Equestria, /HaS/, and the Untodes Korps

Aryanne was reading a strange book in her quarters on a cruise liner on... well... a cruise. She had found the text when she moved into Ponyville, but she hadn’t been able to make anything of it. She had recently become friends with Twilight Sparkle, though, who had given her a phrasebook so she could read the script within the book, albeit slowly. She regularly looked back and forth between the old book and the pamphlet and tried to make sense of the cryptic and strange lettering contained within. She yawned and looked at the tableside clock.

“Oh, look at zhe time. Dinnertime.”

Her stomach concurred.

She set her reading to the side and set off to the cafeteria. The winding hallways proved no real obstacles, but Aryanne took a detour to go outside. The smell of the sea filled the air, and she breathed deeply, enjoying the sight of clear skies and rolling waves. Aryanne looked to the bow of the ship and found an unsettling fog in the distance.

Zo much for perfect weather for zhe concert.

On the itinerary, there were some orchestra ponies from Canterlot performing on the Manehatten, and there was supposed to be a beautiful meteor shower. That fog might change matters, though.

Looks too big to be completely dispersed by pegasi.

Aryanne’s stomach reminded her of what she was outside her room for, and she took the long way to the cafeteria. Ponies had already seated themselves and were being waited on by some of the staff. Aryanne looked over the tables, and her attention was drawn to Twilight Sparkle and her friends waving her over. Aryanne smiled and sat down and said, “Hi, girls? How has zhe vohyage been treating you?”

Twilight said, “We’ve been fine. Right, girls?”

A chorus of concurs went around the table. Pinkie Pie nearly bursted out of her chair when she said, “I can’t believe how much fun there is to be had in the middle of the ocean! Woo!!”

Aryanne smiled. What Pinkie had said was true. There were dance rooms, exercise rooms, and even an onboard water park. The fillies and colts onboard loved that.

Aryanne and her friends had spent the voyage so far with each other, getting to know each other better and just generally having a grand old time.

"Vat vill you be having tonight, Pinkie?"

Pinkie Pie stuck her nose in the menu and scanned the contents intensely. Finally, she drew back and pointed on the menu, "Oooh! I've never had Mozzarella sticks with sauce before!"

The girls all looked into their menus, and sure enough, there was an unfamiliar entry with the cheesy breaded treats.

As they considered what they would have in addition to the treat, a voice came over the crowd. “May I have everypony’s attention? Due to the heavy fog rolling our way, there will be a change in the itinerary. The concert will simply play now on the stage there, instead of outside as was scheduled. Have a good night.”

Vell, dinner unt a show. Zhis should be gut.

The dinner proceeded wonderfully, with all sorts of delights being sampled, until eventually it came time for Aryanne to retire, but she couldn’t sleep what with the sweets she’s eaten.

Now that she had some time before shuteye thanks to a wave of sugary energy, Aryanne decided to transcribe some translated text of the book to burn off energy. She got back on her bed and started the translation.

The words formed on the extra paper as Aryanne translated. Letters became words, words became sentences, and sentences became paragraphs. Before she knew it, she had several pages filled out, and she yawned before collapsing face first in the book. Her dreams were of toffee and they weren’t interrupted as she slept.

Strange characters soon floated into her unconsciousness, and she absent-mindedly muttered them as they appeared to her in her sleep. They flowed from the memory of the dinner to the late-night study, and she mumbled some nonsensical transcribed words as they came to her in the order she transcribed them in.

Ma'ku'kan eshishet rhol,

vamun'drai Ma'rai es shol.

A red light shone from somewhere in the room, but it went unnoticed as Aryanne continued.

Bla’hstka vast hest vest tuu’uns... trevant eh’tvan witopa. He'art veest unt vast nu'vatkar NAZPNU UNTOTESTIES!

The red glare grew brighter and brighter until it disappeared altogether. Aryanne turned in her sleep, and she remained silent for the rest of her slumber.

