(August 16, 2016)

In the middle of the woods, a rabbit comes out of its hole from under a tree. It hoped to a flower and begins to eat. As it eats its breakfast, a zombie caught it and begins to eat the rabbit's head off. The zombie chews the rabbit's chest off and exposed its rib cage. The zombie heard a snap from behind and gets chopped in the back of its head and fell to the ground.
"What did it get this time?" Trixie asked.
"It looks like a rabbit." Sunset said, looking at the ripped open body of the small animal.
"There goes another meal to save. But it won't be enough for the group." Trixie said, picking up her shotgun and walks away with Sunset beside her.
"I don't know how much longer we'll last out here. We can't get any animals to hunt and save for when we run low on food." Sunset said, looking around for small and big animals.
"In all this heat, Trixie is anxious to find any size of a meal." Trixie said, pulling out her gun so she can be ready to shoot.
"As long as there's no zombies around, we'll be fine." Sunset said.
"Especially from that group that crazy leader lead." Trixie said, she looks at Sunset. "Sunset. Can I tell you something?" She asked.
"Sure." Sunset answered.
"Ever since Devon told me about his parents and sister dying on the highway, Trixie decided to take it easy on him. So that way he wouldn't think I'm trying to hurt him." Trixie said.
"We actually found them on the way to that motel when we left the city three months ago. He put them out of their misery and we had to bury them and made cross sticks over their graves." Sunset said. "Do you think he and Rainbow Dash are doing any good out here?" She asked.
"Trixie hope's they're doing good out here, too." Trixie said, she and Sunset heard a branch snap from around a tree and they pointed their guns to where the snap came from. From around a tree, Devon and Rainbow Dash came out with their crossbows in their arms.
"You girls find anything?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"A lot of small animals were getting eaten by zombies. We couldn't find anything. What about you guys?" Sunset asked.
"Nothing. Just like you two." Devon answered.
"We're running low on food. We can't last out here much longer." Trixie said.
"I hear ya, Trixie. We're running low on ammo. We need to find someplace safe, fast." Devon said. "We should head back to camp." He said, walking back in the direction to their camp with the three girls walking behind him. They looked around the woods as they walked back to camp. They looked up into the trees for some birds and squirrels. A black bird flew and landed an arm of a tree, Trixie aimed her shotgun at the bird, but Sunset grabbed the barrel and lowered the gun.
"You don't want shoot that bird." Sunset said.
"Why not? We have to get something to eat." Trixie said, retaking her aim on the bird.
"It's a raven. They eat rotten animals and maybe dead zombies. You don't want to eat those." Sunset explained as the raven flew away from the tree.
"Dammit! Trixie almost got a meal." Trixie said in frustration, her voice was almost loud.
"Keep it down, Trixie. You're going to bring zombies to us and camp." Devon said, getting Trixie to calm down.
"I'm sorry. I'm just hungry." Trixie said, in a calm voice.
"We're all hungry." Sunset said.
"I miss eating those peanut butter crackers. They are the best snack ever." Trixie said.
"You ate all of those crackers last week, Trixie." Rainbow Dash said.
"Trixie knows." Trixie said.
"Come on, let's get back. Talking out here is wasting time." Devon said, walks back to camp with the others following.

Five minutes later, the four hunters made it back to camp. The walked under the rope with cans held by string to alarm them of any danger. Shining walked up to them.
"Did you find anything?" Shining asked.
"We couldn't find anything. Most of the animals we found were ripped apart." Rainbow Dash asked.
"I tried to get a bird, but it was a raven." Trixie said.
"How's our food supply?" Sunset asked, Twilight walked up to her.
"Not enough for everyone. We're going to starve." Twilight said.
"We need to find a store." Devon said.
"We don't know where to go." Adagio said, getting their attention with Aria beside her.
"We have to find someplace safe. Better than the woods." Aria said.
"We know that, girls." Shining said.
"Is everyone good enough to leave this place?" Devon asked.
"We'll have to ask them before we consider leaving." Shining said, he looks at everyone who sitting in chairs and putting their backs against the parked vehicles.
"Well, we better do it quick. I don't want to be out here in the open any more than we have to." Trixie said, walking to her parents.
"I'm with her on this one. We're not let anyone in this group stay out here much longer." Adagio said, walking to where Sonata was watching over the kids with Aria following. Devon, Sunset and Twilight looked at each other about everyone moving to a better place.
"Where are we going to go?" Sunset asked.
"If we had a map of the area, I could figure out where we are and find a town, city or neighborhood close to this area. We need big enough houses for the whole group." Twilight said, thinking of a good suggestion.
"If there's any of those places around here, I hope there won't be much zombies to fight off when we find a new place to stay, we can't waste our ammo." Devon said and heard the can alarm go off when the ropes are pushed. He and the two girls looked in the direction and saw a zombie trying to get them. Sunset pulled out her machete and walked to the zombie as it tried to reach her. Twilight and Devon grabbed the zombie's arms to prevent it from grabbing Sunset and she swings her machete into the zombie's head. The zombie fell to its knees and falls back to the ground. Devon noticed something behind its back, he stood on one knee and inspected what looked like some kind of rope of its belt. He rolled it over to its side and saw that it was a whip looped through a whip holster. "This guy has a whip with him. He looks like he just died recently from the look of his face here." He said, unbuckling the belt on the zombie's pants and pulls it out of the loops to get the whip's holster free. He looks at the zombie and placed his hand in the pockets of its pants. He pulls them out with two bullets. "Only two bullets. Well, it's not much, but these will help." He puts the bullets in his pocket and checks the other pockets. Two pockets were empty, a back pocket had a something thick inside. He pulls it out of the pocket and it was a wallet. "This guy still carried his wallet."
"I can't believe someone still carried their wallet when they died." Sunset said, watched Devon open it.
"This guy's name was Peter Grant. He looks like a nice guy. He died at the age of thirty-seven." Devon said, looking at the driver license.
"Are you going to take his wallet?" Twilight said.
"I guess it doesn't matter now." He said, putting the wallet in his backpack. "We should bury him." He said, Devon picks up the whip and looks at it for a second.
"You used a whip before?" Sunset asked.
"No. I remember this one time I went to this zoo with alligators and this employee had this alligator whip to entertain me and my family and this man in a movie series used a whip to fight and swing across places. How long is this whip?" Devon asked to himself. Twilight opened the holster and grabbed the end of the whip to pull it away from where Devon was standing and backed up and made sure she didn't bump into anything or anybody in the camp and got to a stopping point.
"It looks like it's twelve feet long." Twilight said, she let go of the whip and lets Devon loop it back in a circle and puts it in the holster.
"This whip could be useful." Sunset said, while Devon put the whip in his backpack.
"Let's get our stuff packed and head out." Devon said, walking to the end of the rope to untie it from the tree it was tied to, Twilight and Sunset did the same with the other ropes around the camp. Applejack and Rainbow Dash walked up to him with shovels in their hands.
"We heard you talkin about burying this zombie, so we'll dig a grave for him." Applejack said, walking under the rope to dig a spot behind the zombie. Devon got the rope off and he picked up a couple of sticks and took one of Peter's shoelaces to tie the sticks together to make a cross.

Ten minutes later, Peter was buried and the entire group had everything packed to move out of the woods and followed the RV. Some of the survivors were in the RV with Shining driving. Rainbow Dash drove her motorcycle in front of the Avalanche Applejack was driving. The survivors that were passengers, they looked out the windows in boredom and saw zombies walking around and some eating dead animals or people. Some of them just wanted to open the windows and shoot any zombie they can get with their pistols for some fun, but they would waste their ammo. Adagio checked her gun to how much ammo she had.
"Only seven bullets in my gun. We're going to die with this much ammo." Adagio said.
"You don't even know if we're going to die." Aria pointed.
"I don't want to die." Sonata said, a little nervous at the thought of a possible death.
"We won't die girls. We'll make it through this. We can find some gun shops, police stations, anything with ammo." Devon said, keeping his eyes on the road. He reached into his pocket with the two bullets he looted and took a quick look at them to see what calibers they were. He handed them to Adagio. "I looted these from that zombie we buried. You could use them."
"Now I have nine rounds." Adagio said to herself, loading her mag.
"When do you think we'll find a safe place?" Sonata asked.
"Soon Sonata. I don't know when." Devon said.
"I hope it will be a nice place when we find one to stay." Sonata said, giving herself hope.
"We all do. Everyone is this world needs hope. To bring our world back." He said, slowed down when the vehicles in front of him started slowing down. He pulled out his radio phone to speak. "What's happening?"
"We're looking at a sign here, there's a town named Wood Valley and it's two miles away." Cadance said through the radio phone.
"Any other towns or cities the sign says and how far they are?" Rarity said from her end.
"One is forty-seven miles and the other is one hundred and twenty-nine miles away." Cadance answered from her end.
"We don't have much fuel in this jeep here." Igneous said from his end.
"We have to go to Wood Valley. There could be food, water, ammo and fuel." Shining said through his radio phone. "We don't have much of a choice now." He said, starts to drive the RV and drive to Wood Valley. The other vehicles followed so they can take the chance to find supplies and/or stay in Wood Valley if it's not safe.

