a little bit."
"Can't be as roomy as the barn, though!" A green pony snorted, her hair in two braids tied in yellow bows. She wore a hat, too. Her cutie mark were two candy apples on sticks making an X shape. "The barn's has got some hay in it, which we sleep in, we're gon' be sleeping on rocks on that there cloud." Her hoof pointed up.
"Rainbow Dash," Braeburn muttered slightly. "Candy Apples is right. We're gonna be sleeping on rocks?" His country accent thickened slightly, but not as thick as Candy Apples', you could hardly understand anything she said half of the time.
"No. We have blankets. We'll be resting here for a few minutes thought, to get you all comfortable. Then we have to go out and find Pinkie Pie and the other elements. Although I have a good idea where Pinkie Pie is." Rainbow Dash sighed. Her wings pulsing slowly with interest. "Well, Braeburn, I'll get you up to the cloud for a second and Pizzelle can get Candy Apples." Rainbow Dash lifted herself and flew by Braeburn, coming back around and picking him up. Her Rainbow Trailing brightly shined in the suns spectrum.
Pizzelle smiled and trotted near Candy Apples. "You guys have a gun? We sure could use it right now." Pizzelle lifted up the mare and smiled as she flew away towards the cloud. Rainbow Dash flew back down with a nod. Pizzelle got up to the cloud and set Candy Apples down, who glared at Braeburn with confusion.
"How's these city ponies gon' help us do anythang 'round these parts." Candy Apples snorted, pointing her hoof at Pizzelle's bun and face. "Not like they know a few thangs 'bout workin'."
Braeburn snorted. "Now Candy Apples," He purred with a smile. "Ah'm sure that Rainbow Dash and her friends can do a lot, 'specially with a larger group. You." His hoof pointed at Pizzelle again. "You know, right? You know where we're goin' next?"
Pizzelle twitched slightly, unable to say anything. "I think we're going to Ponyville." She squeaked, her ears flattened sharply to her head. Braeburn tilted his head.
"You don't need to be afraid for long, Pizzelle. We'll protect ya." Braeburn smiled as Pizzelle started to fly away to see Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash again, who were talking to the orange pony named Applejack. She wore a hat, too. She look like she wasn't under any distress and was happy to leave.
"Now Apple Bloom," Applejack smiled widely. "go play with Scootaloo for a while before we leave. Big Mac and Ah need to say good bye to you, we're going to miss you bunches." Her head nuzzled with the creamy earth pony with red hair.
"Yes, Big Sis!" Apple Bloom cheered before running off with her friend.
Rainbow Dash flicked her ear as the two fillies ran off quickly, happily cheering. "Scootaloo sure does seem excited. She said that Apple Bloom pulled a knife on her." Applejack's pupils grew small.
"Apple Bloom always does have a knife with her, but we haven't seen Scootaloo at all lately." Applejack muttered quietly. "Should we stop 'em?"
"I'm sure it was just Scootaloo's nightmares or imagination. They'll be fine." Rainbow Dash sighed, her wings stopped moving and she took a second to relax. Big Mac walked out of the barn and near his older sister. He let out a smile.
"Big Mac and Ah form this here party, Ah sure feel awful leavin' it behind like this. Are you sure you need the elements, Rainbow?" Applejack muttered.
"Ye-up." Big Mac snorted. He looked down at the orange mare and started to speak, which was queer to see. Lately, though, from what Applejack says, he's been talking a lot more. "If anyone can figure somethin' out, Ah'm sure it'll be Twilight or one of the princesses."
Applejack sighed. "T'ain't fair. We spend so much time helping helpless ponies, killin' off these zombponies and we get stuck in a cloud. Ah'm without my brother and sister, and only got Braeburn and Candy Apples." Rainbow Dash smiled slightly, rubbing her hoof on Applejack's shoulder.
Scootaloo laughed, her hooves moving quickly to catch up with Apple Bloom.
"Scoot, stop it! You're acting just like those Zombponies!" Apple Bloom shouted, trying to move quicker, but her back legs were getting cramped up.
"That's the point Apple Bloom!" Scootaloo snorted, moving at the same speed as Apple Bloom, but once her wings started pulsing, too, she grew faster and faster. "You're gonna die if I tag you!"
Apple Bloom stopped, her hooves gathering dirt slightly as she halted. Scootaloo got close to her and tagged Apple Bloom on the shoulder. "You're the zombpony, now." Scootaloo's hoof went from Apple Bloom's shoulder to her waist, and slowly more down.
Apple Bloom was wearing a warm sweater from when Applejack was a filly, it was yellow with "Baby Cowgirl" written with rope patterns on the front, it had two pockets in the front. Apple Bloom screeched slightly as Scootaloo's hooves got lower and entered Apple Bloom's pockets.
"Stay still." Scootaloo smiled as she pulled out a small knife with a leather handle and keyring around it. She pulled the knife up closer to Apple Bloom's throat softly and started to laugh. "This is the fun thing about zombies, Apple Bloom. They love fresh meat and can smell it from many miles away. Blood, too."
