Flat Line

I awoke as dawn began to break with a throbbing headache “My head hurts…” I moaned quietly to myself.

I arose and while stretching I noticed that every pony was still asleepand I remembered Mr. Cappuccino once again “Might as check up on him.” I whispered then thought to myself “I’ll go alone to the hospital, I don’t want no one getting’ hurt now.”
As I began to make it to the door, I slowly and quietly moved the barricaded furniture from the door and tried to open it, however the door did not open “Oh c’mon!” I whispered.

I began pushing against the door trying to open it and finally rammed against it.

“Where are you going?” someone asked in a quiet voice.

“Damn it!” I whispered and I looked back to see that Scootaloo was also awake lying down “I’m gonna go visit a friend of mine to make sure he’s ok.” I said.

“Don’t tell me you are abandoning us? Please don’t leave!” Scootaloo saidas she went over and began hugging my leg and giving me a sad look.

Her facial expression in to me was like cold water hitting hot glass“I wouldn’t abandon you guys for the world, especially you kid-o!” I said as I sat down while giving her a hug.

“It’s part of bein’ a good friend to make sure other friends are out of any kind of trouble, anyways I’ll be back soon don’t worry darlin’, I’ll always be here!” I said.

Slowly letting go from the hug I began trying the open the door, the finally the door opened and from just looking outside it was noticeable why I couldn’t open the door because one of the attackers was killed by an arrow straight to the head and stuck to the door.

“Someone’s got a good eye!” I said and closed the door behind me.

I began my way to the hospital noticing the corpses on the floor and buildings with flames slowly dying into the ash, I started to space out wondering if this was reality or was at all in my head was it a form of a sick wretched nightmare or a day dream of survival, from all the thoughts that roamed in my head I didn’t notice that I arrived at the Hospital.

My jaw dropped as I saw that the outside front entrance of the hospital was littered with slaughtered Equestrian Army soldiers, “Somethin’ serious went down here!” I began to searching amongst the dead soldiers I realized that their guns have already been previously swiped “You got to be playin’ with me,Damn Luck!”

I finally came across a certain corpse, he didn’t appear to have a khaki uniform like the rest if not a blue uniform “You must be one of those veterans that kept their old uniform before the khaki uniform came in, am I right?” I askedironically to the corpse and got no response.

Searching his pockets hoping he would have a concealed weapon that someone hasn’t looted yet, but didn’t prevail however upon searching his pockets I didn’t find what I was looking for if not something I didn’t except, a folded up letter with a few drop stains on it.

From pure curiosity I couldn’t resist reading it “To my dearest wife, a new disease is spreading across Equestria and my job as always isto protect the civilians of Ponyville, and my current assignment is to stand guard at the hospital………. I would be a happy to see my son one last time and the arrival of my newborn daughter ………”

]My eyes skimmed across the letter and I stopped reading the and looked down at the dead soldier “Your luckseems most unfortunate, I know you can’t hear me but I’ll make sure your wife receives this letter” I tucked the letter into my pocket and walked up to the front doors opened the doorsof the hospital.

Immediately confronted by flies and the iron smell of blood in the air, I turned away trying not to vomit at the repugnant smell “That’s strong…” I gagged as I inhaled the air “Damn this forsaken shit hole!”

I coughed as the smell was so strong it felt as though I could taste it, I wrapped my black bandana around my maw to filter the smell and entered.

The massacre inside of the hospital seemed even worse then the scene outside as the red contrasted against the white “I remember comin’ to a hospital when I cracked my head open when I was a colt.” I said remembering that the average entrance of a hospitalwas white and tidy, however this wasn’t the case it was now a blood bath with blood covering every square inch of the floor, over turned gurneys, bodies, body parts, and organs scattered about in a violent manner, even the ceiling had blood splatters.

I began moving trying to avoid touching the corpses and make it to the front desk without making noise and not trying to slip in the blood.

As I arrived to the front desk I saw the bell ringer at the desk. Like any other I couldn’t resist ringing the bell and ironically waiting for some sort of assistance to arrive “Looks like no one is here to stop me then!” I said and hopped over the counter and grabbed the List of visitors and patients.

I began looking down the list that a lot of the visitors from last night didn’t have the sign out part signed and that many patients were considered dead upon arrive or died at the hospital “That ain’t good…”

The search paid off as I found amongst the list where Ms. Cremosa’s room was but I didn’t know my way around the hospital so I began to make my wayup the stairs through the hospital looking at all the numbers on the doors.

