The Galloping Dead

I found Rainbow Dash. After a night of thinking, me and her would be the perfect Remnant killing pair out there. Anyways, it was more like her finding me. She swooped down to see me.

“What’s your name?” She said. It was weird that she didn’t recognize me.

“Fire Burst.” I said. She kind of looked surprised. I guess I did look a bit different with Remnant blood dried up on my body.

“I haven’t seen you since your trip to Las Pegasus! Where have you been?” She kept pounding me with questions.

Finally, I asked her. “I was wondering… If we could pair as a group. I thought of the benefits last night. You’re a loner, I’m a loner, we’re both loners. We both have knowledge and strength. Put two and two together, and it would be perfect.” I sounded a bit awkward when I thought back on what I said. I sounded like I was asking a girl to go out with me back in school.

After about a minute of thinking, she responded “I don’t know… But you do seem like you won’t hold me down. Even though you’re a Unicorn Pony.” She was awfully vague about her answer.

“So is that a yes? If no, I’ll go my separate path and possibly leave you to die.” I blurted out that last part like I was desperate.

“Well if you put it that way, I guess I have no choice but to say yes.” She agreed. Lucky me.

We walked a while. Actually, it seemed like days. Just walking… Walking… With no end. We were in the woods. Neither of us talked, we just walked. The woods seemed to never end. I even thought that we were walking in circles for a while, so I took note on our surroundings. But we weren’t, it was just a really, really, REALLY long path.

I wouldn’t call this the woods anymore. It was more like a forest. Forests were abnormally big in these parts so it made sense that it took forever to walk through. I decided to speak up. I was following her without thought. So I guess it would be nice to know where we were going.

“Where are we going Dash?” I said

“Rarity’s place. I want to know if she’s still alive.”

“But why? You said friendship gets you nowhere nowadays. Why the sudden change?”

“I didn’t change. It’s all true. It doesn’t get you anywhere. But it doesn’t hurt to have it.”

I was going to shut up but then I noticed something. I had to warn her. I shouted. Loud. “REMNANTS!”

She looked at me with this look like I was insane. So I took a tree branch and stabbed it right through a Remnant’s snout. She looked at the Remnants and shouted what she called them. “Zombies!” What a boring name. So vague. But there was no time for questioning her name for them now.

There were Remnants needed to be killed. There weren’t that many. I reused that tree branch to stab the heads. It was sharp, and strong. She used other branches as spears while she blew the Remnants away with her wings.

Finally, we were able to stop them. But not all of them, so we had to run. Now we were running through the never ending forest. I didn’t think it was a good strategy at first, but hey, I’m not going to question what’s keeping me alive. So now we run. Even though Remnants probably haven’t discovered how to use their wings if they had them. They were way behind us but we just kept running and running. Well, she flew now that I think of it. I hope we get to a shelter soon. Or at least find a place where we know we’ll be safe.

We finally slowed down. I asked her a few questions.

“Where are we going to go!?” I asked

“Like you said a while ago, we need some weapons if we’re going to survive out here”

So that’s what we did. We searched for weapons. Or at least a place where we can purchase some if the money is still taken as something useful. We even tried making something to use. Like a slingshot. Didn’t last very long. Only was able to kill two Remnants. We also tried a Poison Joke launcher. Oddly enough, all it did was make them faster. We kept making new contraptions as weapons, until finally, we came across an old, rusty, looking machine. It was big enough that two Ponies lived in it.

We walked in and Dash said their names. “Flim and Flam. Haven’t seen you since you made a fool of yourself challenging the Apple Family. So this is what you went and did when the CAPD was released?”

When she said that, I looked around and noticed weapons. Not simple homemade ones, but elaborate, factory made ones. They made them here. Out of metal. I looked down and saw a portable drill. That’s how they got there metal. They mined it. I decided to speak up. They were just arguing back and forth. “How can we get a hold of these weapons? Do you take Equestria money?” I needed those weapons. WE needed those weapons.

“Equestrian currency? That stuff is useless in a time like this. We need supplies. How about you go down and mine us some metal?” Flam had mischievous smile. But he wasn’t hiding anything. This is how he got his metal. Others mined it, he manufactured it. But the amount you had to mine was a lot more than it took to build the weapon you wanted.

“Are you serious!? I can’t mine! I’m a Pegasus! Not a Unicorn!” Dash was trying to get out of work. If I was going to work, she was too. So I took the spare drill and shaped it with the strength of my horn. I shaped it so if fits on a Pegasus like a saddle. So she put it on and we went to a nearby cave. I had the Unicorn drill, she had the Pegasus drill. Flim said that since I had formed the spare drill into a new drill, they would give us a free knife with our first ‘purchase’.

“Why do we have to do this?” Dash was complaining while we were mining.

“We need to get weapons somehow, and if this is the cost, this is the cost.”

We were done mining after about a day. We even came across some coal. So we figured we could turn it in for a weapon upgrade or something. But then the headlights went out.

“How are we supposed to see now?!” Said Dash.

So far, ever since we’ve seen Flim and Flam, Dash has been more ticked. Like she can’t wait to get away from them.

“Calm down. Remember the coal? I still have that. I’ll just ignite it with my horn or something.” I ignited it.

I was levitating it in the air. If I touched them I’d probably get a 3rd degree burn or something, and that would just be another thing to deal with.

When we found the ladder it had fallen, It wasn’t very sturdy when I placed it, so I guess it makes sense that it fell. I placed the ladder back up and climbed (Well, walked, since ladders are slanted a bit) up it. Rainbow Dash flew. We got back up there and Dash seemed concerned.

“Do you hear that?” Dash asked.

“Hear what?”

“The zombies… There close.”

We walked a bit, and I finally saw what she heard. It was a herd of Remnants. Not only that, they were around Flim and Flams machine house. Somehow I knew that SOMETHING bad was going to happen. Right when I walked in to their shop I felt it. Just the look of them filled me with worry. We walked further and saw that Flim was a Remnant. Flam was screaming. And all we could do was watch as Flam was torn apart and became the most delicious feast for his brother…

We couldn’t do a thing. We just sat there and watch with faces like we just saw a magician do the best trick ever. Except it wasn’t a trick. It was a gruesome death of a Pony who was just a salesmen…