It's been five days since the nukes were dropped, in those five days we have had no luck in searching for survivors.

Thinking back to when this first began, we were just living our normal lives before this, now we are fighting just to survive. Why we didn't warn anypony until it was too late, we didn't know until it was too late ourselves; we were the only ones that made it to a shelter for all we know.

We can’t hold out in here forever… As I write this, the infected draw near. It only takes one of them to enter…

What can we do?

Mountain sat up and rubbed his eyes, yawning and stretching in equal measure. Looking down to his left, he saw a familiar orange mare sleeping next to him.

Shortly after looking at the mare he looked around the room to find that everything was still in place as it should be. He then looked over at Mist and Fluttershy, who were sleeping peacefully in the other’s embrace.

He flopped back down, snuggling in close to Applejack as she slept on. For a moment, he completely forgot about what had happened. The reason why he was here in the first place. The instant he remembered this terrible truth, he sighed deeply and got to his hooves.

Walking over to the duffel bag he and Applejack retrieved only yesterday, he opened it and had a look, taking inventory. That was what his brother told him. Day after day. ‘Take inventory.’

The bag contained a few shotguns of varying size and type. Among these was a pistol or two and right at the bottom was a long and lethally sharp machete. Ammo was also among these items but there wasn’t a lot of it. Mountain zipped the bag closed and leaned against it, waiting for his companions to awake.

It wasn't long before the other three began waking up, each yawning and stretching their limbs and rubbing the sleep from their eyes.

Mist was the first to speak, "What's got you up this early in the morning?" he asked.

“If it is morning…” said Mountain forebodingly “I just woke up and couldn’t get back to sleep. Simple as that.”

Mist nodded simply “So, are we going out again today?”

“I think we should.” replied Mountain “We might find a way to contact others who might have survived.”

"Just let me n' Fluttershy have a chance to finish waking up, then we'll gear up." Mist said taking a glance over at Fluttershy.

Fluttershy looked at him and asked "Are we going out this time?"

“Only if you want to.” replied Mist, nuzzling Fluttershy “I don’t want to put you in danger.”

“I’ll be fine.” said Fluttershy, in such a truthful voice that it was hard to disagree with her.

"Are you sure you want to go out there?" Mist asked "I don't want to risk losing you out there."

Fluttershy wrapped her forelegs around Mist, pulling him into a tight hug “And I don’t want to lose you either.” whispered Fluttershy “We’re stronger together.”

"Then we'll go together." Mist replied "Mountain, how are we going about the search today? Are we sending out two, or are we all going?"

As Mountain stood to his hooves, he said "Today you will be going out in a pair just like AJ and I did a few days ago."

With Mountains response, Mist and Fluttershy went to put on their hazmat suits and retrieve their weapons, Mist taking the pistol and Fluttershy the machete.

"We will return before midnight comes, make sure you two keep them out and listen for any other survivors." Mist said, walking to the first door of the shelters interior "And stay alive."

“We should be the ones saying that to you.” said Applejack, winking at Fluttershy.

"Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to her out there." Mist assured her "And if we don't make it back before midnight, then and only then should you come searching for us."

With that, Mist readied his pistol and Fluttershy nervously stared at her machete as the two left the bunker for the destruction above.

“I hope they’ll be fine.” sighed Applejack, staring at the door which had just opened and closed mere seconds ago.

“I’m sure they’ll be okay, Applejack.” Mountain replied “Mist cares for Fluttershy like she’s all he’s got left to hang on to.”

Applejack walked over to Mountains side and said “I know, I’m just worried is all, worried that the worst could happen to them.”

For a moment, the two sat in silence, contemplating what to do when suddenly, Mountain felt Applejack’s gaze upon him, he took in a whiff of the surrounding air, noticing that it had seemed a little different from what it was normally like.

“Applejack, are you…” Mountain stopped to clear his throat nervously “In heat?”

~Wastes of Ponyville~

The constant eeriness of the wasteland slightly spooked Mist as he and Fluttershy trudged through the destroyed remains of Ponyville. Mist had expected zomponies to be traipsing around everywhere, but so far... nothing. Despite the absence of enemies, Mist still kept a firm grip upon his weapon, glancing around every few seconds.

Most of the buildings in Ponyville were completely destroyed but a few remained standing. A few checks inside these buildings revealed nothing of value. The entire area was silent. Only a small wind whistled past, but nothing else moved. Once, Fluttershy stepped on a plank of wood and it snapped, causing her to squeak in alarm.

Apart from that, everything was still.

Then, Mist was tackled over from behind.

~The Shelter~

“Yeah, I wish it wasn’t that time of year though, but it’s happening anyway, I just don’t want to pressure you into something you don’t want to do.” Applejack said in a somewhat disheartened tone “ I just want to get rid of this dreaded itch as soon as possible, but I understand if you aren’t ready yet.”