Once trotting up the stairs I went through the bloody halls and something grabbed my hoof, I freaked and un-holstered my revolver immediately and aimed it at the what grabbed my hoof.

“He.. Help me!” said the stranger, by the looks of the khaki uniform it was Equestrian Army soldier, he was lying on the floor missing his campaign hat and had his uniform ripped and blood stained.

“I’ll try my best, but I can’t promise you a thing friend!” I helped him back up on his hooves and began helping him across the hall, blood dripped from his wounds that seem to have been from bites.

We began checking all the rooms to see if there was a bed that wasn’t in use of a dead body or wasn’t stained in blood,finally arriving to a door with the sign “Lounge” I moved the knob but the door seemed to be locked “Well, that doesn’t stop me one bit!” I said.

I whipped out my revolver and broke the glass from pistol whipping it and unlocked the door from the inside.
As I opened the door I realized there was a white pony with a red cross cutie mark was cowering in the corner with a scalpel as a weapon “Don’t come any closer!” She said with a hint of fear in her voice.

“I ain’t one of D’em, so do me a favor and stop pointin’ that at me.” I said.
She calmed down as soon as she saw that I was accompanied by a woundedsoldier and helped me put him onto a nearby table “What do we have here?” She began examining him and his wounds.

He moaned in pain “Nurse can… I-I… Morphine?!” He inhaled and exhaled heavily.

The nurse pulled out from the drawer a container and gave two morphine pills to the patient.

“Um Nurse is it? This may be a wrong time to ask but do you know where a patient by the name of Cremosa would be at?” I asked

“Call me Nurse Red Heart, and yes I do actually she was one of the patients I had the chance to help out with, she was really nice and cooperative. She’s down the hall last door on the left”She said.

I began trotting down the hall and finally arrived to the last door on the left, I twisted the knob and it seemed to be locked.
“What’s with doors and being locked!” I smashed the window once again and allowed my self inside.

As I entered I was immediately confronted with a Revolver to the face “Joco!You found your way to the hospital!” Said the stranger with the gun.

I knew from the stranger’s voice it was Mr. Cappuccino. He lowered his revolver, I saw that he had on a leather jacket similar to mine and on the back wasa decal of extended Pegasus wings.

“Sorry about that.” He said and turned to see Ms. Cremosa who seemed to be lying on the bed “Look honey, our friend is here.” He paused “Like old times you remember?!” Mr. Cappuccino said as he sniffled.

Ms. Cremosa looked over at me and has not changed since last time I saw her at the café “Good… to see you!” She inhaled “I… very sleepy…” She said.

“Please don’t tell me that!” Mr. Cappuccino said as he went by her side and comforted her.

He began to pick her up from the bedin his arms “I’ll always be by your side till we grow old and die, and for now our love will keep one another alive!” He said.

She had tears running down her cheeks and looked at him; she gave him a peck on the cheek “That’s why I loved you and why I’ll always love... you…..” Her words were cut short as she gave her last exhale and by the look in her once colorful eyes were now colorless and lifeless as she died in his arms.

“Honey?” He shook her “HONEY?” He shook her once more.

“NO, NO, NOOO! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!” He yelled in denial at what was now her corpse while holding in his tears, he stumbled a little forward before he accepted it and he finally fell to his knees inemotional pain for the love of his life that he had promised to, since marriage that he would always love and care for had now died in his arms “DON’T LEAVE ME IN THIS COLD WORLD… ALONE!”He began yelling and screaming in pain and agony.

As it could be heard echoing in the “apparently” empty halls nearby of the Hospital.

“IT’S NOT FAIR; TAKE ME WITH YOU, ITS NEVER FAIR, TAKE ME NOW DAMN IT! PLEASE… I BEG YOU!” He yelled.
A single tear rolled down my cheek for I had my share of defeats in life, I slowly came back into reality of the events that had just taken place “Mr. Cappuccino, we have to leave! We don’t know how many of those undead freaks there are still around!”

He turned to me while sobbing “Shoot me!”

I was shocked by what he asked me to do “No, don’t say stupid things!”
“Shoot me! The love of my life that was by my side for many years has now gone just in a few seconds… My life isn’t worth living without her by my side…” He began to tear up “I-I j-just can’t take it anymore. If she goes out… I want to go with her!” He said.

Realizing that I wouldn’t kill him he looked at me as though I couldn’t have and never will feel his pain, he looked down to see that he still had his Revolver in hoof, hepointed the gun towards his head.
“No, no, no, don’t do it! Cremosa wouldn’t have wanted that… Uh…She would have wanted you to stay strong and carryon”I said as I tried reasoning with him to put the revolver down.