Ten more minutes later, the group was close to Wood Valley. Around a mile back, they had to clear a wreck that was in their way to Wood Valley. They couldn't risk the fuel by taking a different route to Wood Valley. The passengers looked at wooden spikes was placed on the ground with zombies stuck on the spikes, they couldn't get themselves out. The group saw what looked like a gate on the road. It was connected to two separate buildings. They stopped when they got close to the gate, some of the members stepped out of their vehicles with weapons just encase if any zombies would approach them. When Rainbow Dash walked up to Devon to watch guard with him, she noticed him holding a different model pistol.
"Did you change your gun, dude?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Yeah. I changed my PPK to my Colt M1911A1." Devon said.
"Why?" She asked.
"Ever since I killed that guy, I stopped using my gun. I swore myself that I wouldn't kill anyone with that gun. I'd only use a gun to protect myself." He said, looking at the trees for danger.
"Devon, you did protect yourself. There were bad people before this apocalypse started. I've seen it happen on the news at times when I'm not reading Daring Do. There's always crazy shit wherever people go and what they do." She said.
"I knew that." He said. "Do you think this place looks safe?" He asks.
"It looks like it from the look of this wall between the buildings, it looks like it was made to be a gate." She said, looking at the wall. "Do you think there's anyone in there?" She asked.
"I hope there are people who are still alive on the other side." He said, looking back at the trees. With no sign of roaming zombies, he and Rainbow Dash walked to the metallic gate.
"About you killing that guy, it was for your protection. You should go back to your PPK, that gun makes you look awesome." She suggested.
"I'll have to think about it." He said. He knocks on the gate, but nothing happened. Shining placed his ear next to the gate to hear for any sound. "Hear anything?"
"Nothing." Shining answered as Rainbow Dash tried to look through the crack between the gate doors and Applejack tries to look under the gate, but she couldn't see much.
"We can't see anything." Applejack said, she looks at the top of the gate. "Maybe we could climb over the gate?" She asked.
"Should we use the RV to get over the gate?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"We could. Unless the gate opens outward." Shining said. "You guys have a rope to climb on?" He asked.
"I have that whip from that guy before we left." Devon said, taking his backpack off and opens it up to pull the whip out. "It should be long enough to reach the top. I could just swing it around one of those poles and we can pull one of us up."
"We will pull ya up, partner." Applejack said, taking the whip and swings it around a pole. The swung end of the whip came back down. Devon puts his hand in the wristband of the whip. "Make sure ya got a good grip." Devon nods.
"I'm ready." Devon said, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Shining grabbed the other end of the whip and started to walk back to pull Devon over the wall. He climbed the wall, like he was rock climbing. Within fifteen seconds, he got over the wall and saw people walking on the sidewalks and road of Wood Valley. He was surprised to see how clean it looked, it looked like what looked like the world he knew before he woke up in the hospital months ago.
"You guys are going to be surprised when you get in here." Devon said over the gate. He hears a door open and saw four men with assault rifles come out of a building. The four men noticed Devon on the deck to the gate, they walked up right to him.
"Hey, kid. You can't be up there." The first man said.
"I've never seen this kid in here before. Have you guys seen him before?" The muscular man asked.
"No. This kid looks new." The man with glasses replied.
"Who are you and how did you get in here?" The bearded man asked Devon.
"I'm Devon and I climbed up the wall." Devon answered the two questions as he climbed down.
"How did you climb over the gate?" The first man asked.
"My people helped me climb the wall." Devon answered.
"How many of you are out there?" The bearded man asked.
"Forty people in my group and I'm one of those forty. Forty-seven including pets." Devon answered, the guy with glasses was shocked.
"Really? I didn't think you would have that big of a group." The glasses wearing survivor said.
"We watch out for each other. Really good. Can you open the gate, please? My people would like to come in here." Devon said to the four men.
"Sure thing. Just wait right there." The muscular man said, walking to the gate with the bearded man following to unlock a big bar lock keeping the gate closed. When they got the bars up and opened the gate to see a number of seven vehicles, eight with the UTV, drive into the safe zone and close the gate when they came in.
"Didn't think you guys would have this much cars when you came here." The man with glasses said to Devon.
"Three of the vehicles are mine. We found the RV next to a gun shop, the motorcycle is Rainbow Dash's and the rest we found at a store. That's why there's so many of us." Devon said, he looks at the town again and how it just looks perfect. "How is this possible?" He asked the two men that were next to him.
"You should ask Derek. He runs Wood Valley and gave the construction workers to build the gate, they were here before the geeks came." The first man said.
"Geeks? That what you call the zombies out there?" Devon asked.
"I told you they were zombies, Phil. I just knew it." The man with glasses said.
"Alright, Ben. You were right about what the name of those dead people are out there. You don't have to be a dick about our opinions." Phil said, he pulls out a radiophone and clicks a button. "Derek, we got a group of forty-seven survivors. They'll meet you at the courthouse."
"Forty-seven survivors. That's got to be the biggest number of people in a group to come here." Derek said from the radio phone.
"Well, seven of them are pets." Phil said to Derek.
"That's a first. At least the kids will have fun with those pets the group’s got." Derek said, the radio went silent.
"Courthouse?" Devon asked as his group got out of the cars and RV.
"Whenever survivors come here, we have them meet Derek at the courthouse and they tell him their story about how they survive and where they come from." Ben explained.
"This place looks nice." Cadence said.
"We have to stay here. This place is too perfect." Rarity said.
"All survivors must meet at the courthouse to talk to Derek. He would like to know your story." Phil said to the big group.
"Where is the courthouse?" Shining said.
"Follow us." Ben said, everyone in the group followed him and Phil to the courthouse and looked at the town to see kids running, probably playing tag. The group saw a few dogs by a playground, it was a dog park, Spike and Winona would have fun there and Fluttershy would like to have fun with the pets there. There was a bakery with loads of delicate baked good inside, Pinkie couldn't resist at the site. She would go for one of the cakes after the meeting with Derek. The group arrived at the courthouse and noticed a few military cargo trucks. The group walked up the stairs, Ben and Phil opened the doors for them and let them walk in. The group stopped when the doors closed and let Ben and Phil get back in front of them so they can know which room they will be in to talk to Derek. Phil and Ben stopped at a pair of doors.
"Derek will be in there in a few minutes. Take a seat and wait." Phil said, he and Ben opened the doors and the group walked in and sat down in the long seats and waits for the town leader to come while Ben and Phil closed the doors.
"This place is clean." Rarity said, holding her rifle in front of her with it pointing at the ceiling and some others held their rifles and shotguns the same way.
"Do you think the leader will let us stay here?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"I'm sure there's room for all of us here, Sweetie Belle." Cookie said, placing her hand on her daughter's shoulder.
"We will definitely be able to stay here. It's got those walls to keep the undead out. We will get to sleep on beds and even get some cool rooms." Rainbow Dash asked.
"I could use a shower and I need to fix my hair." Rarity said to the thoughts of staying in Wood Valley.
"The animals here makes it feel peaceful here. I feel peaceful." Fluttershy said.
"Do you think they'll have tacos?" Sonata asked, Aria looked at her with a 'really' look.
"Why is everything tacos to you?" Aria asked.
"I just hope they have some, Aria. I just don't think about that one time I ate that bad taco." Sonata said.
"They will have good tacos you dumbbell." Adagio said, annoyed at the little conversation.
"Girls! Calm down, please. Can you girls not do this every once in a while? It's getting really annoying." Devon said, trying to get the dazzlings to stop their confrontations.
"Sorry, Devon. I just have these cravings for tacos ever since I saw this 'Taco Tuesday' poster at CHS before you arrived." Sonata explained.
"That's when it started." Adagio explained.
"We'll ask them if they've got tacos when we ask for something to eat. I could sure use a meal myself." Devon said, he felt his stomach growl.
"That reminds me, today is Tuesday." Twilight said to them from behind them. Sonata got a little excited to hear what day it was today, she hoped to get tacos. Adagio face palmed herself at what she just heard.
"Have you been keepin track of the days, Twilight?" Applejack asked.
"Yes. I believe it's really important to keep track of the days and maybe mark the date this apocalypse ends when it comes." Twilight said.
"That will be a big moment in world history to put on the calendars around the world." Twilight said, giving the world hope.
"It would be a worldwide party to celebrate." Pinkie replied at Twilight's words.
"Then you would have to make a worldwide broadcast party host." Rainbow Dash said, a few members chuckled at the comment.
"I'd like to see someone agree to let you do that, Pinkie." Limestone said, the doors they came through opened and a man wearing a suit and with a clean haircut walked into the room. The assumed he was Derek, the man smiled like he was a store manager about to hire someone. He walked to the desk and sat down in the chair behind the desk.
"Hello everyone. Welcome to Wood Valley. I'm Derek." The leader of Wood Valley said to the group.
"For a leader, you know how to dress nicely in a crazy world like this." Rarity said to Derek.
"Thank you. I would like to start off with a family to talk to at a time and if one of you members are the leader." He said.
"I'm the leader of the group." Shining said, standing up from his seat as his wife, parents and sister did the same. "We'll go first." They walked up to the table in front of the big desk Derek was sitting at. They grabbed some extra seats for them to sit in. "My name is Shining Armor. This is my wife, Dean Cadance. My sister, Twilight Sparkle and our parents Nightlight and Twilight Velvet." He pointed out to who is who.
"Thanks for letting me now who you are. What's your story?" Derek asked.
"We all came from Canterlot City. Everything was just the same every other day before the world change. I was a security guard at the Canterlot Planetarium." Shining said.
"I worked at Crystal Prep High as the school's principal." Cadance answered.
"I was an employee at a lighting shop." Nightlight answered.
"Served coffee at a coffee shop." Velvet said.
"I was a graduate student at Canterlot High School and my friends here are too, but some of the kids were still attending when it was our last day." Twilight answered and explained.
"When we first heard about the infection, we were held up at Crystal Prep High School where a lot of people were kept safe until we had to be evacuated from the city, but half of our group was separated when we were evacuated." Shining said, the members that were separated at the time stood up and the others that stayed with Shining and he himself sat back down for a few seconds. "We had to get out of the city on foot and we found a suburban neighborhood just outside the city. When we were trying to find a house to stay in, we found Devon when he was outside his house." He aimed his arm where Devon was and Derek saw where he was sitting. "He helped us with getting weapons and let us drive the cars his family owns. When we got what we needed, we found a motel in the woods an hour away from the city. About a month later, he and a few went back to get supplies and found our family members and we felt like we lost them before they arrived. We used the woods to do some hunting for some animals when it is the best time. When some of us went hunting, they found Celestia, Luna and Discord when Devon caught a deer. The next day, he was feeling sick and he found Zecora." He pointed to the people he mentioned. "She was in a hut on one side of the pond and she's good at making medicine and it helped him feel better. A couple weeks later, we found Jack Pot's family in the woods a day after Debby Shy said she saw someone in the woods across the street from the motel when she saw someone watching us from the woods. When Jack's group was brought to our camp, there was another guy with them. He was shot and he turned into a zombie and we all learned we are infected in a way you can die no matter how you die, if you don't destroy the brain, you'll become a zombie. We had to pack everything in our camp and this group attacked us and tried to kill us." Shining said, shocking Derek in surprise.
"That's just terrible. Why would anyone just want to try and kill you?" Derek asked.
"Yes. He was going to get Devon when he tried to get into his truck. He managed to kill him before the leader had a chance. After we escaped, we survived in different wooded area for over a month and we saw the sign say this town was two miles away at the sign, we had to head. That's our story. My family is finished here." Shining said.
"Thank you, Mr. Armor. Next Family please." Derek said, the Sparkle family went back to their seats and let the Apple family walk up to the desk. "Names please."
"Applejack, I'm the middle child in my family and Ah' had a job at a smoothie stand and the Canterlot mall." Applejack answered.
"Granny Smith, Ah' was the cafeteria lady at CHS." She said.
"Big MacIntosh, Ah' was a student at CHS, just like the other kids here. Ah' helped out with the big stuff around when Ah'm needed." He said.
"Apple Bloom. Ah' was a sophomore student at CHS just like my friends Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. Ah'm the youngest child in my family. My friends and Ah were taught how to shoot guns and to protect ourselves." She said.
"I didn't expect the youngest members of the group to use any guns." Derek said surprised.
"We wanted to use guns so that way we can help each other. Devon got these airsofts for us to practice with, he didn't want the group to risk wasting the ammo. We've been pretty good shots after all that training." Apple Bloom said.
"Thank you for your stories. Next." Derek said, the Apples got out of the front seats and let Fluttershy's family tell their story to Derek. "Names please."
"Earl Shy. I worked at a furniture store." He said.
"Debby Shy. I was a gardener." She said.
"Fluttershy. I was a volunteer at the Animal Rescue Center." She said.
"Zephyr Breeze. A hair stylist trainee." He said.
"What's your story?" Derek asked.
"I'll start." Fluttershy said. "When we were all together with the others when the outbreak started. I got separated from my family and stayed with my friends. When I was given this gun model, I thought it was scary to hold a gun for the first. I was told that it had weak kick when shooting it and it wasn't that bad. I feel a little less scared with this whenever I need to use this." She said, showing her pistol to Derek.
"It must be the smallest bullet to ever be made?" Derek asked.
"Yes. It is a .22LR caliber." Fluttershy answered. "Devon taught me how to handle this better when he gave me practice. I'll let my parents and brother tell you a little bit of their points of view." She said.
"We were with the people that stayed in the city when we got separated. The apartments we stayed in was next to a store so we could get supplies when we run low. Our friends and family came there to get what's there and they found us." Debby said.
"When we were brought to the motel, we were shocked to see of daughter alive." Earl said.
"And I couldn't leave my sister after our reunion and the rest of our story leads to the rest of our group." Zephyr said.
"Thank you. Next." Derek said, letting the Shy family go and Rarity's family tell their story.
"Magnum. I was a football coach." He said.
"Betty Bouffant, a baker." She said.
"Rarity. CHS student and a fashionista." Rarity said.
"Sweetie Belle and I was a sophomore at CHS." Sweetie Belle said.
"My sister and I were with our friends when we got separated from our parents. I've been handling a rifle as my weapon ever since my group found Devon." Rarity said.
"He gave me and my friends gun training when he thought it was okay to have our own guns." Sweetie Belle said.
"I think I know where the rest leads. Next." Derek said, letting the Pie family go next.
"My name is Igneous Rock Pie. My wife and two of our daughters are rock farmers." He said.
"I'm Cloudy Quartz." She said.
"My name is Maud Pie. I worked at the Canterlot Natural History Museum." She said.
"Limestone Pie and this is Marble, she doesn't talk much." She said.
"I'm Pinkie Pie, I was a waitress at the Sweet Snacks Café and I was a CHS student." She said.
"Who went with Shining's group?" Derek asked.
"I did. My sisters and parents were stuck in the city. I was given an exact modal of this shotgun modal when we found Devon, it reminded him of my party cannon." Pinkie said.
"We were with the other family members in the city until her friends came and found us." Cloudy said.
"When we were brought to the motel, Pinkie stayed with us since she missed us. She couldn't leave us for a minute." Limestone said.
"But we dealt with it." Maud said. "That's our story."
"Thank you. Next." Derek said, Rainbow Dash's family came up to the desk while the Pie family stepped away.
"Bow Hothoof. I was a blacksmith." He said.
"Windy Whistle. I was a singing teacher." She said.
"Rainbow Dash. I worked at a sports store at the mall and I was student at CHS." She said.
"Scootaloo. I was a sophomore at CHS, just like Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom." She said.
"Scoots and I were with Shining's group and our parents were with the others in the city. I've been a great shot with a crossbow." Rainbow Dash said.
"I was given training to shoot a gun the same time as my friends. We've been carrying pistols ever since we became good shots."
"Thank you for your time. It is okay to tell your story short. Next." Derek said, Celestia, Luna and Discord walked up to the desk.
"I am Celestia. I was principal at CHS." She said.
"Luna. I was vice principal at CHS and she is my older sister." She said.
"Discord. I was an electrician. I actually found them when I was looking for help." He said.
"So, how did you three survive?" Derek asked.
"When my sister and I were in the city when this started. We were in quarantine for a while until we were evacuated. We managed to get off the highway before it was blocked." Celestia said.
"Me and my sister had to find a place to stay. We found this neighborhood, just off the highway. There was a decent house we stayed in. After a few days, we had to search for food." Luna said.
"I found them when I was searching for supplies. They were surprised to see me after a few years. They let me stay with them. I helped them with searching and we managed to keep ourselves well feed." Discord said.
"A few weeks later, there was a small herd of zombies heading towards the neighborhood we stayed in. We had no choice but to leave the neighborhood and get away from the herd. We jumped into our car and we drove until we ran out of fuel." Luna said.
"We had no choice but to leave the car and continue on foot. There was a wooded, so we thought if we go through the woods, we could slow them down. We found Devon after he just took down a deer and we helped him get the deer to their camp. That's how we became a part of this group." Celestia said.
"I'm glad you three found these people. Next." Derek said, Trixie's family, Snips and Snails walked up to the front desk to talk about their point of view.
"My name is Jack Pot. I was a magician." He said.
"Showcase. I was an employee at a magic shop in the city." She said.
"Trixie Lulamoon. I was graduated student at CHS." She said.
"Snips. I was a sophomore at CHS." He said.
"Snails. Just like my friend Snips and the crusaders, I was a sophomore at CHS." He said.
"How did you people survive?" Derek asked.
"I was working on a new magic trick at our house, when the news came on, there was reports about one guy eating his wife's face and everyone in the city was told to stay inside our homes. I called my wife about what I saw on TV and told her to find Trixie and get home." Jack said.
"I was working at the magic shop when Jack called. I pulled up the news about what he just told me. I told the customers to leave the shop and I had to closed it. I got to my car and called Trixie to ask her where she was in the city." Showcase said.
"I was doing some street magic performing a few blocks away from Sugar Cube Corner. Snips and Snails were filming me with my camera. These soldier guys came in told us to evacuate. We walked for a few minutes until my mom found us and we got in to get back home." Trixie said.
"We packed up as much clothes as possible and we left the city a few days after the army arrived. We saw this car crash into a power line post. It scared us when saw that." Snips said.
"For over two months, we stayed in a cottage until we ran out of food to find near the area. We left and stopped whenever we see anything and place with some food and we meet a guy and let him join us. We found these woods that was next to the motel, but we didn't know the motel was close." Showcase said.
"A couple weeks later, the group that attacked the motel found us and tried to kill us." Snails said.
"I tried to shoot them with this gun my dad gave me. But I had the safety on and I didn't know how to use it right." Trixie said, Derek giggled a little. "That not funny!" She said.
"Sorry. I guess you didn't get any training at the time your father gave you that gun?" Derek asked.
"Yeah. Devon found us the next day and Chris got killed by the crazy guy who led the group. We felt safe at the motel for a while and group found us the next day. We managed to escape again." Trixie said.
"Do you know the name of the leader of this group?" Derek said.
"No. We don't know his real name. He just calls himself fear and he thinks it would bring our world back." Jack said.
"Well, I'm glad you people survived. Next." Derek said, the family got up and let Flash take one of the seats at the desk.
"My name is Flash Sentry. I was senior graduate just like my friends at CHS. I was with them when the military came in and took us to the safe zone and rest goes with me staying with my friends and Shining." He said.
"It's a good idea to just tell me who you stayed with. Next." Derek said, Flash got up let Zecora take her seat.
"I have lived in this time of era, you can call me Zecora." She said.
"What's your story, Zecora?" Derek asked.
"I lived in my hut when the world changed, but I lived within the motel's range." She said.
"Well, I just learned you speak in rhymes. Did this group find you?" He asked.
"Yes. It happened when I saw Devon, he managed to take down seven. We first meet two months ago and I was brought to the group by his ego. At the time, he had a cold, but I help him feel well and bold." She said, finishing her point of view of her story.
"Thank you for your side of the story. Next." He said, Zecora got out of the chair and let Sunset sit in the chair.
"My name is Sunset Shimmer. I was a student CHS and I worked at a Japanese restaurant at the mall. I was with my friends when it started. I went with them. You know the rest." Sunset said.
"Okay. Next." Derek said, Sunset got up and let the dazzlings take the seat to sit in.
"I'm Adagio Dazzle. My sisters here were a group called the dazzlings as a musical group at CHS for a while." She said.
"Aria Blaze." She said.
"Sonata Dusk." She said.
"How did you three survive?" Derek asked.
"We were living on the streets after our incident, but we don't want to talk about that. We just lived in an abandoned building." Adagio said.
"It was a dump. When the army came to city, they didn't search the place we were in when all the crazy shit happened." Aria said.
"We got scared when we saw so many zombies out there. They going to break down the front of the place, we got out through the back." Sonata said.
"When we saw a lot of them on the street, we hid inside a dumpster. We stayed inside the dumpster for like ten minutes until we heard a car alarm go off. I opened the lid a little bit to see the car and all the zombies around followed the noise. It was when Shining a few others were retrieving the RV when came in. Devon was one of them and he found us. He helped us escape the city. When we went to help him with the supply run two months ago, he gave us these guns for when we needed to use them and we've been doing a good job. That is our story." Adagio said.
"Thank you for your time. It looks like this Devon you people have been talking about is here and he's the last one to talk to. Come on up, Devon." Derek said, the three girls got out of the seats and Devon walks up to the desk and takes the first seat he grabbed and sat down. "What's your story?" He asked.
"Well, I'd like to start off what happened a little bit before it started. I graduated CHS just like the others here. Rainbow Dash invited me to a hockey game later that night with her friends and Flash. We sat at the player seats. We were watching the home team practice until the game starts. I pulled out my phone to check the weather and I dropped it. I picked it up and at that moment, I got hit in the back of my head with the puck." Devon said, Derek made the 'ouch' face when he said that. "I woke up four days later in the hospital. The room was clean, but the hallways were a mess. I saw this blood trail and it led to the cafeteria and it was full of zombies. They tried to get me, but I got in an elevator and ran to the front doors and escaped. There was a bike outside and used that to get back to my house, but I stopped by a park on the way to find help. These cars were everywhere and there was a sign with the word help on it. The cars had people who were dead, like one hundred percent dead. I didn't see any sign of help until I saw a little boy, I asked him for help, but he was already a zombie, I can't get that image of his lips ripped off his face out of my head." His mention of the boy freaked everyone out. "He walked right towards me and I grabbed a tire iron from a car and swung it right into his head. I was scared at what I did, so I got back onto the bike and continued to get back home. When I got home, my parents and sister were nowhere in the house. I went outside to the front yard to wait for them. It was like five minutes of waiting and Apple Bloom hit me in the face with a shovel. She thought I was a zombie and my friends brought me into my house. We stayed there for the night until we had to get the RV in the city. Flash and I were looting this gun store the RV was parked at. I found Adagio and her friends in that dumpster and we came back to my house. We loaded up all the food and medicine into the RV and I got my truck, my sister's truck and my mom's car. We drove on the highway halfway to the motel and I was only thinking about finding my family and I found them." He said and was quiet for a few seconds until he speaks. "They were dead. They were in the SUV and they crashed into a power line post. I got speak to them one more time and I put them out of their misery by getting in the back and stab them in the back of their heads. We buried them after I killed them."
"I understand what you're going through. Some of people here have lost their family members too. I even lost my wife in a car accident about a year ago and the last thing she told me was to never give up and that's what lead me to helping others and to making Wood Valley a safe-zone to anyone who comes here. We even send a group to go out and find other survivors and bring them here. I have a man named Frank to lead the group when they go on searches." Derek said.
"He sounds like a great guy. Is he here or is he out there?" Devon asked.
"He out searching for a group right now. The oddest thing that happens whenever he comes back, he gives report about a number of groups killed by zombies trying to save them or they're already zombies, but it's probably bad luck trying to save them." Derek said.
"The rest of my story continues with my group. I don't have anything else to say, but we all could use a good meal." Devon said, stood up from the chair and pushed it towards the desk and his group got up.
"Well, the town is going to have dinner party in ten minutes. We can head out to the dog park, everyone will be setting up the tables to serve the food and drinks." Derek said, getting up from the front desk walks towards the door with the group.
"Derek. Will there be tacos when we get there?" Sonata asked, getting his attention.
"Yes, Sonata. I keep a calendar in my apartment to keep track of the days and I decided to make it Taco Tuesday today. We've got plenty for everyone. But first, let my take to where you'll be staying." Derek said, the doors opened by Ben and Phil who were standing outside the courtroom. Everyone walked out of the room and out to the front doors. The group followed him outside. The group couldn't bother but looked at the town again as they followed him. They walked down a street and stopped at an apartment complex. "I believe we've got plenty of room in this complex for you people. If there's not enough room for you, some of you can share the available apartments."
"Thanks Derek. We appreciate you helping us and giving us a place to stay." Shining said, opens the door to the first apartment and walks right into the room with Cadance walking inside with him. The rest of his group walked to other apartment doors to claim them. They were surprised at how nice and clean the apartments looked. It felt like home, they looked at every inch of the apartments and couldn't help but turn on the first sinks they see and run some water. They thought about helping around this town, keep it safe and last until the apocalypse is over. In each apartment, the survivors took off their bags and put them on hangers on the doors. Many of them couldn't resist walking towards the first sink they see in the apartment kitchens or bathroom and pull the handle to see water running through the faucet. After a few minutes exploring their apartments, they took off their weapon belts and walk out of the apartments to go to the dog park and eat with everyone else.

