The walk trough the dirt road was rather quite after Pinkie had dozed off on Frank's back, one arm still over his shoulder while the other dangled freely, her snores quite and almost unheard.

Rainbow Dash had her hands inside her hoodie's pockets, her uzi swinging forward and back slightly with each step she took as she looked around, watching the rather zombie free road ahead and surroundings.

Frank just kept looking forward, his sunglasses occasionally shining from the reflection of the sun now high in the air.

Deciding that the silence was starting to get annoying, Rainbow turned to look at Frank. "So... does it hurt?" She suddenly asked.

The photojournalist turned to look at her with a raised eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"When they bite you... does it hurt a lot?" She asked once more.

Frank lowered his head slightly before raising it back up and looking back at the road. "Of course it hurts, they're sinking their teeth into you, why wouldn't it hurt?"

Rainbow Dash went slightly wide eyed as she turned her head elsewhere, realizing that her question was kind of stupid. "Oh... right, it's just... when they bit you... you only seemed to show that it hurt for a while, and then... you just shook it off! Like it was ant bite!" She said as she turned to look back at the photojournalist.

Frank blinked under his sunglasses before chuckling. "Well... get bitten, clawed and shot at as many times as I have and you kinda get used to it..." He said as he slightly shifted his hands forward, moving the sleeping pink girl on his back forward so she wouldn't fall down.

The cyan skinned pegasus took in the information and went slightly wide eyed. "Clawed... shot... just what the heck are you? Some sort of... super person...?" She asked in slight disbelief.

"Hehe... super? Nah... I'm only a guy trying to get a story..." He said as he continued walking forward, Rainbow slowing down as she watched him keep moving. She blinked once before her cheeks began growing hot with a blush. "Wow..." She whispered.

"This is... disturbingly fascinating..."

Deep in the basement under the golden oak library, stood Twilight, covered in various medical and hazmat gear, in front of her a large metalic table, and on top of that table was the corpse of one of the undead.

In her hand, she held a scalpel, cutting away several layers of the skin and dead muscle off of the chest of the zombie, it's lifeless gray eyes starring at the dark ceiling.

"Spike, take notes... every organ, while continues to decompose, stays alive as well, almost as if something on the brain is sending it signals to keep going..." The alicorn raised a vial of dark red liquid up to her masked face. "The blood, is completely dead, and contains traces of some sort of... biological fecal matter of some sort..."

The also geared up reptilian, Spike, wrote down on the clipboard on his hands.

"I will now open up the head and inspect the brain..." She said as she raised a glowing gloved finger that then started emitting large amounts of purplish sparks. Lowering her hand, she then started tracing her finger on the exposed skull of the corpse, revealing the contents insides.

Expecting a dying brain, she gasped slightly as nothing but red goop started pouring out slowly.

Taking a loud cliche gulp, she used her magic to reach inside and try to find anything else inside.

"Brain seems to have completely decompose, proving my theory wrong, the state of the brain is in no condition to give command to organs to stay alive, let alone move the entire body to try and... eat..." She said out loud, Spike, while trying to keep his lunch in his stomach, writing down every word.

Suddenly, she felt something, something inside the head... wiggling.

Blinking under her mask, she then glared, concentrating her magic to reach in and pull out what was causing the wiggling. Grunting, she felt that whatever was inside there, was latched on to what she could guess was the brain stem.

Until she finally felt it detach and pulled it out, the organs still inside the corpse suddenly stopping to lightly move.

Pulling it out of the brain goop inside the skull, it was... a larva!

Twilight stared with confusion at the wiggling creature in her magical hold.

"This... this is what causes them to turn into zombies?" Asked Spike, lowering his clipboard.

Twilight slowly nodded as she finally began putting the pieces of the mysterious puzzle that was this outbreak together. "I think so... this isn't a virus Spike..." She then slowly turned around, a thousand yard stare etched on her face. "It's an infestation..."

Walking away, she reached out with her hand a small jar that was on top of a shelve and placed the larva inside before placing a lid over it, preventing it from escaping.

Raising the jar, the alicorn started taking off the mask that covered her face now that she knew that the disease wasn't airborne. "Okay you... lets see what makes you tick."

Spike gulped as he took off his mask as well. 'Twilight ,she's really getting to the bottom of this...' He thought.

"Guah!"

Wham!

Pieces of teeth and skull landed on the ground before an undead unicorn followed, it's now broken jaw hanging by a little thread of skin.

Frank lowered his bat as he looked forward, they made it to their destination, Ponyville town square, this was the center of the town, if they were going to find Fluttershy, this was the best place she could of ran into when all the commotion happened.

"Now... are you sure your friend could be here?" Asked Frank.

Rainbow and Pinkie nodded.

"Yeah, a few minutes before the freaks started showing up, I was taking my normal morning jog around the town, and I saw her walking around here." Said Rainbow.

"She usually always goes to the market to buy food for all of the animals in her shelter in the morning." Added Pinkie.

The photojournalist nodded before turning around, several zombies beginning to limp out into the open and toward the trio of still alive beings.

"Grahhhh...." One moaned out, raising its hand towards them as it slowly walked forward.

Frank raised his hands, one clenching a fist, the mma glove squeaking slightly while the other held the baseball bat tighter. "Alright, show time..." He said.

Rainbow raised her spiked bat, taking a small gulp as she tried to keep her cool.

Pinkie grabbed her mask from behind her head and placed it back on her face, her breathing heard for a second before she raised her flamethrower, the small match at the tip dancing wildly.

Twilight sighed as she investigated the rest of the body of the corpse before her, using her magic she levitated a scalpel before her as she then used a pair of tweezers to pull out another tissue sample from the flesh of the zombie.

Once again walking towards the table behind her, she began mixing several liquids in a flask, preparing to ready the sample for a closer examination.

Spike in the meantime, starred at the wiggling larva in the jar, his reptilian eyes watching it's every move, never in his life had he seen anything like this, not even in the movies, it was always a virus or some sort of evil magic, but, a parasite?

That's completely unreal.

Suddenly, he heard the alicorn behind him sigh in frustration once more.

Turning around, he raised an eyebrow. "What's wrong Twilight?" He asked.

Walking towards the jar, Twilight picked it up and starred at the specimen inside. "I've found nothing in the blood and tissue samples but a virus that does nothing but mask itself from the bodies' antibodies... I can understand if it was for it to be able to reach the brain and infect its host... but...!"

"But...?" Said Spike.

"But the virus is harmless, and it doesn't explain how this thing gets inside someone!" She exclaimed.

Spike blinked as he crossed his arms, thinking of every zombie movie he had ever seen, what did they all have in common when it came to infecting others?

But with his slight curiosity, he couldn't help but focus at the slowly falling jaw of the lifeless corpse behind Twilight, decomposition and the smack to the face from a mailbox taking its toll on it.

And then it came to him, with sudden realization, Spike remembered. "Biting!" He exclaimed as he raised a hand and pointed towards the bloodied set of teeth on the corpse's jaw.

Twilight turned around as she heard that, wanting to facepalm after forgetting all of those cheesy movie nights she had with her assistant that involved zombies.

"Spike! You're a genius!" She exclaimed.

"I am..? I mean, yeah, totally, I-I can't believe you forgot about that yourself..." The dragon nervously laughed as he rubbed the back of his head, looking away just as nervously.

Author's Note

I'm sorry for such a short chapter, even though it's larger then any other in this story, I wanted to make it even longer, but, I am still currently dealing with problems, this is all I had before that, I didn't want to leaave any of you, my small followers of this story, hanging.
Be back soon.... I hope.