Apple Bloom was suffocating slightly, her eyes watering. "Scoot!" She mumbled, trying to grab enough air to cry for help. Apple Bloom's hooves were kicking and thrashing rapidly around, trying to get herself free from the orange ponies grasp, the pony who she thought was her friend.
"Another thing about Zombies is that they like it when their prey is alive and they have to hunt it down." Scootaloo's knife got closer to Apple Bloom's neck, more and more threatening as her every word poured from her mouth like a waterfall. "Want to know what I want, Apple Bloom. Want to know what I want?"
Apple Bloom started to cry, tears pouring down Scootaloo's hoof slowly. "No." She managed to mumble, as her ears were flattened down and her drenched cheeks were flushed from their color.
"I want to help save this world. All the ponies who are alive, but won't live? I want them dead. I especially wanted my friends safe from being eaten alive." Scootaloo slipped the knife away and weakened her grasp so Apple Bloom could breathe. "I want to help them."
Apple Bloom's tears fogged her vision, and she couldn't tell she would be able to be released. Instead, her small tail twitched with fear. "Ah'm sorry, Scootaloo." Apple Bloom blinked her eyes open. "You can protect Rainbow Dash. Just can I have mah knife back?"
Scootaloo snorted as she tightened her grasp again. "Only if you do one thing for me." Scootaloo's mind was churning, similar thoughts was racing through like Thunderlane's old mind. Her interest level high now, that it might be her last chance to see something other than her mother and father's organs.
Apple Bloom nodded. "Yes?" She squeaked with the last bits of breath.
Scootaloo smiled. "I'm going to release you. I want you to turn in a circle and then lay down and open yourself." Apple Bloom's face when from white to pure red, her pupils small. Scootaloo's grasp released openly, and she watched as Apple Bloom walked out a few meters.
"Like this?" Apple Bloom squeaked as she walked in a circle, desperate to do anything to see her sister again. Her hooves almost tripping before she actually did fall and land on her back, then uncrossing her legs and spreading them open for herself to be shown.
"Perfect." Scootaloo almost drooled. "Now on your stomach, maybe?" Scootaloo smiled as she tapped her hoof on her shin slightly. Apple Bloom did so, revealing her blank flank and plot, open for the taking. If only Scootaloo were a colt, she would let herself enter, and might've even let Apple Bloom go free.
Scootaloo stepped closer before putting her hoof on Apple Bloom's flank. "It's blank." Scootaloo put her face closer to it and licked sideways, getting closer to the opening before she snorted with pride. "You're virgin."
Apple Bloom squeaked, her hooves covering her plot now. "Scootaloo! We're friends! You can't do this to me!" Apple Bloom started to cry again, her face red and her vision blurry.
Scootaloo started to lay down beside Apple Bloom. "I'll kill you then."
Apple Bloom cried, and her ears flattened even more sharply onto her head. Her bodice lifting up and starting to run away quickly. Scootaloo stopped her by grabbing her tail and pulling her back. "You are not going anywhere." Scootaloo snarled. "Except for hell." Scootalo spun Apple Bloom around quickly and pulled the knife onto Apple Bloom's throat, pulling it to the side and slashing open her throat.
Apple Bloom screamed loudly, her hooves feeling faint as she toppled over and started to cough blood. Blood stains covered her flank and left it looking like death was her special talent. It was a disgusting site, to see such an innocent pony be slain down like that. Few grumbles were heard in the forest. Scootaloo perked her ears and started to run back, dropping the knife at Apple Bloom's feet.
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"Ah know, we have to go soon." Applejack muttered quietly. "Are you sure Apple Bloom will see me soon? Ah'd hate to leave her without sayin' goodbye."
Rainbow Dash sighed. "It'll be okay, really, Applejack! Apple Bloom would understand that we just have so much time to get ready!" The blue pegasus snorted.
"Applejack, if you'd like I can send an owl for her once we get going." Fluttershy smiled softly.
Applejack shrugged. "That'd be great, Fluttershy. Ah'd just like to say bye to mah family before we go." Applejack went to turn around, and Rainbow Dash let out a strong snort and grasped her hoof on Applejack's tail.
"We don't have time for goodbyes. We have to go!" Rainbow Dash snorted as she lifted up Applejack and started to fly towards the cloud, her wings pulsing quickly to get done with the mission. Rainbow Dash dropped Applejack on the cloud next to Braeburn (who glanced with a smile) and started to fly off again.
"Applejack says Bye, everyone!" Rainbow Dash's hoof waved as Fluttershy jumped into the cloud and sat closer to her apple-picking friend. "We'll be back with a cure!" Rainbow Dash turned around and entered the cloud softly. "I hope." She muttered darkly under her breath.
Pizzelle made her way back in, too. Although she had no choice but to sit closely by Braeburn, figured out by Rainbow Dash, she sighed with happiness. "The cloud looks much better, now. Before it looked terrible and now it looks like a train." Her hoof pointed to the side and hit Braeburn in the stomach.
