The End

Twilight looked around the crowded stadium, eyes scanning for anything familiar, a flash of pink hair hopefully. But ever since the outbreak she had learned to never hope, she learned all she could do was run and have faith that they could survive. Twilight still didn’t know how she had survived this ordeal. Before she had been the town librarian, Amelia Sparkle, but after this she became Twilight. The gunslinger that never missed a shot, killed every single zombie in her wake, who was almost always seen at the twilight hour, stalking the streets for any zombie, covered in dried blood and mud. To other she was a role model, the perfect example of how they should act during this apocalypse. They just made her scoff.

Continuing to scan the room with her unweilding eyes, she began to internally sweat. She had lost all of her other friends, one had actually been the one who caused the outbreak, causing her to be executed in front of the entire world. She prayed that Pinkie was still alive, she was the only one of her friends that she hadn’t have to shoot in the head or watch die. Pinkie was strong, no way would she have let a zombie eat her brains.

Then, right as she was about to give up and leave she spotted a slash of pink heading her way. Shocked she stood still as she was plowed over and thrown to the ground.

“What the hell? “she exclaimed after her back had hit the ground.

“Ahahah, you’re alive! I knew you were too smart to die!” the figure above her cried.

“I knew you were to damn dumb to die” she retorted.

”Amelia, or should I say Twilight” Pinkie began “That is not how you greet a friend after seeing them alive after the zombie apocalypse.”

“Well, I didn’t realize there were criteria to this reunion”

“Of course, where supposed to cry, say things like I thought you died and profess you love to each other”

Raising an eyebrow Twilight said “Geez, you’re as extravagant as ever.”

“Puh-lease I had to blend into the background for years to keep myself from being eaten, let me have some fun”

“Fine, but can you get you’re fat ass off of me?”

“Rude, I’ll have you know I’ve slimmed down”

“Really?”

“Can you stop being a bitch for five seconds?”

“Nope, I haven’t had this much fun since before the outbreak”

“Glad insulting me has made your day”

“Thanks”

“So anyway, did you meet anyone along the way, make any teams?”

“Well, except for in the beginning when it was us and….the others, not really. The occasional team-up or pair would happen, but it would only last for a week at the least. I never felt bad if I had to gun them down.”

“Wow, you really are as cold as everyone said you were.”

“Hey, this was survival of the fittest, the strong live and the weak die. Like the circle of life, simple as that. You?”

“Ehh, I was with this nice couple for a while, they had two toddlers.”

“That mustn’t have turned out well”

Pinkie shook her head sadly before continuing “The husband was turned trying to protect them one time while I was raiding in a different part of the building. The one toddler died from fever a couple weeks later, and then the other turned into zombie food. The mother ended up ending her life before I could stop her not too long after. “

“That was..”

“Terrible, yeah. I was teamed up with this one guy that called himself Cheese Sandwich. If we had met before the outbreak we would have been, like the best of friends probably. ”

“Even more then the two of us?”

“Nah, but close.”

“He ended up getting bitten two months ago, he shot himself before it took over completely. Nothing too permanent after that.”

“Well I wouldn’t have made any more alliances if all of that had happened to me. I mean, I refused to work with anyone else after…” Twilight said trailing off.

“Do you still remember…how they died?” Pinkie questioned.

“How could I forget? Fluttershy was publically executed because she had worked in the lab that made the outbreak. Rarity was bitten within a week, it was me and Applejack, and I was the only one with enough guts to end her. Applejack wouldn’t look me in the eyes again. Then two months later, during a raid, it was Rainbow. She got to cocky and got bitten. I also had the pull the trigger on that one. And Applejack, well, that one I rember oh so vividly” Twilight said with a far out look in her eye. Pinkie was listening with great interest, but a look of sadness in her gaze.

“We had made camp at that old two story house. We thought we would be safe. But they came, busting through the windows. They reached us and I woke up first, and I opened fire. You guys woke up, I grabbed your wrist and pulled you out of the room with Applejack trailing us. We became cornered on the second floor. I was running out of bullets and Applejack wasn’t doing much better and you bat wasn’t working well. Then Applejack got bitten. She had fear in her eyes as she saw the bite. She knew what was going to happen. She gave me the rest of her bullets before telling us to run.” Twilight swallowed thickly before continuing.

“She knew what I was planning to do. She told me to not even try it. Tears where running down her face and I knew mine probably mirrored hers. But I cocked my gun and shot her in the head anyway. I grabbed you and pulled you away, just randomly shooting anything out of my way, I don’t how we survived that day. And then we were separated three days later” Twilight said sadly as she felt Pinkie’s arm snake around her side.

“It’s alright Twi. You did what anyone would have done.” Pinkie comforted.

“Kill their friends?” she asked with tears spilling out of her eyes.

“Yeah Twi, cause like you said survival of the fittest, the strong live and the weak die and the circle of life. It would have happened anyway, you at least gave them dignity.” Pinkie replied “Besides you still have me.”

“Yeah, but how much longer until you have to leave me as well?”

“I promise I’ll never leave.”

“Swear?”

“Swear” Pinkie said with a smile, trying her best to ignore the sting of her right shoulder.