Route 116

I woke up early in the morning, after I heard a very loud vehicle engine coming from outside. I took away one of the wooden planks that I nailed to the window and looked outside. I saw a dark purple mustang coming up the street very fast, leaving a trail of black smoke behind. The car was heading toward the water purification center. I nailed the plank back on the window and went outside to see it better. All of a sudden, the car slowed down and stopped to let a purple pony come out of it. The stallion aimed his .44 magnum pistol at me and said "Okay, now you will slowly move away from the building you're right next to, alright? Don't do anything stupid or you'll regret it."

I looked at him with a little smile, just to show that I wasn't scared and then I aimed my Henry rifle at him and shouted "Don't shoot or I'll shoot too. I'm NOT a zombie, okay? I am not here to hurt you or anypony else. I just want to survive like everypony else that's left, so please don't make me waist ammo by using a bullet on a normal pony!"

The purple pony looked at me for a few seconds, then he said "Dammit!" I was confused until he added "Alright, you got me!" He then put his gun on the ground and said "I have no ammo at all! I'm sorry, I was trying to bluff with you to get you away from the store. Looks like you're a smart mare! Well, this is all I have: my shitty car, my useless gun and only a few supplies. I got robbed. Sorry again for what I just did, I was kind of desperate."

I put my rifle down and looked at him with a smile and I giggle a bit. He didn't seem as happy as me though, but I didn't care that much. "Can you please let me stay here? I won't cause any trouble!" he suddenly asked.

I replied, "Alright, come in." He took all his stuff in his bag and started to walk calmly toward me. He passed me by and tipped his hat while saying "Thank's, ma'm!" I blushed at that moment. We just had a connection, eyes to eyes. I don't know why, but it gave me goosebumps. I was having a weird feeling inside, it was hard to tell if I was happy or just nervous. I looked at him again once he was inside. He was sitting on the floor, unpacking his stuff. As I walked toward him to get closer, he took a sandwich out of his bag and started to eat it by doing loud noming noises. I laughed a little and he looked at me with a little smile. Well, I guess it was. It's kinda hard to tell if somepony's smiling when their mouth is full of food. He then started to talk with his mouth full! I laughed harder that time and he laughed too!

I said "Wait until you're done!" while laughing. He did a nod with his head and swallowed. I slowly stopped laughing as he said "Sorry, I was just so hungry I had to eat something! Anyway, all I wanted to say is, there is not much  ponies  nice as you these days! Thanks again for letting  me stay"

I smiled and replied "You're very welcome. I'm glad to finally have somepony to talk to. Speaking of you, what's your name?"

He put his right hoof in the air as if he wanted to do a brohoof and said "Name's Ian Ceol, nice to meet you!" I giggled and lifted my right hoof to give him a brohoof.

Then I said "My name is Sunrise Tune, nice to meet you too!" while clocking his hoof with mine.

Ian smiled and said "You're probably wondering how I got here, right?  Well, let me tell you what happened back there with my car and the bastards who stole my stuff!"

I asked "The zombie ponies?"

Ian said "Nope! Far from it! The militia ponies! I was entering from the south side of the city, on the main road, I thought it was a nice place without zombies since I already had to deal with a lot of them. I continued on the road and I spotted some zombies. I thought 'well, shit! this place got overrun like the others' but I kept going past the super store and I saw these very large iron fences and an intercom. I drove next to it, pressed the button and somepony said "come in". I came in and I noticed a lot of ponies wearing old fashion  clothing and some with full militia armor with weapons on their back. I stopped to a parking   lot and got out of my car. I looked around and I noticed a park.

A unicorn wearing a white suit came over to me with a floating glass of clear liquid. He told me "hello good sir, how was your day?" as he extended the glass toward me".

"What a strange question to ask in the situation we're all living lately. I still took the glass and said 'Thank you sir'. I asked 'what is this place?'

He said 'oh, that's not important, but if you look over there, you'll see that the liquid you're about to drink was made here by excellent craftponies who made that drink out of the resources we have in this park!"

I said 'thanks!' and I drank it. After that, I noticed the pony swung at me, aiming for the back of my head with his bear hoof. All I remembered was black. I woke up and I saw that I was in one of the houses I passed when I was in my car. A mare and a colt where there and they thought I was that mare's husband and that kid's father. I was trying to get out but they kept pushing me to stay. I finally got out of there at night. I took all my stuff, my gun and some supplies, got in my car and I drove up the high way. I drove through the fences and broke a part of them. The guards tried to shoot me but they missed and I've been able to make my way out. It was pretty early in the morning, but I didn't care. I just wanted to get out of there. Then I arrived here and now here I am! But when I was in that house, I heard a big bang coming from one of those big metal guns on top of the roof of one of the houses. I also saw when I came here that a building was destroyed by the river. Any idea what happened there?"

I wasn't really surprised about that question so I answered "Oh, that. Yeah it's because I went to that building, which used to be a restaurant. It got destroyed because when I wanted to sneak in from behind, one of militia ponies saw me and he aimed his big gun at me. I raised up my right hoof to show him I wasn't a zombie and I wasn't harmful, but then he got ready to shoot. I was so scared. All I thought about is running away from him and that's what I did. I ran back to the front of the building and he shot at the restaurant. The roof fell down first and the whole building followed its fell in the river. He must have shot a kind of explosive thing. I went back here right after, hehe." He looked at me a bit surprised, like he didn't expected me to say that.

He smiled and said "I see. Well, I'm pretty tired. I didn't really get any sleep with these bastards so, I'll take a nap if you don't mind, okay?" Did he really expected me to say no?

I said "Of course, make yourself at home. I'll be outside for a while so stay inside until I come back please." He nodded his head and opened his sleeping bag to get inside. He looked cute with only his head coming out of it. I went outside and looked around to see if there was any zombie ponies. Nothing.