Ponyville pandemic

by ajstorey456

The plan

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Rainbow Dash flew with all her might over the forest. Ponyville's town hall just started to come into view. It wasn't long until she would warn all of Ponyville. As she got closer and closer, she started to see more and more buildings and a few ponies. All of the ponies are in extreme danger, and they don't even know it.

Rainbow Dash went straight towards the library. If anypony, Twilight Sparkle would know something about this. She reads more than anything living! There's got to be some information in a book somewhere. If there wasn't, then everypony had to act on instinct.

Rainbow Dash was finally in front of the library. Urgently, she knocked on the door at a fast pace. She didn't notice it, but she was moving her hooves around like Pinkie Pie after a party. After what seemed like hours to Rainbow Dash, a soft purple glow covered the door nob and the door swept open with ease, revealing a lavender unicorn, barring a cutie mark resembling magic.

"Oh, hey Rainbow Dash!" Twilight greeted, "Wha- HEY!"

Rainbow Dash had rudely pushed her aside and flew into the library. She zoomed around the shelves, scanning the book names, not one of them being what she wanted.

"TWILIGHT! Remember when I told you my plan about the zed apocalypse?" Rainbow asked Twilight, flying towards her at record breaking speeds.

"Yeah, and I thought it was stupid for wasting time on such nonse-" Twilight was interrupted by a hoof to her mouth.

"It wasn't nonsense! I was just at Fluttershy's and her animals were covered in blood and trying to kill me!"

At first Twilight looked dumbfounded, as if she just watched someone die. She sat like that, starting at Rainbow, for about a minute before she started laughing.

"Oh, you almost got me Rainbow Dash!" She said, holding back laughs, "Nice prank! Very convincing! Now I have work to do-"

"This is no prank!" Rainbow exclaimed, a little irritated, "I saw them! They wanted to kill me! We have to warn Ponyville!"

"Rainbow, stop, you're going too far."

"I'M NOT LYING! PLEASE TWILIGHT! You're the smartest one in Ponyville! You must know something about it!"

Twilight finally got it. Oh my, she thought, She isn't kidding... Twilight had her dumbfounded face on again. Then her mind got to work.

"We can't all survive together. Gather the Mane 6, we gotta barricade a section of the town."

At that, Rainbow flew off, no questions asked. She knew Twilight meant business.

Twilight levitated her quill and got a piece of paper to write out the plan.

Alright, so we need to barricade near a food place. It needs to be near a housing neighborhood so we have houses to stay in. Of course, we're going to have to redesign a house or two for defense reasons. Okay, so Pinkie's bakey is a possibility. It could be the town hall sort of building. It will also act as a house for the Mane 6 and will be the main food place. There are stores around it so we could supply on things. The stores will act as houses, too. I'm sure it has sleeping bags, blankets, pillows, heck it has a bed set complete. Stores and houses near the barricade will act as defense posts and the unicorns will defend, having the power to distort normal items in a house into weapons. We can't have too much of space because we won't have enough unicorns to defend. Pegasi could scout and be suppliers. Younger ponies will be housed in a few nurseries. Many ponies must live in the same house for us to be able to fit enough ponies within the barricades. Others? Well, they might not be so lucky... Rarity will be in charge of barricading and turning houses to defense posts, Rainbow will bring ponies in and gather supplies, Pinkie Pie is providing the bakery, Applejack will help with guards, and I will be leader of the establishment.

Twilight put down the quill. "This is gonna be harsh," She thought aloud.


Half an hour later, Twilight has told her friends the plan,

"Alright, Dash, go out and tell the mayor." Twilight instructed, "Tell her to lead all of the ponies to Sugarcube Corner."

"On it!" Dash saluted and flew away.

"As for you, Pinkie Pie, prepare snacks for ponies at Sugarcube Corner"

"Oki-Doki-Loki!" Exclaimed Pinkie, then darted off faster than anypony could see.

"Applejack, gather the unicorns and tell them what's going on."

"Sure thing, Twi," Applejack simply said, then ran off.

"Rarity, go tell the ponies who live in the houses near where the barricades are planned what's happening."

"On it!" Rarity exclaimed in her un-mare like voice.


A half hour later, everypony gathered in required spot,

"Alright, everypony!" Twilight exclaimed over the microphone, "as the unicorns and a few residents know, there is a deadly disease outbreak! We need to barricade a set area up and try to survive the best we can!"

At first, the crowd was silent. Everypony had a blank expression on their faces, that is until one started laughing. The whole crowd erupted with laughter along with her.

"Ponies! This is no joke!" Twilight yelled, "We are in grave danger!" ((See what I did there? No? Screw you.))

The ponies stopped laughing. "Wait, you're serious?!" Somepony shouted from the crowd.

"Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye."

The crowd was yet again silent. Then a light blue mare with a short, pink mane walked out of the crowd. She barred a heart drawn by a tablet pen for a cutie mark and had green eyes.

"My name is Cotton Candy Sweets, what can I do to help?" She spoke. ((OC found here: http://ask-cotton-candy-sweets.tumblr.com/))

"It looks like you do art, so you could help in the nursery for the younger ponies," Twilight answered.

After that, a dark blue stallion walked from the crowd. He had light blue hair that looked like Rainbow Dash's and barred a cutie mark of a pen on paper.

"My name is Penpal, what can I do to help?" He spoke.

"You look like an author. Maybe you could write a log in case other ponies ever find us," Twilight answered another pony.,
"you can all help! We need to work together on this! Come on to Sugarcube Corner, where I'll debate what you can do!"

Everypony started heading calmly towards the bakery

"This might be easier than I thought," Twilight said to herself.

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