Five minutes later, everyone was at the dog park for Taco Tuesday. The group and residences of Wood Valley stood in line with paper/plastic plates to pick whatever they want on their tacos. The group was getting really hungry with the smell of food spreading through the dog park. They were in front of everyone else so they can eat first. Those who sat together were friends and family were sitting at cafeteria tables from a school. Some of the survivors had some burritos with their tacos or not.
"It feels like forever since I had a good meal." Rainbow Dash said, grabbing the first taco on her plate.
"You and me, both." Applejack said.
"I think we can help pull our weight together with this place." Flash said.
"I'm with you there, Flash. This has got to be the safest place we've been to so far. Those walls are so tall, they keep out the dead. We can sleep without keeping a gun next to us." Sunset said.
"It will be nice, Sunset. Although, keeping my gun beside me made me feel brave." Fluttershy said, taking a drink of her tea.
"The only thing I feel like right now is getting some rest and maybe a massage." Devon said, noticed Aria, Adagio and Sonata joining the table with him and his friends and noticed Sonata's plate with five tacos. "You got like five tacos there, Sonata."
"I know. I just couldn't help but pick as many tacos as I want." Sonata said, taking a bit out of the first taco she picked up.
"With that many tacos, you're going to get a stomach ache when you sleep." Aria said.
"Why do I even bother with these two?" Adagio asked herself.
"Maybe it's because you three stick together. That's why." Rainbow Dash said.
"Don't be like that, it's just how life goes. We all have our own opinions on what we like." Devon said.
"If you were with them as long as me, you would understand what that's like." Adagio said.
"I'm sure I would know that feeling if I was with them. What do you think of this place?" He asked.
"It looks safe from what I've seen. The guards just stay and keep watch at those walls." She said.
"It's definitely safe, Adagio. Those walls are really tall and none of the zombies can get inside." Aria said.
"Yeah. We don't have to worry about what's out there. I'd like to see peace and quiet for once." Sonata said.
"I agree with her. That's all we can think about, a safe place. I don't want to see those killer if they ever find this place." Flash said.
"You're telling me, Flash. If they ever find us, we should kill them." Sunset said.
"It's been a month since we escaped those people. There's no way they'll find us." Rainbow Dash said.
"Ah hope they don't find us here. But we'll be ready to deal with them folks." Applejack said.
"We should just eat right now and not talk about the problem we had for the past month. It led us to this place." Devon said, taking another bite out of his burrito.
"He's right. We should just eat our food. My tacos aren't going to eat themselves." Sonata said.
"You're right, Sonata. I just want to eat." Fluttershy said, eats her soft taco. Everyone else agrees and eats their food. After the Taco Tuesday dinner night, the group threw their plate and cups away in the trashcans and walked to their given apartments. The group changed their clothes and laid in the beds of looked out the windows of which apartments have windows to see Wood Valley in peace at night, after a few minutes of watching the peace, the survivors closed their eyes and fall asleep.

