Ponies Of The Dead.

Their hunger, it never ended. They never ended.

Bark!

"Look, somepony's trying to be a hero." Spikes voice was dark, he handed the binoculars to Caramel.

"He's shooting at them?" Caramel watched as the pony shot again and loaded another shell.

"Yeah with a double barrel, it will keep them away but it's gonna make a heck load of noise too." The pony with the shotgun shot again and loaded another shell, it slipped from his grip and fell on the dirt. It bounced in front of his hooves, catching it he laughed to himself. Three infected monsters lunged at him and tore him limb from limb, scarlet blood sprayed everywhere soaking the ground. Even in Luna's moonlight the color could be seen. "AHHHHH!"

"Bark!"

***

"This is bad, they will come here next if we don't take care of it." Dash said as she lowered the binoculars. "Dammit! That's it! I'm going down there!" Caramel turned and stormed off.

"Caramel!"

"What?!"

"You can shoot them but then what?" Spike said.

"Isn't it obvious? I'll shoot them and prot-"

"Did you forget?" Rainbow interjected. "They react to the sounds. Caramel." she tuned and stepped through the sliding doorway, back into the bedroom. Caramel followed her. "And for the ponies that make it out alive? They come to us because we're awesome and we have light!" Rainbow reached for a switch and flicked it. The room went dark. "We need to stay in the dark, we can't save anypony else. Here." she handed him the binoculars "Take a look, being brave is awesome and all. But it's not enough to survive." She walked towards the staircase.

"I thought that out of anypony, you'd think about this differently." she paused when Caramel spoke. "Don't misunderstand me, I'm not being cruel. This, Caramel, is just the way things work now." Rainbow calmly said. "I'm not saying that I like it." she turned and continued down the staircase.

Just my luck.

Once again Caramel was on lookout with the binoculars, he saw ponies getting torn apart by the infected ponies wherever he looked. He turned to a small wooden house opposite the fortress. The was a bright light coming from the porch, he saw a small orange Pegasus running towards it with a larger turquoise Pegasus.

What? It cant be?

***

"Dad? Wheres mum gone?" Scootaloo asked her father. "I'm sure we will meet up with your mother later, come on this way." he walked towards the porch of a house with a very bright light, he banged on the door loudly.

"Please let us in! I have a child with me and we have nowhere to be safe." he continued to bash on the door. "Pleas let us in! We need help!" he shouted. A muffled voice came from the other side. "We don't want anypony here, please go away!"

"Please! I don't care about me. My daughter! Let her in!" He bashed on the door again. The light turned off leaving the two of them in darkness. He stopped bashing his hooves and began to breath heavily with anger.

"Dad?" Scootaloo's voice was quiet, "Open the door now! If you don't I wear I will break it down!" he raised the Monkey Wrench in his hooves. "I will break it!" he lowered his weapon once he heard a small click. "Okay, okay just hold on a second." the muffled voice panicked. The door slowly opened.

"Thank you, Thank Celes-" his voice was cut short as a long silver knife lunged out and stabbed him in the chest, his stood frozen and looked to the pony inside the house. He looked down and saw the weapon stuck in him, blood dripped at a fast pace almost pouring. The pony holding the weapon, chattering his teeth in complete fear, removed the weapon.

"I'm so sorry." he quietly spoke. "Sorry, please forgive me, please forgive me." he closed the door. The large turquoise Pegasus stumbled backwards and chocked then fell onto his back.

"Dad?" Scootaloo ran to his side, "Daddy?" tears came to her eyes. He coughed again spurting blood. "No. Dad!" she placed her hooves on his chest. "Daddy's okay, I'm alright." he placed a hoof to her cheek, tears where pouring down her face. "Go and hide," he coughed blood again. "so nopony can find you." he breathed one last time and and lowered his head to the dirt. Scootaloo began to cry.

"Dad? No! No!" she wrapped her hooves around his neck, "I wanna be with you! Wanna be with you forever." she cried loudly. "Daddy!"

"Grrrr." A short growl grew closer, three dead ponies followed the crying noise coming from Scootaloo, she looked up slowly.

"Bark!" A very familiar pet dog ran towards her, "Winona?" she stood up "What are you doing here?"

***

Dammit!

"Rock and roll!" Spike slid the latch back on his rifle and looked down the scope. The rifle fired and the single bullet hit its target. The dead pony about to eat Scootaloo for its next meal fell to the dirt, Scootaloo looked around for where the shot came from. As another pony approached she back away from her fathers body.

"That's what you zombie freaks get for picking on a helpless filly like that." he said as he slid the latch in place again ready to fire. "Why don't you try munching on some of these? Ready? Aim! Dinner time!" he fired again and the dead pony fell to the dirt. Several gunshots later Scootaloo was cornered to a fence dead ponies lay in front of her.

"Spike? I thought you said you weren't going to shoot? Making noise and such?" Caramel spoke. "But it's a little filly were talking about, you go get her I'll cover you from up here." he retorted. Caramel smiled and made his way downstairs.

