Beating an Undead Pony

“Just need a couple dozen balloons and we’ll be good to go.”

Rarity was tempted to just faint right then and there. For the past hour she and several other ponies had been bringing down balloons from Pinkie’s room, carrying them from Sugarcube Corner to the center of town, and then tying them around her body.

“Pinkie, please! Surely this is enough?” She groaned. “My back has gone numb.” Her tone quickly changed as she felt her hooves lift off the ground. “Pinkie! What is going on!”

Pinkie reached up and grabbed Rarity’s forehooves. “Don’t worry, Rarity. I’m not letting you fly away yet. We still need to get balloons for me and Applejack.” Pinkie walked backwards on her hindlegs until she reached the Town Hall. “Just hold on.” Pinkie pulled Rarity’s hooves towards the railing, giving her the chance to grab on.

“I don't see how I have much of a choice!”

Applejack and Rainbow Dash trotted over with more balloons, some of which were already tied around Applejack. “Well lookie here. Look’s like yer plan to get us non-flyin’ ponies to Cloudsdale aut to work after all.” Applejack noted. Rarity gritted her teeth, finding it hard to imagine Applejack would be saying that if their positions had been reversed.

“Well, good to see somepony is at least up again.” She muttered. Applejack let out a small whiny and looked away. Rarity felt her grip on the railing start to slip. “Pinkie, I don’t know how much longer I can hold on.”

“Don’t you worry about that! Fluttershy and Bulk Biceps should be on the way here with Bulk Biceps’ weight set. That should keep you steady until it’s time to go.” Pinkie explained.

Rainbow Dash cocked her head, remembering that out of all the ponies she would never say has much physical strength, it would be Fluttershy. “Does Bulk Biceps really need help with that? I mean…”

“Support, darling.” Rarity had to reach down with her hind legs to get a better grip on the railing. “She told us that Bulk Biceps hasn’t been himself lately. Though if you ask me I don’t see much of a difference.”

No pony ain’t themselves lately. Applejack pondered. Admittedly Fluttershy knew Bulk Biceps better than her so as far as Applejack knew, perhaps there was something off about the musle bound pegasus after all.

“We’re almost there. This way.”

Applejack and Rainbow Dash’s attention was turned caught by the approach of Fluttershy and Bulk Biceps. Fluttershy was flying backwards, guiding Bulk Biceps, who was also flying though much lower to the ground. Bulk Biceps was carrying dozens of weights on his back, thought that didn’t seem to be what was keeping him from moving at his normal speed.

“Thank goodness. I’ve been terrified I might be carried off into the sky.” Rarity let go of the railing to make a gesture, though she was quick to grab back onto the railing.

“I’m sorry.” Bulk Biceps muttered. His voice quivering, unlike his normal loud tone.

“It’s ok, we are here now.” Fluttershy stroked the side of Bulk Biceps’ neck. Pinkie bounced over to Fluttershy.

“I just…. there’s no….” Bulk Biceps stammered, finding himself unable to speak up.

“What is it?” Pinkie asked.

“UNDEAD! GOTTA SMASH EM! TEAR THEM APPART!” Bulk Biceps was loud enough to knock the others off their hooves. Fluttershy got up first.

“Please, remember what we said. You don’t need to do that.” Fluttershy squeaked. Bulk Biceps’ snorted as loudly as he could; his breathing was getting sparatic the more he did so. “Bulk Biceps, please.” Bulk Biceps closed his eyes as his snorting changed to deep breaths.

“I-I don’t…. I don’t think….” He couldn’t finish his sentence. All Bulk Biceps could do was just look away. However this was a mistake. A zombie unicorn was trotting around the surrounding houses. “GET SOME!” Bulk Biceps dropped his weight set and sped towards the zombie unicorn, tackling it to the ground, and smashing its face. He pounded his hooves into the undead creature, it’s head quickly flattened against the grass. But Bulk Biceps just kept pounding the bloody remains, bits of brain, blood and bone flying sent flying with each pound. “YEAH!”

“Alright, alright! Ah think ya got em.” Applejack walked over to Bulk Biceps, getting blood splattered on her face as she got closer.

“YYYYYEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!”

“Quiet. Please.” Fluttershy flew over to Bulk Biceps, which prompted him to stop pounding the zombie pony.

