(July 4, 2016)

In a small town, a few crashed vehicles, and some broken windows and glass doors of shops. Some of the windows were boarded up. Newspapers on the roads and sidewalks titled 'Virus Spreading, Town Evacuation'. Seven teens ran down the street to find supplies for their camp. They stop at the corner of a building to look down the street. One of them noticed a zombie looking at a destroyed car.
"There's one, by the car." Flash said quietly, pointing to the zombie.
"I've got it." Devon said, pulling his hatchet out and swings it across the back of the zombie's head. "Clear." He called out.
"It was just one, we might be lucky this time." Rainbow Dash said, walking out with the others beside her.
"But we should keep an eye out, they can take us by surprise." Twilight said.
"Yeah, you're probably right." Rainbow Dash said.
"Does anyone think we'll have any luck out here?" Adagio asked.
"There's good luck and bad luck, darling. But we need the better luck." Rarity said.
"Everyone who is alive needs luck, Rarity. Who knows who else is out there." Applejack said, looked at a stand of fireworks. "Looks like the fireworks are still there."
"People probably didn't need any of these fireworks." Devon said.
"But they could be useful now." Rainbow Dash said, walking towards the booth.
"Yeah, we can get the best ones to bring the dead towards the spot they're firing and we can get out of there and lure them away." Devon said, grabbing some fireworks and put some in his backpack, and noticed a shop with the door open with a sign on camping stuff. "I wonder if there's anything left in the shop here." Devon said, walking into the shop.
"Do you think there's anything in there, Devon?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Looks like there's some knives, machetes, hatchets, and some camping backpacks here. I think there's enough for the group and to carry a few more fireworks. Give a hand with this." Devon called out.

A few minutes later, the seven teens had camping backpacks on, but Devon already had his own before heading out to this town for supplies. They had knives and machetes/hatchets on their belts, but Devon already had a knife set with him. The rest of bladed weapons and a lot of gloves were put in the camping backpacks that carried the camping packs, the looters put some of the gloves with hard knuckles on. They walked out and continued down the street with Devon carrying a Gerber Survival Kit set in his backpack. They come up to a pharmacy, noticed the tail of a helicopter coming out of the roof.
"A helicopter crashed here. Let's hope the supplies in there ain't destroyed." Applejack hoped.
"I thought I heard a helicopter fly by last week at night when I was keeping watch and everyone was asleep." Devon said to Applejack.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"I thought I was hallucinating again." He said.
"Next time, dude. Get one of us out with you, just encase you're seeing things or not." She said.
"I'll try to remember that." He said, noticed the front doors all blocked. "This rubble is blocking the entrance and windows." He looked to the right, saw a semi truck's trailer blocking the road, but it had a ladder on it. "The underside of this trailer is blocked. We can climb that ladder and try to get to the back door to the pharmacy. I'll boost you guys up." He said, putting his hands together. Twilight went first, Adagio climbed up next, then Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, and Flash climbed up last. Part of the ladder snapped off, but was still dangling, Flash made it up.
"Oh, nuts." Rainbow Dash said.
"What happened?" Devon asked.
"The ladder is loose. I don't think it's going hold your weight if you try to climb up." Adagio said and watched Devon grab the ladder. It snapped completely off and fell to the ground.
"Looks like she's had it." He said.
"Jump up, we'll catch you." She said, putting her hand out.
"I can't jump that high, Adagio. I'll find a way up." He said, looking around for something to help him up.
"That jeep could help ya, sugarcube." Applejack pointed to the jeep.
"Thanks, AJ." He thanked, walking to the jeep, noticed something wrong. "Concrete's in the jeep and the tires are flat, I don't think I can push it like this on my own." He said to himself, looked around the jeep to see if something could help. He found a winch on the front of the jeep, he could try to pull it. He grabs the winch and pulls it to the trailer.
"You know, it was a good thing you found Zecora last month. We wouldn't have the best meds if it wasn't for her." Twilight said.
"Thanks to my cold, headaches, and hallucinations, we got the best help whenever we get sick, but we could still use the other meds for when we need them." He said, hooking the winch to the underside of the trailer that looked the strongest. He walks back to the jeep and turns on the winch. The winch pulls the jeep to the trailer.
"At least the winch works." Flash said.
"Yeah, it's even strong enough to pull a jeep full of concrete." Devon said, walking next to the jeep. It came to its stop and Devon climbed onto its hood.
"Guys, when I was going take watch last night, I remember walking by the room Fluttershy's parents were in and I heard them talking." Rainbow Dash said to the group.
"What did they say when you walked by?" Devon asked.
"From what I heard from them, they were talking about us being watched from outside the gate." She said to her friends.
"By zombies? They'd be coming right after us." Adagio said, confused.
"No, by someone in the woods." Rainbow Dash said, correcting her.
"Maybe we could find that person and help 'em." Applejack said, reaching out to pull Devon up. Devon reaches out but was stopped by a scream from down the street. A figure comes out of a store they fought was locked, it probably got unlocked from the inside, two zombies came out of the store and a bunch more coming from all around.
"What the hell is that? A zombie?" Adagio asked, shocked at the sight.
"Zombies don't scream, do they?" Flash responded back.
"I don't think so." Adagio said, with Rarity looking through the rifle's scope to see the screaming figure.
"It's a girl, we have to help her." Rarity said to them.
"How? We can't reach her with dead guys around her." Adagio said.
"We got to do something." Rainbow Dash said, aiming her crossbow to help the woman, but noticed the woman got bit on her shoulder. "Ah man, we have to shot her, put her out of her misery."
"Or leave her." Adagio said, with an idea.
"Adagio!" Twilight said.
"Think about it, if we leave her, she can buy us time to get supplies." Adagio explained.
"Are you sure about this?" Devon asked.
"I'm sure, this could be our chance." She said, looking at Devon looking back and forth towards the woman and his friends.
"God, dammit." Devon mumbled. "Pull me up." He grabbed Applejack's hand and climbs up. They jump down to the other side of the trailer and run towards the backdoor of the pharmacy. They noticed spots on the shelves were empty. "Looks like people grabbed a lot of stuff after the first few days."
"We'll just grab everything we can that was left behind and get out. Make sure to look under the counters just encase there's something extra." Flash said, grabbing bottles off the shelves, while Twilight and Rarity did the same. Devon, Adagio, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash got the counters.
"Some of these bottles are empty." Rainbow Dash said, throwing the opened bottles aside and noticed a puddle of blood. "Someone must have gotten bitten and took as many as they could to help them."
"Don't think the pills would help. They're pretty much dead or undead." Devon said, grabbing whatever pill bottles are filled with pills and putting them in their backpacks.
"We still got room in these bags. We can get some snacks and drinks before we go." Adagio said, looking at the shelves on the other side of the counter.
"Might as well grab some." Applejack said, climbing over the counter with the others, and they heard the woman's screaming stop.
"She's gone. Maybe they won't find us." Twilight said, grabbing some food to put in her backpack along with the others and heard some banging on the walls coming from outside.
"Dammit, some of them must have seen us." Rainbow Dash said.
"We'll just grab as much food as possible before they get inside." Rarity said, grabbing some food on some other shelves. The others grabbed as many as they can. They rushed through isles as fast as they could, the shelves were almost empty. This was quick for them to get done before they could get over run by the undead.
"I think that's everything." Devon said.
"Then let's get out of here." Flash said, noticed zombies came in from the back door. "Our exit is blocked."
"We'll have to shoot our way out." Devon said, pulling out his gun and shoots. As the others did the same walking back in their own isles. Their gun shots brought more zombies from outside of the pharmacy and into the pharmacy.
"Shooting them is just bringing more of them." Twilight said, noticed a big hole in a wall with no zombies coming through. "I think I found a way out. We can get through there. Follow me." Running towards the wall and shoots the zombies to help the others. They ran towards the hole and Flash was stopped by a zombie that was a helicopter pilot. He pushes the zombie back, but it leaned back forward and maintained its balance. He pushes it again and it lunges towards him. Flash grabbed it by the shoulders, struggled to get it off, and was close to his death. But it was pulled from behind by Devon and fell on some rod irons sticking out of the concrete, holding it in place. Flash pulled the helmet off, which pulled its skin off its head and Devon chopped its head.
"Are you bit?" Devon asked.
"No and thanks." Flash answered.
"Save the thanks for later, it's time to go." Devon said, climbing through the hole with the others and ran back to the motel.