"Caramel what's the matter? I heard gunshots." Fluttershy said still laying drunk on the staircase. "A little pony is in trouble." he responded. "I should come and help."

"No, I'll go. Twilight put a spell on the scooter. I can get there without wings." he said.

"But you may ne-"

"Let him go, it's a stallions decision." Dash was standing at the bottom of the staircase. "Just don't take too long."

"I'll be quick, Twilight's spell should work." he said.

I hope.

"Knock 'em dead cowpony." Rainbow winked at him.

"Thanks. Dash." He flicked the switch and the downstairs lights went out. "Don't worry about this place, I'll hold down the fort." Rainbow boasted and swung her makeshift wooden sword around.

"Caramel. Take this at least." Fluttershy handed him the sherif's revolver they found on the opposite side of Appleloosa.

***

"Don't count on the gun too much, if you shoot they will swarm around you." Rainbow said.

"Twilight said the spell would make a noise anyway."

"Yeah but you will be moving faster than those ponies. Firing the gun will be like ringing a dinner bell." Rainbow putt her hooves on the left side of the gate to the fortress. Fluttershy was on the right.

"Are you ready Caramel?" Fluttershy asked. He simply nodded, Fluttershy turned to Rainbow and nodded. Following Twilight's instructions he pressed a button in between the handles, that scooter glowed brightly lighting the dark around him and a loud roaring noise started to form, Caramel replayed Twilight's words in his head.'Listen Caramel! Step two is really easy just lean forward to go forward and lean back to stop.'

How hard could it be?

He leaned forward and the scooter sped up fast, "Alright it works!" he got closer to the gate. Rainbow and Fluttershy standing in each side, opened it in unison and Caramel passed by them at a quick speed.

Caramel sped by the walking dead incredibly fast, he lifted a hoof and kicked them just cause he could. Swiftly he was coming closer to the house where he had saw Scootaloo.

He could hear the gunshots coming from Spike in the balcony. Ponies in his path fell to the ground, each with a bullet in their skull. Quickly he reached the house where Scootaloo was.

"Oof!" Caramel winced in pain as he fell head over hooves off the scooter, a dead ponies corpse on the ground which he had hit had caused him to lose balance and fall. "Never goes as planned does it." he complained. He stood up, he could hear barking coming from where Scootaloo was. Three dead ponies approached him gaining closer every second, he galloped over to where Scootaloo was. A gunshot flew past his face killing the pony standing in his way.

"Get away from me! Go away!" Scootaloo shouted at the two drooling ponies. "No!" Caramel lunged forward with his crowbar and impaled the dead ponies heads. "Woof!" barked Winona.

"Don't worry about a thing kid, your gonna be just fine." Caramel smiled. "Haa!" Caramel swung his Crowbar at a dead pony once more, they kept coming. "Just Buck off!" He yelled as he slammed his weapon into another pony's skull.

"Theres one behind you!" Scootaloo cried. It was too late the attacker had already pinned Caramel to the dirt. Quickly he reached into his satchel and lifted out the gun Fluttershy had give him, the barrel of the gun went straight into the pony's mouth. Caramel fired, a mix of blood and chunks of brain showered over him.

"Thanks a lot kid, you just saved my ass." he stood back up and closed the gate to prevent any more dead attacking them. The gunfire coming from spike on the balcony had stopped too. A few seconds passed as Caramel tried to catch his breath.

"Hey mister?" Scootaloo asked innocently. "That pony, that's my father." A tear fell from her eye. Caramel walked over to his lifeless body, he picked a pink lily flower from the ground. After searching through his satchel he pulled out a white sheet and laid it over her father and placed the lily in Scootaloo's hooves. "He died protecting you, your father was a brave pony." She dropped to her knees and placed the flower on top, she started to cry.

"Dad." she leaned into Caramel and cried loudly. "Listen sweetie, we need to be quiet. It's the noise that brings them."

"Can't we get away from them?"

"We are sure going to try."

"Can't we just go above them?" She asked.

"Oh I wish I could fly too."

"Fly? No I can't fly." she said, Caramel placed a head on his hoof.

Can't fly? What Pegasus can't fly?

***

"What's with all the racket?" Twilight approached Rainbow with a sleepy look upon her face. Rainbow and Fluttershy were hovering above the fence watching Caramels heroic actions.

"Something good happened." Fluttershy smiled. "What was that?" Twilight asked.

"I realized their are still living ponies after all." Her smile continued.

"What's happening?" Twilight asked.

"Never mind! Caramel just crashed the scooter. Quick! Wake up Redheart. Now Twilight!" Rainbow waved a hoof at her encouraging her to get moving.

"Fine." she said blankly and re-entered the fortress lounge room.

