Mine Their Way Out

Mine Their Way Out

Chapter 5: Reunion in the First Night Pt. 2 The Zombie Battle

“What’s going on?!” Twilight asked in a panicked voice. Joystick looked within the crowd of zombies and saw five ponies within them screaming. “There are ponies in there!” He yelled.

“What?!” Twilight yelled. She looked within the crowd and what she saw shocked her more than the fact that zombies were real. “GIRLS?!!” she yelled.

The five mares within the crowd of zombies turned and looked beyond the zombies. “TWILIGHT!!” they yelled in unison.

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The five mares within the crowd of zombies were terrified, shocked, but a dash of hope entered their hearts as they saw a familiar purple alicorn.

“TWILIGHT HELP!!” They yelled again.

Twilight looked shocked at the scene in front of her. Joystick shook her to snap her out of her trance “TWILIGHT! Come on we got to help them!” He yelled.

Twilight shook her head and looked at Joystick “How? What do we do?!” She asked panicked as her best friends were about to be mauled by a group of Zombies.

The mares screamed again and Joystick turned around to face the crowd. “Ok, listen, cause we don’t have time for a second explanation.” He said. “Try to shoot them from different directions while I attack them head-on with my sword. Now go!”

With that said, Joystick charged at the crowd. Twilight gulped and sweat dripped from her forehead. “Ok Twilight” she whispered to herself. “Concentrate! Your friends are in danger and you have to save them!”

Twilight put on a serious face and yelled “DON’T WORRY GIRLS, WE’RE COMING!”

Joystick took off into the air and pulled something from his bag. The item grew into a bottle with some type of liquid in it. He drank the substance and immediately felt like he could outrace the Wonderbolts.

He Dove into the crowd with a battle cry and started slashing at the zombies with incredible speed.

Twilight took an arrow from her sheath and loaded it into her bow, she aimed by holding her breath and targeting a Zombie in the head. She released the arrow and sent it flying through the air, the arrow pierced the Zombie’s skull and ended up getting another one in the neck.

Twilight took a deep breath and was amazed by her own work.

Joystick was going berserk in the battle field, he cut a Zombie’s head off and it turned into dust. A Zombie was about to bite him when he jumped up, backflipped behind it and made a giant gash on it’s back, turning it into dust like the others.

The zombies stopped focusing on the mares in the center and were now full attention on the purple alicorn shooting at them and a red pegasus slashing away at their comrades.

Twilight noticed a zombie walking towards her and shot it through the heart. She loaded an arrow and focused on the zombies closed to her friends, who were staring at her and the red pegasus in surprise. She released an arrow that hurled itself towards a zombie near Fluttershy and it pierced the zombie hard enough to pin it against the tree near her friends.

The mares shrieked as the body landed next to them and disintegrated into a ash. Joystick was fighting the crowd like a wild animal, the potion he had drank gave him speed to take out three zombies within fifteen seconds. He leaped and landed in front of the mares, who all yelped when he landed. Standing up, he looked at everyone of them before turning and rushing towards a zombie in front of them.

The mares watched in amazement as the pegasus cut, ripped, slashed, and killed the creatures. Then their attention turned to their friend who was shooting an arrow through a zombie’s heart. They were amazed that Twilight was capable of this.

Twilight ran towards a Zombie and used her bow to slam it down. She stepped on its chest and stared into it’s cold, red, dead eyes and gave it a hateful look “Don’t you EVER, mess with my friends!” With that said she released a loaded arrow from her bow and it carved right through the Zombie’s head and, like the rest, it turned to dust.

On the other side of the battlefield, Joystick was protecting the five mares from the incoming wave, he sliced heads off and slashed through chests and stabbed through hearts. He was getting tired from every blow dealt, and received, his body was filled with scars dripping blood which his red coat hid. Unlike Twilight he was combating close range so he was more prone to injuries.

Twilight had just finished annihilating the outer rim of Zombie and was about to rush over to help Joystick finish the job, however he yielded her to stop.

“Don’t come any closer!” He yelled “I can finish this alone now”

Twilight gave gave him a concerned look “But you’re swarmed!” She said.

Don’t worry!” Joystick said. He turned to the mares who watched blood drip from his coat “You two!” he said, pointing at Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy “listen to me, fly your friends up to that tree! Don’t argue, just do it!”