Braeburn snorted and then hesitated. Everyone soon let out a laugh, except for Pizzelle who was startled slightly. "All Ah know is that this will be an extremely great time to bond with you city folk. What's it like with bunches of ponies crowdin' the area you breathe in?" Candy Apples let out a disgusted snort and then looked at Pizzelle, who was a little too close to Applejack and Braeburn, her hoof near Braeburn in her lap.
"It's loud." Fluttershy mumbled. Everyone let out another laugh to poke at Fluttershy's quiet voice that never shouted too often. Fluttershy's snickers were quiet, too.
"It isn't too bad." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. "I'd like it more than being on the farm, though. How in Equestria do you ponies deal with those roosters and timberwolves?"
Braeburn laughed and set his hoof down, not noticing where Pizzelle's tail was, and putting it down on her tail. Pizzelle let out a screech and flailed her hooves rapidly. Braeburn's face got attack a few times. "What is this ponies problem?" He laughed slightly.
"She's been traumatized." Rainbow Dash snorted quietly. "It's okay though. She just needs to talk to more stallions for a while." Pound Cake poked his head out from underneath one of the seat-like clouds.
He looked up and saw Applejack, smiling widely. "Ah-pull!" He cheered at her flank and started to laugh loudly. Everyone joined in with him, seeing how there weren't too many worries in the cloud right now.
Rainbow Dash and Applejack not even noticing their missing admirers.
Rainbow Dash snorted happily. "Finally some time to relax my wings!" Pound Cake's wings joined hers and they pulsed with joy. "I never thought I could go so long without killing a pony, or zombie." She shut her eyes and started to moan with joy.
"Agreed!" Applejack nodded. "Been sometime, down at that there farm. All we saw were some darn zombies! Seeing your little cloud drift on by, well." Her hesitate actions were a sign. Her green eyes glinted with pain and fear.
"We didn't know what to think." Braeburn looked at Applejack and sighed softly. "We were overjoyed in the long run." He put his hoof on Applejack's shoulder.
"Well," Rainbow Dash spoke up calmly. "you'd be alright here. It's just flying around isn't something you do without magic, and as you can tell, we don't have any unicorns on our side. None like Twilight, anyways. I'm sure Rarity would be a help, but."
"But nothin'!" Applejack shouted. "Rarity ain't got any good skills for doin' us any good! Unless we need some type of garment to dress ourselves up in all fancy-like, she won't do much too good." Applejack snorted in rage, her tail lashing instantly.
"Applejack?" Fluttershy muttered slightly. "We all know Rarity doesn't have too many useful skills, but she's still our friend. We can't just let her get attacked off like that."
"Fluttershy's right, A.J.." Rainbow Dash nodded. "Maybe Rarity is at Ponyville, she couldn't have gotten to far from home before noticing her scarf was missing or something. Scootaloo, do you know if Rarity is at Ponyville?" Rainbow Dash looked around the cloud for a second. "Scootaloo?" She whimpered.
Applejack flattened her ears down. "Scootaloo ran off with Apple Bloom, remember? I never got to say good bye because they never came back."
Pizzelle let out a short gasp, where as Candy Apples gagged slightly. Pound Cake didn't real know much about what this was, but he let out a short gasp, too. His hooves clapping against the rocks softly.
Rainbow Dash's pupils shrunk down to a microscopic size. Her throat dry and sore with anticipation of her sister like companion dying from the infectious disease. "No!" She shouted loudly, her ears pinned down to her head.
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Scootaloo looked at the massive murder she had just done. To her friend, too. Her hoofs wobbling with excitement. "What..." She was hesitant then looked down at the blood coughing pony, who was crying loudly. "What did I just do?" She smiled widely.
Apple Bloom muttered under her breath, looking at the knife in her chest. Her eyes beaming with hurt. "Scootaloo." She whimpered. "Scootaloo, you're gonna die!" The creamy earth pony sobbed loudly. "Wait'll Big Mac sees this! He'll have your..." A wave of blood spouted through her mouth. Clots and everything, except for the sound of her voice. She coughed once more, and laid her head down. Her chest was pounding for air as her lungs opened and closed, grabbing for the wound.
Scootaloo glared down at her dying companion. "You shouldn't have ran." Her eyes were flooded, but her voice was filled with rage at the same time. Leaning down towards the pool of blood, Scootaloo rubbed some on her face and her stomach, none was needing on her hooves considering she already had some blood from grabbing it. "We could've been perfect." Scootaloo sighed and started to run for the barn, leaving the knife in Apple Bloom.
Scootaloo started to shout violently. "Help! Applejack!" She yelled, her eyes wet from watching Apple Bloom roll in her own pool of blood. "Apple Bloom is in danger!" She screamed. Big Mac glared out of the barn.
"Scootaloo!" He snorted. "You better be quiet. What's wrong with Apple Bloom?" He said, lifting the gun and aiming it towards Scootaloo's head. "Was there a zombie? Did it bite you?"
