The Menace with a Z

It has been two years since then. If you're wondering 'well why didn't everypony just run like you did???' Not everypony was awake when this happened. Not everypony was able to run, nopony was able to hold out for long against this all. Well, nopony but us at canterlot, armed with spears, and bows, we were an amy versus an army, an army veresus a never ending enemy, but all of us had one objective. Keep the last standing princess alive. Luna.

If you're thinking of how Celestia died, let me explain. When I reported back to Celestia with the news of the zombiefied harmony elements, she had fled the castle in the middle of the night to try and save that quaint little town called ponyville. But when she'd gotten there, the place was already swamped, everyone had been turned. She faught a brave fight with he magic, even trie fliyng away, but a pegasus brought her down, munching at her wing. After that, no one left the castle, the safety of out weapons, and the realization of this threat.

"Juniper! Report!" Shouted Luna, emberassingly enough, to me. Yes, that was my name, Juniper....

"Yes, ma'am. There are signs of the dead up to two miles from the castle, as far as if Zecora is still behind all of this, we have no idea. All we really know is that they are still coming after us, and saddle arabia has stopped wrighting back. So that's another sunken city..." I watched as Luna shed a single tear, definately not as good at that as her sister, I thought, but it made sense, she has a rather "speacial" friend who lived there, as did some palace gaurds.

"W-well" I could hear her shudder, and this saddened me a bit. "I want a scouting group sent to sa-" now it was my turn to interrupt.

"Princess Luna! We cannot do this! We have already confirmed pegasus infected in the immediate area, if we send any scouts or spies, we get more dead gaurds! the best we can do is hold out here." The princess gave an understanding look, she knew her sister would do the same, but would still try to find a solution. I figured as much when she said this to me.

"Do you know what she put in this elixer?" Pressed the princess.

"I.... uhh"

"DO NOT FOOL AROUND!!" she screamed this too me, looking at me with renewed anger.

"I did recongnize the ingredients she used, but I don't know the order she put them in."

"YOU WILL GO DOWN TO THE LAB AND MAKE A VACCINE!" This was impossible, and I told her so, I told her she was crazy to suggest that, and that has pushed to too far for her. "My sister died out there" she suggested. "If we do not find a vaccine, Equestria will plunge into deadness for much more than two years, and what is Celestia finds us at the castle, then what?" She was so right about this, and I never knew it, unicorn zombies could still use thier magic, Alircorn zombies could probably cast devostating spells.

I went down to the lab, and told the scientists the ingrdients used, and to try to make a vaccine. Then I was commanded to go to the civilians quarters and make conversation. Likely Luna's revenge for me interrupting her, because I caught the smirk she made as I turned. Anyway, as I made my way there, I stopped once more my the lab, they were still throwing stuff together. I chuckled slightly, resuming my little trip to civil quarters.

When I walked in, I was barraged with questions, Octavia pushed and shoved her way to the font of the crowd. "Have you found anything on Vynil?" This question suprised me, she'd been asking it for two years, over and over, by now, Vynil was certainly dead but how could I just break that to the poor mare, I motioned to talk to her alone. When we made it away from the mob, I started.

"Octavia..... look, it's been two years.... I last saw Vynil in ponyville, there is no way she's held out for two years...." It waas the truth, and as soon as it was spoken, the mare broke out in tears and... hugged me?

"I-I know..." she stated, this blew my mind. "But I just don't want to believe it okay, Vynil is all i've got left in this world, and it's better to assume that she's alive than to know that she's.... she's...." I patted the mares mane. Smiling and making my way back out to the crowd.

"ATTENTION EVERYONE" I started, getting all of thier undivided attention. "I am happy to inform that are boys in the lab are trying to somehow reverse-engineer a vaccine, it may take a while, but we're working for it!" This recieved a few cheers, and a few grunts of anger, when the pony known as... holy- it was...

The orange and purple pegasus flew up with her tinsy wings, and poked me in the chest. "They have been looking for a vaccine for how long now? TWO YEARS YOU SAY? oh my, how do they think this one is right!?!?" She was right there, but...... we could still do it...

"LISTEN Scootaloo, It's about time you stopped being so negative because Rainbow Dash died" the other voice was also that of a filly, I realized this was Sweetie Belle.

I asked the two fillies how they got here. They told me this whole story of watching Applebloom get torn apart, then running as fast as thier little legs could carry them to the canterlot stronghold, the castle. I apologized to both fillies, only recieving a thank you from Sweetie Belle. I left the citizens quarters. I hated my depressing trips there, to see all of those saddened ponies. As I reentered the throne room to talk to Princess Luna, I found her crying as well.

All these crying ponies got on my nerves, who next, me? I tried to talk to the princess, but she just sat there, crying. I was sick of it all, I went out to the balcony, and smelled the air. It smelled rotten, disgusting, decayed. The horde was drawing closer, I could tell they were olnt a mile away from canterlot, they moves slow, but they moved in mass. Shabling, drooling corpses. This brought my mind to the six mares of the elements, I wondered where they were, was Zecora still on control? Or did it all fall apart around her and she was eaten alive.

I had to go inside, the smell was too much. I didn't understand how it was getting so much stronger, so fast, when I saw something I didn't wanna see. I saw one of them, the infected. It was munching only a palace gaurd. I shoved my spear in it's head, and looked down at the fallen gaurd. I stabbed the corpse in his head as well, my horn glowing only slightly as I removed the spear, and went into the ain castle. The lab boys were standing there.

"We... uhh.... one of out test subjects escaped...." explained the lead scientist, nervously laughing.

"You just cost a gaurd his life... NEVER let that happen again." They all bowed, and left the room. I guessed we were just lucky they didn't get Luna... who was... missing out of her chair.... of course, my luck, the princess was gone, and I had to alert all gaurds. My horn gowed once more, on my throat, making my voice  much louder. "ATTENTION ALL PALACE GAURDS, Princess Luna has left the trone room, if you see her plase return her there, prevent her from fighing, use force of nessicary." He hated to say that, "use force" who was going to hold a spear to a princess.

Luna slowly entered the room, looking at the floor. "Hello, princess" I greeted, acting as if nothing happened. "Anything special to report from your little walk thorugh the castle?" Her response was depressing.

"It's worse than ever in the civil quarters. Everyone is angry and sad.... I didn't know that it would get this bad... this..... subconsious. I can't do anything to stop this all..... nothing... i'm useless... that's what everyone always said.

"That's not true" I said "You are out last stand."