"Devon, can hear us? We got here as fast as we could after we heard what had happened. "We wanted to make sure you survived the blow to the head." Devon's father said to his unconscious son.
"How could this happen to my son on his last day of school?" His mother said.
"Devon, I want you to wake up, please I want to make sure your OK." His sister said.
"He should be out for about four days." His dad said.
"I wish it could be sooner than later." Devon's sister said to her parents.
"Devon, when you wake up, we will make sure that we get you home soon." Devon's mother said.

(May 17, 2016)

Devon wakes up and saw the room that he was in was empty with the usual furniture and items of a hospital room.
"What happened?" He said to himself. He looked around the room and saw the clock in the room wasn't moving and saw a vase of dry flowers, they must have been left there for days. "Why are these off, would it be unsafe when someone is unconscious?" He said taking the heart monitor, the breather and the pads off of him and gets out of the bed and finds his clothes and stuff in a drawer and puts them on. He looked at his watch, read the seventeenth and 2:34 pm. "I must have been out for four days. I need to get home." He said while heading out the door of his room and saw the hallway empty. "Doctor? Nurse? Anybody?" He called out and saw something red on the floor. "What is that? Where does it go?" He followed the trail down the hallway where it ends at the cafeteria doors. "Is this blood? Why would it go to the cafeteria?" He opened the door and saw people acting strange with wounds, rotten skin, missing limbs, and a bad odor. He got a little scared. The people looked at Devon and started walking towards him. "What are you doing? Hey, get away from me!" He starts to run towards an elevator and pushes the button, to his luck it was already there. He got inside and closed the door to get away from the crazy people and went to the first floor. When the doors opened, the floor was clear and gave him the chance to get out of the hospital and get home. He walks down a sidewalk that leads to his house over a mile away. He saw a bike laying on the ground so he jumped on it and took off trying to get home faster.
A bike ride later, he made it home and got to the front door and unlocks it. "Mom? Dad? Savannah?" He called out to his family and looked around the house, nobody was in his home and he got worried. "Where could they be?" He walks out of his house and sat on the sidewalk to see if they would come back from wherever they were. He hears the sound of a branch snap coming from behind him, he turns around, gets hit in the head by a shovel and falls to the ground.
"Applejack, I got one." A little girl called out.
"Apple Bloom, this one's not dead. Wait a minute?" Applejack said turning the knocked-out kid's head to see his face and recognized him. "Devon? He's alive. Rainbow!" She called out to Rainbow Dash.
"Applejack, what happened?" Rainbow dash ran out into the open and saw Devon. "Devon? Is he okay?" She asked.
"Apple Bloom hit him with a shovel, help me get him inside." Applejack said while grabbing Devon by his shoulders and Rainbow Dash carried him by his legs.

Later that night, Devon woke up and looked around and saw that he was in his bedroom. He got out of his bed and walked to the opened door and walked downstairs and heard voices, he had to hide behind walls to see who it was. He looked and recognized the girls from the hockey game and decided to come out in plain sight.
"Hey." He said to everyone in his house.
"Devon, where have you been all this time?" Rarity asked.
"In the hospital and how did I end up there?" He asked.
"At the hockey game, you got hit in the back of your head with a puck." Twilight explained.
"That explains why the back of my head still hurts. But, the side?" He asked.
"Sorry, I hit you with a shovel." Apple Bloom said.
"Why did you hit me?" Devon asked.
"She thought you were one of those monsters." Fluttershy said.
"What monsters?" He asked.
"They look like us, but dead." Sunset explained
"You mean like the one's I saw at the hospital? They just came after me like they were going to kill me." He said.
"That's what they do." Flash Sentry said.
"We saw what they do." A man's voice said from behind, Devon turned around and saw the man with a woman next to him.
"This is my brother and sister-in-law." Twilight said to Devon.
"Shining Armor, this is my wife, Dean Cadance." He introduced him and his wife to Devon.
"Devon." Devon said shaking their hands. "How did you all end up here at my house?" He asked everyone.
"We were trying to find someplace big enough and safe for all of us and we saw your front door open, so we hid here." Rainbow Dash said.
"We are trying to find some weapons to fight these things, but we don't know where else to look." Cadance said.
"My Dad has a gun safe in his closet, but I don't have the code." Devon said.
"Maybe your dad left a code hidden somewhere in the house." Pinkie said.
"I might as well look for it. Make sure the house is extra safe." Devon said as he starts to look around.