“Maybe if we wait until Mist And Fluttershy get back, we won’t have to worry about forgetting that they are out there.” Mountain said, shaking his head as he found himself subconsciously staring at her slightly damp marehood.

“I don’t know how long I can wait, but I’ll try and wait as long as I can.” Applejack replied.

“I hope they come back soon.” Mountain said, letting his fear get the better of him again.

~Wastes of Ponyville~

Mist yelled in alarm as his pistol was thrown from his grip. A pony above him snarled, blood covering its mouth. Its mouth lunged forward and Mist dodged it. Mist grabbed its head, trying to force it away from him, but the zompony opened it’s mouth, ready to bite into Mist’s neck. Mist desperately reached out towards his pistol, but it was too far away. Mist could only watch as the pony closed it’s teeth.

Something slashed through the air right in front of Mist. The zompony made a final gurgle as its head rolled off, landing on the ground with a thud. Mist backed away from the now truly dead pony, staring at who had saved him.

Fluttershy stood, bloody machete in hoof, staring down at the corpse with unfamiliar hatred on her face. She looked at Mist and trotted over to him, holding out a hoof. Mist took it and the pair looked into the other’s eyes.

“I guess I didn’t need to look after you after all.” said Mist, staring right into the eyes of the pony in front of him.

Fluttershy smiled at the comment, holding out her hoof again. Mist’s pistol sat on it, which the owner took.

“Thanks.” stated Mist simply, and the two ponies continued their search.

~The Shelter~

Mountain sat there, contemplating the current situation he was in. He had a mare in heat that doesn’t know how long she can wait and he is continuously worrying about Mist and Fluttershy, overall, these are causing him to stress himself to the point where he isn’t sure if he could hold off any longer and should make advances on his own.

“Hey, Applejack.” Mountain called, trying to take his mind off of his current worries.

“What is it, sugarcube?” Applejack questioned.

“I was wondering, what was it like being an Element of Harmony, before all of this happened?” Mountain asked, struggling to hold back his thoughts and pressures.

“Well, It certainly wasn’t the easiest thing but it is worth it all when you are saving the ponies you care so much about, but now that this has happened, I don’t know if it really matters, we don’t know who will be next to possess the element of magic.” Applejack said, remembering Twilight once again, falling into tears.

Mountain walked over to her and lifted her muzzle with his forehoof and said “The only thing we can do for her now is live, we can honor her by living for her, and I know that she would want nothing more that for us to survive this mess we a…” Applejack cut him off, planting her lips against his, they stayed like this for a while, making out passionately, they allowed their hooves to explore each other as they remained locked in their passionate kiss.

Applejack then felt something pressing against her lips as if asking permission to enter, with a moments thought, she let her tongue slip out and wrestle against his, the two battling for dominance, found themselves lying on the floor with Applejack on top of Mountain.

Mountain broke the kiss breathing heavily, lying his head back against the concrete floor as Applejack lay on top of him, also breathing heavily. Applejack leaned in and slowly trailed her tongue up Mountain’s neck, causing him to shiver. AJ’s tongue trailed across his face as their lips met once more.

~Wastes of Ponyville~

After searching the remains of the town Mist and Fluttershy begin their journey back to the shelter, as they walked they watched all around them for any other zomponies that may be near.

On their way out of the building that they were searching they heard something suddenly snap behind them, causing them to turn around to see nothing, “Eh, probably just a bit of debris falling somewhere nearby.” Mist said, turning and continuing about their route.

Fluttershy wasn’t so sure, but she turned around and followed Mist. That’s when she was grabbed from behind. She struggled, but in those few seconds, she was somewhere else entirely, Mist gone from her vision. Fluttershy was about to scream but a knife slowly slid itself across Fluttershy’s neck, just missing her.

“Don’t move.” the pony whispered.

“Mist, hel-” Fluttershy’s voice cut out as the pony tightened its grip on her neck, drawing the knife ever closer.

Mist whipped around wielding his pistol against the unseen attacker, “FLUTTERSHY, WHERE ARE YOU!” Mist shouted hoping for a response.

Mist’s ears twitched as he thought he heard a scream that was cut off and ran in the direction of the scream.

‘If she dies here, I don’t know what will become of me. I have to find her before something else happens.’ Mist thought to himself as he burst into a house and found himself running through one of many corridors.

~The Shelter~

In the midst of their passionate kiss, Mountain began tracing her body with his forehooves, all the way down to her well toned flanks and began rubbing her cutie marks, eliciting a pleasured moan from the mare. Applejack then reached one of her hooves down and began rubbing her marehood lightly, tracing the outer part of her sex, coaxing her juices to seep from her marehood and began covering her forehoof in her juices, causing her to moan into the kiss even more.

