Chapter 7: Yay. Suicidal Zombies. And Homicidal Zombies

Chapter 7: Yay. Suicidal Zombies. And Homicidal Zombies

Fluttershy wasn't very happy about the group's hold-up. Upon entering the safe room and securing it, the six ponies noticed that something was blocking them from exiting the safe room. It appeared that only Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and herself could clear the obstacle.

"Can't you just turn it into a set of stairs, Twilight?" asked Rarity

"I'm not sure. I can't remember a spell that would be capable of such an immense change." she replied, "I guess that Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy have to carry you guys up."

"Um, oh ok." said Fluttershy meekly

Rainbow Dash groaned, but still agreed. She picked up Applejack and flew her through the hole. Fluttershy took hold of Pinkie Pie, who made happy "Wheeeee!" sounds as she flew through the air. After maneuvering through the hole, Rainbow Dash returned through it to retrieve Rarity.

"Hopefully that's the last time we have to deal with a ladder." said Applejack

They gathered up any other supplies and unbarred the door. Taking in her surroundings, Fluttershy heard a strange noise coming from one of the corpses that littered the ground. She trotted over cautiously, as to not be attacked if the thing was infected, and examined the box thing it had in its grasp.

"Rescue 7, this is Papa Gator, over."

"This is Rescue 7, over."

"Rescue 7, what is your repair status, over?"

"Repair ETA is ten minutes, over."

"Did not copy. Say again Rescue 7, over."

"10 minutes, over."

"Copy that..."

"Um, Hello...?" said Fluttershy cautiously.

No response from the box. Twilight came over and picked up the box with her magic. She clicked a button and then held it up for Fluttershy to speak to.

"Um, hello?"

"We have contact from the east bank, from Lieutenant Maverick's radio! East bank, are you healthy?"

"Uh y-yes."

"Copy that East bank."

"Um, I don't have any ink on me right now but, um, I can remember it if you-"

"That wasn't a literal command. Anyways, how many are in your group?"

"Six ponies that could use some assistance, unless it's, um, any trouble to you..."

"Papa Gator, we may need some mental assistance for the "ponies" on the east bank. East bank, I'm afraid we cannot extract you on that side of the bridge. We're going to need you to cross to the west bank. Be advised, infected have breached the bridge."

Fluttershy looked at the bridge, "Um, the bridge isn't lowered."

"There's a switch nearby that'll lower it."

Almost instantly, the bridge's mechanism squealed to life. Pinkie Pie bounced up and down in glee.

"Oh that's so cool!"

"We're sending a helicopter to the other side to extract you. Be careful. We advise you to run."

Twilight gave a look that said, "You don't say?"

The bridge finally lowered and the safety grate slammed to the ground.

"You heard the nice box guy, let's git a move on!" said Applejack

The six ran off towards the other side. The streets were littered with carriage like things that were made of metal. There was a large rectangular one that had a large blue tarp stretching between it and another carriage. There were a few zombies underneath it. They turned to look at the living creatures that were crossing the threshold. They began sprinting towards the ponies, but were cut short when Twilight blasted them with a pistol.

As the six continued running, the bridge became more worn, and the volume of infected humans increased. Several Jockeys tried to pull the ponies off of the side of the bridge, but pitifully failed. A Charger almost knocked Rarity over the side, but she managed to evade the creature's attack just barely. It flew off the edge and crashed into the water.

Fluttershy continued running. The impossible urge to leave this nightmarish place drove her forward. All this pain. All this blood. All these sick creatures. It was almost to much to handle.

"Aaah!" Twilight screamed. She'd been swarmed by a horde of them and was now barely fending them off on the ground.

"Hang on, Twi!" shouted Applejack as she whacked a zombie in the face.

Rarity pointed her gun towards the mob and fired. The horde diminished, leaving Twilight still lying on the ground, incapacitated.

"I've got you Twilight." Fluttershy squeaked.

She ran over to help her friend off of the ground. As she was pulling Twilight up, Fluttershy saw a large figure appear from behind a metal carriage.

The thing was incredibly obese. Boils and warts covered its body. Blood and other fluids oozed from a hole in its stomach. It began to waddle towards Fluttershy. She panicked and bucked at the advancing zombie.

When her hooves connected with the zombie, it exploded. Green mucus completely covered Fluttershy. The bloody goop seeped into her eyes and caused her to have extremely blurred vision. She screamed from the shock. It didn't seem to hurt her. But soon she realized the purpose of the gross vomit. Zombies began to swarm and pound her. She turned away from the attack, only to be cornered by another swarm.

She screamed again. To escape the onslaught of undead, Fluttershy flew towards the edge of the bridge. She used her wings and hovered above the water. Tears practically sprayed from her eyes as she tried to wipe the bloody fluid from her eyes.