Devon looks in his parents' room to find something that would have the code on. He looks in the closet as if it was in there, but there was nothing. He looked around the rest of the room, but still nothing. He decided to see if the code would be in his room. He checked behind his mirror, under his bed, in his closet, and searched in his drawers. In his sock drawer, he felt a paper, he grabbed the sheet of paper that was taped over the drawer. He unfolds the paper with a message written on it.
'Devon, we tried to get to the hospital to get you out, but we were cut off from the roads to the hospital. We were order to evacuate, we didn't want to leave you behind. If you find this message, this code is to the gun safe. We hope to see you soon.' Dad, Mom and Savannah
Devon felt a little empty with his family out there somewhere where they could be alive or dead. He went to the safe and got it open. He remembered the guns that were in there. Sixteen semi-auto pistols, one revolver, four shotguns, three rifles, and a pellet rifle. He remembers the two crossbows with scopes and hunting bow under his parents' bed. He puts all of them in a duffel bag and the ammo for them, holsters, extra clips, and carries them down stairs.

"Find the code?" Scootaloo asked.
"Does this answer your question?" Devon said showing them the bag of guns and putting it on the dining room table.
"Alright, I'm going to hand some of these guns to some of you that might be suitable to you. I’ll go first." He grabs a pistol that he really likes. "Walther PPK/S .22 LR, I'm really good with this gun ever since I've fired it." He grabs another pistol and hands it to Sunset Shimmer. "Heckler & Koch USP 9MM."
"I hope I can fire this Okay." Sunset said to herself while Devon grabs another pistol and a crossbow and hands them to Rainbow Dash.
"Desert Eagle .357 Magnum and this crossbow is my dad's." Devon said to Dash.
"These look awesome." Rainbow Dash said.
"Yeah, but it kicks back really hard. Hope you don't bust your face." Devon said while grabbing another pistol and hands it to Flash. "Smith & Wesson M&P 9MM." He said.
"I could use a little practice." Flash said.
"I've got the instructions for all of these guns." Devon said, getting another pistol for Twilight. "Walther P99AS 9MM." He said.
"I think I know how to use this." She said to herself.
"Then you probably seen this on television." He said getting the rifle out and another pistol and handing them to Rarity. "Savage Model 10/110 .270 Win and Beretta 92FS." He said.
"I do have a sharp eye on clothing, I might have a sharp eye on targets." Rarity said while looking through the scope.
"I think you do." He said grabbing the revolver and one of the shotguns and handing them to Applejack. "Colt Python .357 Magnum and Mossberg 590."
"I know a lot of farmers use these on their farms." Applejack said.
"I've been to farms before." Devon said getting another shotgun out and handing it to Pinkie. "Benelli M4, since I've seen you with those party cannons, you might know how to use a shotgun." He said.
"This should be easy." Pinkie said.
"Alright, Fluttershy." Devon held a pistol to her. "Walther P22, this could be suitable to your size and it's light enough for you to carry." He said.
"The noise might scare me." Fluttershy said.
"The noise will take some getting used to." Devon said as he hands the third shotgun and a pistol to Shining Armor. "Spas-12 and Glock 17. The stock can fold in, whether you shot with one hand or have the stock out for far range." He said.
"I think I know how to use this." Shining said.
"I suppose." Devon said getting another pistol out and hands it over to Cadance. "Kel-Tec PMR-30 .22 Magnum." He described the gun.
"Do we get any guns?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"You three might need a little practice before you get your own guns." Shining said.
"We should all sleep here for the night, it's not safe out there." Sunset said looking out the window.
"Why? How bad does it look out there?" Devon asked and looked out the window and saw a lot of them roaming the street.
"We've seen these things get shot and stabbed, but they don't go down." Cadance said to Devon. Which it got him to think what they are.
"Are these things, zombies?" Devon asked.
"What?" Sunset asked.
"Zombies are human like creatures that are reanimated versions of ourselves that eat anything alive." Twilight explained the monsters.
"Anything else we need to know about them?" Devon asked.
"We already know something about them, we saw some people that were bitten and they turn into one of them. It was terrible." Sunset said.
"We should wait until it's clear. Let's get some sleep." Shining said, getting everyone to walk away from the windows and wait for an opening.

