The dead move.

I woke up startled, it was an unusually loud bang from one of the infected ponies that had woken me up. "I was having a nice dream again, why can I never have a nice dream?" I looked out one of the small holes between the boards, it was night time, I proceeded to my kitchen, it was the closest clock to me. "3:49 A.M. that is a totally sensible time to wake up, yeah." I had copious levels of sarcasm flowing with that sentence. Ponies would DIE if they heard the amount of sarcasm in that sentence.

"MOTHERFUCKER!" It was really dark and well...I caught my hoof on something and fell face first...thus my outburst. The banging on my house got significantly louder. "Dammit dammit dammit." I heard groaning now too, great, they vocalize, that's not scary as shit. The banging was getting louder still, now they were putting effort into it, fucking awesome.

"Ugh, what the tartarus is that noise?" Oh great, Strongheart woke up, now she might flip out. She still looked extremely tired, not good, we have to leave today, there is not going to be any more waiting we have to, it is that or die of dehydration, I would at least like to try and live, it seems like the best thing to do.

"Okay, don't freak out, but I may have stubbed my hoof and then fell face first...the infected ponies must have heard...and...uhm..well they are uhm... banging against my house a lot and making noises and stuff." The last bit was just kind of blurted out due to extreme fright and nervousness. I guess the idea of freaky ass ponies outside does that to me.

She looked at me with eyes that bore to my very soul, what she said would never leave my memory; my being as a whole was affected by this stare. "You are a REALLY special kind of dumb-ass aren't you?" Okay, so I may have exaggerated a little bit, just a little.

"Well, I am gonna go tell Storm now, she would probably like to know this too." I proceeded to go up the stairs, hoping not to be called any kind of name again. When I walked in the room she was already up, man this mare is creepy. "Sooo....why are you up?" Why not try and start up some normal conve..... why is a Pegasus ramming against my window?

"I think we need to leave here. The longer we stay the more of these show up, this one is even flying." Storm was kind of scary sometimes, she sounded so distanced right there, sure we were all about to die probably, but may as-well face death screaming and kicking, right? The Pegasus seemed to be making no actual progress though, so that's good.

"Hey, lets go down stairs, I have an idea that could probably get us out of here and on the road." She simply nodded to me, she seemed a bit shocked up, I was too, I had no idea that these things could still fly. Plus I really wanted out of the room, it could still somehow break the glass, I don't know, it is just really unsettling to see blood on your window...again and again and again, it rams into the window, kinda hypnotic, in a really fucked up way.

While we were walking down the stairs I began to think some more on my plan, it was really simple. Walk out there and stab each of the infected in the head, none of the wounds on their bodies seemed to be doing anything, so head shots might work. Easy as pie. They would probably think I am insane, I'm not called Swifthooves for no reason.

The two of them were now sitting on the couch awaiting my plan, Strongheart looked optimistic, Storm looked like someone took a shit on her. "Okay, so I have told both of you that I have a plan, now you are probably going to think I am crazy as Tartarus, but here it is." Pause for dramatic effect. "I am going to walk out there and then stab all of the infected ponies in the head." I threw on a smile.

"You are bat-shit insane." Storm looked at me as though I had just suggested that we all go do that. Heart was just kind of blinking in surprise.

"No no hear me out, I move a lot faster than normal ponies, and have a much faster reaction time than them too, this will be easy as pie, but I will be really tired afterwords soooo we are going to have to rest here for about an hour?"

"I say aga-" I then activated what makes me so damn special. When I had gotten my cutie mark I was out with some friends in a pretty bad part of Canterlot, yes there are bad parts of Canterlot. Well as it would happen some of the local thugs came by, mind you they were not full grown just a few years older than us, but you know how when ponies are in very frightening situations their brain activates a little part of itself that increases how many frames per-second you see? Yeah, mine did about 1000 times better than that. The scientist ponies were baffled by it, I am apparently a descendant of one of the old elements of harmony holders.

I calmly walked to the door...well walking is not technically the correct term I was moving incredibly fast, something about my body responding to my minds increase in speed, weird science-y terms that I have no idea what mean should be put there, but I have some slightly more pressing matters to deal with. Outside were about thirty infected ponies, one-tenth of a millisecond flat. I walked up to one of them and studied it a bit, these things were fuckin ugly, and they smelt horrible too, some seemed a bit...fresher than others. I readied my right hoof-blade and stabbed it in the head, I calmly proceeded to do so to the rest, then I went inside and then upstairs, had a certain Pegasus I had to dispatch. After finishing that one off I decided to have a good read.

*200 pages later.*

"I should probably go back downstairs and deactivate this before my brain melts or something." When I got down there I went back to my position in-front of the two mares only now lying down, I was going to really feel this when I snapped out of it.

"...in, you are bat-shit insane...why did the banging stop? How are you lying down, why are you so sweaty, WHAT THE FLYING FUCK HAPPENED?!"

"I...whoa dude I am ...tired ugh...one second." I reached for a bottle of water with my mouth and bit off the top, screw it I am THIRSTY. "I went out, and I stabbed them all."

"Impossible, no pony can move that fast." This time Strongheart spoke up.

"Go look, they are all dead...er not moving, all from the same thing too."

Storm proceeded to go look out a window, then to the door.

"Ho-wha-bu...huh?" She fell onto her flank, obviously surprised.

"Fastest damn pony the worlds ever seen." I boasted this quite proudly, it is not everyday that I got to use this, tires the ever loving crap out of me though, which does not feel so great. "So, I am gonna nap now, then we move, okay?" Before I could even hear a response, my head hit the ground.