Thirty minutes later, our scavengers made it back to the motel with Zephyr keeping watch. The gate was opened by Nightlight and Bow to let them in. The seven teenagers walked in and the two fathers closed the gate. They walked into the RV and saw Shining sitting at the table for when they got back.
"Looks like you guys got a little more than what we'd expected. What'd you get?" Shining asked.
"A lot of meds, snacks, camping stuff, bladed weapons, gloves, and some fireworks." Devon said, taking off his backpack and pulled out what was packed. "This could last us for a few more months."
"There was a store with all these machetes, hatchets, and knives. The backpacks came useful." Flash said, showing the bladed weapons.
"We picked up the best-looking fireworks for when we could use them to draw the dead into another direction." Twilight said, revealing the fireworks.
"We grabbed a lot of camping backpacks, so maybe we can give some to the others." Rainbow Dash said.
"Perfect, with all of this, it can last us up to the fall." Shining said.
"The Fall! It'll get chilly." Rainbow Dash said.
"We can make fires to keep us warm." Devon replied.
"What about the cars? Those can keep us warm." Adagio said.
"We'd be wasting electricity and we need fuel to drive around, Adagio." Twilight pointed out.
"I hope we find a good place with electricity, my hair feels like a mess." Rarity said.
"We'll be there, Rare." Rainbow Dash said.
"The town got overrun when a woman came out screaming." Flash said, shocked Shining.
"What?" He said.
"A woman came out of a store with the dead chasing her and brought more of them around her. It happened so fast, we could have helped her. But she got bit, we should have put her out of her misery." Devon explained.
"We left her so she could give us time and get what we need." Adagio said, earning a disappointed look from them.
"The next time we see someone in danger, we help. That's what we do." He said, placing his hand on her shoulder.
"Many people can't seem to survive these days alone." Shining said. "Devon."
"Yeah." He replied.
"We've been thinking for some time about the weapons. We have those spares in the trailer and we thought about giving these guns and holsters back to you." Shining said, holding out the Glock 17 and Spas-12 to him. "These belong to you and we don't want to lose them. They're what's left of your family. We can get our own just like these."
"I guess you're right. They're what I'll have to remember them." Devon said, taking them and looking at the others. "I'll get the rest of my guns and stuff and put them in my duffel bag." He walked out with the other teenagers following him to his room. When they got to Devon's motel room, Devon placed the shotgun on his bed to remove the pistol from the holster and takes the clip from the pistol and pulled the frame back. He puts the pistol down and unloads the shotgun of all of the shells inside and the others did the same with the semi-autos. But Applejack didn't unload the Python so that way it can be ready and Twilight set the bow down with Rainbow Dash putting down the unloaded crossbow. "At least there's plenty of spares in the trailer."
"Sound good." Rainbow Dash said, walking out with the others walking out as Devon put all the weapons on his bed in his duffel bag except his father's crossbow and sister's bow because they couldn't fit in the duffel bag. Devon walked out of his room with his backpack and walked towards the trailer to grab some guns and noticed the teenagers that came with him were finding their suitable weapons.
"Find what you're looking for, guys?" Devon asked, setting his backpack down and grabbing some guns.
"Yeah. It's a good thing we looted that gun store or we wouldn't have a lot of guns." Flash said, grabbing his M&P pistol.
"I can't find a Python. But I did find a model of your shotgun and my new handgun." Applejack said, holding out a semi-auto pistol.
"Heckler & Koch Mark 23. Its clip capacity is double than my Python. It's in a .45 ACP caliber. That'll help." Devon said, getting a shotgun with a few more pistols, holsters and ammo clips. “Sorry if you can’t find the Python, it’s a rare revolver.”
"How many are you grabbing?" Twilight asked.
"Enough to swap guns and holsters with the others who have my guns." Devon answered, walking out with enough guns in one pouch walks towards Aria and Sonata as they sit with Cadence on the couch outside the RV.
"You're back." Sonata said, getting up and hugging him and receives a hug back.
"Glad to see you after a scavenger hunt. Did anything happen while we were away?" He asked.
"Two zombies came to the gate and we used a couple of hammers to take them down." Aria pointed out.
"You two got the moves." He said, looking at the pistols they had holstered. "You girls talked with Shining about giving my guns back, right?" He asked.
"Yeah, we did. We had them on us for when you pass by." Cadence said, handing the PMR-30 pistol to Devon as Aria and Sonata handed him his Hi-Power and P226 and holsters in the empty pouch of his backpack.
"I grabbed some of the same guns so the rest of us can still shoot." He grabbed a PMR-30 and Hi-Power pistol and handed them to Aria and Cadence. "Sonata, I thought maybe this could help you better." He said to the girl with the ponytail with a different gun. "Sig Sauer P250. It holds two more rounds and can help you fight the dead a little better."
"This actually feels better. Thanks." Sonata said.
"No problem. I'll catch you later." He said, walking towards the table with Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Sunset sitting down and eating. "Hey girls."
"Hi Devon. Glad to see you came back." Fluttershy said.
"You could use a break." Sunset said, handing him a paper plate with a sandwich on it.
"Here's something to help wash that down." Pinkie said, handing him a bottle of apple cider.
"Thanks girls." He said, taking the shotgun off his shoulder and sits down with them and eats his lunch.
"You came back and you're carrying a shotgun and your backpack. What's up with that?" Sunset asked.
"I know you three talked with Shining some time ago about giving my guns back and getting some new ones. So, I came by to pick up my guns and give you another one of the guns I gave you." He said, reaching for the P22 and USP handguns for Sunset and Fluttershy and handing Pinkie the M4 shotgun. "Pinkie, I hope it's okay for me to stop by your room get my shotgun?"
"Sure. You need it more than me since I got that shotgun." Pinkie replied.
"What about that pistol you gave her?" Fluttershy asked.
"That was from a tank I got trapped in. She can keep that." He answered, takes a bite out of his sandwich.

A few minutes of eating lunch, the four teens picked up their trash and put it inside the ice machine. Devon walked over to Pinkie's room to grab his M4 shotgun while Pinkie grabbed the shotgun left at the table next to his backpack as he picked up his backpack and walked back to his room to take out the guns, unload them, and put them in his duffel bag, but keeps his pistol on him. He checks the shotguns for ammo and pulls back the lever on the M4 to unload them. After unloading all of his guns, he walked out, and looked for Rainbow Dash and saw her with the crusaders give them some target practice.
"Hey Rainbow Dash. You got a sec?" He called out.
"Sure." She answered, giving the three little girls a couple pats on their shoulders, and walks towards Devon. "What do need?"
"I was thinking about talking to Fluttershy's parents about what they saw last night and maybe ask Fluttershy if she knows." He said, heard a soft voice from behind.
"Ask if I know about what?" Fluttershy asked.
"If you heard about your parents seeing someone in the woods watching us last night." Rainbow Dash said.
"I haven't heard about that. I feel a little scared about being watched." Fluttershy said.
"I get a little nervous when something like that happens." He said. "Do you know where your parents are right now?"
"I think saw them in their room up there." She pointed to the room.
"Does your brother know?" He asked.
"I don't know." She answered.
"We should spread the word and let everyone else know after we talk to your parents." Rainbow Dash said, Devon agreed and walked to the upper floor of the motel to Mr. and Mrs. Shy's bedroom and knocked on the door and received an answer from the Shy parents.
"Devon, Rainbow Dash. We're glad to see you back from your trip." Mrs. Shy said to the two teenagers.
"Yeah. Same to us. We came up here to ask you to something she heard you two talking about something last night when she passed by your room." Devon said.
"I heard you two talking last night about being watched by someone in the woods." Rainbow Dash said.
"How did you know?" Mr. Shy asked.
"Your door was cracked open when I walked by to take watch." Rainbow Dash explained.
"Can you two explain what you saw?" Devon asked.
"Well, I was using the bathroom in the RV before I went to bed after everyone else went to sleep. I got upstairs to this door and I saw a reflection in the window that looked like something was shiny coming from the bushes, I turned around and it was gone." She said, pointing to the spot in the tree line.
"It could have been binoculars that caught a light's reflection. Maybe we should try to put the pieces together on what happened." He said to Fluttershy's mother. He walked downstairs to the RV and grabbed a pair of binoculars and two walkie-talkies for him and Rainbow Dash. Devon tossed one up to her and walked outside the gate and into the spot where Mrs. Shy saw the watcher. "This is the spot. Could you walk down the deck and back to your door?" He asked through the walkie-talkie.
"Yes." Mrs. Shy answered, walking down the deck to the stairs and tries to repeat what she did that night with Devon looking through the binoculars at her as she walks back to the door and looks at Devon's reflection in the window. She turns around to where she saw the watcher, but Devon moved behind a tree to think of the hiding spot from her view.
"Whoever was watching, must've hid behind this tree so that way you couldn't see that person you saw that night." He said, walking into view and back into the camp to get back to the upper deck to Rainbow and the Shy parents. "We should tell the others about what you saw that night." He suggested. Later that night, they agreed and they brought everyone to the RV, forming half a circle with ends of the half circle at each end of the RV.
"Everyone, we assembled you all here for an announcement. Last night, Fluttershy's parents saw what might have been a person in the woods watching us. That person could've been looking for a safe place and went back to the group to tell about our camp and to bring them here or is alone and got stumbled by a zombie and ran away." Devon said to the group.
"I didn't see a zombie when I turned around to look." Mrs. Shy said.
"Maybe it could have been a crawler." Rainbow Dash suggested.
"I would have seen rotten skin on the ground when I went out there." Devon explained.
"When we find that person, we need some reasons from that person for watching us and hid from our view." Adagio said.
"As long as there isn't anything about hurting or killing them." Twilight said to her.
"We don't kill others, we help others to survive." Shining said.
"I never said anything about killing them. Ever since Devon saved us, we never even hurt any of you for two months." Adagio said to the group.
"She has a point. We've changed ever since that day." Aria said.
"We knew that, Aria." Rainbow Dash pointed out.
"It's dark, it's best we rest now, and search in the morning." Luna suggested.
"My sister's right. We'll get caught by zombies if we go out there right now." Celestia said.
"I agree with that." Twilight said, going back to what she was doing and the others continued on what they were doing.