-3 Days Later...-

The fog had not improved. If anything, it had grown even worse. The pegasi sent out to clear it blacked out from unknown causes and had to have their unconscious bodies fished from the water more than once. Even Rainbow Dash, the most qualified Weather Pony on the Cruise Liner could not keep the fog away. The Captain of the Yacht, Silver Laurels, ordered that attempts to clear the fog should stop, lest we lose a pegasus to this mysterious fog.

What was worse was the fact that the crew had no means of knowing if they weren't going in circles or not. Silver Laurels had ordered ahead full, but the only sign that they were moving forward was the wake the ship left in its movement.

Aryanne and her friends stared ahead into the fog, longing to see anything other than grey off the bow of the ship.

“Zhis fog is most ohpressing. How much more must zhis fog last?”

Twilight shook her head and said, “I don’t know Aryanne. This fog almost seems...

Magical.”

“Vatever do you mean? Somevone made zhis?”

“I don’t exactly know. I don’t know how someone would create this much fog, let alone even why.”

“Perhaps zhis is a new enemy?”

“I hope not.”

The boat creaked and lurched, sending everypony on the rail over and into the surf. A Seapony shouted,  “Ponies overboard!”

Other ponies quickly got back on their hooves and tried to spot the fillies.

“Bleh! Bleh! Saltwater!”

Rainbow Dash again wiped her tongue with her hooves, trying to get the taste out of her mouth as she sat in the surf. She paused. “Huh?”

All the mares that had fallen off weren’t currently in complete ocean water, but some sort of grey beach. Other ponies were picking themselves up from the water.

“Everypony okay?”

Everypony mumbled, not exactly happy about being thrown from the yacht. Rainbow Dash took that to the affirmative, and got up herself. Fluttershy asked, “Where are we?”

Applejack replied, “I don’t rightly know, sugarcube. I reckon we’re on some sort of island, but...”

Rarity then said, “...But we weren’t supposed to have seen islands for several days.”

Applejack nodded. Fluttershy shivered, and said, “So... where are we?”

“Ahoy!”

Everypony looked up to see the face of the captain of the yacht peering over the edge of his vessel.

“We’re going to throw you a ladder! Hang on!”

Twilight called out,  “Wait! Let us check out this place to see if we can get help! Just stay there!”

After a pause, the Captain said before pulling out of view, “Yes, Princess.”

“Vat?”

Aryanne stood and stared slack-jawed at Twilight.

“...What?”

“You heard me. Vat are you thinking? Going off on some new adventure?”

“Well... yes.”

Aryanne facehoofed, and said,

“Fine. Don’t tell me I didn’t varn you all vhen I say zhis would go badly.”

Aryanne then followed her friends into the fog.

Soon, water gave way to sand, and then sand gave way to a gravel path bordered by sickly-looking grass. Without really realizing it, the ponies took to the path, and kept scanning all around them for any sign of... well... anything. The fog seemed to be less constricting at this location for some reason, though.

In fact, they could see some buildings in the distance. They wordlessly agreed to go there, their hooves disturbing gravel all the while.

Suddenly, something made it’s presence known with a snarling growl. The mares wheeled around to see something bipedal advance towards them with a really bad gait. It wore some sort of uniform, but that wasn’t what the ponies were concerned about.

It was the grey, blood-caked skin and glowing yellow eyes they were staring at.

“Z-ZOMBIE!”

The tension broke and the ponies fled away from the undead creature, screaming. They ran past a post where more of the vile creatures were tearing apart some poor corpse. The zombies noticed the ponies and got up on their feet, chasing them very, very slowly. The ponies ran past them effortlessly and proceeded into town in their panic.

“Hear that?”

“Yeah, it sounds like somebody’s in trouble.”

“Let’s go.”

So many zombies... what even arethey?

Twilight Sparkle and her friends were catching their breath in a building they hastily holed-up in.

“E-Everypony... okay?”

Everyone was too busy catching their breath after the little chase to respond.

“At least we’re all still here.”

