The first thing she saw was sparks and red, lots of red.

Applejack coughed twice and leaned back in her chair, the APC was upright despite the fall but the light were faintly flashing red.

Applejack slowly pushed off her harness and leaned forward grimacing "UHHHH, Ah feel Like ah train wreck" she saw Princess Celestia leaning foreword knocked out

Applejack nudged the sun princess "Princess, wake up!"

Celestia's eyes fluttered open slowly and she groaned as she raised her head "Take it easy princess"

"Applejack? what happened?" the princess unlocked her harness and got up on shaky hooves and looked at the other ponies and humans "Are the others ok?"

"Ah don't know, ah'll go check on the driver"
The driver and gunners were alive but the top gunner had a few broken ribs and arm from the fall.

The Driver told Applejack that they had been passing over a bridge over one of another road when it collapsed dropping them onto the road below.

After asking if they needed anything she move back to the back where the others had already regained consciousness.

"So what happened?" Solar Flare asked as she started to bandage Heartrazor's leg.

"The bridge we were passing over collapsed"

There was a hissing noise as the door opened "Come on, Red says she can feel infected coming this way"

They all piled out and took positions on ether side of the APC while the front gunner took control of the top gun, there was a number of cars for them to take cover behind and to delay the infected.

Before Applejack could step out Maria put a hand out to stop her "Applejack I want you to climb on top of the APC and use your sniper to pick em off before they get close"

"Alright, Can ya give me a hoof up" Maria nodded and helped her up making sure she was fine before lightly jogging over to left side of the road.

The driver had come out of the vehicle and was handing out small devices to everypony and chucked one to Applejack before dispersing inside.

Applejack turned the device over in her hooves, it was a small head set that had been built with ponies in mined, she placed it on her left ear and positoned the mic over the side of her mouth.

"Everyone hear me ok? good, Red says that we can expect a small number of infected but she can't be too sure of an exact number"

"What types can we expect?"

"Some Boomer's, Smokers, a Hunter of two and a whole lot of common infected Princess"

"Hey driver, is that bucket of bolts still working?" Spitfire said "And I thought that Radios drew these things in?"

"Human radios yes but my sister made these new ones that use magic instead of radio waves so not only do they not attract infected but they have almost a infinite range"

"That's amazing Luna, I know a race of ascended beings who would be jealous"

"Tiss was nothing"

Applejack saw movemnt further down the road and pointed her rifle and looked down her scope, surly enough there was a five or six infected coming straight at them and more appearing by the moment "Alright yall! here they come" she lined one's head in her sights and held her breath squeezing the trigger slowly.

The 7.62×51mm round hit the first infected square in the head, blowing it off in a red mist.

First blood to Applejack.

"RRAAAAARRRGH!"

"Alright my little ponies, let's show these things how Equestrians fight!"

The with that they all opened fire, bullets, zat and Staff blasts and magic fire cast by Solar flare, The APC's gunner wasnt wasting ammo and was only going after the targets who he could hit and Applejack going for the ones who were getting to close.

"Applejack! Smoker, above us at three O'Clock"

Applejack quickly scanned the remains of the overpass and found the revolting thing about to launch it's long bloated tongue at them. the Smokers face was wrinkly and puss riddled and Applejack had no problem taking the things head away in a sickly green mist.

"Hell of a shot AJ!"

"I could use a hoof over here!" it was Heartrazor who was having trouble holding off three infected at once with another about to charge at her untill Applejack retrianed her sights on it and took out its left leg bringing it down before putting a round in its head, the rifle clicked as the clip ran dry and she let it drop off "Ah'm releaden!" she called out and pulled a fresh clip and slammed it home before resuming fireing, she's be enjoying her self if these things weren't so pi- NO! she shook her head angrely "No thats not you Jackie don't go down that path again!"

"Applejack? are you alright?" Celestia's worried voice asked.

"Yes, sorry princess ah'm fine"

"O- LOOK OUT!" the Princesses shout make her role over onto her back just as a hunter leaped at her.

