The Survival: Beginning With Pain

Chapter 3

The Catastrophe Begins

Quill patted Rainbow Dash's back, but Rainbow Dash heard men yelling.

"Quill, there's more on the way, we gotta get outta here!" She heavily suggested.

Quill nodded and ran with Rainbow Dash down the hall, they both looked back and saw a whole group of people break into the school. The group chased after them with ugly, bloodthirsty faces. They were almost to the back doors of the hallway. The group was still gaining in on them.

"Don't let them go!" one in the group yelled

"SHOOT 'EM, ALREADY!" another one shouted.

One man in the group pulled out a Colt 45 pistol, and opened fire on Quill and Rainbow Dash. But luckily, they found the door in time, got out of the school, and slammed the door shut. Quill took Rainbow Dash's crowbar and put it through the door handles, in order to barricade the gang in.

"C'mon, that's not gonna hold for long!"

Rainbow Dash nodded and ran with Quill to an alley surrounded by backyards. Rainbow Dash stopped him for a minute and said,

"Hey...Look, I'm sorry about thinking you were crazy... I-I didn't know those visions really meant something, Quill"

"Well, thanks. We can't stop, Rainbow Dash, we GOT to keep going if we want to live." Quill replied.

Rainbow Dash caught her breath and ran with Quill through the alley. Until she realized that she needed a weapon.

"Quill, I'm gonna need something to hit these guys with!" She said.

Quill looked around the terrain, he saw a backyard with quite a large shed. Quill told Rainbow Dash to stay right where she was. He then sneaked into the backyard, trying not to attract attention. Quill noticed that the door handles of the shed were tied together with quite a thick rope. So he took a pair of scissors that he got from the school out of his pocket, and cut the rope. Quill opened the doors and saw what was like an armory of tools to use. Quill smiled and grabbed a machete that was hanging on the wall. But there was a glow in the corner of his eye. He turned his head and saw a nail gun. Quill grabbed it and noticed there were only 3 nails loaded. He saw that there were drawers in the shed and opened them, Quill saw 3 boxes of nails, and smiled.

"I think I just hit the jackpot," Quill said.

Quill didn't have his bookbag, he saw that Rainbow Dash had hers. He beckoned Rainbow Dash to come over to him. She did so and gasped when she saw all the tools in the shed.

"Rainbow Dash, give me your backpack." Quill demanded.

"B-But Quill, I have my sch-"

"There IS no more school. Dump the books, but keep the pens and scissors and any clothing." Quill replied.

Rainbow Dash took off her bookbag unzipped it and took out everything. She had sweater and some sweat pants that she kept. Quill took the bookbag and put two boxes of nails in, while keeping one box for himself.

"Now, if any guy comes at you ready to swing, I'm gonna fill 'em full of nails" Quill said as he loaded the nail gun.

Quill saw that there were beer bottles in the shed. He gave Rainbow Dash the machete, took her bookbag and swept the bottles into the bag.

"Hey, I don't want those gross bottles in my backpack!" Rainbow Dash yelped.

"We're gonna need them. I can lure people away from us if I throw this somewhere." Quill responded.

Rainbow Dash groaned, but accepted the suggestion. Quill zipped the bookbag up again and put it on Rainbow Dash's back, and the two kept walking down the alley. Rainbow Dash looked at Quill as she strolled with him, she adored his manliness of course, but she didn't know that he was well prepared.

"Sooo, how did you learn to kill someone without being shocked, or puking?" Rainbow Dash chuckled.

"I learned in my visions, my visions were just like real life," Quill explained, "The first time I killed someone, I threw up! But the more visions I had, the more people I had to kill."

"I see. I guess those visions meant something," Rainbow Dash replied, "How long will it be before we can actually live again?"

"This is the way we have to live for now, this is the life we have to know."

Rainbow Dash looked down and let out a tear. But she held together and kept walking. Quill's house wasn't that far from the school, so it wasn't gonna be a giant rigamarole to get there. Rainbow Dash looked to Quill again and saw his blood covered hoodie, and looked at this face. Quill's face was stern, focused, as if he wasn't joking around, and he'd choke anybody that did.

"Not too far, Rainbow." Quill said.

Rainbow Dash smiled. Could this be the start of an adventure for the two? We'll find out soon enough. But Quill noticed something was wrong. His backdoor was opened, no one in the house used the backdoor.

"Shit, I think they're at my house, go and hide." Quill demanded.

Rainbow Dash did so, she saw that there was a little space in between Quill's house and the one next door, so she hid there, with her machete in here hands, ready to strike.

Quill had his nail gun at the ready, it was fully loaded. He silently walked up to the backdoor, opened it, and stepped in quietly. Quill held his gun with one hand pointing up, with his axe in his other hand. Quill walked into the kitchen and saw nothing.

"Strange..." He whispered to himself.

Quill heard talking upstairs, the talking of two men. He looked around in the kitchen and found an empty water bottle. He threw it at a wall near the stairs. Quill silently ran to a corner in the other room.

"The fuck was that?" One of the men said.

"Check it out." Said the other man.

