Scavenging

Sweet Apple Acres
Outskirts of Ponyville
5:00 AM

Raging Bullet woke up to SureShot shaking his shoulder.

"Get up we have allot to do today." SureShot said.

"What? What time is it?" Raging Bullet asked as he looked over at the grandfather clock against the wall. He then got out off of the couch and walked over to the door where SureShot was waiting.

"Come on. We need to go scavenging, we need more fuel for our cars, and some more rifles and ammo never hurt either." SureShot said as he lead Raging Bullet out of the house. "Let me just go run to Big Mac and tell him we're going on a run." SureShot said as he ran over to Big Mac, Who was loading hay into a barn. "Hey Big mac, Raging Bullet and I are going on a run to Ponyville for some more fuel and if possible some more guns and ammo." SureShot told Big Mac

"Dont take too long, we have allot of work to do on the farm today." Big Mac told SureShot

"We should only be gone for about an hour or so." SureShot said to Big Mac

With that Raging Bullet and SureShot hopped into the silver sedan and drove to Ponyville. they drove until they were about a half mile from the town and parked their car behind some trees to hide it.

"We walk from here. A car would make too much noise. Do you think the fuel truck is still where we left it?" SureShot asked Raging Bullet as they started to walk toward the town.

"If its not we can always siphon some cars, and what about the guns? You were stationed at Ponyville you must know where the armory is right?" Raging Bullet asked

"We had the armory set up at the town hall, but I don't know how overrun it is." SureShot said as they got closer to Ponyville.

"Did you guys have any suppressors at that armory?" Raging Bullet asked

"We did." SureShot answered.

"Then I think we should go for the guns first, it will make getting to that truck allot more easier if we can kill the infected with not allot of noise." Raging Bullet said as they made it to an abandoned military checkpoint leading into Ponyville. "Damn, Did you know any of these soldiers?" Raging Bullet asked.

"No, but lets check them for any ammo." SureShot said as he trotted over to a rotting corpse. In total there were 6 bodies there, and all they got was some more another M4 Carbine with iron sights, 2 combat knives and a couple of assorted magazines for pistols and rifles. SureShot saw a flare sticking out of a soldiers pocket and he took it and put it in his bag.

"Here take this." SureShot said as he handed Raging Bullet the rifle. "Use it only when you need to, we dont have too much ammo to waste as it is. Raging Bullet took the rifle and slung it on his back. They loaded the rest of the ammo they found into their saddle bags and continued to Ponyville. They finally made it to the streets of Ponyville but they were filled with hundreds of infected.

"Oh Shit. Get down." SureShot said as they ducked behind some garbage cans. SureShot peeked over the top of the cans to see just how many were there. "Damn, must have been the herd we saw the day we left." SureShot said

"Well we might be able to get around it in the alleys. We cant take them all on, we don't have nearly enough ammo." Raging Bullet said. "Lets go through the alleys, it will be safer and most likely have less infected.

"Your right, lets go." SureShot said and then they made their way to the alleys behind the houses. They walked in silence as they made their way to the town hall. "How many infected do you think will be there?" SureShot asked looking over at Raging Bullet

"Your guess is as good as mine, But from what what I saw when I was there last time it might be more. Raging Bullet said as they continued to walk behind the houses.

They eventually made it to the town hall and got behind some trashcans to avoid being spotted by the infected. They silently made their way to a sandbag wall and got down low. Raging Bullet peeked over the wall to see how many of the infected there were. He saw a mix of soldiers and civilians and got back down before he was noticed.

"There are about 15 of them just in the open over there, were is the armory located again?" Raging Bullet asked looking over at SureShot.

"The armory is inside the town hall..."

"Which just happens to be guarded by about 15-20 infected" Raging Bullet added.

"Right, we have our combat knives from the soldiers at that one checkpoint. I say we just make a run for the town hall and take down any infected that get in our way." SureShot said as he peeked over the sandbags.

"One problem though. These knives cant go through the helmets of the soldiers, and I see more soldier infected than civilian infected. Do you have anything that might draw their attention?" Raging Bullet asked as he went through his bag.

"I managed to pickup a flare off of one of the infected we saw at the checkpoint." SureShot said as he pulled the flare from his bag.

"Okay, lets hope that these things are drawn by sight and sound." Raging Bullet said

SureShot pulled the cap off of the flare and threw it off to the side. As the flare flew threw the air the heads of the infected turned and started to follow it. "Now's our chance." SureShot said as he and Raging Bullet got up and sprinted to the door and got inside. The room was dimly lit because the windows were boarded up. SureShot pulled out a flashlight, turned it on and looked around.