While I pulling out my revolver ready to shoot his out of his hoof to stop him from committing suicide, Ms. Cremosa’s body twitched.

Mr. Cappuccino spooked stopped “You’re still here with us honey?!” He hugged her body and tried to find a pulse.
Suddenly the corpse came back to life and lunged at him.

“No stop! What are you doing?” He yelled out in surprise as she began trying to bite him, in his resistance the revolver discharged on her right shoulder allowing a chance of opportunity to kick her off “I’m sorry…”
Once Ms. Cremosa was on the floor I dragged her off into the bathroom and locked the door behind me. “Ok, that will hold her back for a while!” I said.

As she began slamming and banging on the door“I-I can’t live with… with what I have done!” he said.
Before I could look back at Mr. Cappuccino had already had raised the revolver and pulled the trigger.
ClICK! The both of us waited to hear the gun to go off but silence was the only thing that filled the room after the click of an empty chamber, he pulled the trigger multiple times hoping a bullet would kill him CLICK,CLICK, CLICK.

I went over and took the gun from his hoof then wrapped an arm around him to comfort him “I’m sorry about what just happened to you, and if I could I would have prevented any of this from happenin’,and for your gun not goin’ off I hope you take this as a sign to continue on with the life you’re destined to live in.”

I helped him back up on his hoofs.

“Well, I’m sorry if you had to witness that failed suicide event.” Mr. Cappuccino said trying to forget what he just attempted.
“Don’t worry about it, we all have our moment.” I said as we began to trot down the hallway to arrive to the room that Nurse Red Heart and the Soldier was in.

“This isn’t looking to good.” The nurse backed away from her patient.
The soldier began vomiting chunks and blood while sitting in a somewhat hunched over position on the table “Please… I need… A Cure!” he fell to the floor with a loud thud laying in his vomit and blood, his eyes closed and he stopped breathing all together.

“He’s gone…”

Suddenly he looked up with blood shot eyes and gave a high-pitched scream.
I whipped out my revolver “The only cure for you is a bullet to the head!” I said but before I could fire the nurse blew his brains out with her Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket.

“It’s my job to take care of my patients even if it means ending them of their pain and misery.” she said as she put it back into the pocket of her jacket.

“I’m surprised! I thought nurses and doctors were peaceful healers and wouldn’t need a gun.” I teased and chuckled.
“Well you can never be toocareful!” She winked at me as she began to rack up all the first aid supplies as she could find and putting it into a white medic kit with a red cross on it “Where to now, hot shot?” She asked

“We’ll meet up with a few friends of mine at the library!”
We made our way to the Elevators“We’re takin’ the elevator ‘cause it’s quicker then stairsand they’ll hear us comin’ if go down the stairs.” I said.

I pressed the button for the elevator to come to our level “So… Nurse how’s it like workin’ at a hospital?” I asked.
“Good knowing your helping others get better.” She replied as the elevator arrived and door sled open and we went in.
“First Floor.” I said as I pressed the 1st floor button.

-The elevator began to descend Floor 3, Floor 2, Floor 1

“This is going more smoothly then what I thought.” Mr. Cappuccino said.

-The elevator made a terrible noise and suddenly jerked.

“That’s not supposed to happen!” Nurse Red Heart said

“Time to check it out!” I said as I moved the latch from ceiling of the elevator and went on top and saw that the elevator passed a little more what was needed but the shaft doors were open, I inspected the wiring which seemed to be perfectly intact “I see nothin’…”

I felt drips on the back of my neck and I began to hear a clicking noise from above so I decided to look up into the darkness and soon the noise of something falling followed.

A dead body appeared through the darkness from above and soon flew past me in elevator shaft and continued to fall into the descending darkness below and finally the basement.

Soon something began tugging on the elevators elevation cables “Everyone get out right now!” I said

“Why?” Nurse Red Heart Asked.

“Stop askin’ questions and get out” I said.
Mr. Cappuccino helped Nurse Red Heart get out first then we helped Mr. Cappuccino get up.
-The sounds of metal cables snapping started.

“Mr. Cappucino, you go up first to the floor then help me then we’ll help Nurse Red Heart.” I said
“Gotcha!” He said.

As I helped him and soon after he helped me get up, I turned back to the Nurse.
“Alrighty then, grab my hoof!” I said.

She gave me quizzical look and tried reaching but couldn’t, she through her stuff up to us and we put it aside.
“I’ll try again…” She said, and jumped.

