The Dead Rise

Chapter 2: Ponyville

Derpy was walking down the road. She kept on walking for ten minutes and she finally ended up in Ponyville. The town was deserted. She saw nopony in sight. She slowly walked in the entrance and looked around. She saw sugar cube corner and thought to herself. "Maybe Pinkipie can tell me what's going on."

Derpy entered the store and saw the now destroyed sugar cube corner. There was shattered glass on the ground because some of the windows were broken. She slowly made her way to the counter. She went past the counter desk and saw a door with bullet holes in it. Derpy gave a worried expression on her face and decided to open the door. She opened the door and peeked her head in the room. She saw gun shells lying on the floor. Each gun shell was at least three inches away from each other. The status on the room made it look like a last stand. She took a step inside the room and stepped on something. She looked on the floor and saw boards with nails sticking out. Derpy quickly looked at her hoof to see if she stepped on the nail. Luckily she didn't step on the nail. She slowly made her way past the boards. She saw a couch in the middle of the room that was torn up. She walked over towards the couch and stopped quickly when she saw a forearm with bite marks on it lying on the floor. She noticed that there was a gun in the hoof.

Derpy picked up the gun but the clip slid out and it showed that it was empty. She gently placed the gun on the couch and moved onto the hallway. She went in the hallway and noticed that there was blood on the floor. She saw that the blood looked more like as if somepony was dragged through the puddle. She followed the bloodstream all the way to a door with a pink cupcake on the door. "Wow Pinkie how much more obvious can you be." Derpy thought to herself. She looked back down at the stream of blood that was leading into Pinkiepie's room. Derpy put her ear up against the door to see if she can hear anypony. She couldn't hear anything. Derpy opened the door slowly and saw a pony lying on the ground. She closed the door behind her and walked up to the pony. She looked down at the pony and it moved it's left forearm.

"Excuse me are you okay?" Derpy asked.

The pony started to slowly rise. Derpy saw gunshot wounds to the pony's back. She gasped.

"You're hurt. Do you need to go to the hos...." Derpy stopped herself from finishing the sentence.

The pony turned around. The pony had an eye hanging out of it's eye socket and it had skin peeling off of it's right cheek. The pony lunged towards Derpy and Derpy fell back and hit the door. The pony tried to bite Derpy but Derpy held it back by using both of her hooves. The pony kept on getting closer to her face until it stopped moaning and stood still. Blood started to come out of it's mouth and Derpy tried pushing it away. But it's head fell down and Pinkiepie was right behind the pony with a knife in her hand. Derpy threw the pony off of her and quickly crawled away from it. Derpy looked up at Pinkiepie and sighed in relief.

"Pinkiepie am I glad to see you."

"Derpy. Oh thank god it's somepony I know." Pinkiepie hugged Derpy and Derpy felt tears streaming down her back.

Derpy hugged back. "Pinkie what's going on?" Derpy asked.

Pinkiepie pulled her head back and wiped tears away from her cheeks. "It all happened two weeks after your incident. You see the news on the television said that the royal guards were at the hospital. Then there was gunshots and explosions. The royal guards started shooting civilians. But they weren't civilians they weren't alive."

"What do you mean?" Derpy asked.

"The dead have come back to life. But not in a good way. You see I've given them a name. I call them walkers but only because they walk around mindlessly. All they want to do is eat the living. I know because I saw them eating other ponies." Pinkie backed away from Derpy and Derpy gave a look of worry on her face.

Pinkie put a knife up to Derpy's throat and Derpy grabbed Pinkiepie's arm. "Pinkie what are you doing?" Derpy pleaded.

"Have you been bitten or scratched?" Pinkiepie asked.

"What!" Derpy shouted.

"Answer the question." Pinkiepie made Derpy lift her head up.

"No no I haven't been bitten." Derpy quickly reacted.

"Have you had a fever?" Pinkie asked.

"No. Pinkie please." Tears started to drip down Derpy's eyes.

Pinkiepie stepped back and dropped the knife. She looked at her hooves and buried her face into her hooves. Derpy heard Pinkiepie sobbing into her hooves. Even though she was threatened to be killed, Derpy still tried to comfort her friend. Once Derpy was sure Pinkiepie was calm she looked down at her pink friend.

"Pinkiepie why did you do that?" Derpy asked.

Pinkiepie wiped tears away from her eyes and looked up at Derpy. "You see. When the dead bite or scratch you. You....you...you become one of them. I saw them turning ponies. I saw them standing up and eating the living. Derpy I am so sorry. I just....I just....I." Derpy interrupted Pinkiepie by putting a hoof up to her mouth.

"It's okay Pinkie. I understand." Derpy smiled.

Pinkiepie smiled back. Derpy got up and went towards the door. She looked back at her pink friend.

"Are you coming?" Derpy asked.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm coming." Pinkiepie got up and followed Derpy.

The two mares walked into the hallway and into the living room. Pinkiepie stopped and looked down at the gun. She picked it up. Derpy stopped and looked at Pinkiepie.

"Pinkie it's empty. I picked it up earlier and the clip just slid out." Derpy said.

"Don't be a silly filly. I have more bullets in the storage room." Pinkie smiled.