“Did you guys... see... that?”

Applejack turned towards Rainbow Dash and asked,

“Did we... see... what, sugarcube?”

“They... had... her cutie mark.”

Rainbow Dash pointed at Aryanne, and they all saw the familiar swastika inside a pink heart, and they all thought back, and how the zombie’s helmets and armbands also bore a swastika. Aryanne squeaked in fear.

“V-Vhat does this mean, girls?”

Rarity stepped in and said, “I’ve never quite seen the swastika like that before. The black... the white... the red... it’s all so sinister.”

Twilight shook her head.

“Nevermind that, girls. We need to get help, and--”

*CRACK CRACK BANGBANGBANGBANG*

Everypony ducked down and covered their ears. They grew terrified of the loud noises, which reminded them of fireworks, but somehow more threatening.

Everypony held their hooves over their ears and some even screamed during the course of that terrifying minute. Everypony stole fearful glances at each other, and, for a while, it seemed that the commotion and the thundering would never quiet down.

Finally, the noise calmed down, and Fluttershy was the one to brave going near the window.

There was creatures outside like the upright monsters who had just walked out of the building on the other side of the street. Fluttershy ducked back down when she saw the... bodies... she forced her stomach back down from declaring open revolt.

As Fluttershy composed herself, Applejack peeked out, and caught sight of the not-as-monstrous creatures. They all held these strange implements of varying length and shape. One of them had longer hair than the rest of them, who noticed Applejack and flinched, shouting,

"EH?!"

Applejack ducked back down, while trying to remain calm, while the one who spotted her said, "Did you see that? Ivan, go check it out, eh?"

After a groan, the ponies heard something approaching.

Rainbow Dash hissed, “What do we do?”

Twilight Sparkle stood up, and shakily said, “G-Girls... get behind me.”

As everypony moved, the footfalls came closer to the door. As the door opened, Twilight puffed out her chest and put on a brave face. The biped came in, device raised...

which he immediately lowered after seeing the display and saying something not one of the ponies expected.

“AAAAAAAW~ Guys, look! It’s ponies!”

Everypony was taken aback. What was going on?

Soon they were in the arms of these things, being told how precious they are and more than one tear was shed. It was all very confusing.

Some time later, Red, Volk, Yonah, and Paddle sat on the roof of a tall, yellowing apartment building. They looked over the city with their weapons of choice. RedShirt,  Yonah, and Paddle had unmodified rifles, while Volk had his tripod-mounted light machinegun. Yonah said, “As much as I like killing these things, I’d rather be back home.”

Volk nodded and replied, “Aye. At least home’s got heating.”

Paddle then said, “And Internet.”

Red added, “I miss the internet.”

Everything was still in this city, save for some rummaging around downstairs where people sorted their stuff and supplies they gathered on patrol.

Paddle asked, “Wonder how things are going back home?”

Volk noted, “They probably noticed us all missing, yeah.”

Yonah leaned back onto his hands and said, “It’s like the plot of that one movie where people disappeared and everyone who saw them disappear went insane.”

Volk grimaced, then said, “Geez, I hope that’s not happening back home.”

...

That’s totally what’s happening, isn’t it?”

Red just covered his face with his hands.

Yonah said, “You saying that makes me worry for my folks all the more.”

Volk said, “Sorry.”

Then there was silence. Everybody shifted uncomfortably in the cold air.

Red pointed out into the distance and exlaimed, “Hey, look. Pat’s group is returning.

...guys?”

Volk rubbed his eyes and replied, “I see them too. But I’m not sure I want to.”

Yonah turned to Volk and said, “First Nazi Zombies, and now this?”

Paddle said, “...You know what, mates? I’m okay with this.”

Red stood up and said exasperatedly, “You know what? Yeah. Sure. Okay. Let’s just... jump on the train of madness now.”

Paddle shrugged, then said, “Not the strangest thing I’ve seen. Come on.”

“Here, up on this.”

