The Zombie War (Original)

"Easy, there miss. Lower your guns..." The head leader said, holding a double-barrel to my face.

We lowered our weapons and holstered them.

"Get your snipers down here." He said.

"What snipers?" Firefly asked.

The leader chuckled.

"Okay, okay, can we not? 'Kay? We saw your men up there. Tell 'em to come on, or I blast all of you."

We sighed and told Blueblood and Sour Sweet to come out.

"Oh, holy shit! We got Canterlots, Y'all! Hell will be pleased for sure." The leader said, holding the gun to our faces.

"Who's Hell?" Joel asked.

The leader gasped.

"Oh, Y'all don't know who we are? Well... I guess I could tell you once."

There was a silence as the man stepped closer.

"Your home... now belongs to the New World Order."

I was with Scootaloo, who was still unaware of the bite.

"You okay?" She asked.

"Huh? Yeah, I'm fine." I nodded.

Scootaloo sighed and went to see Celestia.

I finally had enough.

I sprang up and bolted to the bathroom. I locked the door and searched for what I needed. I found it, and I pulled it out.

A strand of sandpaper.

I pulled my shirt down and held the sandpaper right over it. I realized what I was doing and tossed the sandpaper to the ground, opened the door, and shut it.

Half of us were confused, but not me.

I knew that name.

"Now, let's see those weapons. Come on." The leader said.

We gave him our weapons.

"Good. Now..." The leader drew a gun.

"You see, usually, we introduce ourselves by just killing one of you right off the bat, but this is a special case." He said.

"How so?" I asked.

"Well, you see, Aria's boyfriend deeply cares about our treaty, so this might be a trick. We COULD kill you, but that'd be a violation. So, I should kindly ask y'all to go back to your caves and stay away from here." The leader said as he holstered his gun.

Caves?

All I could do was tell the others to leave with me.

I was going to see Celestia when I heard a scream. I grabbed a kitchen knife and ran to the screaming. I saw what seemed to be a Crystal Prep student stand over Celestia, who had her hand over her stomach with blood spilling.

She was stabbed.

The man looked up and held a pocket knife.

"Quick... or slow?" He asked.

"Neither." A voice said behind me.

I turned around and saw Rin with a gun from the armory and drew it at the man.

Celestia turned and coughed.

"RIN, NO!" She cried.

Rin pulled the trigger and the man collapsed with a bullet to the head.

I saw Kyle dash out and grab Celestia.

"What happened?!" He asked.

She was silent, as she passed out.

"MEDIC! GET THE MEDIC!" Kyle called.

Me and Rin bolted to get the medic.

"What is it?" The medic asked.

"CELESTIA'S BEEN STABBED!" Sombra said, running through the door.

"Shit. Scootaloo, get the gurney. Rin, I need you to get clean towels, sutures, bandages, and all of the string you can find."

"Sure, Mr..."

"Nicholas. My name's Nicholas." He said as he ran out the door.

We were on our way home when we heard a gunshot.

We ran the source and found the walls.

"Crap. It came from home!" Sour Sweet said as she ran toward the gates.

We swung them open and we saw Celestia be placed on a stretcher and a man in a Crystal Prep outfit be taken to the cemetery.

"What the hell happened?!" I asked Scootaloo.

"Celestia was stabbed, Rin killed the guy." Scootaloo said as she secured the straps.

We helped the medic bring Celestia to the infirmary, where she was taken to the back.

"What happened out there?" Sombra asked.

"We got raided. Crystal Prep. Sombra, get Kyle." I said.

"Why?" Sombra asked.

"Because we know who Hell is." Joel said.

Sombra nodded and ran out the doors.

Sombra told me to head for the imfirmary. I opened the door and saw that Rainbow and her crew were back.

"What is it?" I asked.

"We know who Hell is." Joel said.

"Okay, who is she?" I asked.

"Her name's Aria Blaze." Rainbow said.

Aria Blaze...

Why does that name sound so...

Familiar?

"Who's Aria?" I asked.

"She's my sister." I heard Sonata say as the door shut.

"Yeah, she is..." Rainbow started.

"Wait, what're you saying?" I asked.

"I have no idea. But Kyle, they're armed and dangerous." Rainbow said.

"You're damn right they are..." Celestia said, walking out of the gurney with a bandage on her stomach.

"How bad is it?" I asked the medic.

"Not too bad. Dale missed any internal organs and we got to her in time to stop the bleeding." He said.

"Thank you, Nicholas. Now we have better things to take care of. They're going to learn that Dale won't be going back and they'll think we broke the treaty." Celestia panicked.

"Wait, what treaty?!" I asked.

Celestia let out a sigh.

"When the apocalypse first started, Crystal Prep became a safe haven for everyone who came to the gates. Everyone... but us. We held our ground and made Canterlot High what it was when you found it. But... it had a price. After we were raided, we negotiated with Aria to set up terms. The deal was this: We don't kill them, they don't kill us."

Rin stepped up.

"I'm sorry, it was my fault. I killed him." She said.

"I know. Like I said, we have other issues to worry about. Aria's people crossed the border line, they're planning an assault." Celestia said as she unlocked the armory.

We went inside and Celestia grabbed my gun. She held it out to me, grip first.

"Here. Keep yourself safe." She said.

I took it and placed it in my holster. I also grabbed my M16 and slung it on my back. I grabbed a few mags and boxes of ammo and walked out.

"Now what?" Sonata asked.

"Now what? Now, we help them fight. They need this place as much as we do." I said.

"What are you saying?" Diamond asked.

"I'm saying we take the fight to them. Rainbow said she saw 20, well there're more of us than there are of them. We fight, find some cover while I talk and distract them. When I give the word..." I grabbed the RPG and a rocket.

"...Blow them back to Hell. The real thing." I said.

Everyone nodded and started grabbing weapons. I decided to go and check the wall when I heard the voice again.

"Don't do it... Call the attack off." It said.

"No. We need to do this." I said back mentally.

"No... you can't."

I stayed silent as I went around the wall. I went closer and heard ticking. I leaned my head in and it went faster.

It was a bomb.