-The metal cable snapped all together

I saw her fall a bit with the elevator as she jumped but she barely made it grabbing hold of my hoof.
“Oh! Dear Celestia!” She screamed.

Nurse Red Heart dangled from one of my hooves and was slipping away and she looked down “I don’t want to die!” She said as the Elevator slid down the shaft send sparks in every which way and finally hit the bottom with a loud crash.

I began here the clicking on metal from above in the darkness once again and looked up into the darkness to make out a dark silhouette coming down, I turned back and my eyes met with Nurse Red Heart’s eyes “Don’t worry we got you!” I said.
Mr. Cappuccino helped grabbed hold of her other hoof quickly and helped me get her up.

“QUICK SHUT THIS SHAFT DOOR NOW!” I yelled.

As I began trying to push the doors shut and Mr. Cappuccino soon followed.

The clicking on metal from inside the elevator shaft was drawing closer, just as we were shutting the last bit I saw the tip of a bloody white hook make attempt of getting out of the shaft but failed retreating back into the shaft.

“What was that about?” He asked.

“You didn’t see or hear that?” I replied.

“See or hear what? He asked in return.

“You must be blind and deaf, are you serious?” I said.
As we began trotting down the halls, I tried to make small talk.
“So Nurse, how many floors does this Hospital have?” I asked

She took a little to respond, “Well it has 3 floors, 2 Below and a basement… So 6 floors in total.”
Once passing the corridor leading to the main entrance I stopped just as I was about to turn around the corner “Stop!” I whispered.

I heard the noise of something eating and decided to peer around the corner to see that more then 10 blood thirsty murders were eating the remains of their dead victims.

I look around for another nearby way to get out of the hospital and I didn’t want to head back the way we came because by now it could be unsafe.

Looking around I saw that a dim light bulb that was flickering move gently back and forth, my eye twitched remembering the nightly even, I looked over to see that nearby on the wall was the light switches “My turn to be the darkness!” I whispered and turned off the lights.

The flesh eaters didn’t seem to care and continued to feast “Alrighty then follow my lead.” I whispered.
Before I could get to the entrance a Security Guard came running out of the dark from the other hall over “Finally a way out!” He said.

Before we could warn him of not knowing what lay ahead in the dark he slipped in the pool of blood and went sliding into the attackers and they immediately began pounding on him.

“YOU’RE GONNA NEED TO TRY HARDER THEN THAT FREAKS! ” he yelled
He fought back kicking and punching and tried to pull out his Revolver but it useless as an attacker smacked it away and grabbed both of his arms as another grabbed both of his legs and yanked until the sound of his spine cracking happened and he finally ripped in half, spilling his organs onto the floor with a gelatin like sound.

Nurse Red Heart watched in horror as we began to make it to the door during the distraction as it was the only chance we had, one of the flesh eaters sniffed the air and caught drift of things and got up from his meal and came towards my general direction however not trying to make noise so he could have a fresh meal all to itself.

I pulled out my knife ever so quietly and stabbed it right in the eye, it stood there in an up right position however dead and soon as the corpse began to fall I caught it and slowly laid it on the ground to avoid making any noise.
We finally reached the door and Nurse Red Heart whispered “Thank…”

She slid in the blood on the floor and fell to the ground, the killers of dark looked up to see that we were near the door, they got up and began to gallop towards us with devilish smiles hinting that we weren’t only meant to be eaten by them if not taste great and their only instinct in mind is Fresh Meat.

I helped up Nurse Red Heart and kicked the front door open knowing are cover was already blown, once outside and in day light we turned back and fired away as they began to charge out I wasted 12 rounds from my rifle (186 .30-06 rounds left).
The noise of gun shots attracts more of the attackers and larger amounts began to emerge from the hospital “More of your unhappy patients Nurse?!” I teased and looked over at Nurse Red Heart as she fired away from her small caliber pistol and reloaded her last clip.

“Very funny and I’m almost dry!” She said.
An undead Equestrian Army Soldier charged at me and immediately had the pleasure of meeting the butt of my rifle to the face “Rejected!” I yelled and continued to smash his head into the ground.

“Yea it’s not worth staying very long!” I said.

We began to fall back from the hospital knowing there were too many insane savages to handle alone, after a while of galloping and out of breathe we finally arrived to the library.

I began to bang on the door so that someone from the inside would open it, finally Applejack opened the door and hugged me but then let go almost immediately “Where in the hay have you been, we’re all worried sick about you!” She said and saw that I had company with me “I’m sorry to keep ya’ll waitin’ partners, come in!”