Scootaloo stepped back at the rifle Big Mac held. It was longer than the pocket knives and pistons, and looked like it would have way better aim than anything. 'You shouldn't have ran' rang in Scootaloo's head. "Apple Bloom got bitten and killed! It didn't bite me because I killed it with a knife, but Apple Bloom needs help!"
"Apple Bloom!" Big Mac gasped. "It isn't like her!" He grumbled, taking the gun down and running off from the forest. Scootaloo trailing behind slightly. She kept a close eye for any signs of the undead, but nothing had really moved except for the full speed clydesdale pony running for his younger sister. "Apple Bloom!" He called out once more.
"Big Mac..." Scootaloo could hear Apple Bloom's quivering voice, and so could Big Mac as he ran for his sister. "Scootaloo. She,"
"She's here, Apple Bloom. We promise you won't die like that." Big Mac's eyes formed tears. He didn't want to lose both of his sisters in one day. "You have a large wound, I'm sure that Nurse Redheart is willin' to help." Big Mac crawled under his sister and lifting her on his back, blood oozing out of her slowly.
Big Mac turned around, and ran for the barn, his hooves pulsing with fear. Scootaloo was close behind, crying almost. "Nurse! Nurse!" He called out loudly, his body entering the barn with full force, many ponies faces him with guns and few stared at him with knives. "Apple Bloom is in danger!"
A small pony with her pink hair done up in a bun walked in. "Oh, Big Mac!" She shouted. "You aren't in any real danger, are you?" She muttered.
"No, but Apple Bloom is." He choked on his own breath and started to breathe heavily. "She got knifed and bit." He ran off to one of the barn stalls and let Apple Bloom down on a pile of hay. "We need to get the gauze ASAP." Nurse Redheart nodded and ran off to grab the materials needed. She came back and dropped them.
Big Mac grabbed the gauze and started to wrap it around Apple Bloom's tiny bodice covered in blood. His hooves were getting red, other than his coat which looked like blood. He moved the gauze around the knife slowly and glared down at the knife. "Nurse?" He whimpered. "Should we?"
Nurse Redheart squinted. "It'd be a long shot, alright." She sighed. "It'll take time before it's ready, until then-" She hesitated. "You'll have to go find the pony who stabbed her and imprison them. We'll see if they need death trial or not, if they do we can feed it to the hoard."
Scootaloo entered the barn, almost thousands of ponies glared harshly at the pegasus. "It's a flyer!" One of the ponies screeched. A gun was pointed at Scootaloo's face. "State your name and business." The pony looked clearer now. It was one of the Flim-Flam brothers.
"Flam?" Scootaloo tilted her head. Flam laughed happily.
"It's alive, everypony! We're safe!" His hoof lifted into the air and her closed the barn doors. His smile was familiar, and he looked as fancy as ever. Nothing about him looked like a normal pony, though. He wore the same get-up as usual.
Busy ponies were everywhere, trotting happily and muttering with each other. Few of them spoke of good things, but they would let out a few laughs now and then, probably a funny joke about the undead looking for food but failing as the prevailed to get lettuce and flowers to devour endlessly. The entire barn was in a happy, frantic mood. Scootaloo looked like she was the undead, while the rest of these ponies were amazingly fit and well ready to kill anyone on campus. Anyone. Even Scootaloo if any of them were to find out it was her who killed the filly.
Big Mac approached Scootaloo with a sigh. "Scootaloo?" His face was serious, and his large eyes glared down at the filly warmly. "Did you see the pony who stabbed Apple Bloom?"
A creamy pony with red hair passed by with a smile. Fake by the glint in her eyes. "Scootaloo, how pleasant it is to see you." Rose Luck muttered. "Are you okay, Big Mac, Scootaloo?"
Scootaloo nodded slightly, her eyes twitching with fear. "Hey, Big Mac?" She glared at the stallion.
Big Mac nodded warmly at the filly. "What're you going to do to the pony who stabbed Apple Bloom?" She swallowed her breath darkly, the stallion lowered his head and waved his hoof for her to follow, Rose Luck's question ignored.
"Scootaloo, we already have two prisoners. They'll tell you all about what it's like in there." Big Mac trotted by many of the barn stalls. Only one was on his mind, Scootaloo could tell.
Scootaloo's heart pounded fiercely now. He knew, she thought. "What'd you mean by that!" She snorted, taking a few steps back. Big Mac stopped by a stall, the door shut ominously.
"I mean, we're going to let them talk. Don't worry, little filly. I'll go in with you so you don't get killed or somethin'." Big Mac pressed open the door, all his strength required to open it up. Once he did, there was a musty scent of rusting iron and unbathed ponies. There was a gasp of warmth.
"You've thought about it?" The voice muttered, chains were dragging across the iron floor. Loud coughing was heard, and a few hard breaths.