(July 5, 2016)

At a time, close to five pm, with the sun halfway close to the ground. The group was outside of their rooms, some were looking into the woods from the inside of the wall. The members had various models of Berettas, Glocks, Sig Sauers, 1911s, Heckler & Kochs, revolvers, shotguns, rifles, machetes, hatchets and knives that looked suitable to them. Thanks to their training with firearms over the last month, they knew how to handle a gun and to fight off the undead. Everyone gathered around the side of the RV with Shining Armor setting a map of the area on the table next to the RV.
"These are the hunting spots from last month they took." Shining pointed to the five teenagers who were at the spots. "With more of us out there, it can give us a better chance to cover more ground and find that person."
"Do you think it would be best to go on foot or we could take the cars?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"We'll take the cars. If there's a group out there, we can carry as many as we can with them." Shining answered.
"With the trailer on my truck, we can more people and possibly the supplies they got." Devon said as he checked his gun to make sure the clips were full of ammo.
"We're going with you. You're not going alone again." Adagio said with Sonata and Aria by her sides.
"Rarity, Applejack, and I can take the Avalanche. The crusaders insist on coming with us to help." Rainbow Dash said with the crusaders behind her, Applejack, and Rarity.
"We still want to come. We can help out with the search." Scootaloo called out.
"Are you sure about this? They're just little girls." Fluttershy's mother said.
"They were trained with airsoft guns for a week. They can shoot as good as Devon here. They want to get out of these walls for once." Applejack pointed.
"Can we come with you?" Apple Bloom asked.
"Shining, do you think they're ready to fight zombies?" Devon asked.
"Yes. After what Applejack said, they can go with them." Shining said.
"Just remember girls, if you see anything dead moving. You shoot them in the head. Alright?" Devon said to the crusaders.
"Got it." They said, standing next to their older sisters.
"Me, Twilight, and my sisters can take the jeep." Pinkie said.
"So, we're set then, we go to the spots and other spots to find this person." Devon said, walking to his truck and noticed Flash at the passenger side of his truck with a shotgun. "Are you coming with us?" He asked.
"Yeah. I thought maybe you could use an extra hand." Flash said, opening the door to the front passenger seat.
"That would be great." Devon said, pick up his crossbow from the rear tire and puts it in the bed of his truck and Flash puts the shotgun he had in the bed before they got into their seats. He looked back to make sure he was not going to hit anyone or anything. He waited as Shining and Bow opened the gate and he drives off with the avalanche and jeep behind him as they drove into the woods.

A few minutes later, the group of vehicles stopped at Devon's spot from last month. They pulled out their radios to speak to each other.
"Alright, does everyone know where to look?" Twilight asked.
"We've been thinking about looking in other areas we didn't hunt in to get a better advantage." Rainbow Dash said through the radio.
"You're right, Rainbow. We can check on new areas in these woods." Flash said.
"We'll head right." Devon said.
"We'll go left." Twilight said.
"Us too, but in a different direction." Applejack said.
"We'll check back if we find anything." Devon said, driving to the right while the others went left.

After a few minutes, the two vehicles that drove in the same direction got to Rarity and Twilight's hunting spot when the jeep stopped and the avalanche kept driving. Twilight and the Pie sisters got out of the jeep and Twilight, Pinkie, and Maud grabbed their large weapons.
"We made it to the spot me and Rarity were hunting at. We will check here for any signs of this person." Twilight spoke through the radio.
"Where should we start?" Limestone asked.
"We should check around trees and look inside bushes for a sign of our mystery person." Pinkie said, holding out her shotgun. They looked around for some signs, but didn't see anything from their starting point. Marble noticed something in the ground next to a bush.
"I think there's footprints in the dirt, here." Marble said to the others.
"Let me see." Twilight looked at where Marble was looking and noticed three more sets of footprints and noticed they had different size shoes. "This must look like a group. Four of these tracks are about the same size, they must be kids. Four of them are adult size." She pointed out.
"I found this on the bottom of that tree over there." Maud said, holding out a piece of plastic that looked like it held a type of snack set. "It must have been a peanut butter crackers pack someone had not too long ago."
"Someone was hungry." Pinkie said, picking up the radio and holds the button. "We found some tracks and an empty peanut butter crackers pack. There's probably six people out here."
"We hear you, Pinkie." Rarity said.
"My group made it to our spot. We're about to search from our end." Devon said through his radio.
"I don't think there's anything else to find here. We're heading your way, Rarity." Twilight said through the radio and walks back to the jeep and head into the direction Rarity's group went.

With Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, and the crusaders, they made it to their spot that wasn't close to Zecora's hut. There were a few trees and bushes. They got out of the truck and looked around to make sure it was safe. The older girls grabbed their long arms out of the bed of the truck. The crusaders stayed close to avoid trouble from any zombies in the area. Rainbow Dash loads her crossbow with a bolt while Applejack loads her shotgun with the shells she had in her pocket and Rarity loads her rifle with the rounds she had in her pocket.
"How do we find signs of our mysterious watcher?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"We'll just have to find pieces to where they could have gone." Applejack said.
"Just keep your eyes open, darling. We'll find something." Rarity said.
"Rarity, you might want to see this." Sweetie Belle called out to the others.
"What is it, Sweetie Belle?" Rarity asked, walk to her sister with the others following her to find a zombie on top of a big rock with part of the rock piercing through its chest and with a knife in its neck.
"I guess they had a run in with a dead creep." Scootaloo said, aiming her guns at the zombie's head.
"Don't shoot, Squirt. You might bring more of them." Rainbow Dash said, getting Scootaloo to put her gun down. She walks towards the zombie, which tried to grab her. She stepped back and managed to get behind it. She pulls out her knife and stabbed it in its head. "This guy looks like he's been dead awhile. I don't think he's our guy."
"At least we don't have to worry about that." Apple Bloom said. They all heard the radio make a noise.
"We found some tracks and an empty peanut butter crackers pack. There's probably six people out here." Pinkie said from her end. Rarity picked up the radio on her belt.
"We hear you, Pinkie." Rarity said.
"My group made it to our spot. We're about to search from our end." Devon said through his radio.
"I don't think there's anything else to find here. We're heading your way." Twilight said through the radio.
"What else is there to find here?" Apple Bloom asked.
"We'll have to search around for more signs, sugercube." Applejack said. The six girls looked around for any signs of the person they're looking for. Rarity noticed a piece of cloth on the rock the dead zombie is laying on.
"This looks like a piece of someone's jeans." She said, picking up the piece of pants. "They must have run and got caught on this rock and this zombie tried to get him or her while they pulled their knife out and stabbed it in the neck and swung it around onto this rock." She tried to point out how it happened.
"Guys, there's blood on this tree." Rainbow Dash said, rubbing some of the off with two of her fingers.
"Zombie blood?" Applejack asked. Rainbow Dash compared the blood from the tree with the zombie blood on the rock.
"This blood is too light to be a zombie. It must be that person's blood. Probably cut their hand while pulling the knife out?" Rainbow Dash asked while rubbing the blood off her fingers in the grass.
"Must have, darling." Rarity said.
"There's a water bottle here." Sweetie Belle said, holding the water bottle up to show the girls.
"It still has some water in it. Probably dropped it when that zombie was coming to this spot." Rainbow Dash pointed out as she took the bottle and poured the rest of the blood off her fingers. A zombie walked towards the girls with the sound of them talking. Rainbow Dash put her crossbow down to handle the zombie. She pulled out her knife to kill it, she kicks it in its shin and made it fall on its side and stabbed it in the head. "I thought about this kind of trick this morning. This will make it easier to kill them."
"There are tracks here." Scootaloo said, pointing at the ground.
"Are these the same tracks Twilight mentioned?" Applejack asked.
"Yes. Two of them are kid size and other two are adult size. It's definitely the same people." Rarity said, the sound of a jeep came from their rear.
"Did you girls find anything?" Pinkie asked.
"We found a knife, water bottle, piece of pants, and tracks which sounded like the ones you found." Rainbow Dash said.
"We've got a group out here to find." Twilight said.
"Twilight, we found something strange, there was blood on this tree and it looks like human blood." Applejack said.
"Any idea how it happened?" Twilight asked.
"We were guessing the person we're looking for cut their hand while pulling this knife out." Rainbow Dash said, showing the knife they found. "There was a water bottle here, too." She held the bottle after putting the knife back in her bag.
"Anything else here to find?" Pinkie asked.
"I don't think there's anything else to find here." Rarity said.
"Let's head to Devon's group. They might have found something." Rainbow Dash said, pulling out her radio. "Devon, we found more stuff on our search and there's nothing else here. We're heading your way." She said, getting in the truck she road in with the rest of her group got in.
"Alright, we found a camp here. We'll wait for you, we're going to check it out." Devon said on his end of the radio.

Ten minutes ago, Devon, Flash, and the Dazzlings made it to their spot. Devon stopped and looked around to make sure it's clear and for signs of their objective.
"You guys see anything?" He asked them.
"Nothing." Flash answered.
"I don't see anything." Adagio answered.
"Same here." Aria said.
"Me too." Sonata said, looking through the windshield, she noticed something moving behind a tree. "Wait, there's something there." She pointed to the spot.
"I'll check it out." Devon said, getting out of his truck and pulling his hatchet off his belt to make sure it wasn't a zombie. As he got closer, it was a zombie, but it looked like it was eating something. He swung his hatchet forward into the back of its head, killing it. He got a look at what it was eating. "It was a zombie and it was eating what looks like a beaver. Girls, you can come out. Flash, take the wheel and turn the truck off when I say." He said to them, the girls got as Flash got in the driver's seat. Adagio, Aria, and Sonata pulled out their machetes as Devon got his crossbow out of the bed of his truck and heard his radio go off.
"We found some tracks and an empty peanut butter crackers pack. There's probably six people out here." Pinkie said from her end.
"We hear you, Pinkie." Rarity said on her end as Devon picked up his radio.
"I don't think there's anything else to find here. We're heading your way, Rarity." Twilight said through the radio. Devon puts the radio away and loads his crossbow and came back to the front of his truck to lead his group. They started walking into from where they stopped and looked around for any signs of the person or people they're looking for.
"Anything?" Sonata asked.
"Still nothing." Devon answered.
"There's got to be a sign around here somewhere." Aria said as she noticed Devon held his arm up with a fist to tell them to stop. He looks down at the ground. He stands on his knee and picks up an empty can of food.
"Somebody had a meal." He said and puts the can down. "Flash, I think it's best to come out of the truck. We'll have to continue on foot." He called out as Flash turned off the truck and went to the back to get the shotgun he brought along.
"There are some footprints here. They go this way." Flash said as he pointed the direction they go. They walked a few feet away from the truck to follow the trail until they find something.
"Over here." Adagio called out to find a campsite.
"Well there's a good sign." Devon said, getting behind a bush as the others did the same with some bushes and trees. Devon looks through the scope of his crossbow to see if there's any danger, but it looked okay. He gave them the signal to move slowly towards the camp.
"See anything?" Flash asked.
"Looks empty from here." Devon answered. "Cover me, I'm going to check out the tents." He placed his crossbow down on the ground and walked slowly to the small tent with his hatchet in his right hand and zipped it open slowly to not make much noise. It was empty with two kid size sleeping bags. He started to move to the big tent, which was half-way opened and saw that it was empty too with three adult size sleeping bags. He checks the third tent as he unzipped it open, it was empty just like the other two, but with one sleeping bag. "All clear."
"This must be the base camp for this group we're looking for." Adagio pointed.
"Do you think they'll be back?" Sonata asked, looking inside one of the tents.
"I don't know, maybe we can wait for them to return and we'll bring them back to the motel." Devon said, picking up his crossbow where put it and walks back to the camp.
"Let's hope they don't take too long to get back." Aria said as she heard Devon's radio go off again.
"Devon, we found more stuff on our search and there's nothing else here. We're heading your way." Rainbow Dash said through her end of the radio.
"Alright, we found a camp here. We'll wait for you, we're going to check it out." Devon said and puts it back on his belt. He looks at the pot hanging from a stand over a campfire area and took the lid off to see what was inside. "It's just water. Probably from the pond." He puts the lid back on the pot and walks to the first table Sonata was at looking through boxes. "Snooping around in the boxes, Sonata?" He asked.
"There's like smaller boxes in here. For like snacks and empty drink bottles." Sonata explained.
"I guess someone likes recycling." Devon said sarcastically as he moved them a little find more. He noticed a shiny looking shopping cart to his right. "They must have moving food around whenever they searched for supplies." He said to himself as walked to his left and noticed a pile of trash on the ground. "I guess I should take that back about our suspect, pretty much a litterbug." He walks to the other table with a lawn chair next to it with Adagio looking through boxes. "Looking for anything they could share with us when they come to the motel?"
"Unless you want a ton of empty cans." Adagio replied.
"I think I'll pass." Devon said, moving a box and noticed an open bag on the table with a small device next to it and picks it up.
"What did you find?" Flash asked.
"A video camera." Devon answered.
"Does it work?" Flash asked as Devon opened the screen to turn it on.
"The battery is dead. The charger is in the bag, we'll bring it back to camp and look at the video to identify them." Devon said, putting the camera back in the bag and into his backpack and walks towards the tent Aria was looking through.
"There's only two small sleeping bags in here." She pointed.
"They're both kid size. I hope they'll be back quick." He replied and went to the tent Flash was looking inside of.
"An adult size sleeping bag is in here. Must be the leader." Flash said.
"We can talk to the leader to come back with us, that can be easy." Devon said and walks to the tent that wasn't looked at. He looked back to make sure it was clear before taking a step inside the tent. He stepped inside to see what else he could find. He noticed a backpack was zipped open, he grabbed it and looked inside to see what was inside. "Whoever was here sure likes peanut butter crackers." He closed up the backpack and set it aside to look at the sleeping bags, he hears the sound of two vehicles coming to the camp. He looked back to see the truck and jeep the two group have driven in have come.
"You're here." Flash called out the teens and crusaders exiting the vehicles.
"You guys find anything?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"A lot of trash, empty cans and a camera." Devon said.
"Did it work?" Twilight asked.
"The battery's dead and the charger is in the bag." He answered. "There's six sleeping bags in these tents and a backpack in here has a lot of peanut butter crackers."
"Something about this sounds familiar to me for some reason." Pinkie said.
"Maybe someone only wants to eat these instead of any other snack items." Limestone sarcastically said.
"Very unlikely thought, darling." Rarity said.
"What do we do know?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"We should keep perimeter and wait for them to come back." Applejack said and noticed a zombie walking towards them. "Here comes one. Twilight, your shot." She said, Twilight pulled out her bow and shot it in its head through its eye as it falls back. "Nice shot."
"Thanks, Applejack." Twilight said, walking to the dead zombie and pulls out the bolt she shot and takes a spot to keep watch. Devon looks back inside the last tent and checks what's left to find. He noticed a Canterlot High School Year Book and it came to thought.
"Someone from Canterlot must be out here." He said to himself. He looked inside the first sleeping bag and it was empty, he checked the next one it was empty too and looked at the last sleeping bag to find something that looked like a squashed hat. He picked it up and pushed it out to see the design with different colored stars on it. "What the hell?" He said to himself and walked out of the tent to show the others the hat. "Guys, does this hat look familiar?" He asked, showing them the hat.
"Is that Trixie's hat?" Rainbow Dash asked as she takes the hat from Devon's hand.
"It must be. The stars pattern is the same as it looks back in high school when she wore it in the halls." Rarity said.
"If this is her hat, she’d never put it down. Why would she leave it here?" Applejack asked.
"Maybe because the wind would blow it off." Aria suggested.
"There's no wind out here you idiot." Adagio said.
"Do you always have to call me that?" Aria asked in an irritated tone.
"Whenever you say something stupid I will." Adagio pointed.
"But she's right, Adagio. There is no wind out here." Sonata said.
"You too, Sonata. I'll say why she left her hat here in the first place." Adagio said to the pony-tailed girl.
"Girls, knock it off. This is not the best time to argue. We have to find Trixie's group and get them back to our camp." Devon said, getting the girls to stop arguing about the situation and puts the hat in his backpack. They heard a twig snap and they all turned to the direction the sound came from. They aimed their weapons to make sure it was a zombie or more coming towards them. They heard a bush shaking, telling them it was coming closer to them. Applejack picked up a rock a tossed it at the bush, receiving the sound of a woman in pain from the rock that hit the person, they lowered their weapons.
"They found use." The scratchy voice of a kid said.
"Do you think they saw us?" The deep sounding voice of another kid said.
"Keep your voices down, they'll hear us." A man's voice said.
"Come out, we're here to help." Flash called out.
"I never thought I would hear that voice again." The voice of a young girl said, she comes out of the bush to reveal herself as Trixie Lulamoon with some blood on her face and arms.
"Trixie, are you okay?" Twilight asked.
"I'm okay, my group is okay. But we need help." Trixie said as five people came out of the other bushes with some familiar faces and new faces with blood on their skins.
"Snips, Snails and three more of your people are adults. What happened to you guys?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"We don't have time to explain. We got attacked!" The woman said.
"By zombies?" Scootaloo asked.
"That's what you call those monsters?" Snips asked.
"The dead people walking around? Yeah, those monsters." Limestone said.
"Not those things, these lunatics!" The first man said.
"Lunatics?" Sonata asked.
"We don't have to explain. We need to get out of here before they-" The other man said as everyone heard a gunshot and ducked. The man felt intense pain coming into his back and out of his torso. He places his hand over an extremely painful spot of his torso and felt a load of blood coming out of a gunshot wound and fell to the ground with a big shock from everyone.
"HE FOUND US!" Trixie shouted and pulled a pistol she had and shots in the direction the gunshot came from but didn't fire any bullets. "Why isn't this thing shooting?"
"We need get out of here." The woman said, grabbing the injured man by his leg with the other man grabbing him by the arms.
"Put him on the trailer of my truck, it'll be quick." Devon said, starting to run back to his truck but noticed Trixie checking her gun and trying to shoot again. He grabs her by her arm and she looked at him. "Trixie, come on." She realized what her group was doing, she ran to the trailer and got on with everyone driving back to the motel.

