The Galloping Dead

The Galloping Dead

Prologue:

It all started when Princess Celestia tried her new experiment. It was called the Cure All Diseases Project. Or CADP for short. It was meant to cure any sickness. Whether it was mental, physical, or a disease like Cancer. It was created so we could have more Pony folk around Equestria. Or so it was said. I didn’t believe her one bit. She had recently been known for lying. Like the incident with a Pony named Star Splinger. What happened there was that Star Splinger was found dead. Mutilated would be a better term. Princess Celestia said “Oh how terrible! We must find this homicidal Pony at all cost!” A bunch of crap if you ask me. When private investigators found the suspects, it was two Royal Guards. They said it was a direct order from the Princess. Apparently Star Splinger was trying to tell the public about the truth of the CADP. So she put an end to the ‘problem’. But back to the main point. The CADP was said to be tested and it worked. But when it was released to the public, those who used it began acting weird. No one knew why at first, so they shoved all the ones who were acting that way into quarantine. The Ponies continued to use the CADP and soon thousands of Ponies were infected. I have a name for these infected Ponies, too. I call them Remnants. Because that’s what they are. Remnants of Ponies. Innocent Ponies.

These Ponies had a tendency to bite. No, that’s ALL they did. Bite and infect. The Princess said it wasn’t caused by the CADP. Screw her. What has she done nice recently. Or at all for all I know. But these Remnants populate by not breeding, but by biting the living. Those who gets bit, soon become Remnants. I’m still trying to figure it out myself. All of Pony kind pretty much live in a Hell. No, I bet Hell is a lot better than this sick world. Some Ponies have made camps, gangs, shelters, whatever they can to help themselves stay alive. Me? At the time I’m just a loner. I know soon I’m going to need a safe group to stay in. But at the moment, I’m fine. I’m on a quest to find Princess Luna. They say she still lives in the Canterlot palace. But rumors also say that place was the first to become a Remnant Hangout. Remnant Hangouts are towns or places that have few to no life at all. All that are there are the Remnants. Sadly, those places are usually the places with supplies. So they’re nearly impossible to raid because of all the Remnants.

So that’s the life of an alive Pony nowadays. Why do we even fight now? I don’t know. But I promised myself when I was just about six years old, that if I were to die in a bad situation, I wouldn’t go down without a fight. So that’s why I fight. To keep my promise to myself. I won’t let myself down. I refuse. I was thinking about joining up with Rainbow Dash. I heard that she was also a loner. In fact, before the television networks were shut down, she even said herself that friendship gets you nowhere these days. Then left the news station with one last remark “That’s why I’m a loner”. Knowing her, she’s still alive. I didn’t know her very well but we weren’t strangers.

So that’s the gist of how the CAPD started all this mess and what I’m going to do next.