“The adrenaline. It has power!” Bulk Biceps tore off one of the zombie pony’s legs, and began beating it against its back. “I can feel it! Can you feel it!”

Fluttershy grinded her hooves into the dirt as she stood her ground. “No. No pony should.” Bulk Biceps spun around, knocking Fluttershy to the ground.

Not on your life buddy. Rainbow Dash sped towards Bulk Biceps at her top speed, punting Bulk Biceps in the gut. Though he was easily three times larger than Rainbow Dash, the speed at which she went was enough to make him topple over, splattering the remains of the zombie pony all over his back. Bulk Biceps let out a massive roar, the clear pleasure in his tone made Rainbow Dash want to punch him again. “What’s the matter with you!”

“Please. Yelling like that will make more of them appear.” Fluttershy pleaded. Bulk Biceps clattered his teeth together. “No. We don’t that.”

“W-we don’t want…. We don’t….” Bulk Biceps looked over at the others. Rarity looked straight up scared while Applejack and Rainbow Dash just looked furious. Pinkie was looking on with intrigue. “I-I-I um.” Bulk Biceps covered his face with his hooves and flew away from Town Square.

“Fluttershy?” Pinkie bounced over to her. “What’s happening with him?”

“H-he likes to fight those things. It makes him feel good.” Fluttershy explained in a tiny voice. “He finds it thrilling.”

Rarity shook her head. “There is nothing thrilling about killing these things.” She felt her grip slipping again. “Um, Pinkie, now that they have the weights could you please GET THESE BALLOONS OFF ME!”

“Okie dokie lokie.”

Pinkie reached around Rarity’s back to untie the balloons, but was distracted by the sight of Twilight and Spike approaching. “Opsie, we’re almost ready to go.” Rarity longed for her fainting couch.

“I don’t even want to know.” Spike muttered to nopony in particular. Twilight seemed to be in a bit of a daze, and didn’t react. Once she noticed Twilight’s trance, Rainbow Dash let out a snicker.

“Hm. Have fun with Rainbow Dad?”

Twilight was quick to react. “Wha? Sorry, I was just um, thinking.”

Sure you were. Rainbow Dash thought to herself. Pinkie trotted over to Spike, having already tied several balloons around her body. Spike’s eyes widened at the sight of Rarity, realizing what Pinkie were about to do.

“Um, thanks but no thanks.” He backed up next to Twilight. Twilight simply nodded back at Pinkie.

“He can stick with me on the trip to Cloudsdale.” Twilight noted. Pinkie’s ears drooped as she felt a twinge of disapointment. She had been looking forward to tying balloons to all of her friends.

“I just thought it would be fun to fly there on balloons.”

“Well….” Rarity felt a tingle travel down her legs and numbness start to affect her neck. “Maybe not everypony. Pinkie Pie, please get these balloons off of me!”

“Sorry about that.” Pinkie darted to Rarity, quickly tying untying the balloon from Rarity. Rarity collapsed to the groundletting out a sigh of relief.

“At last.”

Now you know how I felt staying in one spot forever. Rainbow Dash thought back to when Rarity had used her to create one of her outfits some time ago, and she still couldn’t forget how much it chaifed.

“Somepony pass me the weights!” Pinkie called out to the group, feeling the balloons start to lift her off the ground. As Rainbow Dash started carrying the weights over to Pinkie, Fluttershy tapped Twilight on the shoulder.

“Um, Twilight, you didn’t happen to see Bulk Biceps on the way here, did you?”

“I can’t say I did.” Twilight looked around the surrounding area. “Why? What was he doing?”

“Well, he’s not doing very well. He wants to keep fighting the zombie ponies. It’s making him restless.” Fluttershy explained. Of course she herself was feeling restless too. Maybe it was just being in proximity to Bulk Biceps, maybe it was the fact a zombie was able to sneak up on her so easily, or perhaps it was trying to explain to Twilight.

Pinkie started to lift into the air due to the balloons tied to her. “You ready to go? This is going to be fun!” Rarity rubbed her hooves against her face, not looking forward to being tied up again. “It will be better when you’re not holding onto anything.” Pinkie noted.

“Yes. I’ve already talked to Zecora, she’ll take care of things here while we’re gone.” Hopefully the Dodge Junction ponies and the Neighsayers won’t do anything in the meantime. She thought to herself.