Scootaloo slowly moved forward, glaring into the iron room. The door was different form the rest, you could obviously tell that the apples knew what was going to happen. This barn wasn't here before, and it looked like they knew what they were going to do. There were chains everywhere in the room, small pools of blood and smaller rations of food. There was one pony, though, who stuck out the most.
A bright pink source was glaring at the filly with a wide smile. They were chained to the wall, dangling down like a spider on a web. "Scootaloo..." The voice taunted, the voice was unfamiliar, it was darker and more creepy. But all the colors were the same, and everything about it was too much to bare. "Scootaloo!" The pink source screamed loudly. This caused many ponies behind Big Mac to look in. Some let out sharp shrieks.
"Pinkie Pie?" Scootaloo muttered to Big Mac. "Why?"
"Pinkie Pie isn't here anymore, Scootaloo." Big Mac snorted, glaring at the smiling pink mess with distaste and hatred. "This is Pinkamena Diane Pie." He rolled his eyes. "You'd better go in first, I'll get some ponies to stay by the door." His hooves hurting from holding open the door strongly.
Scootaloo walked in nervously, glaring at Big Mac to make sure he didn't close the door on her while she was in. "Kay." She whimpered. Big Mac waved his hoof for ponies to come and hold the door open. He muttered something and they nodded, holding the door for him as he slipped in. He nodded once more, signaling the ponies to shut the door. They did so.
The darkness engulfed the two ponies, leaving them with the dimmest of sunlight that could slip between the bars that led outside. From this view, Pinkamena looked more like a criminal of the real type. Her insane grin crossing her face widely, her flattened ears and extremely small pupils. She started to shuffle a bit, trying to move closer to the ponies.
"Why did Pinki- I mean, Pinkamena, have to become a prisoner?" Scootaloo muttered to Big Mac, trying to stay near the stallion as the darkness and anxiety flooded her system with fear. Her breath was cool, unlike her head which felt like it was in a flame.
"Pinkamena did a lot of damage-" Big Mac started, pointing his hoof at the chains that held her in the air.
"Pinkamena had them vanish!" The pink mess snickered, starting a rhyme. "In her hoof a single knife," She glared at Scootaloo with a harsh tone. "taking away their every life." Her eyes twitched with hatred. "Although she didn't spread the fear, Big Mac started acting queer." Pinkamena laughed loudly, going to point her hoof at Big Mac, but caught by the shackles that held her in.
"Pinkamena, we don't have time for your jokes." Big Mac snorted aggressively. "Pinkamena killed some of our survivors. She went insane after seeing Mrs. Cake be killed. We couldn't risk much. So we held captive another." Big Mac turned around and pointed his hoof at the orange pony who was sobbing loudly. "Mrs. Cake became a zombie, Mr. Cake couldn't stand being alone. He ran in to get Pinkie and told her that he was going to keep her alive for everything. Pinkie was already gone by then. We didn't want him going insane, too. Killin' off all of us." Big Mac glared warmly at the father of two, who already lost everypony he had loved.
"Would you ever let us go?" Mr. Cake whimpered, his eyes glaring brightly. He looked depressed over anything else, a mess maybe. His hooves looked broken, but they were just fine as he crawled towards them.
"Stop being a baby!" Pinkamena snarled, kicking her back hooves. "You wanna be stuck up here, chained to the wall to be stuck in the darkness of no light. Well, I'll swap places with you and show you what a real pony can do." Pinkamena's grin return with a large frame. "You lost all of your family from being a frantic fool! Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake got stolen instantly. Wanna by who, Mr. Cake? How about you, Big Mac? Hmm, she's in this very room." Pinkamena glared at Scootaloo harshly.
Big Mac snorted as Mr. Cake yelled insanely, his hooves tapping against the ground as he stood up to attack Pinkamena. "Mr. Cake- Pinkamena didn't take Pound Cake or Pumpkin Cake. They both died, remember?"
Scootaloo's body got tense. She could feel the worry of Big Mac finding the group, Big Mac seeing the ponies with Pound Cake, Big Mac attacking her with hatred of her lies. She didn't say anything, but she wanted to change the subject. "Pinkamena, who did you kill?" She managed to say, ready to stir up Big Mac's emotions to make him forget about the filly who just killed his little sister. Pinkamena laughed coolly.
"It's a long story." She muttered quietly. "It all started when I was perky..."
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Rainbow Dash started to sob loudly. "Scootaloo can't die!" Her hooves slammed down. "We can't let it happen, Applejack!"
Applejack let out a curt nod. "'Ah know." She growled quietly. "We gotta go back to start searching." She glared at Braeburn and Pizzelle.
"That's a terrible idea, Applejack." Pizzelle said slightly, nodding in agreement, Braeburn stated that they were okay. "It's not like Scootaloo did much to help us." Pizzelle said coolly, her wings curling up. "Only time will tell." Pizzelle glared at Rainbow Dash with a comforting smile.
"She's right, Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy muttered. "It'd just be one less mouth to feed, our rations will go up plentiful. I'm sure they are in the barn just fine." Her voice was sweet, but it wasn't too nice on Rainbow Dash's thoughts.