(May 18, 2016)

Everyone was up. They looked through the windows and saw that the street was clear.
"Everything looks clear." Devon said and went out the front door and get some fresh air. "Did any of you see a vehicle that we can all fit into to get out of here?" He asked.
"Yeah, I remember an RV on 5th Street." Twilight said. "We tried to get it, but we were blocked by the zombies that came from an ally and we had to run to this neighborhood to lose them." She explained.
"Now, there are too many of them to go through." Rainbow Dash explained and noticed a fat zombie coming around from the garage and walking towards Devon. "DEVON, BEHIND YOU!"
"What?" He turns around noticed the zombie. "OH SHIT!" He gets pinned down and pushes the zombie's face to get it off of him. "Get. Off. Me." He struggles and saw the zombie get stabbed in the back of its head by Shimmer.
"You okay?" She asked.
"Just great, thanks." He said pushing the corpse off. "I guess stabbing them in the head kills them?"
"It looks like it, apparently we need to kill the brain to stop them permanently." Sunset said.
"Be sure to wash that smell off, I can't stand their stench." Rarity said. Then Devon thought of something.
"Maybe the smell could help." He said, confusing everyone.
"What are you talking about, Devon?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"This gives me an idea, open the garage and drag this thing in there." Devon said as Shining and Cadance grabbed the zombie by its arms and dragged it into the garage while Twilight went through the front door and opened the door from the inside and saw a little purple and green dog barking at the dead zombie. "Somebody stop that dog from barking before it brings more of them, how did it get in my house?"
"Spike, calm down. It's already dead." Twilight calmed down her dog.
"Sorry Twilight, those things are creepy." Spike said. The zombie is now in the garage and everyone gets in and closes the garage door.
"You didn't tell me you had your pet dog with you." Devon said.
"Sorry Devon, I forgot Spike was in the garage." Twilight said.
"What do we need this zombie for, partner?" Applejack asked Devon while he was getting a hatchet and safety goggles out of the tool chest.
"I think they can know the difference between us and the dead and the smell could be the reason why." He said getting the button shirt of the fat zombie and looks at the crusaders. "I need you three to get any thin blankets, gloves, scissors, and any bed sheets you can find."
"Okay." The crusaders said, leaving the garage to look for the things Devon needs.
"What do we need those for?" Fluttershy asked.
"We're going to cover ourselves with its guts." Devon said, shocking everyone in the garage as he chops the zombie's stomach open.
"That is sick." Rainbow Dash said while Rarity puked next to Shimmer.
"Wow! Watch it, Rarity!" Sunset said, stepping away from Rarity.
"Sorry, I can’t believe he just cut it open." Rarity said.
"We're back." Scootaloo said with bed sheets in her arms with Apple Bloom carrying blankets and Sweetie Belle with as many gloves she could find and a pair of scissors.
"Good job, girls. Now, we need to cut them to size and cut holes for our heads to fit in and wear them like ponchos." Devon said putting gloves on and grabbing some guts while a few members cut some bed sheets to size and head holes. "Some of us will have to stay here though, some of you will be too scared to go, so stay here and pack everything up to put into the RV when we get back. I have a Ford F-150 in the other garage out back, I'm gonna drive that when we get back." The group finished the camouflage ponchos in 5-10 minutes, they had made seven ponchos with guts and blood smeared on the blankets and sheets.
"Those were perfectly clean fabric sheets you've ruined." Rarity said a few feet away from Devon.
"There's plenty more clean sheets." He said putting one on while Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Flash, Shimmer, and Shining were putting them on themselves.
"I hope this works." Flash said.
"You and me both." Twilight said.
"There's one in the yard." Apple Bloom said so everyone to headed to the front door and looked out the window.
"Who should see if this works?" Pinkie asked.
"Devon should go, it was his idea." Rainbow said.
"Might as well give it a shot." Devon said opening the door and walking out the door to the zombie on his lawn and stands in front of it and was surprised that it didn't bite him. He decided to kill it with the hatchet he had and gave the signal to come out. "It works."
"Alright. Cadance, make sure you get everything we need and we'll get out of here." Shining said to his wife.
"We will. Good luck." Cadance said before they went out to the open with Devon.
"You know where this RV is, lead the way." Devon said.
"I'll lead the way." Shining said as they walk towards the city.