“Wait!” A squeaky voice cried out. The group spun around to see the rest of the Apple Family, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Rainbow Dad approach. The three fillies reached the group first, all three of whom lept into the forelegs of Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Rarity respectively.

“Ya’ll really have to go on yer own?” Applebloom asked.

“At least let us go with you!” Scootaloo noted. Granny Smith was the first adult to respond.

“Now hold up. That ain’t why we’re all here.” Granny Smith and Big McIntosh trotted over to Applejack’s side. “After everythang that has happened….”

“Ah ain’t leavin’ mah friends in the dust. Ah gotta go.” Applejack started to shiver, trying not to think about what happened in Dodge Junction. And failing.

“Not all of you have to go right?” Sweetie Belle walked back and forth between Rarity and Applejack. “I mean…you scared us enough the last time you left town.”

“Hey, now, we didn’t even know where you were last time.” Rainbow Dash put a wing around Scootaloo. “And as for you, well, if you came with me, who’s going to watch over your friends?” She turned her attention to her father, who was shaking his head in amusement. “What?”

“Nothing. Just liking what I’m hearing from you.” Rainbow Dad gave a coy smile to Twilight, who couldn’t help but blush. “Course, I’d be remised if I didn’t tell you to take care of my daughter.”

Pinkie took Rainbow Dad by surprise, rising up into sight. “We got that all taken care of! Nopony will get hurt. Pinkie Promise!”

“Heart! Fly!”

“Cupcake! Eye!”

Pinkie grinned in response to the Cake Twins, who were sitting on the railing of Town Hall. “Exactly!”

Big McIntosh let out a deep whiny. “Nope.” He muttered.

“Big Mac!” Granny Smith snapped. The large stallion raised his head up high.

“Ya’ll can’t keep that promise. It’s dangerous out thar.” Though Big McIntosh’s tone didn’t change, his lip started to tremble. “Ya couldn’t keep that Jubiliee pony away from mah sister. Ya can’t do any thang about the trotters all over Equestria.” Pinkie thought she could avoid the issue by backing away from Big McIntosh, but he simply trotted after her. “Don’t ya dare make a promise ya can’t keep.”

Big McIntosh’s tone was down right scaring everypony present. The Cake Twins were on the verge of tears. Fluttershy broke the silence. “Y-you don’t really believe that? Do you, Big McIntosh?”

Big McIntosh took a deep breath. “Eeyup.” Pinkie couldn’t stop blinking. She wanted to say something, anything, but for the first time in a long time, she found herself at a loss for words. Spike was so terrified he was actually able to ignore the itch in his back.

“Sooooo.” Rainbow Dash twirled her mane. “We need to get a move on.” She said, trying desperately to change the topic. Sweetie Belle looked up at her older sister.

“Don’t you listen to Big Mac. We’ll be back.” Rarity promised. Big McIntosh groaned incredulously.

“Ah didn’t say ya’ll wouldn’t come back.” All eyes turned to him again. “I know ya’ll will. Ah said don’t make promises ya can’t keep.”

“Ah appreciate yer concern. Mighty kind of ya, Big Mac.” Applejack smiled, feeling a warmth in her stomach as the tension felt by everypony else started to fade.

“Well just be careful, that’s all.” Granny Smith said. “Or Ah’ll kick yer kesters.”

I needed that. Twilight thought to herself.

Rarity couldn’t feel her hooves. The balloons carrying her, Applejack and Pinkie were doing their job all too well. Of course looking down at Equestria as they got higher and higher was getting unnerving. Pinkie floated up to her eye level. “See? I told you it would work.”

“Oh that was not in doubt, darling.” Rarity did her best not to look down. “Though it is certainly not the most optimal method of travel.”

“Hey, you get used to it.” Rainbow Dash reassured, hovering higher than the rest of the group. She noticed Fluttershy wasn’t exactly comfortable flying up hundreds of feet in the air either. “Come on, back me up here.” Rainbow Dash asked. Fluttershy muttered something under her breath, too soft to hear.

“Maybe. I guess.” Twilight answered. She looked at Spike on her back, who was still scratching himself. Twilight felt a sharp pain in her back as loose scales fell off Spike and landed in her fur. “Spike. Could you hold up on that until we get to Cloudsdale?”

“I can’t help it!” Spike continued scratching his back, causing him to loose his balance, sliding into Twilight’ s left wing. This in turn caused Twilight to tumble down, bumping into Applejack’s flank.