We all entered and Applejack shut the door behind us, everyone seemed to be starring me down.
“You’re back!” screamed Scootaloo as she ran over and hugged my leg.

I chuckled softly “I always try to keep my promises kiddo.” I hugged her back, “Alright, I’m sorry for me brief absence!” I said knowing that by looks of everyone they seemed pretty concerned.
“Where yah head off to?” asked Big Macintosh.

“I went to make sure a friend was ok.” I replied rather hastily knowing where this conversation might lead up to.
“That’s kind of you.” Fluttershy complemented.

“Mighty kind complement, thank you!” I complemented back to Fluttershy and tried to change the subject of the conversation, “So Twilight found an answer to this event?” I asked.

She shot me a glance and snapped back “Yeah, how about we don’t wonder off and get killed trying to play hero!” She said.
From her response I knew she didn’t understand my question.

Rainbow Dash stomped her hoof “Yeah aren’t you going to explain to us what happened and why you didn’t tell anyone you left?”

I returned the gaze “Look I’m sorry, I know I might have made the mistake and that I should have said somethin’ but I thought I would get back before y’all were awake and even if I did I didn’t want anyone getting hurt on my watch.” I said trying to stand my ground from being scolded at even more.

“Well darling you could have waited until we were all awake and you could have explained what you wanted to do.” Rarity said.
My eye twitched and I snapped “IS THAT IT THEN? ANYONE ELSE WANTS TO JUDGE ME ABOUT MY DECISION? GO AHEAD I’M RIGHT HERE COME AT ME! SERIOUSLY I’M ALL EARS! I DARE YAH TO NOT LIKE WE GOT SOMETHIN’BETTER THING TO DO!” I yelled with steam pouring out of my nose as I exhaled.

Everyone watched in surprise of my sudden choice of words, until Apple Jack broke the silence “Easy sugar cube! No one is against you, no one is blamin’ you for anything that you’ve done.” she said trying to defuse the situation.

“NO I WON’T STAND THIS!” I yelled, “I’LL GET MY OWN GUNS THEN AND FIND A CURE OF ALL DAMN BUCKIN’ ALIMENTS ON MY OWN!” I began to make it to the door frustrated as the next angered pony would have.

“Don’t leave Joco!” I heard a familiar say from behind, however the anger that lingered in my head caused me to shoot back a rather quick reply “Why huh? WHY IN THE HELL NOT? ‘CAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE Y’ALL DON’T NEED ME!” I yelled.
“‘Cause we can’t afford to lose friends durin’ a time of need if we want to survive.” I looked rather baffled to see that the only one who was scolding me and seemed to be talking sense was Big Macintosh

“Well… Um… Um… Uh…” I quickly tried to think of anything that I could continue the argument with but nothing else seemed to pass through my mind, I sighed slowly calming down, “I’m sorry for blowin’ steam off on you guys, can you find it in yourselves to forgive me? I asked in a rather calm voice.

I saw everyone exchange glances to one another “We forgive you and we guess t it’s kinda our fault that we pushed you to the edge too much too quickly.” Applejack said.

Smiling I thanked them, “Twilight any information on what we’re dealin’ with?” I asked.
Twilight nodded “During your brief absence I found amongst several books that describe the characteristics of these crazed attackers as…” she breathed in, “The Undead.” She continued “However the details are sketchy and I have not found much on the subject.” She said.

“Well, I want to get my guns however now that I give it a second thought we should also take the rest of the firearms and melee weapons from the gunsmith.” I said.

Everyone stared at me as though I was suicidal that I wanted to head back further into town “What? I’m serious, we lack fire power… I mean we got good caliber weapons for Repeater Rifles, Revolvers, and Shotguns don’t get me wrong but we just need more faster like Semi-Automatic weapons!”

Most of the group nodded their head except Big Macintosh “I admire your idea Joco, I truly do but I got more trust with my guns that I know won’t jam.” He said.

I nodded in agreement “Western Front Weapons are great Big Macintosh but it just takes a little to reload each individual bullet into the chamber instead of using clip, because quick reload is something we need because to those murderous eatin’ cannibals won’t care where they get shot unless you blow their brains out! However there are exceptions to more experienced gunslingers such as ourselves that we make best use out of any weapon!” I said, “If you feel comfortable with your guns I won’t stop you from usin’ D’em, the semi-automatic weapons are intended for rapid success. Either way I’m still goin’ to my house to gather up the weapons.” I said.

