Til the End...

“Beeeep, beeeep, beeeep!!!”

“Grrrrrrr, good morning Tucker, it’s a beautiful, cloudy day in the United States!”

My name is Tucker and I am just a normal 21 year old guy fresh out of college with a so called “bright future” ahead of me and everything was going to stand in my way. Typical everyone was out to try and make my life a living hell just because I am a nerd and a military shut-in and all.

I have only had two friends in my entire life, and their names are Brooke and Justin. We met each other over seas in Iraq and have been best friends since. Speaking of which…..

“Knock, Knock, Knock!!!”

“Who is it,” I yelled with a sleepy yawn.

“It’s Brooke and Justin!!!!” they hollered back

“I’m comin, I’m comin…….. SHIT!!!!!” I look down, “NO PANTS!!!!”

After changing into some black shorts and a white, tight-fit tie. I opened the door to see both Brooke and Justin standing there with irritated looks on their faces.

“What?”

“You were supposed to meet us at the Café to have breakfast TWO hours ago, so that’s what.” Brooke said in a very aggravated tone.

“Ohhhhhh, that was today.” I must have broken them because I had to duck to avoid getting smashed in the face with Brooke’s 50 lb. purse, but only to get Justin’s not much better boot to my jaw. As I fell back Mortal Kombat kept screaming in my head, “FATALITY!!!”

I just hope to God they didn’t continue on to, “FINISH HIM!!!”

“Ouch!!!” I said, “OK, ok, calm down and come in. I’ll make so breakfast and coffee, as you can see I haven’t had my first cup yet.”

Then in unison(almost as if on cue) they said, “Ok.”

So after breakfast the Justin and Brooke talked while I went into the living room where all of my favorite things were, my gun safes, my workbench, and….. my Xbox 360. So I started up my Xbox and while I waited for it to start up, I got into one of my gun cases and pulled out a Slovakian AK-47 with a ACOG Scope and fore-grip, one of my personal favorites, and held it up to look down the scope, only to hear the sound of guns firing and Justin yelling like a total nerd.

Well, there just went my Xbox for the next two hours.

As I sat down to watch to the girls play Call of Duty: Black Ops II – Zombies, I saw the lights and screen flicker then everything went black.

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“What the hell just happened?” Brooke yelled.

“Shhh, there’s screaming outside.” I said as I shoved a magazine into the AK-47 I was holding, and ran to the door.

As I opened the door I looked outside and it was not what I was expecting at all. The land and scenery outside was cloud and gloomy and almost looked cartoonish in way. But something was off it almost had a leery feeling to it. So I went back inside and grabbed my gear and my AK-47.

When I ventured outside I realized we had just “showed up” outside of a post-apocalyptic town. So knowing me I entered the town, and as I kept going I saw a faint light that was coming out of some kind of tree-house (no, really it looked like someone had built a house inside a tree). I approached the house and knocked on the door, there was a long silence then I heard whispering and something that sounded like steel against leather…. OH SHIT!!!

Then the door exploded, no the door literally exploded, sending me flying back a few hundred feet and leaving me dazed. As I shook off the dizziness and got my vision back, I realized what had caused the explosion. It was a human like figure with equine features with a horn and wings, and hooves instead of feet and…… IT’S A FUCKIN PONY!!!

I was too busy freaking out to see the pony/human charge up another shot and I only had a few seconds to react before that shot hit the ground where I was. I took cover behind the remains of a burnt down house, and as I was sitting there ready, I saw something unusual. It was a figure that was wandering around; as it looked my way it gave a horrid scream and started to sprint at me in a very awkward way as if it had no coordination at all. As it reached me it tackled me to the ground out in the open and it tried to bite my face off, I tried to reach for my gun but it was a good twenty feet away. So I reach over to my left shoulder which had my combat knife strapped to it. I got ahold of the hilt and brought the 10-inch blade across slicing the “zombie” looking thing in the throat spraying blood all over my face. But that didn’t work it was still trying to get me so I rammed my knife into its head sending more gore to spray all over me.

As I tried to stand up, I saw that the pony/human (plus six others) standing there with looks of awe on their faces.

“Thanks for the help,” was all I could say as I wiped the gore off of my face.

Then I heard screams and gunfire, I spun around on my heel and started to sprint toward the noise. When I got there I couldn’t see anyone or anything, then I heard what sounded like a crunch from behind my house. So I went to investigate, I wish I hadn’t. As I peeked behind a corner I saw some more of the things and…….. two bloody human corpses.

I was pissed, scratch that I was furious. So I raised the rifle and unloaded all 30 rounds into the abominations, spraying gore and body parts everywhere. Then when I ran out of ammo I charged them knife drawn and started to kick, smash, and hack off heads; and when they were all dead I dropped to my knees and started to cry. I had just lost the only two friends I had ever had in the entire world, and now they were dead. Killed by things of our fantasies and imaginations, now I was truly alone in this world.

As I sat there crying I took notice of the strange pony that had attacked me earlier, plus the other six, standing behind me and looking between me and all of the dead creatures around me. But the way she (I think judging by the feminine body and breasts) was looking at me, it was almost like she had sympathy for me and my loses. Then she spoke.

“I am sorry for what has happened here,” She said.

“I am too, I wis……THEY CAN TALK!!!!”

I was freaking out now with a mixture of nausea and hyperventilation. So as I sat there freaking out they took a moment to speak.

“I think we should help him, he seemed very sad and heart broken,” said the yellow one.

“I would to do some studies on him too,” said the purple one.

And before anyone could continue they heard a thump and they turned around only to find me passed out on the ground. Damn this has been one hell of a day.