“AAHHH! DON’T TOUCH ME THAR!”

Twilight and Applejack forced themselves apart, resulting in Spike falling off Twilight’s back. “SPIKE!” Twilight cried. Rainbow Dash turned herself downward and sped after the falling dragon. Twilight and Applejack were pushed back as Rainbow Dash disappeared in a streak of multicolored light, flying down at her top speed, and catching Spike before he could fall any further.

“Gotcha! Don’t scare me like that.” Rainbow Dash panted. She flew up to Twilight’s level. Spike couldn’t speak. He was still in shock.

“Let me help.” Twilight reached over, helping Spike onto her back. As she did so, she got a wiff of Rainbow Dash’s scent. It had never really bothered her before, but that was before she met Rainbow Dad, whose scent wasn’t all that different. Realizing that she was showing her distraction in her face, Twilight quickly shook her head to try and get the thought out of her mind. “Um, um, Spike! Right! Spike how are you doing?” Twilight stuttered.

Spike stopped panting. “I’m ok. Really. I’m certainly not itching for a while.” Of course he regretted doing so immediately, as the itchy feeling started to tingle down his spine.

“Oh, lookie there!” Pinkie cried. Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Spike looked up. The bottom of Cloudsdale was now within sight. It was the largest cloud in the sky, and the only one that looked “heavier” than the others. “We made it.”

At last. Rarity imagined the release of getting her balloons untied from her in a matter of minutes. Noticing a purple aura appearing around her body, Rarity looked down at Twilight, who surely enough, was casting the “walk on cloud” spell on her, Applejack, Pinkie and Spike. So this is what this spell feels like.

Normally Cloudsdale would be bussling with activity, pegasi of all ages flying around, using the numerous pillars and cloud rings in the air as obstacles to avoid. Workers in hardhats would be drilling and forming new structures all over the town. It was how Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy had known Cloudsdale to be like all their lives. But the others certainly wouldn’t have that feeling with the empty streets.

“Not the homecoming I was expecting.” Rainbow Dash muttered to no pony in particular. Fluttershy took a step forward, the soft quishy clouds beneath her hooves leaving almost no imprint at all.

“Where is everypony?” She muttered. Pinkie bounced to her side.

“Well I can think of one way.” Pinkie tooking a huge breathe of air. Realizing what Pinkie was about to do, Twilight, Rarity and Spike bolted to her side, slamming Pinkie’s mouth shut.

“SHHHH!” They said in unison.

“You want to attract more of those zombies!” Spike snapped. Pinkie jumped up into the air to get a better look at the town around her. The rest of the group looked at Pinkie in surprise as she hung in the air for half a minute before landing back on the clouds.

“Don’t see anypony so far.” She looked at the twins in her saddlebags. “You see anypony?”

Rarity rubbed her foreleg. “Pinkie Pie, I don’t think the babies can see any…”

“Fluffy!”

“Birdy!”

Twilight and Spike ran ahead of the group, walking up a flight of stairs, leading up to a rotunda. Spike had to squint his eyes to get a better view of the structures in the distance. “I got nothing.” He noted.

Twilight couldn’t make out a living being around either. Not even fallen zombie bodies that had strewned across Appleloosa. “I assumed there would at least be corpses.”

Rainbow Dash took Twilight by surprise by taking a flying leap and landing hard next to her. “Come on, Twilight. We didn’t keep bodies around in Ponyville. Why should anypony here leave bodies around?” Rainbow Dash looked back at the others, who were making their way up the stairs. “Alright everypony. Let’s split up and try to find…”

“No!” Applejack stopped moving, which motivated Fluttershy and Pinkie to stop as well. “We ain’t seperatin’. At all.” Applejack said as firmly as she could.

Fluttershy raised a forehoof. “I agree. We could get lost if we did that.”

BOOM!

The entire group jumped in surprise at the booming sound of thunder. The Cake Twins started crying in response. “No! I got this.” Pinkie shuffled into her bag, pulling out a small flour sack and poured its contents all over her. The twins began laughing before Pinkie was fully covered with flour. “All better.”

“Yes, but where did that come from?” Rarity asked. Another roaring burst of thunder rang out, spooking the group again. “Rainbow?”

“Sounds like somepony is using the thunder machines.” She suggested.