Rainbow Dash got up, picked up her gun and knife, and walked out of the cloud. "I'm sniping tonight, Applejack, join me." She snorted with distaste and pain. The voices telling her that it will be alright were lying to her, she was trying to keep Scootaloo away from her mind, but no matter what she had done or said, the pony jumped into her mind with a bloody neck and bright eyes. "If I see Scoot-a-zombie, Pizzelle is getting off." She glared at Pizzelle.
Pizzelle jumped slightly. "Me?" She shook in her skin, her breath becoming warm with pain. "Why me?"
Rainbow Dash ignored Pizzelle's muttering and flew out with rage, her hooves hitting the top of the cloud.
A cold breeze covered the cloud slightly as Rainbow Dash's wings folded. "Darn it. Scootaloo, you shouldn't have gone. You should have stayed here. Apple Bloom always carries a knife, says Applejack. Apple Bloom probably killed Scootaloo. Well I say no." She sobbed slightly. "No!" She screamed again, her wings tightly wrapping her body.
Rainbow Dash's mane fell in her face, blocking her view. But her ears had caught a noise, something dark and evil. The moaning and flapping of wings. Pulsing, closely booming. Another moan. Rainbow Dash's head lifted and she looked behind her and saw a mass herd of Zombies. The cloud had a hole ripped in it, A gun was pointing out and hit one of the zombies, right in the head. The leading zombie's wings were spread out, and their body started to fall at a moderate speed. Rainbow Dash's pupils were small, and her gun was latched in her head with fear.
"Nothing beats a good book, unless it's about beating a book." Chapter Nine I Have a Story for You.
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Pinkamena opened her mouth widely, gasping with anticipation for her story. "I remember when I was so happy." Her voice chilled down in the room, leaving it to be silenced. "The world was a much better place. I would anticipate pride and cupcakes and joyful things. Even seeing sweet little filly faces," her mouth clamped softly, her dark eyes now piercing into Scootaloo's soul. "even yours. Then, while little Twilight Sparkle was conducting her experiments on Spike, I had pushed something over. She screamed at me for hours, cleaning up my mess and telling me to stick to baking cupcakes and acting like an idiot." Pinkie's mane dropped into her face and her eyes got wet. A tear dropped form her check and hit the floor. "The suspenders on my hooves. They hurt." She winced slightly.
Big Mac glared at her hooves, one was bleeding and the other had red marks. He sighed calmly and walked closer to Pinkamena. "Fine. Only for your story, though." He wrapped his hooves around the cuffs and pulled them apart, waiting for a click that would announce one hoof free. Pinkie's left hoof was free, and she had started to slap Big Mac in the face a few times.
"Don't you ever get near me, you creep!" She screamed loudly, Mr. Cake covering his ears with whimpers. "I need. To be. Free!" Pinkamena screamed even louder, Scootaloo covering her ears now, too. Pinkamena thrashed rapidly while Big Mac let her other hoof free. The pink pony decided to show her gratitude by spitting on Big Mac. "Don't touch me." She snorted and glared at Scootaloo with a demonic look. "So." She started.
"So, what?" Scootaloo muttered back, shutting her eyes to block the view of the pony who looked like she could have been a zombie herself. Blood covering her hooves, cuts and burns among her body and even one of her ears had a notch in it. Her view was shrouded with grotesque images.
"Who have you killed recently?" Pinkamena poked at the filly, a wide grin marked against her face and her eyes glaring deviously at the orange pegasus. "You're in the prison. You're a killer. We all are, though. Aren't we?" Pinkamena turned her head to face Big Mac, who was washing the spit off from his hoof. He looked up and his gaze met with Pinkie's.
"What're you talkin' about?" He snorted aggressively towards the pink killer, her mane covering on eye and his eyes locking on her right eye with concern. "I didn't kill anypony. I never would do a thing."
"Zomponies. Aren't they, still, ponies? How about Mrs. Cake? She was a pony. So wasn't Derpy, Carrot Top, Soarin'," There was a long hesitant pause. "Granny Smith." Pinkamena laughed loudly at Big Mac's reaction, her hoof pointing out sharply and her mouth wide with joyful behavior.
"You hush yer' mouth about Granny Smith! She was the most pony out of any of those you named, at least she did good to help others!" Big Mac's hoof slammed down on the floor with rage. The musty scent of blood puffed out from underneath his hoof.
"As I was saying," Pinkamena rolled her eyes and looked at the cowardly filly. "I saw the death of many, the perky side of me said, It's all okay! Their just sleeping off the pain. It turns out that sleep isn't possible anymore. I don't think it ever will be. Not with the gun shots firing in the background of our ambient lovely noises. Maybe the moaning is calming. Is the moaning calming to you, Scootaloo? Do you like to hear the crying of your friends?" Pinkamena glared at Scootaloo. She paused for about a minute, Scootaloo hadn't replied. "Do you?!" She screamed, slamming her hoof on the fillies arm. Her arms outstreched and went to grab the filly by the mane and pull violently.