I began to make it to the front door “Also you guys should think about findin’ the rest of the survivors, I think they’re still somewhere in the middle of town, town hall maybe?”I said.

Suddenly someone grabbed my shoulder “I’m going with you!” Mr. Cappuccino said.
“Alrighty then, let’s get goin’ then while the day is still young!” I said.

We began to move about the silent and lonely streets of Ponyville “Just last night there was so much commotion on the streets, now it’s eerie quiet.” I said as we trotted along noticing that the some buildings laid in ashes and ruins, and the bodies that littered the streets earlier last night that hadn’t been complete dismembered where now gone, just leaving slowly drying blood under the Celestia’s warm sun.

As we continued to trot, not a single word was said through the rest of the way hoping that the past conversation hadn’t attracted any listening murderers nearby, finally arriving to my house I noticed that the door was half way open “This can’t be good!” I said and took out my Bowie Knife ready to eliminate any intruders within my household quickly and silently, I checked each room and found the house nearly empty except for a few blood hoof prints and blood smears.

“Well who ever was here is long gone, might as well get started then!” I said as I removed the carpet to reveal the secret door to the basement.
Mr. Cappuccino’s eyes widen in surprise “That’s brilliant! I should have thought of that instead of having a simple regular door that led down to the basement in my house.” He said.

I chuckled as I opened the hatch going down the stairs and entered, I pulled on the curd to turn on the light.

“Alrighty then Cappuccino help me load this stuff up so we can get goin’ quickly before the undead catch drift of things.” I grabbed a decent amount of bits from my safe and went for my custom (19th Century Engraving) current issued Equestrian Army and Navy Firearms: .30-06 Winchester Model 1895, .351 Winchester Model 1907, .35 Remington Model 8, .45 ACP Colt New Service Revolver, .45 ACP Colt 1911, .12 gauge Winchester M1897, .12 gauge Browning Auto-5, .12 gauge Colt Double Barreled Shotgun, 6 mm Winchester Model Lee 1895, and .380 ACP Colt Pocket Hammerless 1908 into a wooden trunk.

Mr. Cappuccino gazed at all the firearms that were in the basement “I’ve never seen so many in one place that wasn’t a store…” He began bagging all the ammunition he could find into another trunk as well, I saw nearby on my gun rack a pair of .44 Mare’s Legs (Cut-Down version of a Winchester 1892) one having custom (19th Century Engravings) and the other wasn’t and put them both into the individual trunk.

He looked at me “Amongst your arsenal… I see you have some that are easy to conceal, do you or did you have a criminal lifestyle?”

I choked a smile “I don’t mind yah askin’ if yah don’t mind me tellin’ yah” I took a breath, “and have you ever seen me commit any crimes in Ponyville?” I asked.

“Well… Um… You got me with that one.” He said and stayed quiet as we continued to load up guns and ammunition.
I didn’t give the Mondragon Rifle (Along with an attachable scope/bi-pod) a second thought and put it in my personal trunk along with a few 20 round magazines and one 100 round drum magazine along with its corresponding rifle bandolier and ammo.

“Alright Mr. Cappuccino you’ll take the rest which consists mostly my custom Western Frontier guns and concealable weapons.” I said.

“Wait, wait, wait, why are all your guns like that, if you don’t mind me asking?” He asked.

“What do you mean?” I asked.
“You know, with engravings?” He said.

“I don’t mind you askin’ if yah don’t mind me not tellin’, so don’t worry about it.” I replied back and grabbed the trunk, “Alrighty then I think we got a good amount of guns and ammo, let’s get the hell out of here!”

As we left the basement packed heavier then mules, I returned the carpet into place to hide the door.

“Hold on, I’m forgettin’ somethin’.” I said as I entered the kitchen and looked underneath the table and grabbed a .45 Colt Peacekeeper (2” Length Barrel)

Mr. Cappuccino stared at me “Again nice hiding spot.” He said.

“Alrighty then, now we can head out.” I said as we went out of the house, I closed the door behind me and looked up at the sky to notice that it was well passed afternoon

“So where did we say we would meet up?” Mr. Cappuccino asked.

“Um, Town Hall?” I answered as we started our trip to Town Hall.

“For being a sight from hell, we haven’t been attacked yet and being after noon I wonder where they all the undead went?” Mr. Cappuccino asked.

“They’re probably in dark places of ill dispute waitin’ for night fall for the need to feed their endless hunger.” I said as lone black bird that flew above crowed and flew off into another direction.

“What do you think is causing all of this?” Mr. Cappuccino asked.

