Ponies Of The Dead.

"This world is about to suffer due to its error, it is the flaw of ponykind. However that's not the case with you dear Rarity, I can trust you." Stryker looked deeply into Raritys eyes as she continued to pleasure his stallionhood.

"For a long time I've done bad things for my own well being. I've lived all my life trying to get by, manipulating other ponies and... It worked. But all of you!" Stryker raised his hooves and stared hypnotically at the ponies watching Rarity service him. "All the ponies here have changed the error of my ways." it was another endless speech. "With your tender touch I'm able to change."

Bang bang bang!

"Please Malt-House, let me in." an Earth pony bashed on the door to the horse drawn carriage, which Stryker had "commandeered". Stryker could hardly hear the pony in danger over the loud rain. "Help me, they're out here!" he bashed on the wooden door once more. "I wont disobey you again!"

"Now, let us put our passion together!" Stryker finished his ridiculous speech and every pony began to clap with hypnotized excitement, even Rarity managed with her muzzle wrapped around Stryker's shaft.

"Ahhhhhhhhh!"

***

"Octy, please can we just sleep? Killing all these freaks is really tiring." Vinyl yawned loudly trying to make it as obvious as she possibly could. "Vinyl, you were the one who said you were a better shooter than me. What happened to all that energy?" Octavia replied with a counter question.

"It's just I have a headache and my horn is killing me right now." Vinyl complained.

"Your horn hurts? What kind of pain?"

"I dunno, like someone is carving into it." without warning Octavia jumped at her knocking her over, Vinyl was pinned under her. "If you wanted to fool around ya coulda just asked."

"Shut up Vinyl, this is serious." she put her hooves to Vinyls horn. "Quick! We need a mirror or a window, something with a strong reflection." she released Vinyl from her grip at started to search through Vinyls nearby saddlebags. "You don't have anything?!"

"Well in case you haven't noticed, I really don't care what my mane looks like." Vinyl retorted. "Yes, of course." Octavia voice was muffled as she continued her search, Vinyl walked over to a nearby water fountain and lowered her head to take a drink.

"Hi!" a voice spoke from the water.

"Ah!" Vinyl jumped back and fell on her rump, her glasses fell from her eyes. "Vinyl? What are you yelling about this time?" Octavia walked over and helped her stand. "There's a ghost! In the water." Octavia approached the fountain with caution, in the rippling water she saw a lavender unicorn.

"Good afternoon, my name is Twilight Sparkle."

***

"Ah here it is!" Twilight shouted with excitement as she popped her head out of a pile of books carelessly thrown around. "You found it? Really?" Redheart trotted over to Twilight trying to avoid stepping on any of the books on the way. "Reflection Communication spell." she flipped through the pages in quick succession, after several seconds she lowered the book to the library table and out a hoof to her chin. "Hmmm" she stared at the book intensely.

"Is something wrong Twilight?" Redheart asked.

"No, nothing's wrong. I can perform this spell in my sleep, but I need to know what she looks like. And more bad news, it only works between unicorns. Is there anypony she is always near? a unicorn?" Twilight inquired.

"Yes, strangely enough there is. Her Marefriend is a Unicorn." Redheart sunk her head into her saddlebags and pulled out a framed photo, Twilight grabbed it using her magic and set it down in the desk in front of them. In the photo she saw four mares, two of which she instantly knew were Redheart and Twilight's own friend Pinkie Pie smiling gleefully.

"Pinkie Pie?"

"Yes this was taken at one of her parties, you know how she is." Redheart and Twilight laughed together for moment then she looked back at the photo and saw the other two mares on the left side, an earth pony with a grey coat who looked like she was there forcefully. Standing on two hooves next to her was a white coated unicorn with a wild electric blue mane, her forelegs wrapped around Pinkie Pie and the other mare.

"Great this is what I need, now we just need a mirror." Twilight galloped to the Canterlot library entrance to where the mirrored wall was. "Excellent."