The wayward people and ponies got on the rickety platform in the ruin of the first story stairwell, the stairs to the second story having been destroyed. The platform had ropes on the corners, serving as a crude elevator.

"Heave!"

Everyone steadied themselves as a team of people struggled to pull the lift up. While aided by many pulleys, the work was still harsh. When the lift reached the second floor, the occupants quickly disembarked, and the lift was unceremoniously dropped back down to the ground floor with a clap and a clatter.

"Welcome to...ah... Home Base, eh?"

It was a run-down apartment building with minimal lighting and maximum crowdedness. Everypony looked amongst the crowd, gauging their dulled surprises at seeing them. Everypony was expecting to see fearful, tearful faces at having to survive in this dump constantly being besieged by the walking dead.

Except what the misplaced mares did see evident on their faces was...

boredom.

Sure, they were nervous, but their faces were the neutral faces of schoolyard fillies waiting for the clock to let them out of school, not wayward souls barely surviving in the muck.

It was very disquieting.

Suddenly there was a shout, and everybody looked as another man burst out of a room, dressed in another uniform, but apparently from another place. Someone asked him, “So who’s left, Grey?”

“Just one left. We should never have gone to that hospital.”

Grey sighed, and everyone was joined by the sentries from the roof. Red asked Grey, “You died again?”

Grey just shot Red a look and said, “I will shoot you in the head, Red.”

Grey noticed the ponies and just stared for a moment before chuckling and shutting himself back into the apartment. Loud snoring was then soon heard. Everyone chuckled, then yawned. Twilight asked, “Is this normal?”

Everybody laughed.

Volk said, “Lass, we come back here when we die. We’re not fine. Everybody here has died at least once and just reappeared good as new here. People even shot themselves only to come back.”

Fluttershy gagged and heaved. While Rarity comforted her, everypony else struggled to come to grips with the situation. Pinkie Pie took several deep breaths before she realized something.

All

these

new

friends.

Pinkie started to violently vibrate, before she pulled out someone’s flash grenade and threw it on the ground. After it exploded, everybody was stunned. Twilight Sparkle was the first to blink the light out of her eyes. When she did, she saw that Pinkie had somehow set up party decorations and baked treats everywhere. Twilight saw the Party Pony stand up on a table and shout,

“Hello, Bluemoon, Priest Reverend Alberts, Alexander, Michael Sheehan, Grey Knight, Scott, Dan Grayson, Red Chaplain, Tactical Genius, Tatsuo Sakae, Edgar Allan Fro, Joseph Williams, Vikoriya Alexandrov,  Ari Yisroel, Ivan Arkov, Edward Gloriana, Paddle Streamer, Redshirt, Johan Pitka,  Volkenstein Arstotzka, Lucian Regal, Mael McDermott, and second-to-last but not least, Dropbearius!”

She then glomped a man in a blood-stained fursuit, complete with claws and koala face. After a moment, Dropbearus hugged back, muttering something. Pinkie just giggled.

So it was that the mood loosened, and everyone socialized, completely forgetting all about their ills. However, several members of the party were pulled aside, and they sat in a dusty old bedroom. Red, Pat, and Twilight Sparkle all sat in chairs. Twilight said, “What’s going on?”

Red rubbed his temple and said, “Look, I’m still reeling from seeing something like you (no offense), but we’re going to need a plan to get out of this.”

Pat then rubbed her chin and said, “Yeah. We gotta end this nazi zombie madness, eh?”

Twilight then asked Red, “So what exactly has happened?”

Red took a deep breath and said, “Well, a few days ago we all woke up here and we’ve been trying to survive ever since... well... we don’t really need to try, seeing as we just pop back into existence if the zombies get us.”

Pat shrugged and said, “Dying isn’t so scary anymore once you’ve done it once or twice, eh.”

Twilight shook her head and said, “What’s a Nazi?”

Red and Pat looked at each other, and both rubbed the back of their heads. Red then broke the awkward silence and said, “There was a time in history where bad men came to power in a country, and called themselves Nazis. We don’t like to talk about what the Nazis did. But this? There’s something else here.”

