Between Life and Death

As they walked through the main gate they saw what was left of a once proud city, the buildings were in ruins, trails of blood and bodies lined the streets as far as the eye could see, the castle was collapsing and on fire as well as some of the other buildings.

“Sweet name of Celestia, what the hell happened to this place?” Monochrome asked himself as he walked down the streets. The others followed him cautiously, thinking that one of the infected could pop out at any time.

“Uh…Monochrome?” Flutter Shy whispered as she walked up to him. “Do we have to go through here?”

“To be honest, I wish we didn't. But this is the only way to get to the evacuation site.”

“…Oh…” moments later they arrived at a 4-way intersection with a giant puddle of blood in the middle of it.

“Ok, which way do we go?” Monochrome asked, they shrugged and hesitated, attempting not to answer. “Seriously! We’re trying to flee Equestria and none of you know where the exit is?!” Monochrome yelled at them all, Twilight and Apple Jack smiled nervously, but Flutter Shy started crying. “…Flutter Shy, are you ok? I didn’t mean to yell at you, I swear-“

“I’m fine…I’m just a little scared.” she slowly sat down on the could stone road.

“Listen sugar cube, it’s alright if you’re scared, heck I’m scared to.” Apple Jack tried comforting her as she sat down beside her.

“Yeah,” Twilight sat down as well. “So am I, but it’s ok, we’ll get out of this, right Monochrome.”

“Oh defiantly, these things are weak trust me.” He started walking off. “I’ll go scout ahead, you three stay here got it?” he pulled out a small black orb and tossed it to Twilight who barley caught it. “That’s a brother’s bomb, I snagged it off one of those brother hood freaks during the invasion last week. If your ever in trouble, pulled off the cylinder on the top of it and throw it into the air, I’ll be here in a heartbeat.” He turned around the continued walking. The others looked at each other then stood up.

“Now what?”

“I think we should get going, if we stay here, one of ‘em things are going to show up, and if ya haven’t noticed, me and flutter barely got past those last two.”

“But didn't he say to stay here?” Flutter Shy added.

“Flutter Shy, there’s a better chance of getting attacked if we stay here you know.” Flutter Shy’s eyes widened in fear, she then took off running down one of the streets Twilight and Apple jack laughed for a moment then ran after her. After about a half hour of running the finally caught up to her, she was standing in the middle of a T-junction panicking since she didn’t know which way to go, the other two could even hear her asking herself which way.

“Uh, flutter, are yawl feel’n alright-?”

“Which way!?” Flutter Shy interrupted in her state of panic.

“Flutter Shy calm down it’s ok, we just have to head away from where we came. So, all we have to do is go down that street.” She pointed to her left, and this time as Flutter Shy attempted to run off Apple Jack grabbed her by the choler of her sweater.

“This time, we move together, got it?” Flutter Shy nodded her head. Apple Jack let go of he and then the three started walking down the road. As they did they saw some of the strange machines Twilight discovered during one of her trips to the alternate universe, small metal vehicles with four wheels and glass plates on the front sides and back of it, and she believed they were called cars.

“It’s still weird seeing these things.” Apple Jack said to herself.

“They aren't that bad-“

“I know but their weird. I can tell that something bad is going to happen and it’s goin to be because of ‘em” Twilight and Flutter Shy laughed a bit at Apple Jack’s paranoia. Then for no reason, Flutter Shy completely stopped, she was dead frozen in her tracks. The others turned around and noticed her, they looked down and saw a long shadow looming over her, they looked up at one of the buildings and saw an infected royal guard.

“Run!” Twilight yelled as she and Apple Jack started running. Twilight looked back and noticed Flutter Shy was still frozen, so she rushed back and grabbed her, and as she tried to move her the guard finally started moving, he jumped into the air and started flying towards them, and before he could reach them Apple Jack came out of nowhere and tackled them out of the way causing the guard to smash right into the stone streets,

“Are yaw’ insane ‘er something!?” Apple Jack snapped at them as she helped them back up.

“Flutter Shy’s paralyzed, she can’t move-“ Apple Jack moved her out of the way and picked her up, then they started running away from the guard.

“What now?!” Apple Jack asked as she tried keeping hold of Flutter Shy.

“I don’t know, keep running I guess!” Twilight answered back. She turned around and saw the guard rushing towards them, his wing was almost severed from his body.

“Twilight, what are yawl doing? Keep running!” Twilight shook her head and continued following Apple Jack. The past the street they came from and ran down the other one, and at the end of it was a blockade made out of armored vehicles. Apple Jack placed Flutter Shy on the ground and started ramming into them attempting to move them out of the way.

“Ya see, I told you these things would get us killed!” she yelled as she continued ramming them. Twilight looked down the road and saw the guard, he was still far behind them but he was getting closer. Twilight stood there, thinking to herself.

“Apple Jack, where’s that bomb at?” Apple Jack stopped ramming into the armored truck, she pulled out the black sphere and tossed it to her. When she caught it was heavier then it looked so she almost dropped it. She took it and attempted to pull the small cylinder off the top of it but was unable to.

“Twilight, what’s taken so long?!”

“It’s not my fault, it’s near impossible to pull this thing off!” Apple Jack took the bomb from her and attempted to pull it off herself. After about a minute of struggling she pulled it off and threw the bomb into the air, and went off in a loud explosion, but nothing happened.

“Where is he?” Twilight panicked. Apple Jack gave up on trying to move the truck and sat down.

“Guess this is it.” Apple Jack mumbled. The three of them sat there. The guard drew closer with every second, and right when he got close enough he jumped into the air and attempted to pounce on them. They started screaming, and while he was in mid-air something came out of nowhere and pierced him right in his for-head. The Apple Jack and Twilight stopped screaming and saw him hanging by his head on a black pole. They turned around and saw Monochrome holding his scythe with one hand. He grabbed it with his other hand then tossed the body over the trucks, it landed on the other side with a loud thud.

“Didn't I tell you three to stay where you were?”

“…how long were you-“

“I got here right as that thing went off. Also, can you three seriously not take care of one single infected! It was just one, all you had to do was destroy the brain! Twilight, I showed you how to summon you’re weapon remember?” Twilight looked away from him nervously. “Anyway, I found the airship, but we need to hurry. I got Celestia to delay the, but only for so long. So let’s go.” He walked past them and clapped his hands loudly, shocking Flutter Shy out of her state of paralysis. The three stood up, Apple Jack and Twilight told Flutter Shy what happened then started following Monochrome. Half hour later they arrived at the port but something was wrong, infected civilians were everywhere, the normal civilians were everywhere, attempting to get through barricades, the Pegasus were soaring around through the sky constantly ramming into the sky yacht attempting to bring it down, and the Unicorns were using their magic, not to help the other infected, but they started exploding into a red mist and the Pegasus even lifted them into the air and threw them at the yacht to bring it down, and as they hit it, they just exploded.

“Monochrome…what’s happening?”

“The infection. Celestia had them all locked up in quarantine, I have no idea how they escaped.”

“What do we do?” and just then there was a massive explosion and the sky yacht coat on fire and started falling. The four stood there in shock as they watched it burn and fall, they could even her the screams of all the lives that were lost.

“Monochrome…” Twilight whispered to him. He didn't say anything, he just stood there