Back at the motel, everyone kept watch from inside the wall. Fluttershy watched out for the pets for her friends. Shining Armor sat on top of the RV with his shotgun. Some of the others were on the balcony of the motel to get a better view of the other side of the wall and the other half were close to the wall to get a better shot towards dead people. The motel group heard the sound of three horns honking. Nightlight and Bow got to the gate and opened it for the vehicles to come in faster. The two trucks and jeep came out of the woods.
"WE'VE GOT WOUNDED." Flash yelled to the camp and everyone came to the trailer to see what happened and saw a man with blood coming out of his torso with the other two adults applying pressure to the wound. Nightlight and Bow closed the wall.
"Oh my, what happened?" Celestia asked.
"This man got shot." Applejack explained.
"By who?" Luna asked.
"Someone in the wood just shot him, probably thinking he was a zombie from all the blood on him." Devon answered in his possible opinion.
"At least he didn't get shot in the head." Twilight said, attending the man's wound and try to save him.
"That's chaotic. Didn't the shooter even noticed him trying to attack you?" Discord asked.
"We weren't going to attack. We needed help." Trixie said.
"How bad is the shot?" Velvet asked her daughter.
"The bullet went through, but I might be able to save him." Twilight said, while trying to help the injured man with Zecora helping her.
"Is he going to be okay?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"He'll be okay, Sweetie Belle. Twilight has learned about medical treatments before this happened." Applejack said.
"Were you people watching us from outside the wall two nights ago?" Limestone asked.
"No. We've been in those woods for a month. We didn't even know the area." The woman said.
"It was probably those psychos who were watching you. We've been in those woods and we didn't know where to go." The unharmed man said.
"We're not going back out there. We feel safer in here." Snips said.
"Come with us, you boys could use some rest." Apple Bloom said to Snips and Snails with Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle bring them to a comfortable place.
"No more of that maniac in our lives." Snails said, going with the crusaders.
"I'm not even sure this place is safe." Trixie said.
"It's safe here, Trixie. We have modified the entrance to keep us safe from zombies." Twilight said, pointing at the wall.
"I hope it keeps those people out." Trixie said, walking to a place to rest.
"Trixie wait up. We don't even know this motel." The woman said with other man following Trixie.
"If we find this guy who they are calling a lunatic. They better have a reasonable question for shooting this guy." Limestone said.
"But Devon said it could have been an accident." Marble suggested.
"It's quite possible, darling. It must have been a mistake to shoot this guy for a zombie." Rarity said.
"Even if the shooter thought he was going to attack us." Maud said.
"I'm going to see how the girls are doing." Applejack said, walking to where the kids were.
"I'm going to see if Trixie is okay." Pinkie said, going to where Trixie was while the rest of the group left to rest after the experience they had. Devon checked on injured man, he had to help.
"You girls need any help?" He asked.
"We need you to apply pressure here while I stitch up his wound." Twilight said, Devon placed his hands on the wound, he felt the blood leaking and made the palms of his hands turn red.
"How long do you think he'll have until he dies?" He asked.
"This is a chance to save him before he dies, if not, his life will go by." Zecora said, while applying pressure to the wound for more pressure to stop the bleeding.
"I think we've got it, here. You should clean the blood off your hands." Twilight said, Devon took his hands off the wound and looked at the blood on his hands. He walked to the gate to open it and rub his hands in the grass and got most of the blood off his hand. He walked back inside with Maud and Limestone closing it for him, he had to get someone to pour some water on his hands. He walked over to Sunset Shimmer, with some luck had a bottle of water with.
"Sunset, do you think you could rinse this blood off my hands for me?" He asked.
"Sure." She replied, pouring the water on his hands to rinse the blood off and saw the mix of water and blood dripping to the ground. She handed him a towel to dry off his hands. "I'm guessing it's that guys blood?" She asked.
"Yeah. It was horrible. What it like this on the first few days after went to the hospital?" He asked, drying his hands.
"But nobody was getting shot, except for the dead." She said.
"Sometimes, I wish I didn't pick up my phone when dropped it at that game. I would have dodged that puck and be with my family and see what the first few days of the apocalypse were like." He said, placing the towel down on the table.
"Did you guys find anything while you were out there?" She asked.
"Yeah. I found Trixie's hat and a video camera at their campsite before they came back to the camp. She was probably coming back to the camp to get it. I don't think she knows I found it in her tent. She'll be lucky I took her hat for her." He said.
"I just saw them on the couch over there. You should go give it to her." She suggested. Devon walked to where she was sitting and got her attention.
"You're that kid from CHS, Devon?" Trixie asked.
"The one and only." He said.
"Wait a minute, I remember the news about you at a hockey game. You were hit in the back of your head and you were put in the hospital. It surprised Trixie you survived a hit like that." She said.
"I get that a lot from the group. Who are the others of your group? I know that's Snips and Snails over there." He said.
"These are my parents, Jack Pot and Spectacle. Her nickname is Showcase. The guy who was shot is Chris." She named out her people.
"How long have you guys been out there?" He asked, sitting down in a folding chair.
"Around a few weeks. We lost track of the day we've been camping in those woods." Jack said.
"We kept watch to be safe at night and searched for supplies to keep us going." Showcase said.
"Then that maniac found us, wanted to kill us." Trixie said, Devon was concerned about what she said.
"You've been talking a lot about this maniac. What does he or she look like?" Devon asked.
"He is a man. Red hair. Taller than you by a few inches. College age. Crazy eyes. He carries this machete and tried to kill us with it." Trixie described.
"Is there a reason why he tried to kill you guys?" He asked.
"We don't know. Something must have changed in him back in the first few days of this world." Spectacle said.
"This place isn't going to be safe for long. We need to leave as soon as possible." Jack said.
"We can pull our weight together and keep this place safe." Devon said, trying to calm them down.
"Not with that group out there. They'll get in here and get us." Trixie said, giving the warning she know will come.
"At least you guys found us while we looked through your camp." He said, taking his backpack off. "I think you came back to the camp to get this." He extended his hand out with Trixie's hat.
"My hat." She said, grabbing her hat and putting it on her head. "This will keep the sun out of Trixie's eyes." She said.
"Is this camera your?" He asked, taking the camera bag out with the camera still inside.
"Yeah. But the battery died two days ago." She said.
"I guessed that's why I found it dead in your camp. The charger is in here. You don't mind if I charge it, do you?" He asked.
"Yeah." She answered, Devon and Trixie got up and walked to his truck and plugged it into the trucks power adapter. "We should leave it charging until it's full." She suggested.
"What did you film on that?" He asked.
"Trixie had someone filming her doing some street performing on the first day the world changed. Some other things after that and some days later of the terror I filmed." She said.
"When you tried to shoot, did you forget you ran out of ammo?" He asked.
"No. I have a clip full of bullets in this thing." She said, pulling her gun out to show him.
"Let me see it." He said, holding out his hand and Trixie gave him her gun. "Beretta M9A1 9MM. Did you find this in a gun shop?"
"My dad gave it to me after some training." She said, Devon pressed a button on the side of the grip, the clip dropped from the gun. He pressed the exposed bullet down, but it didn't go down. He pulled the slide back and saw a bullet come out and fall to the ground. He picked up the bullet and looked back at the gun, he noticed the safety was on, he switched it off. He pulls the slide back and pushed the slide lock up to hold the slide back and puts the loose bullet in the chamber and released the slide, puts the clip back in the gun and turns the safety back on.
"You left the safety on." He said.
"What?" She asked.
"The red dot on the slide means it's ready to fire when it's exposed." He explained, handing her back the gun.
"Trixie knew that." She said, receiving a ‘really’ look from Devon.
"It's best to keep the safety on unless there's danger." He said as Trixie put the gun back in her holster and walked back to her parents.
"Devon, Shining. Come here." Twilight called out.
"He didn't make it, did he?" Shining asked.
"He lost too much blood." Twilight said, as Zecora walked away from the body.
"God dammit." Shining said, walking away from the sight. "I'm getting sick of this shit."
"Shining wait." Twilight called out, but gave up.
"What's his problem?" Devon asked.
"Don't be like that, Devon. It's just like the first days, we saw people getting shot and we couldn't stand it as we stayed in the city. Thinking about the bullet going through this guy, he was never going to make it. Especially with attending one wound at a time. We should bury him." She said.
"I'll go get the shovel, we'll bury him-" He was interrupted by a pair of hands in front of Twilight's face. Pulling her from behind. "TWILIGHT!" He got behind her and saw a zombified Chris trying to eat her. He placed one hand on the back of Twilight's head and the other hand against Chris' face to get him to let go and got Twilight free. He was grabbed by Chris. He placed his hands on his shoulders to prevent him from getting bitten. Devon grabbed his gun, but Chris' arm hit his hand and caused him to drop it. He struggled to get free and falls back and had Chris on top of him. Devon had his hands placed against Chris' face and pushed his head away from him while shoving his thumbs into Chris' eyes and caused some blood to drip onto his chest. A machete chopped his head, killing him. Devon pushed Chris off of him and looked at who chopped him, it was Trixie with the machete.
"Are you alright?" Trixie asked.
"I'm fine. But, not bit." He answered, getting back up and noticed the whole group at the sight with Sunset looking at Chris and now with an angry look on her face towards Trixie.
"Why didn't you tell us he was bitten?" Sunset asked in a filling rage.
"What? No. He wasn't bitten. I Swear." Trixie said.
"Well, your un-bitten friend came back and tried to kill our friend!" Sunset said.
"Wait, you don't know?" Trixie asked.
"What the fuck are you talking about?" Sunset asked back.
"It's not just the bite that turns you. No matter how you die, you'll still come back. If you don't destroy the brain, you'll become one of them." Trixie explained to the group.
"We're all infected? Everyone?" Devon asked himself.
"I guess." Trixie answered.
"We first saw it a couple days after we left the highway. We had another member of group, his name was Jake. He looked really scared at everything he saw. He swallowed a whole bottle of pills one night, the next morning, we saw him as a zombie and we had to put him down and checked for bites. There weren't any bites on him, just the empty pill bottle right next to him." Showcase said.
"So, my family never got bit." Devon said to himself, he looked at Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash, you said my family wasn't bit when you looked at them, right?" He asked her.
"There were no bites on them. Your parents had busted noses and your sister's neck was broken." Rainbow Dash explained.
"Your family's dead?" Trixie asked.
"Trixie." Jack said, telling her not to ask people that.
"Yeah. They died on the highway and crashed into a telephone post." He said.
"Sorry. Trixie shouldn't have asked." Trixie apologized.
"It's okay. It was just a mistake to ask." He said.
"Everybody. We need to get out of here. This guy who killed Chris here is out there somewhere and he could be here at any moment." Jack said.
"Is this guy alone or in a group?" Discord asked.
"A really big group." Snails answered.
"About twenty-five to thirty of these people." Snips said.
"There's thirty-nine of us here." Adagio said.
"Forty-six if you count us pets." Spike said and noticed Aria counting with fingers.
"I only counted six of you pets." Aria said.
"You forgot about Gummy." Pinkie said.
"But, isn't he-" Sonata's mouth was blocked by Rainbow Dash's hand and was given the 'Just go with it' look.
"We won't be able to handle the firepower they've got." Trixie said.
"What kind of firepower?" Devon asked.
"A lot of machine guns, shotguns and sniper rifles." Trixie answered.
"These people must have found an arsenal or a camp from some soldiers and they were already dead for the weapons to collect." Devon said to himself.
"We need to get out here and get away from those people before they get here!" Trixie said. "Do you guys have anything like that?"
"No, just semi-auto and bolt-action versions of rifles." Devon answered.
"It might not get them all easily, but I hope the firepower can stop them." Trixie said.
"Hold on, Trixie. Can't we just reason with this group?" Shining asked.
"We can't. The guy with the machete is the leader. He just wants to get us." Jack said. Everyone thought about the danger of this group, although they thought a herd of zombies would be a really big danger for them. With the amount of time they've spent at the motel, but the other half was about a month short of the first group.
"What do we do, Shining?" Cadance asked.
"We'll have to leave. If this group finds them." Shining pointing at Trixie's group. "They'll find us and probably want to do what they tried to do with them to us. We'll pack everything and leave first thing in the morning."
"Should any of us go get their stuff?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"It might be dangerous for anyone to go out there." Shining said to her.
"We didn't cause any loud noise, we could be fine if we go out there." Applejack said.
"We'll be safe. I don't think they'll find us." Devon said.
"Are you sure about this?" Shining asked as Devon, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash looked at each other and thought about what they said.
"We agreed to get whatever's left at the campsite and bring it back here. It's what Trxie's group got and they might need it." Rainbow Dash said as Shining sigh in defeat.
"Alright, be careful out there." Shining said.
"We will." Applejack said, walking to Devon's truck with Rainbow Dash beside her. When they got there, they noticed Devon was walking towards his motel room, going inside and coming back out with his bag of guns. "Are ya puttin' the bag in here?" She asked.
"Yeah. I'm going to use one of the shotguns when we go out there." Devon said, putting the bag down and taking one of the two shotguns out of his bag and loads it full of shells. "Rainbow Dash, you should get a shotgun two."
"Okay. I'll go get one." Rainbow Dash said, walking to the storage trailer of firearms and grabbed the first shotgun she saw and picked up a box full of shells for the gun and walked back to the truck. "This Remington 870 looks perfect to use when we go out there." She said, loading the shotgun and noticed Limestone and Adagio at the doors of the truck. "You two coming with us?" She asked.
"We are." Adagio answered.
"He told us to come with you guys and help." Limestone said.
"They can help us pack up the camp faster. Come on." Devon said, putting his bag of guns on the floor of the back seats and gets in the driver seat of his truck as the others got in the passenger seats. He backed up and turned around to drive forward into the woods after Celestia and Luna opened the wall and drove off to Trixie's campsite to pack it up.