(August 17, 2016)

The next morning, the group members woke up in their apartments and looked at the clocks. The clocks read Nine in the morning. They went to their own kitchen to eat breakfast. They had their choices of cereal, pancakes, waffles, oatmeal and eggs with toast and bacon and so many different flavored drinks. The taste of hot/warm food was so appetizing, they just wanted keep the food in their mouths until it matched the temperature of the inside of their mouths. Devon heard a knocking at his door, he placed his fork and knife aside his plate and walks towards the door to open it and finds Derek standing in front of the doorway.
"Morning Devon. I didn't know the first apartment I would come to see from your group would be you." He said.
"Morning Derek. I was just eating some waffles there. What brings you here?" Devon asked.
"When I woke up about an hour ago, I remember some of you had backpacks on and I forgot to ask you what you were carrying when you came in." Derek said.
"I'll go get it and show you what's inside. It's not much though." Devon said, letting Derek in and went to his room to get his backpack. He took his backpack off the hanger and walked back into the dining room with Derek sitting at the table. Devon placed his backpack in the chair next to the chair Derek was sitting in and he continues to eat his waffles before they get cold. Derek pulls all the zippers open to see what was inside. He saw a few snacks, some ammo, medicine, three grenades and the whip Devon found yesterday.
"I know a guy who used a whip like this." Derek said, got Devon's attention.
"I found that yesterday on a zombie. He still carried his wallet and his name was Peter Grant." Devon replied.
"Peter was one of my people here and he was a lion tamer at a zoo north of here. We couldn't find him after he didn't speak into the radio last week." Derek said.
"My people were packing up the camp before we got here." Devon said, finishing off his waffles and orange juice and taking it to the kitchen sink to rinse and wash them. "I put his wallet in the left side pocket. I didn't steal it, I would have considered it as knowing the people I put out of their misery and buried." He said, Derek opened the side pocket and pulled out the wallet. "You can keep his wallet since he was one of your people."
"Thank you. We do have a memorial in the courthouse for those who have died. I'll just tape his driver's license to the wall." Derek said, puts the wallet in his back pocket. "If you want to keep the whip, I can take you to the training grounds."
"That would be nice. I'll go change my clothes and you can take me there." Devon said, walking into his bedroom and picked out a pair of brown shorts and a blue t-shirt. When he came back to the dining room, the whip was on the table and he picked it up as Derek opened the door and walked out with him. When Devon walked out of his apartment and noticed his friends walking out of their apartments and into the open air of the safe-zone. "Morning guys." He called out.
"Good morning." Fluttershy called back.
"It's a nice day today. Derek, is there a spa around here? I would like to get my hair fixed." Rarity said.
"Yes. It's down the street on the right. I'm going to take friend here to the training grounds. If anyone else wants to come, follow me." Derek said, leading Devon and a few of his friends. They walked down the street to training grounds as they looked at the buildings they didn't see yesterday and noticed a hardware and people walking out with firearms. It must where they keep the weapons. The hot summer air was blowing on their heads, they should have grabbed some water bottles before they walked outside. They even hoped the training grounds would have some shade when they get there.
"Wait up, guys!" A voice called out from behind. They turned around to see Rainbow Dash catching up with them to join them. "Sorry. I want to train with you guys. Derek, what kind of training is there?" She asked.
"We have different types of training here. We even use some assault rifles for training to fight off a big group of zombies if the ever inside the walls. We have more of them at the hardware store we passed by." Derek and the followers made it to the training grounds. There were cinder block walls to prevent as much penetration as possible. An archery range for anyone practicing with bows and crossbows.
"This is a good set up for training people." Twilight said.
"This area use to be a parking lot for the condo here. We only do some training during the day so that way we don't wake everyone up at night." Derek explained the area.
"What am I going to use for targets with this whip?" Devon asked.
"Peter used old cans for targets. They're in that box over there. The guns are over there when you feel like practice with those, they are full-auto." Derek said, walking away from the area. "I'm going check on the rest of your friends and see how they're doing."
"Thanks Derek." Flash said, he picks up an Uzi from the wall as Twilight grabs an MP5SD6, Adagio picks up an AK-47, Rainbow Dash grabs an M4A1 carbine and Sunset grabs a UMP9. Devon walked over the box of cans and grabbed five of them. He tied them on some strings to try and hit the cans or snap the strings. His friends decided to put the guns down and watch him and see him try out some whip skills for the first time so the gunshots don't cause him to whip himself by mistake. He pulls a simple swing over the shoulder, but missed. He tries again and hit the can in the middle.
"I got it." Devon said to himself and noticed his friends watching him. "You guys not going to shoot?" He asked.
"We don't want to freak you out and make you whip yourself." Adagio said.
"I guess that's fair enough. Stand back." Devon said, making sure they're not in range from behind. He swings the whip over his head and manages to snap one of the strings holding a can. They were surprised at what happened.
"That was awesome, Devon. You should give me a try." Rainbow Dash said.
"Sure. Let me get these other cans and I'll put them back up." Devon said. He tries some other whip tricks on the cans. He whips from below his waist, from one side of his waist to the other side and tries a grapple trick on the post the strings were holding onto. It surprised him that he could grab a target with this whip. They could ask Applejack some more tricks since she uses a lasso. "This could be really handy." He said to himself, continues to whip the cans. After a few minutes of practice, he gave the whip to Rainbow Dash for her turn. Devon ties the cans to the strings again and walks out of the way for Rainbow Dash to take her turn now. He and the rest of his friends picked up the guns and practice shoot with the full-auto setting on. The guns caused some aiming to go off target, they put the guns against their shoulders a little harder to get a better aim and they got their aims better.
"This gun is crazy to shoot." Adagio said, looking at the gun she's holding.
"That AK-47 has a firing accuracy to go a little bit off target. But it could be useful for a group and herd of zombies." Devon said.
"I like how quiet this gun is. It's got a three-round burst setting." Twilight said.
"An MP5SD6. That will come in handy. I like this M4A1 carbine, it gives a good kick from its fire power." Devon said, holding the carbine.
"What's this model, Devon?" Flash asked.
"Uzi, a rapid fire 9MM submachine gun. That will fill up some guts." Devon said.
"Even though you know the guns you own, you know the guns you don't have." Twilight said.
"I use to watch gun shows on TV." He replied, empties the magazine and loads a fully-loaded magazine to fire more shots. The others continued to practice with the guns a little bit longer to get a better accuracy.