One man walked downstairs and saw the water bottle, he didn't know what to think of it so he started to check the kitchen. Quill sneaked out of the room and quietly, sneakily walked behind the man. He took out a pen from his pocket wrapped his arm around the man's face, keeping him from talking. And Quill jammed the pen into his throat. The blood spurted from the man's neck, covering a bit of the wall. The man struggled to get Quill off of him, his screams were muffled by Quill's arm. Quill then twisted and turned the pen inside the man's throat, he felt the muscles rip inside the man's throat. Quill pushed the pen in so hard that it broke. He stopped realizing the man was dead. Quill let the body drop, making a loud "THUMP" sound that the other man could hear from upstairs.

"The fuck!?" The man said as he sped down the stairs.

The man made it down the stairs and saw Quill in the kitchen. The man had a pipe, and charged at Quill. Quill quickly pulled out his nail gun and fired 4 nails at the man's chest. The man stumbled back, but still pushed forward. Quill then shot him 3 times in the head. The man dropped dead, having blood leak from his forehead onto the kitchen floor.

"Wow these guys don't care, they'll still kill you when they KNOW they're gonna die." Quill said to himself.

Meanwhile, in the backyard, Rainbow Dash heard the crunching of twigs behind her. She looked back and saw an ugly man with a knife, the man licked his blade, and looked at Rainbow Dash with lust.

"Well, hello there, pretty young thing!" The man said as he pushed Rainbow Dash to the ground.

The man climbed on top of Rainbow Dash, and unzipped his fly.

"Get the fuck off me, creep!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

The man ignored her, and proceeded with his actions. Rainbow Dash grabbed her machete and swung it at the side of the man's head

"AAAAAH!" The man screamed.

The man fell off of Rainbow Dash, Rainbow Dash felt so much that she stood up and started to chop away at the man with her large blade. She managed to chop the top of his head, his hand, and a part of the side of his body. Rainbow Dash was being covered in the blood that was flung up by the machete.

"Rainbow Dash! THAT'S ENOUGH!" Quill said as he pulled her away from the dead man.

"NO! He tried to FUCKING RAPE ME!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

"I know, you just went overboard, just calm down. I got two guys in the house. It's clear, my mother is somewhere in there, it's okay." Quill replied.

Rainbow Dash wiped the blood off of her face, and followed Quill into the house. Rainbow Dash closed the door behind her, Quill put his weapons on the table. He opened walked to the stairs, on there was a door below the staircase that lead to the basement. Quill opened the door and beckoned Rainbow Dash to go down.

"Ladies first!" Quill said.

"Ooh, such a gentleman. Hehe!" Rainbow Dash said, playing around.

Rainbow Dash walked down the stairs as she held onto the railing. She made it down and turned the light on.

"Wow! You're basement look like a game room!" Rainbow Dash said.

"Yeah, this is where I play my video games. The gun stash is in the other room. Follow me." Quill replied.

Rainbow Dash walked to another room in the basement, she opened the door and saw many rifles, shotguns, and handguns.

"Holy fuck, we just hit the mother-load, Quill!" Rainbow Dash said loudly.

Quill chuckled a bit, and walked to Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash let him in, and Quill browsed the selection of guns.

"Now, we need to pack lightly, we can only carry one rifle or shotgun, and two pistols each." Quill said in a reminding manner.

Rainbow Dash nodded, Quill picked up a backpack, and a backstrap, and opened a drawer, he smiled.

"Yep, this is my gun" Quill spoke aloud. He picked up a clean-looking revolver. Rainbow Dash looked at the revolver and wondered, saying,

"What type of revolver is that, Quill? I know I saw it, I forget though."

"It's the Smith & Wesson M1917 revolver, used in the Korean War. This was my grandfather's revolver. He gave it to my father, until my mother had it after... my dad... you know" Quill explained.

"Yeah, I know, so what gun am I gonna get? My dad taught us how to fire a gun, remember? You know I can handle it." Rainbow Dash replied.

Quill looked through more drawers, and found a perfect handgun, suitable for Rainbow Dash. He handed her a better looking, newly designed handgun.

"And which one is this, may I ask? I am really forgetting what my dad shoved down my throat for the longest!" Rainbow Dash questioned.

"That right there is a Glock 17. It holds 15 rounds, you love this one!" Quill replied.

Rainbow Dash and Quill looked around the armory, Quill saw a rifle that caught his eyes, the rifle belonged to his father, and his grandfather. It was an M1 Garand used in the Korean war.

"Aw yiss! I'm using this, you ain't takin' dis, I tell ya!" Quill said in a joking manner.

Rainbow Dash laughed and looked around. She saw a gun that her father loved to use, she took it off the wall and smiled at it. It was a 12 gauge shotgun, cleaned, greased, and ready for action.

"This is the first gun I learned how to use, I always loved this one. I'm taking it!" Rainbow Dash said happily.

"You go ahead! Now, we need another pistol," Quill said as he looked through the drawers, "Ah! Here we go!"

Quill handed Rainbow Dash a Colt 45 pistol, she smiled intensively. Quill found a Five SeveN handgun, so he looked around on some shelves and found some gun holsters, he took four of them and gave two to Rainbow Dash.