Thirty minutes later, the seven cloaked survivors were at the edge of the city and a few minutes away from fifth street, where the RV was. They had to walk slowly to try to blend in with the zombies.
"Hey Devon." Flash said. "Are you feeling alright?" He asked.
"Not really. My parents and sister are somewhere out there and I'm worried about them. Did you know where everyone was going when this happened?" Devon asked.
"I remember that people were exiting the opposite way we were going. That could be our only way out of Canterlot. Oh man." He said looking at the street.
"What?" Devon asked and looked at the street. "Oh shit." He said to himself surprised at the street filled with hundreds of zombies roaming all around. "Didn't expect this much zombies to be out in the city."
"This is like half the whole city that turned into these things." Sunset said.
"We need to talk a little quieter and get to the RV and make a clear path somehow." Twilight said then they saw the getaway vehicle. "There it is. Now, we need to get them out of the way first."
"There are some things around here that we could use for a distraction." Applejack said.
"There's a gun shop there. We could get some more guns and load them into the RV. I'll get the weapons." Devon said as he gets a couple of carts that were near the door and luckily the door was made of wood which was perfect for the hatchet he was carrying.
"I'll keep watch." Shining said.
"Me and AJ will try to find something to distract these freaks." Rainbow dash said.
"Me and Sunset will see if the RV is unlocked and if the keys are inside." Twilight said.
"I'll help Devon get the weapons." Flash said walking into the gun store and saw Devon breaking the display glass with all the pistols inside with the hatchet and puts them in a duffel bag that was on a shelf and the ammo and holsters and now goes for the shotguns, rifles, hunting bows, and crossbows. "Devon, you need a hand?" He asked.
"Sure, the quicker, the better we'll get these to the RV." Devon said as he puts the shotguns in one of the carts while Flash gets the rifles and puts them in the other. "We will be well stocked with all these weapons."

Meanwhile Twilight and Sunset stood in front of the door to the RV, hoping the door was unlocked.
"Have your fingers crossed." Twilight said as she had her hand on the door handle and pulls. With her eyes closed, the door opened wide.
"I can't believe someone left this unlocked." Sunset said surprised.
"Find the keys, quick." Shining said to the girls as they looked inside the RV to find the keys.
"Search everywhere for the keys." Twilight said looking in the cabinets and drawers with Sunset looking in the front of the mobile home.
"Where could they be?" Sunset said to herself looking in the glove box, only to find the manual and looks at the visor and opens it and found the keys as they drop down to the driver seat. "Twilight, I found them." She called out. "Shining, I got them."
"Good job, we need a clear road first." Shining said.