“Well I reckon it’s some sort of unicorn magic.” I said.

Upon our arrival to town hall we noticed a certain cyan Pegasus flying over head, as we returned our focus to main floor and immediately saw several ponies with melee weapons consisting of baseball bats, axes, and shovels.

“Look here comes more survivors!” one said, “Come right inside, every other pony who isn’t on guard outside is inside.”
Mr. Cappuccino and I starred at each other for a little before proceeding into town hall, upon entering we noticed that there where more survivors then what we had expected.

The mayor trotted up the stage and cleared her throat before speaking “Attention Mares and Gentle Stallions, if you’re here that means you have survived and are aware of what is happening.” She said and waited to get everyone’s un-divided attention “If there are a few that awoke this morning and are not aware what is happening then allow me to fill you in, that the undead have risen in Equestria.”

She paused as some of the ponies amongst the crowd gasped in horror, every pony identified them as the ones who where the lucky ones who slept through the night safely.

“For the moment town hall is the only stronghold we have been able to establish in our town so if you want venture out, venture at your own risk, and be prepared for night fall.” She said finishing her speech and walked off stage.

“Well, might as well start lookin’ around d’en.” I said and immediately began looking for Rainbow Dash and her friends, “There are so many survivors…”

“Hey look it’s Nurse Red Heart!” Mr. Cappuccino said as Nurse Red Heart turned in our direction.
“You guys made it!” She said as she came over and hugged us.

“Yah well it’s goin’ to take a lot more then an apocalypse to take me down, let alone a trip to my house!” I said, “So do you still have that puny gun of yours?”

She gave me a funny look “Maybe, why?”

I pulled out a .45 Colt Peacekeeper (2” Barrel Length) and gave it to her “I got this for you in mind so now you won’t need that “Puny” .25 ACP round.” I chuckled.

She smiled “Thank you, now I can officially “Cure” my ex-patients! Like you said, right?” She said.

We both laughed knowing that she was quoting me from the hospital “Hey Nurse, do you know where Rainbow Dash be at?” I asked.

“If I remember she’s on the third story of our beloved town hall.” She said.

“Thanks and I’ll catch you later.” I said.

“I bet you will hot shot!” She said and winked.

I chuckled as I trotted away “You’re one of the most interestin’ Nurses I’ve met to this date!

While crossing the groups of survivors I over heard conversations about Princess Luna is the one to blame for the undead, and that a train is going to leave the train station soon to Canterlot.

“You hear d’em rumors? They spread like wild fire even though they don’t know shit.” I said while Mr. Cappuccino and I walked up the stares we could see that everything seemed to be well secured for most of the downstairs windows are boarded up.
“Seems like a safe place.” Mr. Cappuccino said.

“Yah but for how long?” I asked as we arrived to the third story.

We immediately went outside to the balcony and looked around but there was no sign of Rainbow Dash. I leaned against the balcony ledge and looked down noticing the advantage that the balcony would be to hold against the hordes of the undead. I pulled out my binoculars and began to scan the area as the sun slowly began to set, “No activity yet” I said.

Mr. Cappuccino yawned and went the other side of the balcony armed with his own nickel plated Smith and Wesson Schofield III “It isn’t the same.”

I continued to look around and saw a train stationed at the train station “Maybe the rumors are true…”

Suddenly two magenta eyes appear on the binoculars “What are you looking at friend?” asked a mare in a familiar voice.
“Glad to see you too Rainbow Dash and now that you asked nicely I’ll tell that I was lookin’ for some sort of “Entertainment”!” I said as I started putting away my binoculars and seeing that she was still hovering in front of me.

“How did I not scare you and how did you know it was me?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“‘Cause you’re the one of the few Pegasus who seems to know me in Ponyville.” I said and smiled, “Two it would have been terrible if you were an undead Pegasus and able to fly… Well now that I mentioned it I haven’t seen an undead Pegasus so I don’t know if they fly or not.” I said.

Rainbow Dash blinked “You know, you’re actually right about that.”

“How so?” I asked

“Well we haven’t seen an undead Pegasus… or Unicorn for that matter, so we are not sure what they are capable of doing.” She said.

I smiled “Well if we ever do meet with such kind they’ll get a warm welcomin’ from me.” I took a breath, “Anyways you and all your friends ok? Any luck on raiding the gun smith for weapons and ammo?”

“Yeah we’re ok, our trip to the gun smith and to town hall was safe and about the guns they’re still being distributed but I don’t think everyone is going to get one.” She said.