Ten minutes later with slow driving through the woods, they looked out their windows to see any sign of the dangerous people and zombies in the woods as Devon drove through and made it to the camp. He turns the truck off and gets out of the truck with his shotgun as the others got out with their weapons and closed the truck doors. They looked around to make sure it was safe and it was safe. They walked towards the camp and saw seven zombies standing at the camp, they hid behind the trees and the bushes Devon and Adagio hid behind earlier with Limestone, Rainbow Dash and Applejack doing the same. They looked at each other and pulled out their melee weapons to kill them quietly. Applejack picked up a rock and threw it in a direction to distract the zombies and to kill them easier. They walked up slowly and each teenager got a zombie with a stab, bash or chop to the back of their heads. After Devon chopped his zombie, his hatchet was stuck in its head, he tried to pull it out when the last two zombies came back after hearing the dead five zombies fall to the ground and try to eat the survivors. Rainbow Dash and Applejack handled the last two with Applejack bashing one in the face with her hammer and Rainbow Dash grabbing the other by its throat and stabbing its forehead. Devon managed to get his hatchet out.
"Are you alright, dude?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"I'm fine. The hatchet got stuck in that swing." Devon said.
"You might need a different melee weapon when we get back." Applejack said.
"Before you get stuck and get eaten by the dead." Limestone said and received a punch to her by Adagio for what she said.
"Don't talk to him like that, he just had trouble with the zombie he took care of." Adagio said.
"Let's pack up this camp before it gets dark. We don't have much time left." Devon said, heading towards the table with boxes and noticed a box was on the ground with half of all the empty cans on the ground. "This must have been knocked over after Chris was shot." He said to himself as he puts his shotgun down and puts the cans in the box. "We should handle the boxes and shopping cart first. They'll be a start." He said, picking up the box of can while the girls picked up the other boxes and shopping cart, put them in the bed of the truck, went back to the table they were on and put that in the bed.
"Now to take care of the tents." Rainbow Dash said, walking towards the big tent, but took the bags and sleeping bags out of the tents and into the truck's bed and back to the tent to take it apart. Flash and Devon started to take down the tent Trixie and her parents slept in while Adagio and Applejack took care of Chris' tent. They got all the tents into the truck bed, they folded the table's legs in and carried the table to the bed while some of the others freed the trap from a couple of trees and posts that was covering the table from any rain. They looked at the pot with water that was hanging over the fire.
"Should we keep the water in that pot?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"If we put it in the bed, it might get the load wet and I don't think they would like their tents and sleeping bags wet." Applejack said.
"If we put it in the truck and with the rough ground, it might jump out of the pot and spread all over the floor." Devon said.
"We should put that fire out before we leave." Flash said, taking the pot and pours the water over the burning logs.
"I hope this will confuse those confuse that crazy group out here." Adagio said.
"Same here." Devon said, looking at the sky and noticed the sun was halfway down the trees in the distance. "It's almost night. We better get back the motel before it gets dark." He said to his group, he and the others walked back to the truck and noticed a zombie coming to them. He noticed Adagio pulling out her gun, he grabbed wrist and made her lower the gun. "Leave it. It won't find us when we get out of here."
"You're right. It's not worth it." Adagio agreed and put her gun back into her holster. She got in the truck with the other. When she closed her door, the zombie pressed its face against the window and tried to bite her. Devon started the truck and drove off with the zombie falling to its side. It gets back up, but was shot in the head by an arrow, but the teenagers didn't notice the zombie got killed.