"Fluttershy! Stay right there! You're leading them off the bridge!" shouted Rainbow Dash from somewhere nearby.

Fluttershy squinted and saw a mob of zombies simply running off the bridge towards her. She smiled and laughed at their silliness. As the mucus began to drip off of her, she watched as the wave of suicidal zombies slowed to a stop.

Fluttershy flew back to the bridge and landed next to Twilight.

"You okay?" asked Twilight

"Yes. Just shaken, is all."

They continued on down the bridge. The closer they got to the west bank, the more zombies there were, it seemed. And the more damaged the bridge was. More and more carriages littered the pavement, some slipping into holes.

"Do you guys feel that?" asked Applejack

Now that she mentioned it, Fluttershy began to feel the ground shake. She thought it sounded like a Charger, but only larger. There was a giant crash from up ahead. A carriage exploded from the ground and flew towards the six ponies. They either ducked our evaded the flying metal object as it sailed over them and crushed a few infected that were behind them.

Fluttershy turned to look towards the direction of where the carriage had been and saw maybe one of the most gruesome and terrifying scenes ever.

The infected person was mutated beyond recognition. It lumbered towards them, screaming and snorting, using its thick arms as a second set of legs. The arms were maybe as thick as trees. It glared at the ponies in sickened hatred as its tongue flopped out of its mouth.

It barreled towards the group of ponies and barely missed each of them. It's large mass carried its momentum further behind them before it stopped and began to turn around.

"Run or shoot?!" shouted Rainbow Dash, "Run or shoot?!?!"

"Both!" squeaked Fluttershy

The ponies turned towards the west side of the bridge and ran, while pivoting their weapons behind them and firing at the beast. Infuriated by the hailstorm of bullets, the infected creature dug its hands into the ground and pulled up a slab of concrete. It hurled it at the running ponies and nearly missed Rarity. However, much dirt was thrown upon her mane.

"Haha! Nyahnyah, missed us!" taunted Rainbow Dash as she turned to reload her sniper rifle.

As she turned to fire at the creature, she saw it climbing some scaffolding on the side of the bridge. Before she could question what it was doing, it leaped towards her and swung its giant arm at her.

Fluttershy watched in horror as her friend was swatted out of the air and sailed towards one of the carriages on the ground. She slammed into the window at the front of it, causing it to crack. Time almost seemed to slow down as Rainbow Dash bounced off the glass and tumbled to the concrete. She lay there, unconscious, as the giant zombie smashed into a carriage farther back.

Applejack and Fluttershy raced over to the downed Pegasus. Her lack of consciousness disabled her ability to hold a gun and run. Fluttershy pushed Rainbow Dash onto Applejack's back.

"We gotta go, now!" shouted Twilight as she emptied the clip on the creature, "This thing is like a tank!"

So, with Rainbow Dash on her back, Applejack and her friends ran like a stampede of buffalo. The road from the bridge split as they reached the end of it. The main road was cut off by a chain fence.

"What the hay is that?" said Applejack

She pointed with a hoof at a strange vehicle near a dock. It looked like that strange contraption that Pinkie used on the occasion, only there was more bulk to it. It's propeller blades began to spin as a voice shouted from it.

"Hurry! Get to the chopper! We can't-... What the fuck?! Horses?!"

The tank zombie still lumbered and grunted behind them. Applejack, rather than running, stopped and picked something up off the ground.

"Ah sure hope that whatever the heck this thing does packs a wallop..." she said as she pointed the grenade launcher at the Tank.

Pinkie Pie giggled at the sound the gun made. And the explosion that followed. And the roar of homicidal rage after. Applejack, not knowing how to reload the weapon, dropped it and continued on with carrying Rainbow.

They all dropped down as the escape vehicle began to increase its rotor speed. Twilight motioned for everyone to get on lard the thing. Once everypony was on, the ramp slowly rose and the vehicle rose into the air.

"I-I guess you weren't joking about...ponies." said the pilot in disbelief.

Before any of them could answer, the sound of concrete zooming past the hull of the vehicle grabbed their attention. The Tank, out of substances to throw, grabbed onto a straggling infected and hurled it towards the chopper with immense strength.

The zombie flew through the air and landed in the propeller's rotor. In a spray of blood and body tissue, the propellers began to slow. And the vehicle began to descend to the waters below.

Everypony screamed. The vehicle began to spin in midair as it spiraled towards the river. The pilot flailed about in the cockpit and accidentally hit the detonation switch.

The last thing Fluttershy saw, before the white flash, was the image of a chunk of bridge flying towards her.

God damn! It took forever to release this chapter! If you're wondering why, it's cause I was basically blanking on story line and pissing around on other shit. Sooooo... I will leave you with a completely pointless topic that will either cause you to ponder or plead for mercy: duck cocks.