“Good to hear that you guys made it safely…. Have you heard any news?” I asked.

“I heard that there will be no more reinforcements for Ponyville, because they’ve been called off to the cities because they’ve been hit hard.” Rainbow Dash said

“Well I kind of expected that one.” I said focusing that the sun disappeared into the horizon and darkness soon followed, “Might as well prepare ourselves for the night.”

I un-holstered my Springfield Rifle 1903 and ready in hoof.

Rainbow Dash landed on the balcony “Anyways your awesome... I mean how you saved Scootaloo.”

I hesitated for a second “I just did what was “justified” as the right thing, plus I couldn’t have just left a filly to die now.” I said as I leaned my back against the ledge now.

Applejack came up the stairs followed by her friends “Nurse told us you would be up here!” she said.

“Yah, that’s about right.” I said and greeted everyone as they came up, I saw Scootaloo and picked her up and held her above my head, “Hey Scootaloo, I got somethin’ you might like!”

She looked down at me “A new gun?” she asked.

“How did you know? I said and put her back down and pulled out the un-custom Mare’s Leg from the wooden box, “Just for you kiddo!”

She picked up the gun “Wow it’s small and light!” She aimed downwards at the ground, “Pew… Pew… Pew” she pulled the trigger firing the gun, “Didn’t know it was loaded!” She said as she tried to figure out how to load the next round into the chamber.

“You push lever forwards till it stops then put the lever back into place.” I said as I passed her box of ammunition.

“Thank you!” She said and then gave me back my Sawn-Off Shotgun with the bandolier and ammo that I had left her earlier,

“Too much recoil…” She said and went off to go play with Apple bloom and Sweetie Bell along with their guns.

“Nice kid, anyways do you guys plan on stayin’ here long?” I asked.

“Well it seems pretty safe where every pony is helping one another out, I mean seriously what would happen if no one wanted to help another one out then we would all starve and be eaten alive or we would just kill one another…” Pinkie Pie said before being cut short by inhaling air.

“But for how long can we keep it that way? What will happen when food and ammo run low, what then? Wait ‘til the army shows to bring us food and supplies?” I asked, “I don’t think they’ll come ‘til they cleanse their own problems in the cities first, and with that bein’ said I’m goin’ to go find answers to stop this madness.”

Everyone starred at me as though wanting to hear more of the plan before deciding if I was crazy or just suicidal, as though my last plan wasn’t suicidal enough.

“I heard that at the train station there will be a train leavin’ soon most likely and like many trains in Equestria one of its many stops is Canterlot, while there I’ll take a look at the library to find out what we’re really up against and if its related to magic arts or not then I’ll find out where it s originated and how to put a stop to it.” I took a breath, “If not die fightin’ ‘til the end, any pony up for it?” No one replied

“Really no one, no on again?” I sighed, “Alright I get it, I understand you all have something to loose, I completely understand.” I grabbed my trunk of guns, “Looks like we’re on our own once more Mr. Cappuccino…”

Mr. Cappuccino looked straight at me with wide eyes “W-wait what did I just sign up for?”

“To find a cure to end all of this.” I replied.

He thought it over rather quickly “I don’t have much to live for anyways.”

Rarity stared at me, “I’m sorry darling, I would love to go to Canterlot but the way things are it is far too risky.”

Pinkie Pie also began “I have to agree, I mean seriously have you seen how they eat their prey? It’s disgusting with the blo…”

She was cut short by Twilight Sparkle.

“I think Celestia knows best and that this event will be over with before you know it! She’ll probably send Royal Guards or the Equestrian Army to our aid soon enough!” She said.

“You might be right Twilight but the question again is how long will it take?” I finished the argument before she tried to say anything more, “Alrighty then I’ll leave ammo for you guys.” I lifted my gear, “It was a great pleasure meeting all of you, best of luck to yah and take care!” I said and began to give my personal goodbyes to everyone.

Mr. Cappuccino and I made our way downstairs and saw that many of the survivors were wide awake messing around or on guard, “Let’s grab a bite to eat before we go, I’m hungry.” I said.

We made it over to where some ponies put up shop for food “Four tortas please…” I paused, “I mean Sandwiches.”
“Coming right up sir.” Replied the merchant as he passed four sandwiches, “Where you from friend, no one around here use’s that word for sandwiches.”

“Does it matter?” I asked.

He stayed quiet and continued to stare at me as I passed Mr. Cappuccino two sandwiches, we ate quickly and made our way across town hall and arrived at the door.

“Ready?” I asked ironically.