A Derpy Apocalypse: Dead Mare Walking

After the zed onslaught was fought off, a total of 5 stallions, and 2 mares were killed. Respects were given, they were buried [outside the camp], and the day continued on as if nothing happened. That night, everypony went to sleep, and just like old times, Vinyl stayed up later than all the others. Maybe a few minutes, an hour, maybe a few hours. She would sneak in a late night snack, sometimes marshmallows, maybe some crackers, but not enough to put everypony in danger.

Vinyl often was lost in thought, trapped inside her mind, if you will. After the long span of time, she was still haunted by the voices that she had once heard. All those ponies lives were destroyed. Every time Vinyl would get used to it, the voices changed. Sometimes the dialogues would be reversed, the voices would change pitch and tone, change what they were saying, but worst of all they got louder. Sometimes Vinyl would have to be awoken by somepony else because of her face being buried in the ground. She would often...involuntarily...try to smother herself. Her mind could barely handle it, and it started to take control upon her dreaming.

When will this stop?! she often thought. Sometimes she would bang her head on the cement wall. Sometimes she would scream from the excruciating pain. Very rarely would she start trying to tear herself apart. She had small, feint scars all over her forelegs, ranging from knife incisions to teeth marks.

You killed us... The voices would say. tHiS iS yOuR fAuLt

All this seemed to happen only at night time. Given that it was Luna's punishment this made plenty of sense. All of the other nights were the usual banging of the head, and moaning from pain, but this night was different.

Derpy woke up in the middle of the night to hear Vinyl weeping. She knew nothing of the prior situation, so she decided to come out of her tent and talk to her. Big mistake. She walked over to Vinyl, but before engaging, she hid back and watched what she was doing. It was strange. Vinyl was crying. But she stopped and revealed her teeth. They were jagged and sharp. She threw her head into her foreleg and tore a large chunk of flesh off of it. The most frightening part was, she continued to chew it and eat it. Derpy's eyes dilated as she watched the mare consume herself, and drink the blood. Her body finally stopped withstanding it, and was depleting itself. Vinyl, or what was left of her, licked her lips and started to twitch. Her joints were bending in ways, that they weren't supposed to, her flesh tore apart in many places. Her coat started to mold, and discoloration began. Her eyes, and pupils became more red than what they already were, and what wasn't red was bloodshot.

Derpy didn't know what to think of this...How was it possible? How in Equestria could this be explained in anyway?! She was some sort of cannibalistic zed. But in the day time, it didn't affect her. Little did Derpy know, that during the onslaught, she was bitten, and somehow her body fought it. The thing was, her body couldn't withstand it, and it took in the deoxyribonucleic acid of the virus, and mutated it.

Suddenly, the mutated Vinyl flung it's head backwards to see Derpy. She...It...growled and started running towards Derpy.

"Oh crap Vinyl NO!" She shouted taking out her machete. Derpy flung the machete down to meet the things foreleg. The huge, sharp knife sliced through the corpses skin, creating a straight incision. The blood drenched the dry soil on the ground, as it spilled out of where Vinyl's foreleg was supposed to be. Vinyl let out a deafening screech as her foreleg grew back. Her horn started to glow, and that's when Derpy realized that she had the capability of a hiveminder. Derpy also knew something else about hiveminders. They could be fought.

So with all her heart, and with all her soul...And with all her might, as Derpy was being lifted up she resisted the hivemind and clenched both her hooves. A beam of energy connected the two, from Vinyl's horn to Derpy's forehead. Derpy pulled her hooves back and threw them forward, throwing Vinyl back. By this time, other ponies started waking up to the sound of fighting. Three other stallions saw some of what was happening and alerted everypony else. At the moment that everypony else was out of their tents watching the fight, Derpy and Vinyl were in hoof and hoof combat. They punched, grabbed, threw, and beat each other, both showing no signs of being tired, weak, or in pain.

"Vinyl?!" Turner shouted. He grabbed a knife and threw it at the corpse. It penetrated the eye of Vinyl. She slowly looked at Turner with a glare of hatred on her face. The corpse slowly pulled the knife out of it's eye and grasped it firmly. With the twitch of it's wrist, it flung the knife into Turner's chest. He fell back in pain as blood streamed from his stomach.

Derpy saw this, and got pissed...really, really, really, pissed. She kicked the corpse off of her with full force and grabbed her machete. She ran and used a table as a boost to jump off of, and came down shouting at the top of her lungs. She aimed right between the eyes of Vinyl and swung her knife. The next thing everypony saw was a huge explosion of magic material, and a huge splash of viscera and blood.

Vinyl's horn was split in half by the blade, and the blade absorbed a bunch of the magic. Vinyl's head was split in half, her brain was visible, and her horn became dust. Derpy looked at her knew enchanted knife, and then remember Turner. She threw the knife down and ran to him.

Blood was running down Turner's chest and stomach. He lied on the ground, in a pool of it.

"No...No Turner please don't die on me, not like Gunny!" Derpy begged. She went down and to give him a kiss. Derpy remembered this position, from when Gunny died. A tear fell from her eye as she began to kiss Turner much more passionately. When she thought it was a good time to pull back, her mind was changed when she tried to pull back, and Turner leaned forward off the ground, despite the pain he was in. She went down again and continued to kiss him longer. When the two finally stopped, they looked into each other's eyes. They didn't even have to say anything to each other, it was like telepathic communication. They knew what they were going to say.

"I love you"

Nopony else knew what to make of this incident. One of their camp leaders just turned into a hideous monster, and now the other and some random girl are making out?!

"I think we should leave the two to themselves," One stallion suggested. "I need some sleep anyway."

"Yeah, I agree with...that guy..." Another one said. Everypony else went back to sleep, except one medic, who had a first aid kit in hand.

"I don't mean to interrupt..." The medic said. "but I think I need to patch him up."

"That's okay doc," Derpy said. "whatever makes him feel better."

"You know, Ditsy..." Time Turner said weakly. "one of the things about you that are most attractive are your eyes, they seem to draw ponies to do."

"Yep." The doctor said. Derpy and Turner glared at him angrily. "Bad time?" He asked. "Sorry, I'll just continue with this."

"Really..?" Derpy asked Turner. "I always thought they looked stupid."

"Oh no Ditsy," Turner said again. "they make you special."

"Hooves..." Derpy said.

"Yes Ditsy?" Turner responded.

"I love you..."

"I love you too, Ditsy"