Hearing these moans, Mountain breaks the kiss and looks down to see his stallionhood already standing half-mast. Applejack pulled her hoof away from her marehood and took it into her muzzle tasting her juices. Mountain was only encouraged by the sight of this and rolled her onto her back and began lining up kisses to her neck, causing her to shiver and moan in pleasure as he traced her body slowly with kisses down her barrel, between her teats, sucking on each one, then down to her marehood, which caused her to quiver even more.

Mountain slowly trailed his tongue up her area, rubbing her flank with his hoof simultaneously. Applejack arched her back, moaning pleasurably as Mountain continued to lick her marehood.

~Wastes of Ponyville~

Mist ran down the corridor, hoping against hope that he could find Fluttershy before anything happened to her. After a while, it became apparent that he had lost her.

“Fuck!” he yelled, slamming his fist into the wall, which cracked slightly.

After sitting there for a moment, he calms down and remembers that he can use his telepathic abilities to locate missing ponies. He closed his eyes and focused his thoughts on Fluttershy. Images flashed before his eyes revealing that they are just two doors down the hall. As he sees a mysterious figure folding Fluttershy hostage. Taking mental notes of what he saw, he opened his eyes and followed the hall down to the second door on the left. Inside he heard quick panicked breathing and instinctively bursted through the door. Pistol in hoof he aimed quickly for the pony holding Fluttershy hostage. Mist couldn’t see the pony taking Fluttershy hostage, for they were also covered in a hazmat suit.

“Let her go.” Mist growled, voice laced with malice.

“Now, why should I do what you say when you intruded upon my place of hiding, hmm?” the pony asked, voice distinctly feminine.

“Just let her go and I won’t hurt you, and besides, I have a gun and you have nothing but a simple hunting knife.” Mist reasoned “If you let her go, we guarantee shelter, food and water. All you have to do is let her go.”

“And how do I know you aren’t lying to me?” the mare asked.

Fluttershy spoke up and said “He’s not lying, look him in the eyes and you will see.”

“If she speaks the truth, you will drop your weapon until I say you can pick it back up.” the mare commanded.

Mist dropped his weapon without a second thought, knowing that Fluttershy spoke true, he meant every word of it.

As promised, Fluttershy was released, as soon as she was released, she ran to Mists side embracing him tightly, tears rolling down her cheeks, relieved that she is finally reunited with her lover. Mist returned the embrace wholeheartedly.

~The Shelter~

As Mountain continued his ministrations with his tongue, he removes his hooves from Applejack’s flanks and uses them to part her nether lips and proceeds to lick at her now soaked folds slowly, causing her to writhe and moan in ecstasy. Applejack then places a hoof on the back of Mountains head and shoves his muzzle into her marehood, causing him to thrust his tongue inside, giving him a taste of her inner walls, upon this new sensation inside her wet pussy, she moaned loudly with pleasure as he continued wriggling his tongue inside her, hitting all of the most sensitive spots he could.

Applejack’s breathing became hastened and erratic, signaling that she was nearing her peak, but before she could tip over, he pulled his skilled tongue out and began suckling and nibbling on her now engorged clitoris, bringing her to new heights of pleasure.

Mountain then went back to thrusting his tongue inside of Applejack’s soaked cunt, he used his hoof to tweak her clit, which immediately sent her careening over the edge and into the hardest orgasm she has had in the longest time, spraying her pussy juices into and on Mountain’s muzzle.

Mountain continued to lick at the source until she had come down from her orgasm, then moved up to look her in the eyes and plant a deep kiss on her lips, not even bothering to lick his muzzle clean before locking his muzzle with hers.

In the midst of their kiss, Mountain found himself on his back and he knew that she knew it was her turn to send him over the edge. Applejack broke the kiss and began lowering herself down to level her muzzle with his stallionhood which was now standing at full mast. She began licking from the flared tip of his stallionhood down to the base and back up to the tip repeatedly, causing Mountain to shake and quiver with each jolt of pleasure she gave him.

All mountain could do was lay there and enjoy the pleasure of her licking his shaft until she enveloped his stallionhood in her mouth and began pumping her muzzle on his throbbing meat. Caught off guard by this, Mountain let off a groan of pleasure unmatched by his previous reactions. Applejack heard this and began taking in more and more while picking up the pace all the while rubbing her pussy, causing her to moan on his shaft only making him groan in pleasure even more.

The sensation became too much for Mountain to resist bucking his hips and forcing her to take him into her throat, where she began deep throating him, causing her to gag each time she descended on his phallus, hilting him in her throat each time.

Mountains breathing became quick and erratic just like Applejacks did before her orgasm.

“A-Applejack...I’m… about to…” he said before his breath hitched when she drove her muzzle downward once more, sending him over the edge and causing him to send his cum spurting load after load down her throat with each spasm.

