Darkness Acsending

PonyVille Train Station, Nightmare Night

"Move yer arses lads!" Demoman yelled out at he fired both grenades from his Loch 'n' Load. The two rounds impacted and detonated immediately, blowing a good chunk of the horde to pieces. However, more were still coming, and they weren't about to give up. With the force of a gale wind, the undead roared as one. The roar made the horde sound like a single beast, rather than fifty hungry ones. Heavy stepped forward, his Hue-Long Heater revving up, giving a deep, guttural growl as it did. Flicking a switch, Heavy deactivated the Flame Ring that would be deployed, and opened fire. The flame to form the ring instead came out as a stream of fire, heating the custom-tooled cartridges into bright red streaks. The bullets pounded into the horde, cutting more down as Heavy let out a war cry and laughed.

"Oooh! Run! Run, I'm coming for you!" He yelled at the zombies.

Pyro and Soldier charged into the fray. Soldier swung an Escape Plan while Pyro smashed zombies with a Powerjack. Zombies were either impaled on a pick end by a insane veteran, or had their cranial vaults smashed to pieces by a psychotic masked creature. Soldier and Pyro fought back-to-back, taking on more and more zombies per second. Soldier smashed away a zombie and looked at Sniper, tilting his head up to look under his helmet's edge.

"Move it, Outback boy! Get to the train with the ponies and--" But he was cut off when a pony launched onto his back and its muzzles clamped down onto his shoulder. Soldier's blue eyes went wide with shock, and in the most frightening scream he'd ever let out, grabbed the zombie pony by the ears, tore it off his shoulder, threw it onto the ground, and started curb-stomping it until the skull broke like a bloody pumpkin. In an instant, Soldier fell to his knees right as Pyro managed to clear a path to the veteran. Switching his Powerjack out for the Reserve Shooter, Pyro hefted Soldier up with one arm and fired the Reserve Shooter one handed.

"Move Pyro!" Medic yelled as an arc of syringes spewed from his Overdose. The group moved as one, only breaking off to engage the undead. Heavy continued his Hue-Long Heater slaughter as everyone ran past him. The train was close by when an unnatural roar, even for the zombies, was heard. The fighting stopped, and the undead horde parted. In the center of the group stood a Zombie Tank Pony. Its once white fur, now stained red, covered its bulging muscular structure. The brick like jaw was lop sided, obviously broken, and its tiny red eyes were locked onto the group of humans and ponies.

"Oh my goodness, isn't that Roid Rage?!" Twilight asked shocked. As if to confirm her suspicions, the Tank began to hover ever so slightly, a small buzzing of wings could be heard. In a blur of movement, the Tank shot forward towards Engineer. The Texan's jaw dropped and he began to shield Applejack with himself. But, in a thunderous clash of bulk meeting bulk was heard and Heavy was heard grunting. Engineer looked up to see the hulking Russian putting the Tank into a headlock.

"Go! Heavy has this covered!" He yelled. He met Pinkie Pie's eyes and smiled. "Go tiny Pony. Heavy will be on train soon." Pinkie Pie nodded, knowing now wasn't the time to be silly. She hopped off and galloped with the others towards the train. Heavy watched them go and he looked at the muscular zombie pegasus. "Alright tiny coward. Let us fight." He said sneering.

The sounds of a lone combatant was heard in the distance as the others all continued to run. Moments later, they finally reached the train. Tearing the door open, Engineer ushered everyone inside the train car. He stayed behind to blast some zombies away, then he too got onto the train. He closed the door behind him and walked into the seating compartment.

"Alright ya'll. Who knows how to operate this here train?" He asked, giving a hopeful smile. He was given a silent reply, and the smile dropped. "Well shit." He muttered. Pyro laid Soldier down on one of the benches and Medic stepped up. Soldier was muttering darkly as the adrenaline wore off from his fight. Medic peeled back the torn fabric of his uniform and winced slightly. The bite was deep, almost to the bone. The immediate area around the puncture marks were a greyish-blue, showing the skin had bruised, then died off. Blood still poured from the broken blood vessels. Applejack and Twilight both approached, but quickly turned around upon seeing the blood, trying not to vomit. Engineer and Pyro looked to Medic. The German gave a grave sigh.

"I'll zee vhat I can do." He said as he opened his lab smock and began producing small tools for battlefield operations. He went too work right away, Soldier wincing as Medic attempted to close the skin. Scout sat down as he attempted to catch his breath. Rainbow Dash was doing the same, and Scout chuckled.

"Why are you breathin' hard? You didn't even run!" He said as he gave a small cough.

"I guess the action took my breath away." She joked.

"And another thing. Why didn't you fly here with Fluttershy?" Scout asked pointing to her wings.

"Well, pegasai also live in PonyVille. I'm sure there would've been some that were zombified. The skies were a danger if that were true." She said.

"Can't argue with that." Scout said as he looked around. "So when are we gonna get rollin'?" He asked. Almost on cue, the train lurched forward and began to pull out of PonyVille Station. "Hey, look a' that! It listens to me!" Scout said smiling smugly.

"No you ankle bitter. Someone obviously started it up. Question is, who?" Sniper asked. Everyone gave shrugs and looked to the car entrance door. Moments passed in silence as the train rattled along the rails. Then, the door handle jiggled. It shifted down, and the door slid to the side. In the doorway, stood a hulking figure. A head poked into the light to reveal a tired, but smiling Heavy.

"Hello!" He said happily. Cries of happiness and cheers of joy erupted. Heavy slid sideways through the small doorframe into the train car and sat down on a bench. "Heavy is tired...evil pony can put up fight, but Heavy won." He said, the smile dropping as the exhaustion took over. "Ugh...I need sandvich..." He said opening the ammo box on his belt. He produced a sandwich and started to munch on it.

"So, how long until we reach where ever we're going?" Spy asked. Twilight began to think.

"Uh, I'd say about five hours..." She said, trailing off.

The train ride was silent from that point after, save for the small grunts of discomfort from Soldier as Medic operated on his bite wound. Scout eventually fell asleep, and Rainbow Dash curled up against him and fell asleep. Heavy fell asleep sitting up, bobbing only slightly from side to side with the train. Everyone else had fallen asleep, except for Applejack and Engineer. The two went to the front of the train to maintain the train's fuel as it chugged along the dark rails.