"Big Mac, Help!" Scootaloo cried as her arm was covered in blood from Pinkie's arm, and her mane was being tugged on without mercy. Her heart was pounding loudly, feeling guilty for the pain she brought by attempting the murder of her friend. What would she say to defend herself when Apple Bloom got better. She wouldn't have to if she had died in Pinkie's grasp tonight. She dwelled on this, and waited for her bloody fate, being beaten while thinking about it. Then, the pain went away.
Pinkie was dragged away by her tail as Big Mac threw the monster of depression into a corner and tied her down with chains. "Scootaloo, get out. I'm goin' to take care of this monster right now." He walked away from Pinkamena, who was crying ferociously, and walked near the door. He muttered under his breath, and the door opened coolly. The bloody Scootaloo was close by, limping slightly. Big Mac walked her to the nurse calmly, and spoke soothingly. "Redhart, Scootaloo got attacked. She'd better get healed up, I gotta go get a gun." He snorted and walked away, Scootaloo glaring at the bloody body of Apple Bloom.
"Something scary jumped 'ya?" Nurse Redheart glared at the two bloody fillies. Apple Bloom nodded her head slowly and waved her hoof slightly. "I imagine. No way two little fillies can survive out there. I wonder how Pinkie managed. She acts like a filly, don't she? It's a shame this had to happen." The nurse grabbed a large gauze bandage and lifted up Scootaloo's hoof, wrapping it around and around. The blood was collected on the bandage, although there was little bloodshed on Scootaloo, she still needed to clean it off.
"Something really scary happened." Scootaloo muttered slightly as her hoof and arm were being cleaned off.
"What was it, Scootaloo?" Nurse Redheart looked concerned at the filly, her bun meeting Scootaloo's eyes as she turned around to grab a few drugs for Apple Bloom. She started to whisper. "Apple Bloom, sweetie?" There was a mutter coming from Apple Bloom's mouth. "You better take these vitamins. They'll help you store energy to heal." Apple Bloom looked up and opened her mouth as the nurse dropped the small, chewable pills into Apple Bloom's mouth.
"We were running." Scootaloo shut her eyes. "Running in the forest, playing tag. I told Apple Bloom to stay quiet and to stay down, stay close. She didn't want to, and because of her foolishness a zombie attacked her. I killed the Zombie, but slipped. The knife got her, I feel terrible." Her eyes opened again, the image of her lies made her sick.
"Sounds terrible." The nurse muttered, then watched as Big Mac walked back with a gun wrapped around his chest. She walked closer to the door near him. "Oh, Big Mac. Scootaloo'll be fine. The blood is mostly from Pinkie's arms. Not Pinkie's attacks." She looked at the gun and sighed. "Going to put her down? Would you like the medicine?" Her eyes gleamed with concern.
"Shooting her will be enough. She hasn't seen any Zomponies in a while. The virus can't attack her. If it does, we'll have a pony to clean up the prisoners. If she does become a Zompony and attacks us, we'll use the medicine." Big Mac muttered. "Did you give the medicine to Apple Bloom?" The nurse nodded warmly. "Good. Pinkie will be done soon." He moved away, leaving the nurse and Scootaloo speechless.
Big Mac pressed the door open again, and looked at the two prisoners. Pinkamena still held in her corner crying. "Big Mac. Please, don't do this. I just want to see the sunlight again, and help you. Protect the ponies, be a pony. I want to be by your side. I want to be with you. Big Mac," The large red pony had called over others to help the door, and Big Mac had walked in. "Big Mac. I think, I think I like you." The pink pony's blue eyes pierced into his green eyes. He muttered slightly under his breath. "Just... let me go." Her eyes gleamed with curiosity as he stared at her. Interesting, he thought.
He moved closer, and went to go lean in. Waiting for a kiss from Pinkie Pie, she had leaned in, too. Suddenly her hoof kicked the trigger of the gun and it smashed the latched that held her hoof down. She laughed in Big Mac's face as he fell down to the ground. "This is my world, Big Mac. You just have to live in it." She snorted and then started to moved the slightly deaf, slightly blind pony away to the chains. She lifted one of his front hooves up and latched him in. He opened his mouth to speak, but wasn't able to. Pinkie took the gun off from his chest and then gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Being desperate won't help you with Nurse Redheart, Sweetie." She took on the gun and started to walk near the door, clapping her hooves sharply on the door. The ponies opened up, Pinkie Pie standing there with a smile. "Let me out." She shouted, pushing them away and running off. She trotted away towards the bags and supplies. Taking one large saddle-bag, two long strips of rope, ten apples, and a large container of bullets. She walked off as ponies coward away from her, laughing loudly.
She made her way out of the barn and started to breath in. "Taste those toxins." She purred warmly and walked away, following the trail of Rainbow Dash's cloud. Her throat humming warmly to the buzz of bees. Night was coming upon her, and Pinkie Pie was excited.