Meanwhile Rainbow Dash and Applejack were surrounded by the zombies, trying to find something to distract them.
"What do you suppose will distract them?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Well, noise can attract them, right? We need something loud to draw them away from the road we came through." Applejack said and saw a red light flashing from a car 12 feet away from them. "That light's blinking."
"What does that mean?" Rainbow asked.
"That's means it's an anti-theft system attached to that car. If we can hit one of those windows, the alarm will go off and we will get the RV out of here. But I can't break that window with my fist." Applejack said and tries to look for something to break a window.
"Maybe this brick could help." Rainbow said picking up a brick that was next to her foot. "Here goes nothing." She said before throwing it into the door window, causing it to ring the alarm and brings every zombie on the block to come to the source of the noise. Rainbow Dash and Applejack moved away from the car and got to the RV and saw Devon and Flash carrying hunting bows into the RV.
"That's all the weapons we got out the store." Devon said and saw the lid of a dumpster open a bit. "Someone’s in that dumpster." He said heading towards dumpster and opening it to find three girls hiding inside. One of them with big, orange, poofy hair, one with pigtails, and one with a ponytail and he thought maybe they needed help. "Don't worry, I'm here to help."
"Get away from us." The poufy haired girl said.
"Hey, they are heading towards a car that was set off. That RV is your getaway ride out of here, come with us." He said.
"What are you covered in?" The girl with pigtails asked.
"Wait, is that?" The girl with the ponytail said smelling the guts on Devon, causing her to puke in the dump.
"Gross, Sonata." The purple girl said.
"Sorry, Aria. He's covered in guts." Sonata explained.
"You have to come with us." Devon said.
"Why should we come with you?" The orange girl asked.
"'Cause I'm your only chance to survive." He said extending his hand to her.
"I'm not dying today!" Sonata climbed out and ran to the RV.
"Same here." Aria agreed and ran to the RV.
"I guess I don’t have a choice. I'm going." She took Devon's hand and climbed out of the dump.
"Let's go." Devon said and was startled from a zombie in front of him, trying to get the girl, but got his hatchet out and chopped it in the face. "Move! They're attracted to your smell." He said, getting his hatchet out of its head and gets in the RV. "DRIVE!" He yelled out Shining and made it out. He takes off his poncho and rolled it up into a ball and looks at the three girls he saved and received a hug from Sonata.
"Thank you." She said, letting go of his neck.
"That was helpful." Aria said.
"Thanks for getting us out of there. Name's Adagio Dazzle, those are Aria Blaze and Sonata Dusk." Adagio said.
"Devon. It's my pleasure." He said and gets a tap on the shoulder by Rainbow Dash and saw the girls with the distinct looks on their faces. "What?"
"Why did you bring them here, partner?" Applejack asked.
"I couldn't just leave them there. They would have died." He said.
"Do you know what they have done before this all started?" Rainbow Dash yelled.
"I've heard about what they did, but they're not doing any of that stuff anymore. We have to forget about that, now." Devon said defending the three girls behind him.
"He's right, they're just harmless girls that haven't done anything to us lately." Sunset stood up with him.
"Alright, we'll all just pretend it never happened, okay?" Twilight said.
"Fine." Rainbow Dash said in defeat.