After thirty minutes of target practice, they took a break and decided to go to one of the restaurants to get some water. When they walked out of the training grounds, they saw their friends by the entrance of the shooting range, probably to practice with the guns they were shooting.
"Derek must have told you guys about the shooting range?" Rainbow Dash asked while giving Devon the whip back to him.
"Yeah. He told us about the guns they got here. How did they feel on full-auto?" Shining asked.
"It was tough the first shots with full auto, but it will take some getting used to." Flash said.
"We're going to one of the restaurants to get some water." Adagio said.
"Let's hope they have some ice." Twilight said. "We'll see you guys later." She walked with her dehydrated friends. As they walked, it was getting hotter on their heads, they had to get to one of the restaurants in a hurry. They spotted a bar around the corner, they walked up to the front doors and opened the doors to get inside. When they came in, they felt the cold air conditioning hit the sweat on their bodies. They didn't care about getting cold since they were in the woods for over a month. They walked up to the counter got in the seats that were free.
"Hello. You kids look like you've been working out?" The bartender asked.
"Tell me about it. We were just at the shooting range a few minutes ago and training in the heat is tough." Rainbow Dash said, wiping the sweat off her head.
"We could use some water please." Twilight said.
"I'll be sure to put ice in your cups. You're all free to get refills if you want." He said, grabbing six plastic cups and fills them up with ice and water. The six teens grabbed the cups and took some sips. Rainbow Dash dipped two of her fingers in her cup and placed the cold water on her forehead to cool off her head better.
"I never thought we'd see ice again." Twilight said.
"Same here. They must have got this straight out of the freezer." Flash said.
"That means they got plenty of energy to power up this town." Adagio said, taking another sip of her water.
"Everyone is getting plenty of ice here. It's what everyone wants in this heat. Nobody can stand it this much." Devon said, heard the sound of gun shots coming from training grounds. He and his friends knew it was their group training with the guns they were shooting earlier. When they noticed their cups were empty, they called for the bar tender.
"We could use a refill." Flash called out and the tender came back and refilled their cups with more water.
"I'm going to take a walk. There are some parts of this town I haven't seen. Be free to join me if you guys want to." Devon said, getting up from the chair and walks out the front door. He felt the heat hit his face and decided to see the armory and how many firearms it held. He walked back the way he came and looked at the training grounds and saw his people training. He noticed Fluttershy trying to shoot an MP40 and was surprised to see her get a little stronger and braver. He looked back at the armory and walked right to the door. When he walks in, he was surprised at the number of guns there were. There were variants of M16s, AKs, pistols, shotguns, rifles and gun attachments. With all these guns, it was enough to keep the town residents protected. He decided to customize a gun for himself if nobody else mind. Devon picked up an M4A1 just like the one he shot, an ACOG sight and a vertical forward grip. He looked at a pair of instructions lying on the table at the back of the store. He placed the gun and parts down to look at the instructions on how to attach them together. He grabs the right tools and starts to put the pieces together. In ten minutes, he made his own customized carbine and picked up three loaded magazines and a strap for the gun and walks out of the hardware store with his new gun. He walked to his apartment to put the gun away and fight off any danger inside Wood Valley. He walks out of the apartment and went to the dog park to see something peaceful. When he arrived, he noticed Spike and Winona playing with the other dogs, Fluttershy was there too to see all the dogs. "How was gun training, Fluttershy?" He asked.
"It was hard to practice with real guns. Especially the full auto one I shot." She said.
"Same here. But we will get used to it." He said, something popped up in his head. "Did you tell Spike to act natural?"
"Yes. Just encase he might surprise anyone here." She said and noticed Spike and Winona tugging each end of dog rope toy. With the two dogs playing tug-of-war, Devon decided to get the rope out of their mouths and play fetch with them. When he grabbed the rope, the dogs were dragged and they let go.
"How's about a little game of fetch you two?" He asked. The two pets barked at the word and they were ready to play. "Alright you two. Fetch." He said, tossed the rope about twenty feet away from where he was standing and the dogs went for the rope. Winona got to the rope first and runs back to give Fluttershy the rope.
"Want to go again you two?" She asked the dogs and they barked in excitement. She tossed the rope a little farther than how Devon threw it. Spike got the rope Winona this time. "It feels great to play fetch again, I can remember the last time I played fetch before the outbreak happened." She said.
"Same here, Flutters. It feels like forever." He said, drinks his water before the ice melts and saw Twilight and Rainbow Dash walking towards them. The rest of their group was walking in different directions through town.
"I see Spike is having fun here." Twilight said.
"Yeah, it makes me feel like there aren't any monsters out there." Fluttershy said.
"At least not in here." Rainbow Dash said, looking at the all the other pets in the park. She looked back at Devon and speaks to him. "Devon."
"Yeah Rainbow Dash." He replied.
"What you told me yesterday about changing your handgun. It just sounds ridiculous about you did last month, you did that to protect yourself and it's just stupid to keep that on your mind." She said, pulling out his PPK/S from the back of her pants and holds it out to its owner. "It doesn't have to be like this. You look better with this weapon." She said, Devon looked at the gun with a concern look on his face, take the pistol from her hand and looks at it. Devon releases the clip to see if it was still loaded with ammo and it was. He looks back Rainbow Dash.
"You went to my apartment to get this and to get me to realize how wrong I am about what I did?" He asked, in a surprised look while putting the clip back in the gun and puts the gun in his pocket.
"Just think about it." She said.
"She's right. You were brave when you saved yourself." Fluttershy said.
"But I was scared at the same time when it happened." Devon said.
"It was the smart thing to do, Devon. I would do the same thing if I were the one getting shot at by a machete wielding maniac." Twilight said. "I wouldn't even let myself get carried away if I killed him."
"Keep it with you, Devon. You'll get through it." Rainbow Dash said, pats his shoulder.
"Okay, I'm going to see what the bakery's got." He said, walking towards the bakery near the gate his group entered. He saw Pinkie eating an entire chocolate cake and he walks to the counter to see what looks good. There were decorative cakes, cupcakes and cookies behind the glass display.
"Find anything interesting?" The woman behind the counter asked. Devon looked up to look at her in the eye. To a surprise, she was Mrs. Cup Cake who worked at the Sweet Shoppe from Canterlot City. "Hey, aren't you-"
"Mr. Concussion, yup. But it's Devon." He said with some humor for the mood. "Did you find this town or were you found?"
"Me and my family were driving and a search party found us, ten miles south of here. It was just terrible out there from what we've seen." She said, looking at Pinkie eating the cake she asked for. "I'm surprised she asked for that entire cake when she came here." She said to him, Devon chuckled.
"That girl got more than a sweet tooth and it's sweet teeth." He said, looking at her with her face in the rest of cake. "I've never anyone eat an entire cake after ordering it in the same day."
"That's exactly what I was thinking. What would like to have?" She asked, getting to realize he was here to eat one of the sweets.
"Right." He said, looking through the display and looked at a delectable looking cupcake. "I'll have that cupcake there." He said, Mrs. Cake opened the door of the display picked up one of the cupcakes and hands it to him. "Thanks." He takes the sweet treat.
"You're welcome. Next." She said, Devon walks away and lets the next customer get something from the counter. He walks to the tables for an open seat. He saw most of the seats were taken, but an open seat was available at the table Pinkie was sitting at. So, he decided to sit there since he was her friend.
"Hey Pinkie." He said, Pinkie lifted her face and he looked at her face covered in frosting and cake crumbs. He couldn't help but chuckle a little as he sat down in the open seat.
"Hi Devon. That cupcake you got there looks good." Pinkie said.
"And you enjoy that cake so much, you've got cake face." He joked. "It's funny, it's a bloody apocalypse and we are have sweets inside a safe place."
"Yeah, it's kind of reminds me of this scary story with cupcakes in it." She said, licking the cake off her face and Devon looked confused.
"Wait, what?" He asked confused, but just realized. "Never mind, it's just you being you." He takes a bite out of his cupcake. "This is just like the treats back at the Sweet Shoppe. She and her husband were probably the ones who bake these."
"I just knew this was the same recipe from the Sweet Shoppe. Mr. and Mrs. Cake bake the best goodies back in the city. I wish I could have worked there and send out ads about their treats." She said, eating her cake.
"That would be a good job for ya, Pinkie." He said, continues to eat his cupcake and looked out the window. He noticed a few people he knew back at CHS. "Pinkie." He got her attention. "Are those-"
"Bulk and the top Wondercolt players. Spitfire, Soarin, Fleefoot and High Winds. They must have found this place sometime ago before we got here." Pinkie said.
"That's exactly what I was thinking, Pinkie. And Bulk is still buff. There must be a gym around here." Devon said, eating the last of his cupcake. "Well, I think I'm going to do a workout. See ya later, Pinkie." He got up from the chair and walks out the door. He had no idea where a gym would be in this town, he walked to the nearest person he saw and asked. "Excuse me, could you tell me where's the gym?"
"It's around the corner on the right and the third building on the left." The woman said.
"Thanks." He said, starts to walk in the direction the woman said. Devon looks at the buildings as he walked to the area he hasn't gone to yet. He spots the third building on the left and walks a little faster and opens the door to get inside. When he got in, he saw a few of his friends talking to CHS students he saw a while ago in the bakery. He stopped in his tracks and overheard his friends talking about their journey.
"Speak of the devil." Rainbow Dash said, spotting Devon at the door.
"Well I'll be damned. Look who walk through the door." Spitfire said in surprise to see the teen herself.
"They were just talking about you. Your skull is pretty strong to handle getting hit with a puck." Bulk said as Devon walked in closer to them.
"I never thought I hear about someone come out from a hospital alive." Fleefoot said.
"It was interesting to listen about how you taught them how to shoot." Soarin said.
"They told us about about your family and what happened. We're sorry to hear that." High Winds said.
"Yeah. I've been getting that a lot, but I'm used to it." Devon said.
"You decided to do a workout, partner?" Applejack asked.
"Yeah. I even thought a workout in a safe place would keep me focused." He said, walking to a press bench.
"Whatever this is, it looks heavy." Sonata said, looking at the set while walking to a treadmill.
"It does, Sonata. But everyone will get used to it." Devon said. He put five pounds on both sides of the bar, lies down on the bench to get under the bar and lifts it. It felt a little heavy the first few seconds, but he managed to keep his grip and use all of his strength to not drop it to his chest too hard. He lifts and drops back down to his chest while others workout on some other equipment. After five minutes of the workout session, they all switched to a different set to exercise with. They decided to get some water before they get ready for the exercise. Applejack, Bulk and Devon walked to the treadmills and raised the speed to get them going. When Rainbow Dash walked to the exercise bench, she put twenty pounds on both sides of the bar and got on the bench to lift the bar from the arm rests and brings the ninety-five pounds to her chest. The Wondercolts and Sonata were surprised to see her lift that much weight. They grabbed some dumbbells and started with some simple bicep curls. After another five minutes, everyone stopped for a couple of minutes to take another water break. "So, you guys workout in here to improve your special skills?" He asked.
"Yeah. We practice running and it helps us outrun the dead. Weight lifting and punching the punch bag to get stronger and makes it easier to swing our weapons at their heads." Soarin said.
"The thing about that, we came because of the attack that happened to our camp about a month ago." Rainbow Dash said.
"Oh man. How did it happen?" High Winds asked.
"We woke up so we could get out of there, but the group was outside and forced us onto our knees." Applejack said.
"There were led by this mad man. He carried this machete and we saw the blood on it. I've never been so scared in my life." Sonata said.
"I woke up last and saw everyone outside. I walked out with my hands up to show them I was defenseless and the guy who lead the that group was just talking about put us in fear and how it would bring our world back." Devon said, leaving them confused.
"That guy was full of shit. He practically lost his mind to what happened." Rainbow Dash said.
"We heard someone from that group talking about taking us to their place, but someone disagreed and Rarity managed to shoot him in the head. We managed to get to safety and get our weapons and fight back." Applejack said.
"We managed to save everyone and get to the cars. Right as I was about to get into my truck when that maniac tried to shoot me. He was getting closer while I was taking cover and I had to shoot him but I didn't think. I got him in the head and ran to my truck. One of those guys was going to kill me with a shotgun right when I was about to get in my truck. Trixie saved me from that guy and we all managed to get out of there." Devon said.
"Did the leader ever say his name?" Spitfire asked.
"No. He never said his real name." Devon answered.
"He said his name was fear." Applejack said.
"That's just stupid for a name." Rainbow Dash said.
"Do you guys remember what he looked like?" Bulk asked.
"Well, he had brown hair, taller than Devon by a few inches and was kinda buff." Sonata described the man.
"It's the rest of that group I'm worried about." He said, puts his cup down and walks to one of the three punching bags. "So, if they ever find us and this place, we need to fight back. Some of the living is more dangerous than the dead." He puts on a pair of boxing gloves and starts punching the punching bag. Swinging side punches, uppercuts, straight punches and kicks to help himself fight better. Sonata, Rainbow Dash and Applejack walked over to the other two punching bags to do what their friend was doing. Rainbow Dash let Applejack and Sonata practice with the punching bags. They punched and kicked lower areas of the bags like if they were rib cages, hips and legs. It could give an advantage for weak spots. A few minutes later, their arms were getting tired, so they stopped practicing with the bags. Rainbow Dash got to have her turn, she takes one of the pairs of boxing gloves and starts to practice.
"My arms are tired." Sonata said, rubbing one arm at a time.
"It'll take some getting used to, partner." Applejack said.
"I think I'm good for today." Devon said, walking towards the door. "If anyone needs me, I'll be at my apartment."
"I just going to hang here for a little bit." Rainbow Dash said as Sonata and Applejack walked to the door.
"Ah' never told ya this, Sugarcube. But I think Rainbow Dash has a crush on Soarin." Applejack said to her friends as they walked out the door.
"For how long?" Sonata asked.
"Ever since she saw him of the soccer field at CHS." Applejack answered.
"Do you think she'll ever tell him how much she loves him?" Devon asked.
"Maybe. I bet Soarin loves her too." She said as they walked to their apartments and rest for some time after the activities they did while the rest of their people continued with what they were doing.

