The dead move.

I bolted up, no longer able to take what was practically torture, two mares...and the only time that I had attracted this much attention of course had to be during the apocalypse. I looked down to see Blood drips sad face and that she was out of her armor, same with Quick shot and Hard steel. Storm was still sound asleep, then I heard my stomach grumble, and as if on cue, everypony else's sounded out, one by one. I had one thought in my head, THE PEACHES!

Everypony looked at each other, each one most likely thinking about where the food was. Rainstorm and Strong heart simply looked to each other and began to blink, as soon as they were done Quick shot ran for the back of the cave, the other two in hot pursuit, meanwhile Blood drip, Steel hooves and myself were all just sitting more or less dumbfounded. What we saw next was a smug looking Quick shot traipsing out of the back of the cave; with the bag of goodies in his mouth.

"I'm gonna be honest here, I don't get why you three ran for it." Blood drip was sitting next to me, obviously about to shed some light on the situation. "We are all going to be sharing what is in there, right?" Her voice carried an undertone of anger and minor amounts of disappointment.

Quick shot simply nodded, then began to rummage around in the bag. He grabbed a can of peaches and threw it towards myself and Blood. Then he looked over to Hard steel and threw him one too. Lastly he looked to the back of the cave, where the two defeated looking mares began to trudge out. He threw yet another one of our precious canned peaches towards them. He then began to speak.

"We have got another three of these cans of peaches, bleuch." I gave him my best evil glare, peaches are made of pure happiness and rainbows and goodness. "So I don't see us lasting long without getting more food and water, and the nearest source would just so happen to be Canterlot, without what we can get from there, we will be unable to get anywhere else and completely fucked over."

Well at least he has got his proprieties set right, but how can he not like to eat peaches!? I decided to chime in on where we might be able to get more food and water. "Some what near my house is a general store, it will have food and water, plus it is relatively close to pretty much any other source of well...anything really."

"Okay, that sounds good, now then you will of course have to go, who else volunteers?" Blood and Storms hooves shot up, surprisingly so did Hard steels. "Okay, I don't think that we need to have that many going, seeing as how two of the volunteers have been trained for combat, they should go." Who the fuck put Quick shot in charge anyway?

Storm now looked a bit downtrodden, then again she pretty much always looked that way. Blood was practically jumping around in joy, it kind of scares me that she is so happy, 'hurray, the most eligible for psychotic killer is jumping around with an enormous smile on her face!'

"So what time should we leave?" I have to have my peaches first or I will KILL SOMEPONY!

"Why not right after breakfast?" That was Hard steel.

"Yeah sure, sounds about right." That was Blood drip, now much calmer than before. Sweet, get to eat my peaches.

After a delicious, and fairly small breakfast.

"Okay, lets hit the road." I was getting impatient, I really wanted to get moving and the other two were slowing me down so much. I get that I do pretty much everything faster, but come on! I looked back to them, Blood and Steel had finally put on their Iron Pony suits and were ready to go.

We waved goodbye to the others, that was of course before I received A tackle/hug from Storm. Recovering from the large amount of kinetic energy slamming into me, I found Blood grinding her teeth at this point. Can't believe I am thinking this, but why can't they be interested in the other two?!

We eventually made our way out of the cave and on the way to Canterlot. We slowly lost sight of the cave, seeing Canterlot growing in the distance with our slow travels. Along the way we talked, mostly random little bits about what we wished things were like. Then when the conversation finally headed towards how we were feeling about all of this.

"I for one don't mind it that much." That was of course Blood, she really seemed to have been effected the least out of all of us, well as far as I could tell of course.

"You're kidding right, this is quite probably the worst thing that has ever happened to pony kind!" General Hard steel was apparently having none of what she was saying.

"Oh come on, it's not like everypony is going to die, we are shining examples of that. Only the strongest, luckiest, and smartest are going to survive, just like Swifty here." She walked over to me and nudged my with the side of her body.

"Nuh uh, you are not dragging me into this!" I did not want any kind of bad feelings from anypony in the group.

"Actually, I am curious as to your stance on this as well, what do you think of all this Swift?" Dammit Steel! Why'd you have to go and say something like that?

"Well...I actually have to agree with Blood... I think it would be good if some of only the strongest and smartest survived, HOWEVER, I also believe it is important not to have to many of each, eventually you will get one that gets way to power hungry."

"See that, good points and shit!" She bumped against me again and smiled broadly. Shit, probably should not have agreed with her, can't take my answer back though...

After about an hour of uncomfortable travels we had finally reached my house, knowing that I would not see it again for a long time, or possibly never again, I walked towards it.

"Oy, what are you doing Swift?"

"This...is my house, I lived here for a long time, I would just like to see it one last time, okay?"

"Oh uh...yeah sure, go right on ahead..."

I walked over to it, and decided not to go in, but rather to just soak in the appearance of the place that was my personal safe haven. I noticed that all the dead bodies were gone from before, where would they go?

"Hey, Swift, we have got to head back if we are going to get back by tomorrow."

"Wait, we aren't getting back to the cave until tomorrow?!" The other three would need food and water...unless we brought none with us...

"They have the food and water, we get to eat when we find food, simple as that." Blood had spoken as though that was no big deal, there is a very real chance that we won't find anything. Or that we would die, or worse, die and come back.

"Before you flip out like a little bitch, yes we will find food, yes we will find water, and yes, we.will.be.going.back." Damn, Steel hooves is a bad-ass. We left my house and ventured forth, seeing as how I was apparently the only one who knew where the store was, I was taking point. We surprisingly saw very few zomponies, most were just shuffling about, though we did see one fall off of a building...and the pony it was chasing. We did not bother to see if they would be okay, either way, they would have died, be it the fall, or the bites.

We were about halfway to the store when the first of many major events happened. We had just passed an alley that had a few zomponies shuffling about, most likely in the search for prey. When for the first time, one seemed to notice us, and then as if a light switch was being turned on, they all did. Hive mind thing-y maybe?

"Get running?" Steel hooves makes the best suggestions.

"Yep." Straight, simple and to the point, just like a murderer.

"Certainly." With class, like a sir!