Chapter 2: Personal space

Frank yelled loudly as he grabbed the undead pony behind him and flung him across.

With a loud thud, it landed on the ground, still moving and groaning it wasn't expecting to get it's head kicked off like some sort of soccer ball. Frank panted as he grabbed his shoulder, what an amateur mistake, getting bit like that.

"Ugh, such an idiot, this is going to be a pain in the ass for a while..." He complained as if it was only an ant bite.

Twilight Sparkle on the other hand was the complete opposite. Frank just got bit, that means...

"You idiot!" Yelled Rainbow as she jumped down to the ground landing in front of the bitten photojournalist. "Now you're going to turn into one of them!" She glared at him as she raised her spiked bat.

Frank raised his arms. "Wow, hey, easy, I'm not going to turn!" He explained. "At least I hope so..."

Twilight's ears twitched as she heard that. "Wait, what do you mean by you're not going to turn?!" She asked from the balcony.

The photojournalist was about to explain when the sound of a beeping alarm clock interrupted him, raising his left arm, Frank noticed it was already time to take his zombrex. "You know what, let me just show you..."

Reaching into his coat pocket, he took out a box of zombrez, opening it, he took out the syringe and readied it.

Everyone watched as he raised his arm holding the shot and then injecting himself in the neck, the sound of compressed air and sizzling liquid heard.

Taking it out, Frank threw it to the ground. "Can't get infected if I already am." The photojournalist smiled, his sunglasses shining.

Twilight starred at Frank for a few seconds before jumping off the balcony, tackling the photographer to the ground. "You have a cure!?" She exclaimed on top of him, getting her face a little to close for comfort.

"Um, it's not a cure kid, it only temporarily stops the infection, I've been infected for over ten years..." Frank groaned as the girl on top of him managed to knock some of the wind out of him.

Twilight's expression turned from slight anger and annoyance to confusion, to then excited. "Wait, do you have any more?! I can maybe remake the ingredients and re make it for other ponies so that they don't turn!"

The freelancer thought for a few seconds, his zombrex supply isn't infinite, he will need more zombrex. "Alright, I'll give you one, but in exchange, you gotta make me more, alright?"

The alicorn nodded before getting off the man and then extending her arm to help him up. Frank took it and got up, but not before wincing and grabbing his shoulder.

Twilight gasped lightly as she then brought both her hands towards his bitten shoulder, a purple aura surrounding it.

Before the photojournalist could even say anything, he saw the bite mark starting to get smaller and smaller before it closed up and looked like as if he never got bit in the first place.

"Wow, it's gone..." He said dumbstruck.

Twilight sighed. "Yes, basic healing magic is pretty easy for me, unfortunately, all I can do is close the wound, I can't stop the virus from spreading through the bloodstream as I don't have it's life signal."

Frank rubbed his chin as he heard this, Isabella knew more about this then he did, wish she was here now.

But before either could say anything more, an explosion was heard, turning their heads towards the sound of the source, they saw flaming zombies convulsing before falling to the ground, dead.

"Well that sure is a way to get rid of them." Commented Frank.

As soon as he said that, a pony wearing a red fire proof suit, mask included, started walking into their line of site, holding what looked like a flame thrower, the sound of heavy muffled breathing was heard before it turned it's head towards them, not saying anything, it just turned towards them and walked.

The silence was starting to make everyone uneasy, Rarity held Sweetie Belle, Applejack scooted Applebloom behind her, Spike lowered his pot helmet to cover his eyes.

Meanwhile, in the bottom, Rainbow Dash strengthened her grip on her makeshift weapon, Twilight backed up slightly as she didn't want to hurt anypony, that and her mind wasn't really in shape to think correctly.

Frank just started taking a few pictures before talking again. "Hey, are you friendly or have you lost your mind? Cause if you did, I'd like to take some pictures before I fight you and you end up killing yourself somehow."

Everyone just looked at Frank with a confused expression, but then turned their attention towards the pyrotechnic pony.

It sounded like it was giggling. Then, it reached towards it's neck and started to remove it's mask.

As it did that, slowly, everyone stared, wanting to know who it was, Frank was readying his camera.

And suddenly, in a swift motion, it removed the mask, revealing poofy pink, curly hair, it was none other then party pony extraordinaire, Pinkie Pie.

"Pinkie Pie?!" Blurted out Rainbow Dash, her face giving off a confused expression.

Said pony giggled more as she skipped towards the group. "That's my name." She said, but then suddenly gasped as she saw Frank, and in a matter of seconds, she dashed towards him.

"Oh my gosh, I didn't see who you were behind the mask so I didn't know you where new, and if you're new here that means I'll have to throw you a party, I just hope you don't mind a zombie filled party because there are zombies eeeeeeeeverywhere and they're just a bunch of party poopers, wanting to grab you and bite you, but not in the good way, well good way if you're into that, I know I am, and-!"

The party pony was cut off by a single finger placed on her lips.

"Ok, I get it... you can be quiet now." Said Frank, he wasn't annoyed, no not at all, he was actually surprised this girl had such a happy attitude despite what was going on right now. "Listen, that sounds nice and all, but I think I'll pass until these zombies are gone."

Pinkie Pie blinked before smiling and nodding, her curly mane bouncing up and down.

Twilight then gently started walking towards both Frank and Pinkie. "Umm, Pinkie, I'm glad you're ok, but..."

Pinkie pie, turned her head from Frank to Twilight and smiled. "Oh, hiya Twilight, what's going on?" She asked innocently.

The alicorn flinched at that, it may be possible, Pinkie had mentally snapped an is just ignoring this at a dangerous level, but then again, she was killing the zombies and even mentioned them, but she wanted to be sure. "Um, Pinkie, how can you still be happy?
some of our friends have just been turned into flesh eating monsters and you're ok with it? I thought you'd be a bit more, you know..." She trailed off.

Pinkie Pie then started giggling, catching Twilight slightly off guard. "You mean crazy? Loony? Loco in the coco? A psychopath you's fight for extra pp?"

Frank blinked.

"Nah, I mean, yeah, some of our friends are dead now, but that's ok, they don't have to be here anymore, they're in a better place where there are no zombies, and besides, these zombies aren't our friends..." She said as she pointed at a legless yellow coated zombie, crawling towards them.

"Like this, I mean, this zombie may look like Lemon Drops, but it's not really her, it's just someone pretending to be her, and that big meany needs to be punished!" She then pointed her flamethrower at the crawling zombie and squeezed the trigger, unleashing a stream of burning flames, covering the undead in seconds before it died.

Everyone watched uneasily, even Frank as Pinkie finished burning it and proceeded to stomp on it's burned skull. "These zombies are just stealing everyone's bodies, so it's okay to gruesomely kill all of them... Every. Single. One."

At the same time, everyone gulped, except Frank, who just took a picture. "Girl... that was hot." He said smiling as he lowered his camera.