"Are you sure this will work Twilight?" Redheart asked.

"I'm sure." Twilights horn began to glow brightly. She had the white mare imprinted on her mind, trying to visualize her in the room with Redheart and herself. In seconds a white mare appeared on the mirror wall, "Hi!"

"Ah!" the mirror turned a dark grey, only muffled voices could be heard from inside the mirror. Seconds passed and then a the earth pony from the picture twilight had seen appeared. "Good afternoon, my name is Twilight Sparkle."

"Uh... Hello?" the grey pony was confused at what she was experiencing. "I'm Octavia, you used the Communication spell?"

"Yes, Nurse Redheart and I have been searching almost all day." Twilight informed her.

"Nurse? Redheart is still a nurse? Where is she?" Octavia stared intensely at the water, looking for her friend. "Here I am!" Redheart shouted cheerfully and stepped into the mirror image almost knocking twilight out of the way.

"Redheart, you're safe. Thank the goddess, where are you? Are you safe?" Octavia managed to ask more questions than she had breath for. "I'm fine, I've traveled with Twilight Sparkle to Canterlot with her friends." Redheart was excited to talk to her friend.

"Listen, what ever you do, you have to-" A high pitched whirring noise came from the mirror as Twilight's horn glowed unintentionally bright. She could not control the magic for long amount of time on her first attempt. "Tavi?" Redheart tapped the mirror with a hoof, "Tavi? Are you still there." she tapped again and a large crack appeared on the mirror as the image of Octavia wavered and warped then disappeared.

Twilight collapsed and was breathing heavily, Redheart ran over to her and helped her up on all four legs. "Twilight, it worked. She's safe." Redheart hugged her tightly ignoring her dizziness.

***

I wonder what Fluttershy wanted to talk about? I hope it's nothing serious, her wings are still injured. Caramel stared down at the floor while walking towards her room. Well here goes nothing. He swung the door open and saw Fluttershy sitting on the bed.

"Shy? What did you want?" Caramel stepped inside and closed the door behind him, Fluttershy tapped the empty space next to her with a hoof. Caramel complied and sat down next to her.

"Caramel, we've all been relying on you through our entire journey. Your a natural born leader, I was talking with Twilight and Spike and we think it's best that you become our leader when we leave the castle." Fluttershy stared into his cerulean eyes.

"What a leader? I'm not a leader, Twilight is the smart one. Dash is the one with awesome fighting skills, even Scootaloo is...well Scootaloo is Scootaloo." Fluttershy laughed softly, then caught her breath.

"Can I tell you something Caramel?" Fluttershy leaned on his shoulder, "Even with all the events that have happened over the past few days, I never stopped believing in you. I knew you'd keep us safe from those monsters." she nuzzled deeper into his neck. "Even before this you had the worst of luck, but... Your always up for what is the right thing to do. You weren't alway a leader, but I think you are now. I made a terrible mistake choosing Big Macintosh over you, I shouldn't have hurt you." Caramel wrapped his foreleg around her and took her hoof with the other.

"I love you and I understand if you don't feel the same way, but I'll never hurt you again-" Flutershy was interrupted as Caramel pushed her into her back and pinned himself on top of her. He paused and started breathing heavily. "What's the matter?" Fluttershy asked.

"Nothing Fluttershy, you're beautiful." Caramel leaned down and his lips to hers, pressing deeply. "Ah." Fluttershy broke the kiss in pain, her wings were still hurt.

Caramel released her from his grip and sat on the bedside, "I'm sorry, I know it hurts. You should rest." Caramel sat up and walked over to the door, as he opened it he saw a cyan face pressed against air. "Dash? What are you doing?"

"Nothing!" she quickly pulled her head back from where the door would have been. "I was uh... Looking for you! Yes that's it!" she rapidly with panic.

"Okay what do you want to talk about?" Caramel asked.

"Can we talk in your room?" she looked passed his shoulder to see Fluttershy crying into her hooves. "In private?"

