The Trotting Dead

SPIKE'S P.O.V

I was with Rarity in her room. I looked out the window and saw that Twilight's improved the walls. The pegasi added a line of thunder clouds around the outside of the walls to zap Trotters, the unicorns added magical supports to the walls, and the earth ponies are using cut down trees to build the walls up.

"It looks great." I said.

"Yes, yes it does..." Rarity said.

"Why did you tell them not to let me go on the run?" I asked her.

"Well... I just don't want to see you go like the others out there do. Every second out there, it is simply a horror in of itself... I don't want to think of you out there, let alone know that there is a chance I might not see you, or anyone who goes out there again." Rarity choked.

"Rarity. I know that you're afraid, and I get that. But, I know how to run if things go bad. I know when things will go bad, I do." I said, holding my claw on her shoulder.

DEWY'S P.O.V

I ran out the tent when Daryl called me.

"What is it?!" I cried.

I ran up and saw that a deer was down and Eaters were consuming it.

"You get the ones on the left, I get the right." Daryl said.

I pulled out my machete and forced it through a dormant Eater, then I swung it through another.

"Damn it!" Daryl cursed.

"It's fine, Daryl. We got enough squirrel to last us." I said.

"Yeah, but that ain't enough." Daryl said.

"It never will be, Daryl. Always remember that. No matter what you get, it'll never be enough..." I said.

"Yeah, I know. That's what sucks." Daryl said as he pulled his arrows out of the corpses.

RED'S P.O.V

I was with Twilight in her castle trying to figure out a problem with the housing.

"We just don't have any room! What can we do?" Twilight stressed.

"What if we expand the wall? You have to remember, this is only a section of Ponyville. If we move in on it, we can get half the town in a few days or so." I said.

Twilight was clearly shocked by this.

"Yeah. I... I think we can do it." Twilight said.

I noticed that she seemed unsure and, mostly frustrated.

"You alright?" I asked her.

"Huh? Y- yeah, I'm fine." Twilight said.

"You sure? You're not bitten, are you?" I felt a wave of fear.

"No! It's just... I'm fine, you wouldn't understand." Twilight said.

"Mare troubles?" I guessed.

"Yeah. Mare troubles." Twilight nodded as she walked away to the bookshelves.

Yeah, that's not mare troubles...

I went to see what she was stressing about on the table, and I saw a map of Equestria. It was changing at the second. I saw towns crossed out and circled. I noticed that Celestia's name was up on the right corner.

She was marking towns that were either overrun or safe.

"What is this?" I asked her.

"It's a map of Equestria. I gave another one to her when she left. She tells me which towns are up and running or overrun. So far, it's mostly--"

We were interrupted by Canterlot being marked in a circle and a note at the side.

DO NOT VISIT

DEWY'S P.O.V

After a day of squirrels and Eaters, we went back to Camp.

"Well?" Shane asked.

"Nothin' but squirrels and Walkers." Daryl said.

"Walkers?!" Dale asked.

"Don't worry, we eliminated them." I said.

"Yeah, but there could be more." Shane said grabbing his shotgun.

"Woah, there, Rambo! Sound attracts those things! They'll be on us faster than kids on a pinata!" I said to him.

"I told you we should put a wall up. At least a form of one. Maybe we could park the cars in places that could seperate them." Dale suggested.

"That could work. Glenn, we need you to go in the city and find as much as you can." Shane said.

"I'll go with him. I know my way around Eaters-- or Walkers-- and I know who Adagio is." I said.

"That's the deal. Glenn, you in?" Shane asked.

Glenn looked at the group, and then at me. He let out a sigh and said

"Fine."

TWILIGHT'S P.O.V

"What does it mean?" I asked Red.

"I have no idea. It was infested before, but... anypony could've cleared it up." Red said.

"All it would take is a lot of other ponies. We could have an enemy on our hooves, Red." Twilight said.

"If we do, we need to tell the others. We need to get prepared for ponies, not just Trotters." Red said.

"I'll set up a lookout." I said as I galloped out to get Rainbow.

"RAINBOW! OPEN UP, IT'S URGENT!" I cried, quickly knocking on her door.

She opened the door and rubbed her eyes.

"Twi, can't you see that I'm trying to sleep?" She yawned.

"Listen, Canterlot just got inhabited." I said.

"So what?" Rainbow asked.

"Celestia told me to not visit it. It was her home, if anypony bad's there--" We were interrupted by a gunshot.

"Come on!" I said.

We ran out and saw that the walls were down and about 200 Trotters were roaming inside the walls.

"SPIKE!" I cried out as me, Red, and Rainbow galloped back to warn ponies.

We're being overrun.