"Put those on, these are gonna hold the pistols." Quill demanded.

Rainbow Dash strapped the holster straps around her waist, she buckled them on tight, and she put her pistols in each holster.

"Where's the ammo?" She asked.

Quill went further into the room and pulled out some large wooden crates. He lifted the top of the crate off, and ammunition laid inside, the amount was plentiful! But Quill and Rainbow Dash needed to pack lightly. So Quill pulled out 2 boxes of shotgun shells and tossed them to Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash managed to catch the two, she loaded her 12 gauge as Quill loaded some clips to his pistols. Quill took some rifle ammo, along with some pistol ammo. By the time they were ready to hit the road, it was sunset, they couldn't go out now, they grew tired.

"I can't believe we're done. Let's watch the news, is there still signal?" Quill asked Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash took the remote off of the table, turned on the flat screen and saw that the television was working.

"Yes!" shouted Rainbow Dash.

"Great, I wanna kick back, and relax for the rest of the night." Quill replied.

Rainbow Dash chuckled, Quill sat on the couch, taking the remote, he flipped through channels to the news. Quill sat back, kicked his feet up on the table, and relaxed. Rainbow Dash sat right next to him, and rested her head on his shoulder. She closed her eyes and started to fall asleep. Quill smiled at her when she wasn't looking. They rested cutely that night. The two of them looked so cute and perfect together.

The next morning, Rainbow Dash shook Quill awake.

"Ah!" Quill yelped.

Rainbow Dash pointed to the television, Quill struggled to open his eyes. When he came to, he saw the news on the screen. The reporter was talking about people infected with a contagious disease that was spreading like wildfire. The screen changed to a shot where there was a helicopter camera filming an intersection at Philadelphia. Many people came out of nowhere, attacking people, some pulled people right out of their cars and bit their necks. Quill gasped at the sight, Rainbow Dash was shocked out of her wits. One person lifted up a car, the people within the car tumbled out of the shattered windshield; all bloody and vulnerable. Then people ran from every direction to the people, and they started to attack the people from the car. It was so graphic that the news casters turned it off and moved to other news.

"What time is it!?" Quill asked loudly.

"It's 7:32 a.m." Rainbow Dash responded.

"Get up," Quill said. "We're leaving NOW. It won't be long until this infection spreads to Canterlot!"

Rainbow Dash got up off the couch, put on her backpack, pistol holders, and carried her 12 gauge. Quill got up and did the same, his M1 Garand rifle was strapped to his back, and he had his revolver loaded. Luckily, they packed food and clothing, these two weren't playing around when it came to this. Quill and Rainbow Dash ran upstairs, and looked at each other. Nodding, they walk out of the door, into the fresh air.

"Where are we going, Quill?" Rainbow Dash asked.

Quill pulled out a map from the side of his backpack, and unfolded it. He skimmed his finger across the map, over to one point on the map.

"We have to go to Ohio," Quill explained, "My uncle lives in Cincinnati, he had visions of this too. He'll help us!"

Rainbow Dash smiled and walked with Rainbow Dash down the street with their weapons ready at will. Some neighbors looked our their windows and got scared, and dialed 9-1-1. Quill knew something was wrong when he saw people look at the them through their curtains.

"Rainbow Dash, I smell trouble, have your gun at the ready." Quill advised.

Rainbow Dash cocked her shotgun, ready to fire. Rainbow Dash had a good change of clothes. She was wearing a black tank top, black jeans, and a soldier's belt that held her ammunition. Quill was wearing an orange flannel shirt, jeans, and a soldier's belt just like Rainbow Dash's belt.

"This doesn't look good to me, Quill" Rainbow Dash said to Quill Tale.

"Just keep your gun at the ready, I think they're calling the cops." Quill replied.

"Aren't the police gonna help us?"

"No, they're not letting anybody leave Canterlot, they're in this too. The cops are no longer on our side."

Then a police car pulled up on the edge of the road, an officer stepped out of the car with his gun pointing at Quill Tale and Rainbow Dash.

"Hit the dirt!" Quill shouted.

Rainbow Dash and Quill jumped behind a car, and the police officer started to open fire. Quill pulled out his revolver, and pointed it up. The cop slowly walked towards the car, Rainbow Dash was a bit scared, but she held together well. The cop got far enough towards the car and said,

"Come out with your hands up!"

Quill Tale quickly popped out from the car and shot the cop in the chest two times. The cop fell to the ground in half a second. Rainbow Dash closed her eyes and blocked out the noise. Quill got out from behind the car and so did Rainbow Dash.

"I-I need back up! S-S-Suspects are h-heavily armed! A-And extremely dangerous!" The cop shouted to his radio.

Quill walked up to the cop, the cop cowered in fear and begged for his life. But Quill had no mercy. And with a stern, focused, angered face, Quill shot him the forehead, putting the police out of his misery.

"O-Oh GOD!" Rainbow Dash said.

"We're gonna have to run," Quill said as he put his revolver back in his holster, "A whole wave of policemen are gonna come storming the neighborhood at any minute. We gonna run"