Ten minutes of driving back to the motel, they noticed a pair of sticks in the shape of a cross standing in the ground. Which was Chris' grave the group made while the truck passengers were packing up the camp. The gate opened with Igneous and Mr. Shy pulling the dumpsters out of the way. After the truck got inside, Igneous and Mr. Shy closed the wall and walked to the truck after it parked next to the other vehicle that were parked a space away from the RV.
"Did everything go okay?" Shining asked.
"It went fine. There were some zombies when we got there." Flash said, getting out of the truck along with the others.
"We took care of them." Rainbow Dash said.
"How much of the camp did you get?" Cadance asked.
"The entire camp." Applejack answered.
"You guys got all of our stuff?" Snails asked.
"Yep. All the tents, bags, boxes, table, and shopping cart." Devon said.
"What about the pot we had?" Snips asked.
"We got that, too. But we dumped the water out before we left the woods. We didn't want any of the load or the truck's floor wet." Adagio said.
"Did any of you see those people while you were out there?" Spectacle asked.
"No. We didn't see anyone out there." Devon said.
"I'm glad your safe. Trixie just keeps thinking about what happened to you months ago." Trixie said.
"Thanks." He thanked Trixie for her care.
"Don't mention it." She said.
"We should get some rest, it's pretty dark now." Luna said.
"But we need to keep watch until we leave tomorrow morning. We'll take watch three at a time." Shining said.
"Are you sure three of us at a time should keep watch, Shining?" Velvet asked.
"I'm sure." He said to his mother.
"I'd have to agree with that." Bow said.
"Same here." Discord said. "I volunteer to be part of the first watch."
"I'm in." Bow said.
"I'm part of the first watch, too. Everybody, we'll take turns every hour until we leave." Shining said to the group.
"Do we get to keep watch at some point?" Apple Bloom asked with Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle beside her.
"No, sugarcube." Applejack said.
"But, we're old enough." Sweetie Belle said.
"We know, but not for this situation." Rarity said.
"We can handle it." Scootaloo said, standing up to the older siblings.
"Girls, these are dangerous people. We can't risk you three getting hurt." Fluttershy said.
"That sucks. We helped you guys out there in those woods." Scootaloo said to Rainbow Dash.
"That was different, Squirt. This motel isn't safe anymore." Rainbow Dash said.
"Everyone, go to bed. Now." Shining ordered everyone and they went to their rooms and slept through the night until three of each took their turns to watch. But Devon had to put his father's grill and smoker on his trailer before he to bed with Rainbow Dash and Applejack helping him and went to their rooms.

(July 6, 2016)