In the center of the room there were maps and charts of Ponyville with markings of where certain military setups were. As they walked around and looked for anything useful.

"Is there even anything we can use here?" Raging Bullet asked as he looked through some papers on a table.

"I was hoping we might be able to find a radio to contact the command center with but I don't see anything here. SureShot said as he waved his flashlight around.

"Lets just get to the armory. We have already been here a half hour and we said we were only going to be an hour so we better get a move on." Raging Bullet said as he walked over to SureShot

"Alright, Armory is this way." SureShot said as he made his way to the back of the room. Raging Bullet followed SureShot as he went behind the stage and saw a makeshift armory set up behind the curtain. "Damn, most of it is gone, but lets look around for ammo and possibly more guns." SureShot said as he made his way over to a weapon rack.

"Where would the suppressors be?" Raging Bullet asked as he walked over to an empty ammo tin.

"Your just going to have to look around." SureShot said as he examined a high powered rifle.

"Alright." Raging Bullet said as he started to go through some boxes. As he was looking through a bow he saw a box filled with all sorts of metal tubes. "Hey are these suppressors?" He asked as he motioned for SureShot to come over.

"Yea, they should just screw on to the end of your gun." SureShot said as he picked one up and attached it to his M9.

Raging Bullet picked up one of the suppressors and screwed it onto his M9 as well. He then picked up another one and attached it to his M4. After that he went and looked for any more pistol and rifle magazines. He found some empty magazines in a box and grabbed as many as he could and put them in his bag. "Hey my bag is filled with empty magazines, Did you find any ammo?" Raging Bullet asked as he walked over to SureShot.

"I saw a full box over there." SureShot said as he pointed to a box in the corner of the room. Raging Bullet walked over to it and started to load boxes of ammo into his bag.

SureShot was picking rifles an pistols and putting them into a black duffle bag he found. Raging Bullet threw some more boxes of ammo into the bag as well.

"Are we ready to head out?" Raging Bullet asked

"Lets do this." SureShot said as he cocked his gun and walked out to the main room. Moans could be heard from outside.

"Well that flare must have died a while ago, but we have guns now. Remember head shots are the only way to put these things down." Raging Bullet said to SureShot as he kicked open the door. The heads of the infected looked at them in unison as they started to fire off shots at the infected. Clearing the area they started to trot to Sugarcube Corner.

"The truck should be behind Sugarcube Corner if it is still there. We should just drive it out of Ponyville and stop at the car and one of us drives the truck and the other takes the car." Raging Bullet said as he fired another shot at an infected pony.

"I think you should drive the truck, seeing that you drove it to Sugarcube Corner." SureShot said as they approached Sugarcube Corner.

They made it to the street Sugarcube Corner was located and there were a few infected roaming the streets. They each raised their rifles and dropped them one by one. They made their way around the back of Sugarcube Corner and were relieved to see the truck still there. They both hopped in and Raging Bullet floored it to get out of Ponyville.

As he turned the corner he was faced with a large crown of infected. As they all turned toward the truck, Raging Bullet put the truck in reverse and backed out to the other side of the alley, hitting a few infected along the way. Getting back on the road Raging Bullet put the truck in drive and floored it through a barricade.

"Holy shit. That was really close, when we get back I think we should stay out of the town for a little while." Raging Bullet said as he pulled up to the abandoned checkpoint they searched earlier.

"Yea lets get some stuff done on the farm. We still have a lot of work to do to fortify that place to make it safe." SureShot said as he made sure he had everything.

They pulled up to their car that they hid and SureShot hopped out and got into the sedan after he loaded all the stuff they scavenged into the trunk. Then they drove off to Sweet Apple Acres.

When they got there they could see Applejack already hard at work bucking apple trees. When she saw them pull up she walked over to the cars as they hopped out.

"Did yall get what ya were lookin for?" Applejack asked as she looked at the big truck.

"Yes we got the truck along with some more guns and ammo." Raging Bullet said as he helped unload the trunk of the sedan.

"Okay why don'tcha take that stuff into the house. We can go through it later but for now, we got some applebuckin to do." Applejack said as she trotted back over to some appletrees.

"I'll go take this stuff in. Go help Applejack and I'll be right back out." Raging Bullet said as he picked up the bags and put them into the house. He quickly trotted back over to Applejack to start a hard day of work.