Rainbow Dash looked at her friends and nodded, she took a hold of Rarity, who shrieked, and Fluttershy took Applejack, Pinkie Pie seemed to have found a way up all by herself.

Once Joystick saw they were all safely up in the tree he turned to Twilight. “Alright” he said. “Stay back, this won’t go too far”

Twilight gave him a concerned look but did as he told her. She stepped back and smiled, he gave her a small smile then turned to face the Zombies a few steps away from him. He sighed and his weapon shrunk as he put it back in his bag. Twilight looked at him in confusion as worry started to creep up on her.

Joystick stuck his hoof out of his bag. He was holding what appeared to be the same iron sword he had before, however as the item grew in his hand it was clearly noticeable that this sword was glowing. Twilight looked at the sword in thought then turned to Joy who had a sly grin on his face.

"Alright,” he whispered. “Say goodnight you hellish demons.” He gripped the sword in his hoof and with one swift motion he struck the earth with it and sank it deep into the soil. Twilight looked in confusion at the action but immediately noticed the air had suddenly gotten warmer.

Joystick looked at Twilight and mouth “go up” she hesitated but when she saw a small spark on the spot the sword had hit she flew up to a tree, that’s as far as her wings could take her.

The Zombies were now face to face with Joystick, but when one tried to grab him, he leaped and kicked it. Joystick looked at his sword, still buried in the soil, then smirked when he saw a tiny spark. “Later,” he said to himself. At that moment the sword caught fire and caused a massive ring to form around it, which then spread up until the last zombie was enveloped in fire.

Joystick looked at the zombies who were running around frantically on fire then turned to the mares. “Fly them as far as you can!” he yelled up “Twilight take care of them! I’ll catch up!”

Twilight nodded and flew to her friends and directed them on what to do.

Once they all took off, Rainbow Dash holding Rarity, Fluttershy holding Applejack, and Twilight holding Pinkie Pie, Joystick waited for every single zombie to finish burning. Once they did, the sword’s flames died out and Joystick walked up to his sword, picked it up, and put it in his bag. “Looks like it’s good for one more hit” he said.

He spread his wings and started to fly towards his home, certain that Twilight had made it there with the others, blood dripping below him.

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“So wait a minute” Rainbow Dash said “You mean to tell me that you tried to go back to the human dimension but got sent here?”

“I’m afraid so” Twilight said.

“And this stallion, Joystick” Rarity continued for Rainbow Dash “Took you in and protected you from THOSE hideous creatures out there”

“They were zombies, and yes he did” Twilight answered.

“Hold up a second,” Applejack intervened. “Why are we here then? How did we get sent here?”

Twilight sighed and looked at them. “Well,” she started. “If what you told me on our way back here is true, and you all really did get here just today, then I might have sent a magic ripple through Equestria.” Twilight looked ashamed.

“A magic whataple?!” Pinkie Pie said.

“A magic ripple.” Twilight said. “Think of it like that ring of fire Joystick’s sword caused, it starts in a single epicenter, in this case me, and then spreads outwards, but I didn’t make the spell that powerful. It was only a test, so maybe only you girls and I got sent here. Being Elements of Harmony does attract magic so you girls must have attracted my spell, just later than expected”

“All this sounds very confusing,” Applejack said. “But ah’ll take yer word for it Twi. By the way, where is this Joystick fella? He said he would catch up.”

At that moment the door was opened, and the mares turned to see the pegasus in question limp in and give the am all a proud grin before collapsing on the floor.

“JOYSTICK!” Twilight yelled as she rushed over to him. She checked him and noticed several open wounds and blood all over his coat “He’s losing too much blood! Help me bandage him!”

Fluttershy was the first to rush over to him. “Twilight, let me handle him, I can take care of the wounds” She said in her usual soft voice.

Twilight had tears in her eyes and nodded. “Ok… Just please take care of him,” she said.

Fluttershy smiled at her and picked up the pegasus. “Is there a room here?” she asked.

“Yeah,” Twilight said. “It’s upstairs to the right, it’s his room”

Fluttershy looked at Twilight. “He’ll be ok,” she said as she flew the pegasus up to his room, leaving the rest of the mares stunned and in silence.