“Thunder wouldn’t be able to hurt zombies.” Twilight replied. She imagined lightning might be effective if it hit a zombie in the head, but thunder was just noise.

Applejack scanned the surrounding area. A buzzing sound was slowly but surely getting louder. “Woah nelly. We need to go. Now.”

“What is it?” Pinkie asked. Applejack pointed to the north. The others gathered around Applejack to get a better look. Fluttershy’s eyes widened. Parasprites, hundreds of them, were buzzing towards the group.

“Ya’ll think thar trotters?” Applejack tilted her head towards her friends.

“Let’s not stick around to find out.” Fluttershy muttered, backing up past the rest of the group. Thunder roared out a third time.

“Everypony take cover!” Twilight cried. Of course there wasn’t much cover, leaving the group no choice but to run in the opposite direction.

“Rainbow! Please tell me there’s somewhere we can hide?” Rarity panted, almost tripping over her own hooves as she tried to keep up with the others.

“There’s eh, some…” Rainbow Dash’s mind was drawing a blank. Once the group was out of the rotunda, she noticed a resturant with its window shattered. “There!”

Spike was the first to reach the resturant, opening the door and motioning to the Mane Six. “Hurry!” Spike looked back and forth from his friends piling into the resturant and the parasprites off in the distance.

“Spike! Get in here!” Twilight couldn’t wait for him, and instead pulled Spike indoors with her magic, slamming the door shut. Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie glanced out the broken window to get a better look at the parasprite horde outside.

“If only I had my trombone.” Pinkie said to herself. Of coruse Spike had his doubts that would work this time around. The little buzzing creatures swarmed the streets, some were missing wings, others were missing lower jaws, but all were zombified.

“Nopony make a sound.” Twilight ordered.

Rarity backed into one of the tables in the resturant, almost falling to the ground, but Spike caught her. “Thank you, Spikey.”

Pinkie trotted away from the door, and stepped over the counter. “Maybe there’s something in the kitchen we can use.” She suggested.

“Good idea.” Twilight replied. “If there’s any food in stock bring it out here. We can use it as bait.”

“Assuming they haven’t already eaten it.” Spike pointed out.

“Spike!”

“What? Those things eat more than I do.” A statement that Twilight found hard to argue with.

“PINKIE!”

“PIE!”

The group’s attention was quick to move from the parasprites outside to the Cake Twin’s cries from the kitchen.

Pinkie struggled to crawl along the ground. Her blood was pooling around her as she moved. “Don’t look. Pound Cake. Pumpkin Cake.”

The door to the kitchen flung open, allowing the others to pour inside.

“PINKIE!” Rainbow Dash cried. Blood was spurting out of three huge gashes running along her Pinkie’s neck. Applejack, Fluttershy and Rarity reached Pinkie’s fallen form first, Rarity holding Pinkie upright, pressing a napkin against her wounds.

“Pinkie Pie, talk to me! What happened?” Applejack asked.

“She got in my way.” A raspy voice rang out. Rainbow Dash gritted her teeth as a familiar face emerged from behind the fallen stove. It was Gilda, a griffon and former friend.

“Gilda! What are you doing here!” Rainbow Dash flew into Gilda’s face, holding her by the sides of her head.

“Dash, woud you kindly get your big horse face out of mine!”

“NO! You did this to Pinkie didn’t you!”

Fluttershy began to look around the kitchen; opening as many cabinets she could, as quickly as she could. “Rainbow Dash, please don't argue with her, Pinkie needs our help. Help me find something I can use to sew her up.” Fluttershy begged.

“She’s already gone.” Gilda crossed her arms and looked at Rarity. “Out of the way, dweep. I’ll finish her off.” Before Gilda could react, she found herself on the floor, a painful punch from Rainbow Dash having knocked her down.

“You’ve done enough.” Rainbow Dash snapped.

‘Ya’ll got a lot of nerve to say that.” Applejack added.

Oh give me a break. Gilda thought to herself.

While Rainbow Dash continued staring down Gilda, Twilight called upon her magic, opening all the cabinets at once. Spike climbed onto the counter to reach one of the cabinets. Surely enough there was a string spool among the utencils. “Rarity!” Spike tossed the spool to Rarity, who caught it with her magic.