Twilight turned her head and asked, “Why is that?”

Red gritted his teeth, thought for a bit, then looked at Twilight and said, “The zombies just don’t thin out. It’s like they’re being... created, or something. That, and the scavenge teams always, always get tons of food, water, equipment, weapons, and ammunition. It’s almost as if those are created for our continued sustenance ,too. It’s... strange. We need to find the source of all this and stop it.”

Pat drew out her pistol and said, “Yeah. I’ve got a few choice words for whoever is doing this to us, eh.”

Twilight then asked, “So how do we stop it?”

Pat said, “Obviously, we head for the center of town.”

Red looked over at Pat, confused until she said, “We saw a castle on a hill, and it had a giant glowing red swastika on it, eh.”

Red blinked and opened his mouth, closed it again, but then said, “That... that seems right, actually.”

Pat then said, “The tech-junkies are almost done bolting armor on our rides, so we can take the castle, eh.”

Red asked Pat, “What?”

Pat then asked Red, “You didn’t hear the sound of us nailing and welding armor to our rides?”

Red looked at Twilight, then back at Pat.

“What rides?”

“These rides.”

There, in the underground garage of the apartment, Twilight saw a collection of tracked and wheeled metal carriages with additional ramshackled armor put onto them. Twilight saw no hitches or anything, so she turned to Red and asked, “You pull these?”

Pat and Red laughed, and they went over to a relatively small green 4-wheeled carriage and lifted the front section of it, revealing its contents. Twilight got on two hooves and peered in, and she gasped.

It was some sort of alien machine, with familiar parts such as pistons, cables, and the like, but she couldn’t figure out what they were meant to do. Pat leaned next to Twilight and said, “That, sister, is an internal combustion engine. It can push this jeep along with sixty horsepower, eh.”

Twilight’s eyes lit up. Such a small engine, but very powerful! She turned to Pat and said, “Does it have coal as a fuel source?”

“It runs on gasoline, so like a... crude oil, but it’s been refined.”

So many possibilities.

Twilight jumped down and asked, “So we’ll use these to breach the castle?”

Pat pointed towards something and said, “We’ll use that.”

Twilight turned around, and gasped.

It was a giant, boxy metal monstrosity.

The compartment on the top of the tracked vehicle held what could only be a cannon. Twilight shuddered to think of what damage it could do, especially a cannon of that size.

“So... you’ll breach the castle with this, and go into it?”

“Eh... something like that.”

Having loaded everyone up onto the halftracks, jeeps, and armored artillery piece, everyone moved out. Everypony was situated in the halftrack in the middle, driven by Michael. Volk rode gunner, and rubbed Aryanne’s ears as she rested her headas the convoy moved out of the garage.

Zhis is nice. I do not object to zhese fingers.

Everypony else looked on with mixed reactions. Twilight didn’t quite know what to make of someone who, without any training, had managed to do more than the Spa Sisters had in their one visit to them. If they had training...

Twilight shuddered, but then was distracted by the sound of someone singing. Twilight recognized the Melodious Magics working through everyone to make some music. She let the waves carry over her and let her sing with everyone, even though she had only studied the Coltic language in passing. The buildings passed as their notes carry over and through the buildings. It was very harmonious.

Well, not completely, there were a few muffled “humph” noise resonating into the music as a few of the humans shoved their fists into their mouths in an attempt to stop singing.

 When the last notes faded into the distance, the ponies had a lot of stress relieved, but the humans of the group were very concerned. Someone shouted,

“Nice singing, Mael!"

Mael shouted back,

“Tha’ ‘ell was that?”

 After a while of trying to explain Melody Magic to Red, Fluttershy called out and said, “Look, it’s the hospital. Isn’t that where...”

The barricaded doors burst open and a man came screaming out of the abandoned hospital. Volk said, “Yeah, that’ll be Tux.”