***

The rain was still hard across all of Canterlot, Three unicorn guards stood guarding the Fog. One of them saw a horse drawn carriage come closer with nopony pulling it, "What on Eq-"

"What is it?" his fellow solider asked. "Um. A ghost carriage."

"Ghosts?" he looked over to his direction and saw his description. He noticed a bright grey blur of color. "It's magic you mule." he nudged him as the carriage was finally close enough to them, a beautiful white mare poked her head out of the window. "I'm sorry to cause you any hassle but may we enter? We have nowhere to go and the horrible monsters wont stop bothering us." she was more than enthusiastic with her acting. Although the guards didn't care, they believed every word she said and let the carriage pass. And the white mare returned inside the carriage.

"Excellent work Rarity." Stryker laughed.

***

Today is a really... Depressing day. I messed up with Fluttershy, I messed up with Twilight. Dash just wants more meaningless sex. But I just want to leave.

"Is it true?" Fluttershy busted open Caramels door. "Is it Stryker?" She ran off after seeing Caramels body close against Rainbow Dash's. "What?" Caramel asked as he quickly jumped out of the bed and ran after her. Rainbow Dash ignored it and simply rolled over under the sheets, attempting to sleep. After several seconds she shifted her body again, "Ugh... Fine." she said to herself. After getting out of bed she spread her wings and flew straight downstairs landing next to Caramel. Fluttershy held her rifle she received from Spike in her hooves. Bayonet pointed at Stryker Malt-Houses face. "You've got some nerve coming here Stryker. Do you know why I'm pointing this at you?"

"Fluttershy dear, put the barbaric spear down." Rarity said from Stryker's side. "No Rarity, this Stallion is a menace, right now nothing is stopping me from killing him right here. He manipulating you just like he did to me years ago."

Wait Fluttershy did what?

"Please Fluttershy I assure you I have changed my ways, I not that stallion anymore. I know I treated you badly all those years ago, but Rarity has made me realize the error of my ways." Stryker let out a struggled noise as Fluttershy raised the blade closer to his face piercing his skin, a thin strand of blood ran down his cheek.

"NO, I won't let you manipulate and rape ANYMORE!" Fluttershy was furious.

Rape? Oh Fluttershy, I'm so sorry I didn't know.

"THEN KILL HIM!" Luna approached out of nowhere like she tended to do lately. "IF YOU WISH, KILL HIM!" her voice was loud as usual. Caramel stepped forward to stop Fluttershy, only to be held back by Rainbow Dash. "Dash! Let me go!" he shouted.

"No, she has to make this decision for herself." Rainbow Dash gripped him by the hoof.

"Fine! Go ahead and kill me. I welcome it, but remember that your actions will haunt you for the rest of your life."

Fluttershy struggled as tears fell from her eyes, unable to commit, she lowered her weapon and walked back towards the marble staircase. "Are you sure you have made the correct decision?" Luna asked.

"No, I can't. He is not worth killing, he can suffer with the monsters."

"LEAVE STRYKER MALT-HOUSE, TAKE YOUR FOLLOWERS WITH YOU! OR I WILL BANISH YOU TO THE SUN MYSELF!" Luna's command was final, banished from Canterlot. Stryker breathed heavily as tears dropped his face, he walked over to the magically powered carriage and stepped inside. Rarity and the other survivors followed him and the carriage simply vanished into the fog.

***

Several hours later Fluttershy stood outside the palace balcony and stared into the horizon, the rain had cleared and the sun could be seen through the fading clouds. Caramel slowly walked up to her as she watched the sunset, "Im proud of you Fluttershy." he wrapped his foreleg around her. "it was very brave what you did today."

"Thanks Caramel." Fluttershy leaned in a kissed Caramel sliding her tongue in gently and caressing his own.

So far I've managed to mess up so many things. My luck is simply the worst. But even with all the guns or swords in the world couldn't protect us from what was happening. Armageddon.

To Be Concluded...