Gilda rolled her eyes. “It’s not going to work…”

“SHUT UP, GILDA!” Rainbow Dash stepped on Gilda’s wing, making the griffon squawk in pain. She looked back at Pinkie.

“Twilight, do you have a spell that can act like anesthetic?” Fluttershy meekly asked. Twilight had to think deeply for a moment before realizing she had uncovered a numbing spell during her studies.

“Twilight, we are on a deadline!” Rarity snapped. Pinkie tried to speak, but only spit out a mouthful of blood.

Gotta do something! Something! Twilight pointed her horn at Pinkie’s wounds, casting her numbing spell.

“Fluttershy, do your thang. Hurry!” Applejack backed up to allow Fluttershy to work on Pinkie’s wounds. Fluttershy dropped the spool, feeling her stomach turn from all the blood. Rarity touched Fluttershy’s hoof.

“I’ll do it.”

“Are you sure?”

“It’s no trouble. I’ve done plenty of sewing before.” Of course it was always a dress or suit, not another pony. There was something demented about it, even knowing many doctors have done it before. With each stitch she couldn’t help but wince. And Pinkie’s groans of pain were not helping. Never the less, Rarity knew for a fact that Fluttershy wouldn’t be able to do it herself. For Pinkie Pie. And Fluttershy.

“Are you done?” Gilda asked. She didn’t see the point of even trying to save Pinkie. “Can I kill her? I’d be doing her a favor.”

Twilight extended her wings. “Don’t you care at all? You were the one who did this.”

“Psh. Is that supposed to be threatening? Besides, she came in here slowly without making a sound so I thought she was one of those things. Yell at her, not me.” Gilda argued.

Why was I friends with this jerk again? Rainbow Dash stomped her hoof. “What are you even doing here, Gilda? I thought you wouldn’t want to anything to do with ponies.” Part of her didn’t want to hear, since she knew she wasn’t going to like it.

“Well I certainly didn’t want to stick around with a bunch of ponies. But then the dead started getting back up and eating things.” Gilda explained. “Your Wonderbolts were doing pretty good keeping them back. Until the little bugs showed up. Ate everything in sight.”

All Gilda’s words were sounding far more familiar than what was comfortable. When parasprites had attacked Ponyville the previous year they tore the whole town apart in less than an afternoon. “Gilda, do you know if there’s anypony still alive?” Twilight asked.

“There were.” Gilda looked back at Rainbow Dash. “The Wonderbolts said they were going to make as much noise as they could to bait out the bugs. Course they're probably dead.” She showed little reaction to Rainbow Dash grabbing her fur.

“No way! The Wonderbolts can handle parasprites just fine!” She didn’t care that she was getting spit on Gilda’s face as she spoke. Nopony insulted the Wonderbolts like that in front of her.

“You heard that thunder earlier? That was them, trying to play hero, hoping ponies who can’t defend themselves will run away.”

“Ya mind telling us where are they now exactly?” Applejack asked. Gilda shrugged.

“They got caught by the bugs. Had to take cover while they were eaten.” The griffon found herself hit by Rainbow Dash again.

“You abandoned them to die!”

“What did you expect me to do?” Gilda replied. “Those things ate everything in their path. The Wonderbolts wanted me to run, so I did. You want your idols to have died for nothing…”

“SPITFIRE AND SOARIN ARE NOT DEAD!” Rainbow Dash roared with all her might. Spike started biting his claws.

“Rainbow, they might hear you.” He muttered. Rainbow Dash collapsed to the floor.

“They're not dead. They're not dead.”

“I don’t hear any thunder, Dash.” Gilda rubbed the cheek her former friend had hit her. “Make your own conclusions.” Twilight gulped, thinking that was actually a rational assumption to make.

“Why should I believe anything you say?” Rainbow Dash buried her face in her hooves. “You almost took my friend’s head off…. they're not dead. They're not dead.”

Wait a moment. ‘Almost took my friend’s head off.’ Twilight began to think back. Horror started shivering through her body as she remembered her nightmare. The one where Pinkie appeared to her as a severed head. No. That’s not possible. Just because Applejack gets hurt the same way doesn’t mean anything. However another look at the two Earth ponies and the injuries they bore, only made Twilight’s fear increase, her teeth chattering away as she tried to hold back a nervous break down.

Pinkie mustered enough strength to lift her head up. Dashie…. She thought to herself before finally passing out from blood loss.