Following Tux was a line of zombies that were very strange.

For one thing, they were running after him, instead of a slow gait.

For another, they were on fire.

That makes sense as to why Tux was running away.

The ponies ducked as everyone opened fire. Automatic fire cut apart the flaming horde, while Tux ran back to the vehicles. The last of the normal fire zombies finally lay still while Tux climbed into the back of a jeep. Volk called out,  “Hey, you okay?”

Tux looked up with his pale face and muttered, “I. Hate. Hospitals,” with a breath in between each word.

He then fell unconscious, slumping over into a laying position. Volk and Paddle just gave each other a glance. Fluttershy asked if he’d be okay.

Volk said, “Well, I’m not telling him.”

The castle was finally in sight. Aryanne and Twilight Sparkle took turns using the binoculars to scope out the fearsome stronghold.Twilight said, "It'll be tough to get in."

She passed the binoculars to Aryanne, who paused to look at the giant glowing swastika.

Twilight patted Aryanne's shoulder and said, "Hey, it's okay. These nazis aren't like you, okay?"

Aryanne passed back the binoculars and said, "Still leaves geschmacklosigkeit, zhough."

Twilight brought the binoculars to her face, and saw the zombies armed with human weapons.

Those will be tough. What else...

She looked at the gatehouse, and there, tightly packed together was-

"Spooky Scary Skeletooooons!"

Twilight recoiled from Volk's outburst, but now looked at the skeletons with a bit more understanding. But her thoughts were interrupted by Volk handing her something.

It was a pair of earmuffs.

"Put these on. It'll be less loud that way."

Twilight had just finished putting them on when-

*CRACK-BOOM*

Twilight looked over to see the massive cannon carriage rock back and forth after the discharge. Twilight then looked as a plume of dirt was thrown up in the air next to the castle.

"Orient to the right by 32°, and let's raise elevation by 12°, eh?"

After a pause, Yonah shouted, "Fire!"

The cannon bucked and spat fire again, and the shell hit it's mark, blowing bits of masonry off, and causing zombies to fall off the crumbling ramparts.

Pat said as she observed the damage, "Lower elevation 7°. Left 15°. Fire when ready, eh?"

And so it went that ponies and people stood slack-jawed as the direct fire from the cannon laid waste to the castle. The gunnery aimed for the base of the walls and towers, to great effect in crumbling the structure under it’s own weight. Pat pointed to the glowing swastika and said,

“I don’t want to see that anymore, eh?”

*CRACK-BOOM*

The swastika fizzled out as it was blown apart.

“Groovy.”

Soon, the castle was much, much less imposing on the landscape, seeing as it’s a bunch of rubble and zombie corpses.

“That should be that, eh?”

Suddenly, the ground rumbled, and everybody held their breath as they saw a figure rising out of the remains of the castle. Everyone blinked, and the thing was among them.

It was a thin bipedal humanoid, it was clothed in a nazi uniform complete with officer’s cap, but it lacked any human facial features, instead, it had a texture white as death, and it’s snaky limbs lashed out at anything close. There was also this very tangible sense of power and dread radiating from it. It turned to the humans and spoke in a booming and echoey voice,

“You have impressed me thus far, mortals of the-”

*CRACKCRACKCRACKBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGRATATATATATATATATATATCRACKCRACKCRACK*

Twilight ducked as the bullets started flying, closed her eyes, and covered her ears with her hooves. She grimaced as the firing intensified.

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It seemed like it would never end, but when it did, and only when Twilight Sparkle was sure it would end did she dare look. She lifted her hooves, opened her eyes, and didn’t see the monster anywhere, but she did see the other ponies taking cover, and every human with smoking barrels. Even Tux had apparently gotten up and fought the monster. Twilight then looked to Red and asked, “What happened? Did you... defeat it?”

Red nodded. Twilight then said, “That was a very powerful entity. I could feel the amount of power that rivals any alicorn. How did you defeat it?”

Red just said, “We shot the shit out of it.”

End?