"Nurse Redheart! Nurse Redheart! Wake up!" Twilight shouted to the passed out pony. "Oh, is it breakfast already?" she rubbed her face with a hoof. "Grrrr, snap out of it." Twilight lit up her horn and splashed the glass of water on the table into Redhearts face and proceeded in search of Spike.

"Spike! Quickly we're leaving." Twilight yelled.

"Okay give me 2 minuets." his cheeks blushed as he saw Redheart standing next to Twilight and a certain moment played back in his head, the three of them followed one another back outside to re-join Rainbow and Fluttershy.

"Alright everypony is here, let's get going. Nows our chance, the zombies are busy with Caramel." Rainbow spoke as she flew to the large war vehicle, camouflaged in green. "Uh... Hang on. Can anypony drive this thing?"

"Oh! Meeee!" Redheart raised a hoof a giggled.

"Why am I not surprised." Rainbows face was blank.

"Even if Drunk Heart here does know how to drive it, how is Caramel getting back here? He can't do anything, even with the Scooter I enchanted for him."

"Nope, we will go to him!" Rainbow said.

"Your right, we rescue Caramel and haul our flanks to Canterlot." Twilight boasted. "Get ready!"

"What if we get attacked?" Redheart said.

"We just have to do it really quietly." Twilight used her magic to lift her bag into the vehicle.

"So we rescue Caramel and Scootaloo then what? All those monsters will prove to be a challenge even for a war vehicle." Fluttershy said. "Maybe if Caramel could get closer to us?" She put a hoof to her chin and thought. "I'm sure it won't be a problem." Rainbow pounded her hooves together.

"Wait look!" Fluttershy squeaked, pointing out to Caramel.

***

Alright, I just need to keep my balance.

Complete fear ran through his mind as Caramel casually tried to keep balance as he slowly walked across the top of the stone wall surrounding the house, Scootaloo piggybacked on him.

Look at the wall and keep walking.

"We're gonna make it." he said, Winona balanced on his head reached down a licked Caramels snout. "ha ha, stop it, stop." he laughed. Scootaloo pushed her away with her hooves. "Ah, thanks. Aren't you scared?"

"I am." she quivered. "What about you?"

YESYESYESYESYES.

"No way. I mean... A little." Scootaloo laughed a little.

***

"Where'd Spike go?" Twilight spoke looking al every direction. "He went to get the rest of the guns." Rainbow said. Spike stepped out from around the corner. Belts of ammo were wrapped around his shoulders and a rifle in each tiny claw. "Somepony call?"

"Oh wow, you look so sexy." Twilight joked.

"Oh you really thin- wait a minuet."

"Get in the car!" Spike shook in fear and obeyed Twilights command.

***

Really? Right now?

"You have to what?" Caramel asked.

"I need to use the little fillies room." Scootaloo quietly spoke.

"Oh no. Can't you hold it in?"

"Umm no."

"Just think of something else." Scootaloo began shuffling uncomfortably on his back. "No, I really can't. I can't hold it in." she whined. "Okay just go ahead a pee right there."

"Are you sure?"

No, this is disgusting.

"Yeah I'm sure." Caramel faced changed as he felt a warm drizzle coat around his body, while pervertedly enjoying the feeling of a little filly doing her business on his back a dead pony reached up and grabbed his hoof. Quickly he pulled away and kicked its face hard with his hoof, more zombies approached them but just out of reach.

Oh shit, I don't we're gonna make it.

"What's that?" Scootaloo pointed a hoof in front, a large green vehicle came speeding towards them. "That would be help." Rainbow was standing upright on top of the vehicle with her makeshift wooden sword at the ready, Spike between her legs ready to fire.

"There are too many! We can't run through them!" Twilight said to Redheart.

"Who cares? We have to save Caramel. "Fluttershy poked her head out of the hatch at the top of the vehicle. "Hang on Mel, just a bit longer!" Rainbow yelled from where she was standing as the vehicle came to a halt. She leaped off the top and slammed her wooden sword down on a pony's head, slashing left and right. "Quick Caramel!"

"Easier said than done!" he yelled. "Spike, buy us some time." Twilight poped her head out too. "YES MA'AM!" he shouted and pulled the trigger, a wave of infected fell backwards as the he fired the Shotgun. "Gotcha!"

Rainbow ran through the hoard faster than expected, swinging at every chance. She lifted into the air a flew back to the vehicle. "This is your last chance, getting in?" Rainbow yelled to Caramel.

"You bet!" he galloped forward with Winona on his head and Scootaloo on his back, with great ease he jumped across the gap between him and the vehicle. Twilight tucked down from the hole. "Hit it!"

"Okay." Redheart drove off, causing Caramel to lose balance and fall into Rainbow. "Hey, you coulda just asked." Rainbow giggled as Caramel opened his eyes and found his snout snuggled in her crotch.

"I'm so sorry!" he panicked and sat up, his face turned bright red.

Somehow, we managed to get out of there. But that only meant we survived another day. Now, now we had to find a way to Canterlot and see the Princess'.