Ten minutes later, the RV made it back to Devon's house and everyone that stayed was still in the house.
"They might still be inside." Devon said as he gets out of the RV and went to the front door and gave a few knocks and saw everyone was in one piece and had all the food, meds, movies, CDs, and video games packed in boxes. "Looks like you've packed everything in the house."
"Some of us didn't want to be bored without this stuff." Rarity said.
"I hope my truck is still in the back garage." He said getting the keys out of his pocket and going out the back door and unlocking the door to the back garage he saw his truck with a camper shell was still there, next to his mother's car, his sister's Avalanche, but the SUV was gone. "They must have taken the SUV to get out of the city." He said to himself opening the doors and getting the keys that were left on a few hooks under garage buttons and getting his camping backpack that was on a shelf, next to a bunch of radios that they could use and remembered the few things he had in the backpack and a satchel next to it. "I got a few more vehicles here, guys."
"That’s the best luck for us we've gotten through the first few days." Sunset said.
"The Ford truck is mine, the Avalanche is my sister's and the car is my mom's. Here Applejack, you can drive the Avalanche." He said handing the keys to the farmer. "Flash, you can take the car." He hands him the keys. "Guys, you should know that the RV is full of extra weapons from a gun shop I found. We'll have to load some of that stuff into the car and trucks."
"Devon, you should know, I told Rarity and Cadance to get my bike and bring it here before we went into the city. Maybe I could load it onto the Avalanche, since your truck's bed has a shell on it." Rainbow Dash said.
"Alright, let's get the ramp and get it on there." He said getting the Avalanche out, while Rainbow and Applejack get the ramp to push it onto the truck. The managed to get it on and strap it down tight, so it doesn't fall off. "This should help. Let's go."
As everyone got everything ready, Devon got a trailer hooked up to his truck, he got into his truck and let Adagio, Aria, and Sonata ride with him. Applejack had Rainbow Dash and the crusaders ride with her. Flash let Sunset and Rarity in the car with him. The rest got into the RV and drives away from Canterlot City, after Devon decided to lock up the garages and his whole house.

Thirty minutes later, the group have made it out of Canterlot and were on the road to somewhere safe where could be no zombies around.
"Adagio, how did you three end up stuck in the city?" Devon asked.
"We were trying to get food for us since we fed on negative emotions with these pendants we had, but your new friends, the Rainbooms destroyed them with the magic of friendship and the pendants gave us power." Adagio said.
"We've been on the streets for a long time and got tired of it." Aria said.
"What's your story before this happened?" Sonata asked.
"Well, I was invited to a hockey game five days ago with Twilight's friends. At some point before the game started, I dropped my phone trying to look up the weather, I was looking for it and it was under the seat. The back of my head was facing the rink and some players hit it in a way where it flew and hit me in the back of my head." He said surprising the girls.
"Man, that must have hurt." Aria said.
"It did and it still hurts, I'm lucky it didn't hit my soft spot, and now, I'm trying to find my-" He gets caught off guard from a crashed SUV he recognized. "family."
"I hope they're okay." Sonata said.
"Everybody, stop." Devon said on a radio and all the cars stopped.
"What's wrong?" Adagio asked, but Devon wasn't listening and saw him getting out of the truck. Everyone got out of their vehicles and went to Devon.
"What's going on?" Twilight asked and looked in the direction he was looking.
"I need a few moments to be alone." Devon said before walking towards the SUV and recognized the three zombified people he knew. "Hey guys, I guess this is what happened to all of you. Dad, I remember all the times we've had shooting targets and hunting. Mom, your cooking was the best and I would always love them. Sis, we've always had good times doing stuff together and had a lot in common." He said all sad to his family like this. "I'm sorry, I should have been with you guys. We'd all be together." He opened the door to the back of the SUV and grabbed his knife to stab them in the back of their heads, one at a time, causing him more pain. He saw his family photo album and had to put it in his truck. He grabbed a shovel he put in the bed of his truck and decided to dig graves for his family, but he couldn't finish digging.
"Here, we'll dig for you." Shining said taking the shovel and digs.
"Devon, I'm sorry this happened to you." Twilight said.
"Zombies got them and I couldn't do anything, but stab them." Devon said sobbing in his tears.
"Devon, they don’t have any bites. Just a broken neck and busted noses." Rainbow Dash explained, putting Devon in more pain. "Sorry."

Twenty minutes later, the graves were ready and got them buried and three crosses made out of sticks and shoe laces. Devon was all upset to see his family gone. He didn't want to leave the graves, but he had to go and knew that he would be back with them someday.

Author's Note

A Ford F-150 would actually be my own first vehicle, my sister's would be an Avalanche. My mom has a car and my dad has an SUV as his current vehicle. All the weapons, but three pistols I named out are some guns my dad has and some from an iGunPro app on my iPhone 6. The Walther PPK/S .22 LR is what I'd want to be my first gun when I'm old enough to have one. (Which I’ve owned since late 2019)