My Little Zombie: The Virus is Magic

Three weeks ago:

The first thing a pale white stallion Earth Pony, with red mane and tail,  woke up to was a face-full of floor, After getting up from the ground, he went around to take a morning bath. The water was really nice...until the bathtub broke from strain. He stood up and shook his head, mane just barely getting into his eyes. "I'm going to have to have it trimmed today..." He said out loud sadly, as he walked out the door, ignoring his mess of a house. Needing some time to himself, before the mane cut, the pony trotted towards the Everfree Forest as a familiar blue Pegasus flew up to him, her velvet mane flowing behind her.

"Hey there Wire, whats up?" She asked with bubbling joy.

Wire shook his head in exasperation. "Not much Taffa." He said, thinking that she would make an amazing sister for the party pony Pinkie Pie.

Taffa sighed. "Well, i'm off to work to make some more taffy! See ya!" With that, she sped off.

Wire laughed to himself as he entered the Forest. He looked around for a while, somehow enjoying the dark green scenery, and after about an hour, he heard painful whimpers, but also grunts of determination, as he turned around Wire saw a pony with a tan-ish grey coat and a black mane with blue streaks, which matched his tail. The deep green eyes of the pony's showed pain...but that's not even as close to how he looked. The pony in front of Wire had several cuts and bruises, but worse was that it looked like something tried to flay his back, as his back has a strip of flesh missing, which looked suspiciously like a bite of some kind, with green around the wound, signifying infection.

The pony managed to get out a single sentence. "Help...me..." he coughed, getting it on Wire, then collapsed, unconscious.

Wire quickly acted on instinct, and put the pony over his back, and sprinted off to the hospital

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After about twenty minutes of grueling running, Wire arrived at the hospital, an extremely large crowd following him, horrified at the state of the pony on his back. Wire stepped through the doors, and looked at the nurse behind the desk, then nodded to his back. The Nurse got the hint, got a stretcher, and wheeled the pony to a back room.

Wire sighed in relief. "Good he's-" Suddenly, he erupted into a fit of coughing and wheezing, then fell on the floor, dizzy. A doctor pony came out and took him to a different room...

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About a day later, the pony who was first hospitalized, walked out, bandages wrapped around his middle. He looked around curiously at Ponyville. Suddenly a very pink pony, who was bouncing up and down, was in front of him.

"Hi there, what's your name?" She asked quickly, almost indiscernible.

"My name is Storm Scratch, but i prefer Scratch. Yours?" Scratch said, then asked mildly.

"My name's Pinkie Pie, and i'm so very happy to meet you! Oh, this means that i need to get preparations going!" With that, Pinkie Pie bounced off quickly, leaving only a blur.

Scratch's left eye twitched. "I-uh-ern-alright...?" He shook his head, and smiled. The pony had been very friendly, and as he soon discovered, so were the others.

After walking exploring for the day, loving every minute of the small town and clear skies, and managing to rent his own house, Scratch walked back to the rental house and opened the door, only to find it pitch black and eerily quiet... he took a step forward...

"SURPRISE!" A lot of voices exclaimed at once as the light turned on, to show many faces.

Scratch almost had a heart attack right then and there, but a certain pink pony came up to him, beaming widely.

"Welcome to Ponyville, Scratch! I threw this party just for you!" Pinkie poked Scratch's nose with a hoof. "Are you excited, because i'm excited, i don't think I've ever been this excited before. Well, except for the time i threw Twilight a party, but i mean really, who could top that?!" She broke down into a fit of giggles.

After shaking off his surprise, Scratch responded. "Thank you Pinkie Pie." He walked into the crowd, meeting the famous Princess Twilight Sparkle, and the other members of the Mane six, all while having the time of his life.

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A scientist unicorn pony stood over the unconscious, barely breathing shape of Wire, and used a needle to extract a blood sample. A mixture of scientist and doctor ponies turned toward him as he put the blood into a dead rabbit, which quickly came back to life, rabid. They dispatched it, then examined a new blood sample under a microscope.

The scientist turned to the others. "Oh, no..."

A doctor looked at the examiner curiously. "is everything alright?" He asked carefully.

The scientist pony didn't respond, only stared at Wire's body in horror.

One of the nurses who had been dragged along asked. "Is it a problem in his blood."

"Reanimation..." the scientist said quietly.

"Er...what was that you said exactly?" The Nurse pony carefully asked.

"Reanimation, you imbecile! Now leave, all of you, we need to leave immediately, at least go get some masks if you're going to stay, but i'm going." the scientist pony snapped, as he walked out the door, leaving only a nurse, a doctor, and a scientist, all with masks already on, in the room.

The amateur scientist sat down then let loose a sigh. "Sorry, he's a bit nuts..."

The doctor laughed. "Aren't we all? Anyways, we should leave for the night. Gotta get our sleep.." He yawned then left with the Nurse.

As the scientist left, he swore he had seen the body of Wire move slightly, despite it's vegetative state...