Later at night, Twilight sat at a table in the Wood Valley library. It feels like forever since she's been inside a library. She read through a book on crafting weapons and realized how useful it would be with surviving. She got her attention off the book when Sunset sat across from her at the same table.
"Find anything interesting, Twilight?" Sunset asked.
"Yeah. This is advanced science I'm reading here. There are some techniques on how to craft stuff for special uses." Twilight said, pointing at the pages in the book. "If I had this book, I could have made our weapons better."
"That actually sounds like a good idea. What do you think would help us?" Sunset asked.
"Well, there's a way to make arrows more dangerous than what they are. Like light the ends on fire and make the tips explosive." Twilight said.
"Why try to make the arrows explode?" Sunset asked.
"This is an idea to take down a group of zombies and any bad people we come across. I'd just have to figure out how them explode when they hit a target." Twilight said.
"That's not a bad idea. There might be a book on weapons and how they're made." Sunset said, got Twilight to the thought. "It's just a thought."
"There could be one." Twilight said as she gets up from her chair walks to the librarian. "Do you have books on how weapons are made?" She asked.
"Yes. It's right over here." The librarian said, walking to the technology section of the library. She looked at which book Twilight was asking for and found the book of weaponology. She walks back to Twilight to give her the book she was looking for. "This book should be right one for you." She hands Twilight the book.
"Thank you." Twilight said, walks back to the table she was sitting at with Sunset and opens the book to see the different type of weapons and how they are made. "There should be grenades in here somewhere." She looks at the chapter index and found explosives and turns to the pages. "Here we go. There are grenades and sticky bombs, they are triggered by the pens and the flint inside the grenades. The first model grenades had a seven-second count, today they have a four-second count. If I can make something like this, I could attach hooks on our bows and crossbows, the pins on the grenades can get pulled out when we shoot our arrows."
"Don't we still have those grenades Devon found?" Sunset asked.
"I think so. I don't think he's used any of them." Twilight said.
"They must be in one of his bags." Sunset said and heard what sounded like a bunch of heavy trucks passing by the building. "Sounds like one of the search parties came back and it's a big one."
"I wonder if Derek sends the search parties out at the same time?" Twilight asked.
"That would be pretty big for one search party. I feel like talking to Derek about his search parties." Sunset said, getting up from her chair and to find Derek. Twilight decides to go with Sunset and talk to Derek about the searches. She took the book of weaponology with her so she could see more info on weapons. When the two girls walked out of the library and noticed how big the trucks were. Nobody was on the trucks when they got out, they must have gotten off in a hurry. There were supplies in the bed of the trucks. Something didn't feel right to Sunset, she knew she had to get Derek as fast as she can, she grabbed Twilight's arm and walked faster to where Derek was at.
"Sunset, slow down. Why are we in a hurry?" Twilight asked.
"Something doesn't feel right, Twilight. We need to find Derek." Sunset replied, getting to the courthouse. Derek must have a room inside the courthouse to live in as his home. They got to the front doors and walked the room they were interviewed. Sunset walked to the door where Derek first walked into. When she and Twilight came in the back room and saw Derek finishing up what he was eating. Derek turned and saw the two girls inside his home. "I didn't expect your home to be inside here."
"I had this part of the courthouse remodeled and my stuff moved here years ago." Derek said, putting his plate and cup in the sink. "I didn't even tell you where I live."
"I just guested where you live. We just saw the big trucks outside the library when we left the place." Sunset said.
"You did?" He asked. "Looks like the search parties came back sooner than I thought."
"We saw what was in the bed of the trucks. It looked like supplies and camping gear." Twilight said.
"That's the thing. Frank tells me when his group find people, they're too late to save those people or couldn’t find them. So, his group takes the supplies from the last people. I swear, it's like Frank's group has bad luck." Derek said.
"Derek, what does Frank look like? You talk about him so much. It feels like you are concerned about him." Sunset said.
"I am concerned about him. I've got a picture of what he looks like. I also made it a deal to take pictures of the people who come here." Derek said, walking to a file cabinet and opens one of drawers to find Frank's picture. "We do have a board in the church to remember who stayed here and died." He looked for the file holder with the letter F on it. "Here we go. This is Frank." Derek hands the photo to Sunset and Twilight. The two girls looked at Frank in the picture. In horror, they recognized him as the leader of the group that attacked them at the motel last month. "Are you two okay?" He asked.
"Yeah. He's a good-looking guy." Twilight said.
"He seems a bit young to be a leader of a search party." Sunset said, trying her best to not sound scared.
"He was a college student when the outbreak happened. About a month ago, he came back and he told one of people he tried to save shot a zombie behind him and the bullet scratched his face and took a piece of his ear off. The group escaped and they couldn't find them." He explained.
"It's good to know someone for who they are. We're going to go now." Sunset said, walks out the door she and Twilight came from and closed. They both ran as fast as they can to get out of the courthouse. They managed to get out of the courthouse and to see the residents walking around.
"This is so bad! Frank is that maniac that tried to kill us!" Twilight said, freaking out with her hands on her head.
"We need to warn the others and get out of here." Sunset said.
"We need to find Devon first. He'll be the first guy Frank will try to kill first." Twilight said, starts running to the apartments with Sunset following. They made it to the apartments in twenty seconds and opens the door to their friend's stay. "Devon!" She and Sunset called out, but he was nowhere to be seen. Sunset ran to the bedroom and Twilight checked the bathroom, they still couldn't find him.
"He's not in here." Sunset said, noticed the carbine and Devon's weapon belt set next to the front door. "This situation keeps getting worse." She picks up the weapons belt and his backpack. She hands the items to Twilight. "Go find him. I'll get others." Twilight nods in agreement. She runs to get his weapons belt and goes looking for him.

Meanwhile in the bar, Devon sat alone inside at the counter with some candles to provide some light for the night to save power to Wood Valley. He looked at the gun he used to kill the leader of the attackers from a month ago. The words Rainbow Dash told him earlier on this very day kept echoing inside his head 'You did that to protect yourself.'.
"Maybe Rainbow Dash was right. I did use this to protect myself from that asshole. There's probably a lot more people out there that are more dangerous than the dead." He said to himself. He noticed a shadow to his right, he turned to see who it was and felt a blunt hit from a wooden chair hit him in the side of his rib cage and head. He falls to the floor and placed his left hand on his ribs. One of the candles got knocked off the counter, rolls towards a curtain and sets it on fire.
"I knew I would find you." The sound of the voice gave Devon a shock, it made him look behind him and to see the man he thought was Dead, still alive and holding his red handle machete.
"I thought I killed you." Devon said, looking at the scar on his face and a piece of his left ear shot off.
"That's because your fear kept me alive." The man said, saw Devon try to reach for his gun. He kicks it away from his reach and looks back to see him get up. "You and your people escaped and that was a sign of the fear you all had." He swings his machete to cut off Devon's arm, but he missed when Devon moves his arm out of the way. "And as so as I kill all of you, there will be nothing but fear left in this world." He tries to chop Devon again and missed.
"Do you ever stop saying that fuckin word?" Devon asked annoyed at the word ‘fear’.
"Nope." The man said and gets Devon cornered against a corner of the counter. "It will be the new world order when our world comes back!" He said as he swings his machete to Devon's head. Devon grabs a chair to block the attack. His opponent moves chair and tries to get his machete free, but gets punched square in the nose and heard a crack in his skull. Devon broke his nose as Frank grew angry at the act of bravery. He noticed Devon got out of the corner and trying to pull the machete out of the chair. He charges at Devon and forced him to a wall and watched him lie on the ground. "You think bravery is going to bring this world back, I'm the key to restoring order." He said, but got hit in the face with a beer bottle and spins around once and fell back against a knocked over table. Devon noticed the fire spreading through the bar, but he had to focus on fighting for his life. He noticed the machete was free, so he grabs it and tries to swing it his opponent's head. The man noticed this action tilts his head to the side and punches Devon in the face. Devon fell over a chair and onto the floor. "Nobody uses this machete but me, especially if they try to kill me with it!" He yelled in such rage and rubbed the blood dripping from his nose. He was going to kill Devon with his bare hands. Devon saw his gun underneath a table in front of him, he rushes to the gun and tries to shoot the maniac. As Devon tries to shoot him, he gets charged by his enemy through one of the windows and lands on someone walking by. With this little help, Devon gets up and runs away from the bar to find his friends. "GOD DAMMIT!" The man shouted in defeat and steps back when the ceiling comes and blocks the window. He rushes to the front door and gets out quick.