She swallowed every bit of cum he shot and pulled his cock out of her muzzle with a pop, the tip and her bottom lip connected by a strand of mixed saliva and cum. Applejack then pulled herself up over him locking lips yet again, this time Mountain allowed Applejacks tongue to enter and explore his mouth, still she was able to taste herself on his tongue, she tasted like apples.

After waiting a minute or two, she lowered herself to line her pussy up with his shaft. She gave him a sly wink before completely impaling herself on Mountain’s stallionhood. She stayed in one place for a moment to adjust with him already hilted inside her due to the strength of the downward thrust from Applejack, her walls clenching tightly around his shaft, already trying to pull him in deeper, she begins thrusting herself slowly, drawing long pleasured moans from both of them. Not forgetting that Mist and Fluttershy were still out in the wastes, “Mist and *gasp* Fluttershy are still- ahhh- out there, The-they should be- ohhh- coming back soon” Mountain said, before falling back into his own pleasure as Applejack continued to ride his stallionhood. Applejack ignored him in her own shroud of pleasure. As Applejack rode Mountain, the pleasure began to get more intense, causing Mountain to thrust upward into her and, in turn, caused her to start thrusting even faster, which Mountain continuously matched her thrusts, until suddenly Mountain pulled out and rolled Applejack to her back, spreading her legs so that he could get better access, lined himself up with her pussy again and thrust hard into her, continuing their love making with fast, rough and still rhythmic thrusting.

“Ahhh, yes. Keep going!” Applejack moaned loudly “Harder, fuck me harder, please?!”

Hearing this, Mountain went into full throttle with his thrusting, unrelenting, he pounded into her like a wild animal, causing her moans to become screams of pleasure and ecstasy. Soon the both of them began to feel a pressure building up, letting them know that their climax was close.

“Applejack, I- I’m gonna…” Mountain groaned.

“Inside, do it inside!” Applejack replied hastily.

As soon as she had finished, Mountain thrust into her once more and tensed up, his cock pulsing as he shot his white hot load into her pussy, sending her over the edge into her own orgasm, causing her to splatter her juice all over Mountain’s crotch and on the floor beneath them mixed with his own cum.

Mountain collapsed beside Applejack, snuggling close, the two just enjoyed the afterglow of their intense love making session.

“Damn, that... was the best... experience… ever.” Mountain said tiredly, he looked down to see that Applejack was already fast asleep, her head on his chest. Mountain laid back and closed his eyes and rested.

~Wastes of Ponyville~

Mist retrieved his gun from off the floor and Fluttershy grabbed her machete that she had dropped when she has been grabbed. For a while, Mist and Fluttershy stood, looking at the unknown pony, who hadn’t moved since releasing Fluttershy.

“So, have you seen anypony else?” asked Mist.

“Not since I made my way to a shelter. Things have been pretty quiet.” replied the unknown mare, standing as irresolute as ever. “I like being alone anyway.”

There was a silence, in which Mist and the unknown pony looked at each other. Then, his face split into a grin.

“I didn’t think I would see you again.” said Mist, walking forward and hugging the pony. She returned the hug fiercely. Fluttershy looked in confusion and slight jealousy.

“Mist? Do you know this pony?” she asked.

Mist broke the hug and smiled at Fluttershy “Yes, I do.”

“Who is she?” Fluttershy asked curiously.

“Let’s just get back to the shelter. Applejack and Mountain should know what happened.”

The trio returned to the shelter.

As they entered the shelter, they noticed an odd smell and decided to look round the room.

“Well, I wonder what happened in here while we were away that has it smelling like sex in here.” Mist asked curiously.

Fluttershy caught the sight of two ponies sleeping in each others embrace and said “Why don’t we ask them… um, if you don’t mind?” in her usual timid voice.

“That would be a good idea, but we do need to get some sleep.” Mist replied.

“Agreed, and before we do, I suppose I do owe an introduction, My name is Arching Arrow, you can call me Archie.” Archie stated, laying out her bed roll that she carried with her “I will introduce myself to the other two when we wake up tomorrow.”

“Goodnight, everypony.” Mist said to the other two still awake, laying down on his bedroll.

With that, everypony was in bed and asleep within seconds from the events that took place that day.

Author's Note

Sorry it took so long, Ascending Anthem has been away for a while so I have kinda been working on this alone except the last time he was at home which is the reason I am now posting this, yes the clop is in sections so that we could keep the attention shared between the search group and the ones staying at the shelter they are in so don't be disappointed. We have unveiled our first OC pony survivor thanks to Ascending Anthem's friend allowing us to use her OC as a survivor. I have posted a way to get your OC in this fic in The Shameless Self Promotion Bureau, the submission details are there.

I know that the scene breaks are confusing but that is the way Ascending Anthem and I planned it, if it helps I inserted the place for each scene when a scene break occurs.