She didnt have much time as she rose her rifle and just as the Hunter was about to land, she closed her eyes as she pulled the Trigger.

BANG!

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BANG!

As soon as Celestia had shouted out her warning Spitfire was already up in the air and heading towards the Applefarmer.

The Hunter was laying on top of the mare and neither of them was moving.

Spitfire landed next to them, her mp5 pointed at the them "Applejack? you hear me?"

there was a faint moaning "Applejack?"

"gmm tmm thmm ofm Mm"

"What?"

The orange mare pushed the hunter off her mouth "Get this thing off me!"

"Oh! right, sorry" she rolled the thing off Applejack and helped her up "Whew, and ah thought they were nasty from a distance"

"That's that last of em, Rally at the APC's door"

Both mares jumped down and waited for the others to gather around.

"So how bad is it?" Celestia asked.

"The Bullfrogs taken some damage and all but one of her tires are out" the Driver said, his cloths were covered with oil and other vehicle fluids.

"Wait the APC's name is the Bullfrog?" Featherweight asked.

"Yes it's what we call her, moving along now we need a couple new parts to replace the broken ones to get the Bullfrog's auto repair systems back online"

"And where are we supposed to get the parts we need out here?" Luna asked.

"There's a outpost three blocks that my have what we need, Whiskey outpost I think its called" the driver went inside and came out with a folded up map and unfolded it on the floor "Ok, we're here-" he pulled out a marker and drew a circled a road "and the outpost is here " he drew another circle over a large park "Intel says that its mostly quite so a small group could go there unnoticed and get the parts while the rest of us stay and watch the Bullfrog"

"In that case I think-" Spitfire began "I think the princesses, Maria, Applejack, Stonewell, Solar Flare and me should go and the twins should stay behind and watch the APC"

"Hey why do we have to?" Feather Weight moaned "And that wont exactly be a small team"

"A, Because Heartrazor's got a broken leg and we need at least one able boded pony to keep and eye out and B, Me and Red have a feeling that we'll run into trouble" Maria told them as she folded up the map and put it in one of her pockets "Now can we go, I really want to get those parts and get out of here as soon as we can"

"Agreed"

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Equestria...
Cantralot Royal archives...
Ancient wing...
Same time...

Twilight yawned.
She had there since Celestia,Luna and the others had left a few hours ago reading through the texts, tablets and scrolls that Luna had uncovered when she found the Stargate, the knowledge that Twilight had gained in those few hours was more revolutionary than she had ever thought possible, the Texts contained step by step guides on how to make certain technolagys like ZPMs and even contained new spells that Twilight doubted even Celestia and Luna knew about, but the book she was reading right now was really inportant.

"Twilight?" the Alicorn turned around and saw her no1 assistant Spike standing next to her "You've been at it for hours now, and you need your rest if your going to raise the sun in the morning"

"I know Spike but I can't yet, I need to decipher this book, it's important"

Spike rolled his eyes "Twilight, what could be so important about that book, it's just more of the same stuff that the others had"

"That's just it... this isn't like the others" Twilight looked at the small dragon "The other Scroll, texts and tablets were in old equestrian" she showed him the book "But this one's in Ancient, and this Page is really important"

Spike looked at the page.

He stared blankly at the text "Uh Twilight, I can't read this" Twilight rolled her eyes.

"It says..." she cleared her thought, doing her best storytelling voice "And the Protector shall wait for one of royal bloodline to awaken her when the Retribution is needed once again"

The baby dragon tilted his head "Was that a prophecy?" he asked.

"I think so, but wait, there's more"

"A great battle shall be fought against the Darkness on two worlds, far apart but connected.

The battle shall be fought on the ground and among the stars where the Retribution shell aid the side of the light.

But the Darkness can only be forced back through the sacrifice of one with two souls in one body.

This person's journey shall be marked by her passing thought the Celestial ring on her own quest.

In the end, only this person can beat back the coming darkness."

"And what is that meant to mean?" Spike asked.