Meanwhile with Twilight, she came out of the training grounds to see if Devon was there, but he wasn't there. She carried the silenced submachine gun she used earlier. She saw him running across the street like he was being chased. Twilight ran to him as fast as she can to get to him.
"Devon!" She called out to him and got his attention.
"Twilight!" Devon ran to her as she ran to him. "Twilight, the son of a bitch that tried to kill us is here."
"That guy is Frank. Derek doesn't know he's been killing people he finds out there. We need to leave." She said, Devon was shocked about that fact. She hands him his backpack and belt. Devon puts his belt on and then his backpack. Many of the town's residents were confused at the two running teens with weapons in their hands as they passed by. They reached the apartments. "Sunset already warned whoever was here. We need to get others." She said as Devon ran into Adagio, Sonata and Aria's apartment to get their weapon belts. He takes off his backpack and opens it to make sure it still had the grenades, whip and his Colt inside. He quickly puts the whip holster on his belt, in front of his hatchet and takes out one of the grenades and puts it his pocket for any emergency that may come. He runs back outside to find the others.

Meanwhile, Rarity, Applejack and Rainbow Dash managed to find Fluttershy, the crusaders and the pets at the dog park.
"Guys. That murdering monster is here. We need to leave." Rainbow Dash said, giving the girls and pets a scared look.
"Where is he?" Fluttershy asked in fright.
"We don't know. But we need to find the others, fast." Applejack said, getting her little sister up and hands Apple Bloom her gun.
"I'm going to find Spitfire and her friends, they need to know about this." Rainbow Dash said, giving Scootaloo her gun ran into a different direction.
"Where are the others?" Rarity asked, hands Sweetie Belle her pistol and runs into a different direction to the rest of her people.

Sunset was looking for her friends, she spots Pinkie inside the bakery eating a cupcake. Sunset runs inside to warn Pinkie.
"Pinkie!" Her shout got her attention.
"Yes Sunset." Pinkie looked up at her.
"Pinkie. You know that Frank guy Derek mentioned?" Shimmer asked.
"Yeah." Pinkie answered.
"He was that asshole that tried to killed us." Sunset explained.
"What?" Pinkie said in shock.
"And he's here!" Sunset said.
"WHAT?!" Pinkie said with more shock, she saw Mr. and Mrs. Cake came out with their babies in their arms.
"What's going on here?" Mr. Cake asked.
"You need to come with us. We'll explain later." Sunset said, grabbing them by their not too hard to cause them to drop their babies and get them out of the bakery. Pinkie gets up to leave the bakery, she grabs another cupcake and walks out the front door.

Twilight searched for her family to see whether or not they have been found by Frank's men. She noticed the burning bar and how much the fire was rising. A lot of the residents looked at the fire and questioned what happened. Twilight moved on and saw her family walking towards the fire, she ran right to them.
"Mom! Dad! Shining! Cadance!" She got their attention.
"Twilight. What happened?" Velvet asked, placing her hands on her daughter's shoulders.
"It was Frank. He's the guy that attacked us and Devon fought him in there." Twilight explained.
"WHAT?" Shining said, surprised at the bad news. "We need to go."
"I know, Shining. We have to find the others first." Twilight said.
"Any of the others looking for us?" Cadance asked.
"Yes. Get your weapons and find the others." Twilight said, runs to find the rest of her people.

Rainbow Dash checked the gym to see if any of the Wondercolts and bulk were inside. The lights were off and nobody was in here. She turned around and noticed a man with a carbine aiming it right at her. She quickly hides around the corner and pulls out her crossbow.
"I saw you, bitch. There's no use in hiding from me." He said, walking towards his victim. When he turns around the corner, only to find himself the victim when he spots Rainbow Dash and receives a bolt shot right into his forehead and falls back onto the floor. Rainbow Dash pulled out the bolt and takes the carbine as her own.
"They must be at the shooting range." She said to herself and runs out the door. She spots some of the people who tried to get her and her group, she hides beside another door and waits for them to pass by. They walk by her, but didn't see her and she continues to get to the shooting range. She spots the burning bar as she walks to the shooting range. "I hope that fucker died in this fire." She said to herself and made it to the shooting range. She found them and Flash was there. He must have told them about what happened.
"There's Rainbow Dash." Soarin said, pointing at her as she ran towards him and the others.
"Flash just told us the news." Fleefoot said.
"I can't believe that rescue man is a monster. More than the dead out there." High Winds said with her hands on her head.
"We can't just stand here, we need those guns and get out of here." Spitfire said, taking an AK-103 and SIG-Sauer P320 as her weapons of choice. She takes an extra clip and magazine for her guns and hands Fleefoot and High Winds some guns that look right for them. Bulk grabs an M60 light machinegun and a SIG-Sauer P229 for himself and then hands Soarin a Colt M16A1 and SIG-Sauer P228.
"Where do we go?" Bulk asked.
"We'll have to get to our cars and RV. There should be enough more in the RV." Flash said, taking the AK-47 Adagio used earlier and starts leading them with Rainbow Dash to where the vehicles are.

Meanwhile with Devon, he searched for who was left of his people in Wood Valley. He did his best to keep a low profile from any of the people who were with Frank a month ago. He saw the dazzlings inside a clothes shop, he begins to run when he noticed three men with carbines, he rushes to his right and hides from them. He listened to them when they walked by.
"Can you believe that fire man?" The first guy said.
"Yeah. Fear was just fighting that kid inside that bar and told us that asshole started it." The second guy said, Devon was mad to hear a lie about something he didn't start.
"Whatever. We need to find him and bring him alive so he can kill him." The last guy said, Devon watched them walk away far enough for him to come out and get the girls before anyone else. He opens the door and the three girls noticed him rushing to them with a bruise on his face.
"Devon. What the hell happened to you?" Aria asked.
"It was Frank." He said.
"Who?" Sonata asked.
"That guy who attacked use. He's alive." He said, leaving the girls in shock.
"What?! That fucker survived?" Adagio asked.
"Yes! We need to get the fuck out of here!" Devon said, handing them their belts and starts heading out the door with the girls following him. They moved slowly to make sure none of Frank's men were close by. The girls noticed the burning bar, Sonata stopped in her tracks to the fire rising to the sky and everyone looking at the building. Her friends didn't notice she was not with them. They reached their entire group and some new members in the group. "Are they coming with us?" He asked.
"Yes. They decided to come with us after hearing what happened." Shining explained.
"We just can't live with some guy who's murdering innocent people out there." Mrs. Cake said, while holding her son in her hands.
"That's why he attacked us. The main reason why we were out there in the open for a month." Adagio said, Aria tapped her shoulder.
"Adagio, where's Sonata?" Aria asked, Adagio looked at her and didn't see Sonata anywhere.
"She was right behind you. Where did she go?" Adagio asked, looking around for her.
"We need to find her." Rarity said, everyone agreed and walked back the direction Devon, Aria and Adagio came from.