The next morning, Devon woke up to the sound of yelling from a voice he's never heard before. He got up and walked to the window and peeked through the window blinds and saw his group on their knees with a big group holding them hostage. He put his weapon belt on before he opens the door and walks out with his hands up.
"Hold it right there, asshole." One of the men said, aiming his pistol at Devon and another man holding a machete with a red handle forced him to raise his hands.
"Why are you doing this?" Devon asked.
"We were just looking for six people we've been hunting. But I managed to get one of them with a rifle." The man with the machete said.
"You shot Chris?" Devon asked with a shocked look.
"So that was his name. The name didn't matter. What mattered to me was what I wanted from him, his group and yours." The man said.
"What did you want from him?" Devon asked.
"All of your fear." The man answered.
"What? Why?" Devon asked.
"Because it will help bring our world back. And fear is my name." The man said.
"What kind of name is that and why do think people getting scared would bring our world back?" Devon asked.
"Because there will be a new world order when it makes me leader." Fear said.
"This is insane. You can't just kill people when they're scared. We're all trying to get rid of the dead." Devon said.
"Exactly. I want all of you people to give your fear and then we'll kill you." Fear said.
"Our leader said to bring survivors to our safe zone." One of the other men said.
"He’s not here, so we're following-" Another man said as he got shot in his head. Everyone looked at where the shot came from, it was Rarity with her rifle. It got the chance for the group to get away and get to the rooms on the main floor to cover themselves. The group that found them started coming towards them to kill them.
"We need to get out of here!" Shining said.
"No shit!" Aria said.
"We have to get to the cars." Flash said.
"We have to help our people before we get out of here." Devon said, taking his gun out of his holster. "Get to the RV, Shining. We'll cover you." He said, aiming out the door with the Aria and Flash doing the same. They drew fire at any of the people that were attacking them. The attackers stayed down when they got fire, Shining managed to get to the RV.
"Cover the others and get them to the cars." Shining shouted and started shooting back with his shotgun at the attackers. The teenagers he was with had to shoot at the groups they had to stay behind the furniture the motels survivors placed. Some of them managed to injure or kill the attackers on their left, half of the group, along with Rarity running down the stairs and next to them to the vehicles and the teens ran to the vehicles to get a better angle.
"Thanks, kids." Cadance said.
"You saved us." Discord said.
"Get in the cars. We need to get the others out of here." Flash said, the saved members got into the RV while more attackers came in from the other end of the wall.
"They're behind the RV." One of the attackers said.
"Help us!" Twilight yelled.
"Hang on!" Aria shouted. She and the boys aimed their guns at the attackers and saw one of them get bit on the neck by a zombie and pulled down to the ground. They shoot at the attacking men and got them in their shoulders and heads with a total of seven of them. The other half of the group ran to the vehicles.
"Are you okay?" Devon asked.
"We're fine, Devon. We need to get out of here." Adagio said, getting into Devon's truck while the others got into the RV and the cars and trucks.
"Shining, get the RV started." Devon called out, Shining went into the RV to start it until Devon went back to his truck. Devon got stopped from a threat shot to the ground, he jumped behind the jeep and looked as little as he can to see who was shooting at him. It was the leader of the group who have been attacking his group.
"You think can just escape like that? That's a sign of your fear and making it easier for me to get you." Fear said, walking slowly towards Devon as he kept shooting at him and went behind one of the couches. "When I get this entire group, I'll be the ultimate survivor with the one thing you've all got." He said and used up the whole clip in his gun. He reloads to get the better chance to kill Devon, but noticed Devon aimed his gun at his head and was shot, he fell to the ground. Devon was shocked at the sight of killing a person with his own gun, he would only use it to protect him and his group. Devon got up to get to his truck, but was hit in his face stock of a shotgun from an attacker.
"Where do you think you're going, asshole?" He said, aiming the shotgun at Devon's face.
"Please don't." Devon plead as his attacker pumped the shotgun and was about to shoot him. He was shot in the head and fell on top of Devon. Devon pushed him and saw that Trixie was the one who shot the man.
"I remembered to take the safety off." She said, taking Devon's hand to help him up and the took the dead guy's shotgun. "Let's get out of here." She said, climbing into the truck with Aria scooting over and Devon getting into the driver seat to start his truck and saw zombies beginning to overrun the motel. With the sound of all the vehicle's engines running, they stepped on the gas pedals at a time to drive in a line and out of the motel to escape their persuaders until they couldn't see them in their mirrors or hear the gunshots as they drove away from the motel.
"Do you girls see them?" Devon asked, looking at his mirrors for any signs of danger.
"I don't see them. Why would they attack us?" Sonata asked.
"Because they're the people that tried to kill me and my group." Trixie said, looking back behind her.
"Do you think they'll find us?" Aria asked.
"I don't know. We need to find a new place to camp." Devon said, picking up his radio and speaks into it to talk to the others. "We need to find a place to hide."
"We know, Devon. We'll camp a wooded area far from here. I'll find us the best spot, just follow me." Shining said from his end of the radio.
"Do you think it will be safe?" Adagio asked.
"I hope so." Devon said.
"As long as those people don't find us, we're fine." Trixie said, calming down and looking forward in the direction the truck was going with the other vehicles.

About thirty minutes later, the entire group found a secure looking wooded area and set up camp with the vehicles making a circle with some space between them and ropes with cans on strings to give them a warning if there's any zombies or attackers coming to their camp. Many of them sat in foldout chairs and some others kept watch.
"Is this place safe from the bad people?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"I'm sure it's safe, Sweetie Belle." Cookie Crumbles said, placing her hand on Sweetie Belle's shoulder.
"That guy was messed up. What would make do this?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"That's what I was wondering. Was that guy changed when this world went to shit?" Devon asked, looking at his gun.
"That could be the possibility, Devon. When the infection began, people started to riot at the sight of people shooting zombies when we were ordered to evacuate. They turned vehicles over, smashed windows, set cars on fire, and trashed the insides of buildings." Pinkie said.
"At least you got that monster back there. He won't be causing any trouble to Trixie and the whole group I'm a part of." Trixie said to Devon and got him to look at her.
"But I wasn't going to kill him. I was going to shoot him in his shoulder." Devon said.
"What? So, you can let him come after all of us and try to kill us again?" Snips said.
"I don't want that guy in my life." Snails said.
"Don't worry, kids. He won't hurt anyone ever again." Spectacle said.
"What you did back there kiddo was for the best." Jack said. "You had to protect yourself from the danger we had coming." He said, Devon looked at him in the eyes.
"Everyone needs protection from danger. It should only be the undead. I need some alone time." Devon said, putting his gun back into his holster while the people with him, but Trixie walked away. He looked at her. "Trixie?"
"Sorry, Devon. I noticed my camera right there." Trixie said, Devon looked behind him to see it in the cup holder, still plugged in.
"Oh yeah. It should be fully charged now." He said, grabbing the camera and unplugging it. Devon turns it on and went to the video selection feature.
"You don't mind if I?" He asked.
"Trixie doesn't mind." She answered. Devon went back to the day of his knockout and started watching.
In the camcorder, he saw what she recorded when Canterlot City wasn't in ruins. She walked in the street and watched a tv set on the news.
"Well this is an unlucky event to go to a hockey game, especially on Friday the 13th. This kid was hit in the back of his head by a hockey puck and is now in the hospital and to wake up from knockout." The Anchorman said.
"I know that kid, Devon. He was an odd kid, but I thought he would be lucky on this day to go to a hockey game." Trixie said to her camera. The video went to the next video on a different day, with her filmed doing some street performing and trying to do magic tricks. In the middle of a trick, three police officers came in.
"We need you people to leave area." One of the cops said.
"In a few seconds, Trixie is halfway through one of her tricks." Trixie said.
"This serious, miss. You need to leave now." Another cop said.
"But this is my best trick here." She said, about to finish when she hears gunshots coming from down the street. She grabs her camera and points it in the direction the gunshot came from and saw cops shooting a man eating another man to get him to stop.
"Get out of here, people." The third cop ordered and noticed Trixie recording the sight. "Turn that off!" He demanded. A new video starts, Trixie was with her parents in a car trying to get out of the city.
"It is May 16th, 2016. I'm with my parents. Snips and Snails are with us trying to get out of the city and these people must be zombies from the way they act. They just keep eating people and anything that moves." She said to her camera and heard the sound of a car crashing. "Oh my god, these people just crashed into that post." She pointed at the crashed vehicle. At the sight of the shot, it was Devon's family who crashed when he recognized the SUV. "My camera shouldn't see this." The video ended and started a new video. "Are you sure about this?"
"We're sure, Trixie. You need this to protect yourself and us from zombies. You'll have to do some training before with this gun before you can keep it with you." Jack said, holding the Beretta out to his daughter.
"Trixie, your camera is recording." Spectacle said, pointing at the camera.
"The red light is the stand by light, right?" Trixie asked.
"It's the record light." Spectacle said, walking towards the camera and stops it from recording. A new video played with a scared Trixie running back to her camp.
"You'll never take Trixie alive." She shouted, she aims her Beretta and shoots, but the gun didn't fire because she left the safety on. She put her camera down on the table and tries to see what's wrong with her gone.
"Come on, Trixie." Snips said, taking her arm and get her to run with him and her group.
"Trixie, come on!" Jack said, grabbing her arm and gets her to run with him and pushed one of the boxes in front of the camera and it continues to records what it hears.
"Go ahead and run. You'll just make more fear for me to get you guys easier. You'll will die because of it. Give them a few minutes, boys. We'll get them soon and the people at that motel in a couple of days." Fear said, never noticing the camera behind the boxes as the video ended, presumably when the camera's battery died.

Author's Note

The inspirations for Fear were based on Moon Quill's version of Fear. Moon Quill is a local friend on mine. Fear's machete is based on the red machete from AMC's The Walking Dead and I've got a replica of that weapon for how iconic it is. Trixie owning a camcorder is based on me owning my own camcorder.