"Who do we know who has another person riding around in there head?" Spike gave her a clueless look "Maria! this prophecy is about Maria and Red, and I think that The protector is actually a ship called the Retribution, and we're going to need if for what ever this coming Darkness is"

"And how are we supposed to find it?" Spike asked "I thought these ancient guys never make thing easy?"

"Well this time they left the exact location of the ship right here and as tomorrow we're going to go find it" the young alicorn let out a long loud yawn "Well. after some sleep first"

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"Spitfire, 9 o'clock top floor"

Blam!

"Got him"

Ever since they had left the others at the APC they had, had little contact with the infected only running into common infected or the odd smoker or two.

They were a hour away from Whisky outpost and they were all getting tired at keeping the pace they had been going at, Spitfire was providing over watch for them, keeping an eye out for any trouble.

"Sister, we need to find a place to rest" Luna said to her elder sister "The other ponies are near to passing out"

"I agree, Maria is there a saferoom nearby?"

Maria pulled out the map and checked the locations that the Driver had marked down "Yes, in a shop around the corner" the woman grimaced and put two fingers on her temple

"Are you Ok?" Luna asked.

"Hmm? yea its just a headache" She told them "Nothing to worry about"
She sped up and began to walk next to stonewell.

"I'm worryed sister" Luna said "these headachs of hers are getting worse and Red has rarly spoken since coming here"

Celestia nodded in agreement "I agree but shes not the only one, Applejack isn't a very good lier, I don't belive that she has recoverd fully from her ordeal"

"We shall have to watch the both of them and hope they get over what ever ailles them"

Maria was about to turn a corner but quickly moved back and leaned against the wall holding up her fist for them to stop.

Celestia was about to ask what was wrong but Maria held her finger to her lips and pointed around to corner.

"Infected" she mouthed.

"How many Celestia mouthed back"

"Too many" Maria gestured for Celestia to lean around to corner, when she did her reaction was just like Marias.

The street was filled with common infected, and on the other end was thier destination... a saferoom.

Maria tapped on Celestias shoulder showing her a gurnade giving her a knowing smile.

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*So this is on the record... this is a bad idea*
Maria ignored her as she got ready to prime her gurnade, Celestia, Luna and Spitfire doing the same.

"On three she mouthed" the rest nodded and cocked their weapons.

Three
Two
One
They all threw their gurnades and dint wait for them to go off before sprinting (or flying) towords the hoard which was caught off guard by both the explosions and the ponies plus one human charging at them guns blazing.

There where bodys and debre flying everywhere, they didnt stop once even when their clips ran dry, they droped them and slammed a fresh ones or in Celestia, Luna and Solar Flare's case firing off bursts of magic.

One gutsy infected made a move on Applejack but Luna picked it up with magic and threw it aside, knocking over a small pack of infected.

"BOOMER!" Spitfire yelled as she pushed herself further intending to reach the saferoom and get it open for the rest of the team to sprint in.

Things where going well untill that boomer showed up, and Stonewell paid the price as it exploded covering the stalion in boomer bile and dazing him and making him easy prey for the hoard.

But he was going to be dammed if he was going down without a fight, an infected dived at him and sank its teeth into his leg making him cry out in pain, he put three rounds into its head just as another jumped onto his back which he bucked off easly but nomatter howmany he took out another 5 took their place.

The others watched in helplessness and Maria had to drag Spitfire back into the saferoom kicking and screaming for her to resease her.

"Theres nothing you can do!"

Stonewell was being engulfed by a torrent of bodys now, claws and teeth ripping into his fur and skin, in his last moments of consionsness he pulled the pin of a gurnade and closed his eyes and as the device went off he felt at peace.

Author's Note

Ok first off I know that this chapter has bad spelling and stuff and I will rewrite it later because it didnt turn out like I hoped but for now I needed to get somthing out so I could move on and get some traction on this project.

Even with corse work and other responsabilitys I promiss to try and get new chapters out faster and have them longer, but for now please leave a comment on how this chapter can be inporved.

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