"Oh um. Do you mind getting them. I'll come with you if you want me to." Derpy said.

"Okay. Let's go, ooh i'm sure I have more guns if Mr. and Mrs. Cake left us any." Pinkie said.

"Um where are they?" Derpy asked.

"Oh I don't know." Pinkeipie's smile faded away quickly.

"Pinkie." Derpy said.

"Let's just go see." Pinkie started to smile slowly.

Pinkiepie left the living room and into the hallway. She went left and Derpy quickly followed. Pinkiepie opened a door and went inside the room. Derpy went in as well and saw a door on the floor. Pinkiepie opened the door that was on the floor and jumped inside. Derpy looked down inside the door and Pinkiepie pulled her in. Derpy looked up at the wall in front of her and saw guns covering the wall. Derpy had her mouth wide open and Pinkiepie started laughing.

"Why do you have so many guns?" Derpy asked.

"Well some of these guns were for an emergency situation. They were afraid of somepony trying to rob the store." Pinkie replied.

"I don't think they had to go overboard with it." Derpy said.

"Oh not all of these guns are theirs. Some of these guns are just to keep for fun. I used to go to the target range a lot." Pinkie said.

"Even when everything goes to hell. I still find out more interesting things about you." Derpy said.

"Yeah. That's just the fun thing about life." Pinkie laughed.

"Can I have a gun?" Derpy asked.

"Fuck yeah you can have a gun. Hell you can have two guns." Pinkie replied.

Derpy gazed at Pinkiepie. "Well then. I think i'll have." Derpy looked at all the guns.

Derpy put her hoof out and pointed at each gun. She grabbed a .44 magnum and a semi-automatic rifle. Derpy looked at Pinkie and smiled.

"I never used a gun before. Can you show me the basics?" Derpy asked.

"Well you look down the sights and you pull the trigger. You don't want to jerk or squeeze it. You want to pull it. Or else your aim will be thrown off." Pinkie replied.

"Okay. How do I load it?" Derpy asked.

"Here let me show you." Pinkie grabbed the .44 out of Derpy's hoof.

Pinkiepie pushed the cylinder out of to the left side of the gun. She pointed at the bullets lying on the counter in front of the guns. "Six please."

Derpy grabbed six bullets off of the counter and handed them to Pinkiepie. Pinkiepie took the bullets and inserted them into the gun. Derpy watched Pinkiepie load the gun. Once the gun was full of bullets, Pinkiepie handed the gun back to Derpy. Pinkiepie took the rifle away from Derpy and pulled the clip out from under the gun.

"You see this clip right here?" Pinkie asked.

"Yes." Derpy replied.

"All you have to do is pull it out and put in a new one. Once you put in a new one you pull this slide right here on the right. You pull it back until you hear this click sound." *click* Pinkie pulled the slide back. "And then you push the slide forward all the way." Pinkie pushed the slide forward and handed it back to Derpy. "Give it a try."

Derpy took the gun out of Pinkiepie's hooves. She pulled the clip out of the gun and re-inserted it in the gun. She pulled the slide back until she heard the click noise and pushed it back forward. Derpy looked up at Pinkiepie.

"Did I get it right?" Derpy asked.

"Yes you did. Here take this bag it carries more ammo than you think. I'll take one too." Pinkie replied.

Pinkiepie grabbed two dufflebags and put six rifles, two shotguns, and three small armed weapons in each bag. She grabbed 20 clips and two boxes of shotgun shells for each bag. They both left the cellar and went into the hallway. They exited the living and were in the lobby of the store. Derpy looked out the window and saw a walker outside. She aimed the gun at the walker but Pinkiepie lowered the gun. Derpy looked at Pinkiepie.

"What?" Derpy asked.

"I forgot to mention this but they are attracted to noise. If you shoot the gun, more of them will come." Pinkie replied.

"Then what do we use?" Derpy asked.

Pinkiepie put her right hoof to her chin and gave a thinking pose. A grin appeared on her face quickly and Pinkiepie left the room. Derpy put her attention back on the walker once Pinkiepie left the room. Derpy felt something touch her chest and she looked down. Pinkiepie was holding a shovel up to Derpy. Derpy grabbed the shovel and looked at Pinkiepie. Pinkiepie simply just smiled and went towards the door. Pinkiepie opened the door and stood outside. Derpy went outside and saw three more walkers walking up towards Pinkiepie. Derpy quickly reacted by hitting the walkers in the legs. The walker fell and she started beating it.

"Why the fuck won't they die!?" Derpy yelled.

Pinkiepie pushed Derpy aside and bashed the walker's head. The brain splattered all over the road. "Bash the head! That's the only way they die!" Pinkie replied.

Pinkiepie immediately started to attack the other walkers. Derpy went up to the one she saw from the window and bashed it in the head. It fell on the ground and Derpy started repeatedly hitting it in the head. Derpy stopped and saw that Pinkiepie already took care of the other walkers.

"Come one let's go." Derpy said.

"Where are we going?" Pinkie asked,

"Home." Derpy replied.

"Why?" Pinkie asked.

Derpy looked down the road leading to the other side of Ponyville.

"Dinky."