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The gun shot had shocked Rainbow Dash to jump, she lifted her gun and started to aim sharply at the Zombies faces, her hoof trembling with fear. "Please don't miss." She muttered as her hoof pulled the trigger with confidence, it had hit one pony in the mouth, they fell over, half way dead and half way undead. Another shot fired from under her, hitting another zombie to fall down. Blood was raining, now. As the ponies under the cloud were sharp shooting, Rainbow Dash has been missing repeatedly, sobbing under her breath. She's broken, now. Her confidence failing her and rubbing into her face. One more shot, she had finally killed the one zombie. It was close enough for the blood and brains to hit over her body. The undead caping her face. She screamed and wiped it off, her gun pointed down. She lifted her hoof back up and started firing wildly, shooting at least two zombies every five shots. Blood was raining down, and the ground had looked like a gore fest. Some earth ponies walked over to the mess and chewed calmly on the remains of their friends. Nasty.
Applejack pushed a hole in the top of the cloud and looked up to see Rainbow Dash's blood covered face. "Ah're you okay, Rainbow? Did you get bit?"
Rainbow Dash shook her head. "You have some sharp shooters. I was perfectly fine. Some of the zombie's got de-winged, so they're all dead, probably. I hope." Rainbow Dash shut her eyes and coughed loudly, moving over the cloud and throwing up with pain. She opened her wings and flew down to enter the cloud.
"Rainbow Dash, you could've been killed." Fluttershy muttered under her breath. "You shouldn't get so angry, you'll end up killing yourself." Fluttershy walked closely to Rainbow Dash and rubbed her back. Rainbow Dash sighed, her eyes clamping against each other.
"I'm sorry, Pizzelle. You deserve to stay here. It was you who was shooting, right?" Rainbow Dash opened her eyes and looked warmly at the pegasus.
"Braeburn helped, but, yes. Candy Apples de-winged some of them. We should be safe for the rest of the night. I'd hope." Pizzelle muttered, watching the sun fall down. "D'you think Celestia is waiting for survivors?" Pizzelle sighed calmly.
"We all hope so, Pizzelle." Braeburn muttered.
"If she is, we will assist her defense." Fluttershy nodded, curling up for a good night's rest.
Rainbow Dash shut her eyes. She felt herself getting heavier, and heavier. She fell over against a rock- her head letting out a dark thud as she crashed over in the lack of sleep. Her wings crinkled up and hurt. Her back hooves bloody and dark. Her head let out a wind of confusion and pain.
Fluttershy was sitting on a rock with dark eyes sof depression. "Scootaloo died a long time ago. Rainbow Dash thought she had lived." Applejack was sitting near Fluttershy, her eyes just as dark. Although her pupils were large, she had looked like she had paranoia.
"I thought... I thought that Rainbow Dash would've lived, too."
Dark images flashed through the scene, one of Derpy lying dead, blood pouring from her neck as her eyes twitched rapidly. Her hooves taping against the dirt and grass and her jaw hanging wide open. Her ears perked up and ready, as if listening to another story from Time Turner. She looked terrible injured, a few burns on her stomach and a huge rip from her throat.
Another image, this time of Scootaloo, crying loudly and being chase by a zombie, getting her tail tugged on and pulled away, her back leg being ripped apart and chewed on evilly by Apple Bloom. Apple Bloom's laughter shrouding her thoughts. Scootaloo's blood forming a pool, which after eating Scootaloo's leg, Apple Bloom swam in. "Nice water, want a swim, Rainbow?" She taunted.
Rainbow Dash's leg was pulled on, her eyes opening as blood formed around her head. "Wake up, Rainbow!" Fluttershy sobbed, shouting at the same time. "You could've died, again." Fluttershy moved Rainbow Dash up to a chair, Rainbow Dash acting drugged looked at the pool of blood.
"What... Happened?" Rainbow Dash glared at the blood and looked at her hoof, more blood.
"You fell over while tryin' to tell us somethin'. Braeburn, Pizzelle and Candy Apple all went to go raid that store. We stayed here to make sure that you survived. We drugged you up a bit, though. You should be feeling some pain anytime soon. We've ran out because you had to take so many. When you started to come to, we were shocked." Applejack muttered, looking around slightly.
"How long... was I out?" Rainbow Dash looked at her other hoof, which touched her head and had blood on it.
"A day. Lots of hours gone by, we didn't know what to do. We should've brought Nurse Redheart, but she has healin' to do over there, too." Applejack sighed.
"Where's Poundcake?" Rainbow Dash muttered, glaring around a bit.
"He's learning to fly, Fluttershy is going to teach him soon. We had to stay here a bit for you wakin' up, though. You might have amnesia." Applejack calmed down and looked at Rainbow Dash with a smile. "Get some rest." Applejack rested her hoof on Rainbow Dash's shoulder and let the pony lay down. Rainbow Dash's eyes shut, and she started to fade away into a different reality, a dream reality. Where everything would be normal again, she hoped.