Sonata continued to watch the fire as it began to burn another building. She listened to the people about what happened and something about her friend trying to kill Frank. This reminded her about the danger that's going on right now, she had to get back to her people, but she felt someone grab her by her ponytail. She turned her head to see Frank holding her hostage and held his machete in his other hand, it left her in fear.
"Derek! This little bitch is one of them." Frank yelled, got Derek's attention.
"Sonata is one of them? But, they're nice people." Derek said.
"Don't listen to these peo-" Frank stopped to the sound of someone calling out his name.
"Let her go, Frank!" Shining called out and got his attention while he and some of his people aimed their guns at him. Derek was confused at what was happening.
"What's going on here, Frank?" Derek asked.
“Don’t you fucking get it? The people you let in are killers! They just came up to us when we tried to save some people. There is nobody out there to trust. They’ll just come up to you and stab you in the back. THEY ARE NOTHING BUT MURDERERS!” Frank said all rage he had inside him.
“That’s bullshit, Frank!” The shout of Devon’s voice calls out, followed by a gunshot and shoots him in his shoulder. The pain of the gunshot caused him to let go of Sonata and drop his machete so he can cover his wound. This gave Sonata the chance to run to her friends as Frank turns to see Devon aiming his gun at him. Everyone else looks in his direction.
“YOU!” He calls out to his enemy.
“Derek, Frank is the one who started this fire and tried to kill me.” Devon explained.
“Don’t listen to him, Derek. You saw him shoot me and he wants to kill us all.” Frank lied.
“Yer a fuckin liar, Frank.” Applejack yells. “You tried to kill us when you came up to us at the motel.”
“You did what Frank?” Derek asks in shock.
“They’re the ones who’s lying, Derek. We came to their camp to help them and they just opened fire on us.” Frank tries to convince his leader.
“You’re the one who came up on us. You forced us onto our knees and wanted to kill us.” Shining said.
“Shut up!” Frank demands.
“You found me, my parents and friends in the woods at gunpoint before they found us.” Trixie said.
“SHUT UP!” He demands again, reaching for his machete. But is stopped by a warning shot from his foe.
“You shot a man, right in front of us in cold blood and he did nothing to you. The only thing they wanted was help.” Devon said. "Which is what Derek did for us. He gave us a chance to live and survive."
“You’re a liar.” Applejack said.
“A murderer.” Rainbow Dash said.
“And a monster.” Fluttershy said.
“A monster who is much worse than the undead out there that doesn’t deserve to be in here for disobeying the one thing Derek wanted you to do and that is to help people. Just like how he helped us, but you did the opposite for your own selfish game. Trying to put this world in complete fear for no reason. That’s all in you!” Devon said, getting the residents to learn about his secret.
“ALL OF YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP!” He demands again with so much rage. He removes his hand from his wound to pick up his machete. His machete is nowhere on the ground, but in Derek’s hand.
“Frank. I found you when you were alone in the woods. I worshiped you. Your life. Your survival and the choice I gave you to help others and you threw it away.” Derek said.
“Give me my machete, Derek.” Frank demands.
“No Frank. You don’t deserve this for your lies.” Derek said. Frank was about to take his machete by force and stops at the end of a gun barrel pressed against the back of his head.
“And you don’t deserve to live.” Devon said, leaving Frank helpless with his people behind him with their guns aimed at him. "You see, Frank. There's a new world order the living must follow." He said, with Frank listening. "Everyone saves the living, everyone helps the living, everyone doesn’t kill the living. We thrive together for a world without the dead or you die." With that said, Shining and Bow grabs Frank by his arms while he takes his machete from Derek. Frank struggles to break free as Bulk and Nightlight walked over to him to pick him up by his legs. Frank was carried to the east gate and tried to break free. Everyone arrived at the gate and Frank was dropped to the ground. He was in fear before he was going to be forced out of the safe zone. Everyone in Wood Valley gave him a disappointed look for his lies. "It's a real shame, Frank. You could have saved us, but you did the opposite." He said, rubbing his thumb against the machete's blade as Frank watched. "You got any last words before you die in a few days?" He asked.
"Yeah. Bullseye." Frank answered, made everyone in front of him confused.
"Pore choice of words, asshole." Devon said, Derek noticed a red dot on the back his head. Derek knew what it was.
"LOOK OUT!" Derek shouted and threw himself in front of Devon. Everyone ducked at the sound of a gunshot. The next thing they know, Derek was on the ground with a gunshot in his head, blood pouring out of the two holes. It was a set up. Rarity quickly pulled out her rifle and shoots the sniper. Everyone began to run for cover and with this distraction, Frank looks at Devon with full rage, he gets up and tries to get his machete back from him. His shout got his foe's attention, Devon quickly swings the weapons, but Frank grabbed his arm.
"You think it's over for the fear?! You don't know the true meaning of fear!" He said, trying to get Devon to let go of his machete. He couldn't stop him from headbutting his forehead into his already broken nose and was forced back up to the gate. This gave Devon to kick his chest and quickly gets up to take the grenade out of his pocket.
"FUCK YOU, FRANK!" Devon shouts as he pulls the pin and throws the grenade at the maniac. The grenade rolls past Frank, he noticed the grenade and runs away from it just before it blows him away from the spot and blew open the gate.
"Fight back, everyone." He shouts to his group and they start to shoot at anyone trying to shoot themselves. He saw a horde of zombies coming to the gate. He saw Frank standing and walking right to him.
"Someone is going to die today." Frank said.
"Yeah. It's you." Devon said, taking his carbine out and shoots near him to make him move back. It made him look behind him and see the number of zombies walking towards him. He fights the dead, but they made him back away into a corner. He was unable to escape. Devon ran to his people and saw the people who were with Frank trying to shoot them.
"We need to get out of here!" Flash said while shooting.
"You think." Adagio said.
"Where's Frank?" Limestone asked.
"He's serving dinner tonight." Devon said, some of his friends look behind him to see a horde coming from the gate.
"We seriously need to get out of here!" Aria said.
"We'll have to push through this fight." Rainbow Dash said, shoots at the zombies so that way they don't get killed by anyone and anything. Devon saw the fire power coming from around the corner, he needs something for cover. He looks at Derek's body and thought about using him as a shield. He runs over to pick up the body and starts to run into the open. Frank's men noticed this and they start shooting at the human shield. He didn't get shot from the firing power he felt in Derek's body as his group started shooting at the men with this distraction. He noticed a resident run in panic and was shot by one of the men and lands on Devon, it made them believe he was dead. They turned their guns back to the corner. With this chance, Devon crawled out from under the bodies slowly so that way nobody would notice him moving. He got to cover and pulls out another grenade from his backpack and throws it at the shooters. One of the men noticed the explosive.
"GRENADE!" One of them shouts, he and nine more around him got blown up while rest were blown away. This gave group a chance to run for the cars. Some of them had to make sure none of the attackers were getting up to try and shoot them again. Some of the attackers got up and grabbed their guns to shoot the group, but one of them got bit on their neck by a zombie and it caused him to swing his gun behind him and shoot some of his people who were standing up while the others got up and shoot at the dead. More zombies followed the gun shots, they walked to the men and try to get them as they got shot. The big group made it to the gate where they first entered. Applejack and Rainbow Dash pushed the lock bar up and try to open the gate.
"Guys, help us with this." Rainbow Dash called out to whoever was not in the vehicles yet. Bulk, Bow, Shining and Maud ran over to help open the gate. Within five seconds, the gate was open. They ran back to the vehicles as part of the horde saw them and split from the other zombies. They noticed part of the horde coming right for them, they start their vehicles and drive out of Wood Valley. Some of the members looked back and watched the fire rise and spread all over Wood Valley. Some of them felt bad about not helping the rest of people in the town. Maybe they managed to get out alive.
"Do you think the good people got out alive?" Fluttershy asked, looking out the window.
"I hope so, darling." Rarity said, placed a hand on her friend's shoulder.
"Someone got shot when Devon was out there." Zephyr said.
"Those people were scared because of the setup. They didn't even think about what was happening." Shining said, keeping his eyes on the road. The radio in a cup holder was turned and someone spoke through.
"Where are we going?" Flash asked from his end of the radio. Cadance picked up the radio and answered.
"Shining is driving us somewhere where they can't find us." She said.
"There's got to a be a place where they can't find us." Devon said on his end.
"We'll have camp somewhere in the woods again. But we're leaving the lights off and keep watch a group at a time." Shining said and saw a road on his right. "Turn here." He called out and everyone turned right. Everyone followed the road for a few blocks and picked a spot to camp for the night. The vehicles parked in a circle and each of a member got out as Rainbow Dash got off her motorcycle.
"How long should we stay up?" Igneous asked.
"All night. I want to make sure none of those people find us here." Shining said, picking up his shotgun and checks it see if it's still loaded. He goes to the back of the RV and climbs the ladder so he can keep watch on top. Igneous, Flash, Rainbow Dash, Night Light and Devon get on top of the vehicles they drove looked out a different direction. "The rest of you can sleep and we will take turns each hour." He said.

Thirty minutes have passed. There was no sign of danger, a few zombies have passed by, but they couldn't see the group. Devon looked at whoever was keeping watch and they were looking away. He got off his truck and picks up his cellphone from one of the cup holders and placed it against his ear.
"Are you okay, son?" The voice of his father asked.
"I'm not sure how to answer that, Dad." Devon said, rubbing the side of his head. "I fought this guy I thought I killed last month. He tried to kill me, so I shot him in his face, but it took a piece of his ear off. He tried to kill me inside a bar and he pushed me out of a window. My friends and I had to get the others and escape."
"Is he still alive?" His mother asked.
"I don't know. I only saw him get surrounded by zombies." He said.
"I can't believe someone tried to kill you." His sister's voice said.
"I thought I killed him, Savannah. It was a problem I couldn't get out of my head. He tried to lie to the people in this town we stayed in for a day. I spoke the truth about who he was in front of everyone. We were going to force him out of town without any weapons, but one of his men tried to snipe me in the head. The leader named Derek got in the way and saved me. Everyone panicked, we don't know if they made it out alive when the fire in the bar started burning the rest of Wood Valley. We managed to escape and let some new members stay with us." He said.
"Do you know them before the outbreak?" His father asked.
"Yeah. Some of them were from CHS and two of them worked at the Sweet Shoppe. They have two babies." He said.
"This is a big problem. It's going to be hard to keep a couple of babies safe in this world." His father said.
"We can find a way to make sure they stay safe. There's a safe place out there. We just haven't found it yet." He said.
"Where do you think that place would be?" His mother asked.
"Maybe the country side. It's wide open space and there's probably not much of the dead moving around there. We could just head out west and see if there's a house big enough for this whole group." He said.
"You got to do what you got to do, bro." His sister said.
"Thanks guys. I needed to hear that. I'll talk to you when we get to someplace safer." He said, putting his phone in his pocket and goes back to watching out for any trouble through the dark woods.

(August 18, 2016)

The morning sun rose beyond the horizon. Each of the survivors were really tired from keeping watch last night. Some of them poured water on their faces to help them wake up better. Shining checked on everyone if they were okay after last night.
"Is everyone okay? And I don't mean whoever is tired." He asked. Many raised their hands while others rubbed their faces. "I'll take that as a yes. We can sleep for an hour and then we're heading out." His people felt thankful to hear that.
"Do we really have to leave after we wake up?" Aria asked with her eyes half open.
"We have to, Aria. We don't know if anyone of Frank's men could have escaped and are trying to find us." He said.
"I want to sleep first, Aria. I don't want to go yet." Sonata said as she annoyed Aria with her begging.
"Will you stop it, Sonata! We're going to get some sleep." Adagio stopped the two girls with their rambling for how annoying it was going to be.
"Girls, please don't try to this again." Devon said, getting in between them.
"Which way do we head out, Shining?" Spitfire asked.
"We'll head out east to the country side. I hope there's not a lot of the dead out." Shining said.
"I sure could use some wide-open space out there." Fluttershy said.
"We could grow some food when we get there." Applejack said.
"And do some hunting if we see anything looks good to eat." Flash said.
"Alright everyone. Get some rest." Shining said, walking to the RV and everyone walked to their vehicles and sleeps for the next hour.

Forty-five minutes have passed, Zephyr gets up and walks to the door of the RV without waking anyone up and to find a place to pee. He walks out to the road, so that way anyone of his people don't see him. He looks around and there wasn't a single zombie insight. Zephyr unzips his pants, pulls down the front of his underwear a little bit and pees on the dirt. Within ten seconds of his privacy, he heard the sound of water bouncing off of metal. He looks down and finds out he was peeing on a sign. After he finished peeing, Zephyr finds the edge of the sign and flips it over to get the rest of the dirt off and reads the sign. He managed to get the sign to stand on its side and hear the sound of dirt landing on the ground. It read how far the next two places were and a military base was just three miles away. From what he just read, he ran back to the camp tell everyone what he just found by knocking on each of the vehicle windows and opens the RV door to wake them.
"Guys, wake up! I found something." He called out and everyone opens their windows.
"Zephyr, it's been forty-five minutes and you woke us up to see something you just found." Scootaloo said, rubbing her eye.
"But it's really important. I went out to the street to pee and I found this sign under the dirt. I cleaned it off and a military base is three miles away from here." He explains, everyone was surprised at what he just said.
"Zephyr. Take us to where you saw that sign." Shining said, starts the RV as Zephyr walks back into the RV and drives to the road with the others following.
"It's right there." Zephyr pointed at the sign.
"We need the ammunition. We might even find help there." Shining said to himself and picks up his radio. "We're going to the base everyone. There could be a chance for help when we get there." He said through the radio to everyone.
"We were thinking the same thing, Shining." Sunset said on her end.
"Maybe there's some full auto weapons we can get." Devon said through his radio.
"At least the crazy people won't find us, right?" Sonata asked.
"I'm sure they won't find us, Sonata." Devon said. "None of us saw them last night. It was too dark for them to find us." He got Sonata to not worry too much and think about the safety they need.

The group drove for three miles, they made it to the base and the gate was closed. Everyone parked their vehicles and got out to see the base, except for the Cakes so they can watch over the babies.
"Looks like it’s deserted." Twilight said.
"Twilight, it's not full of dessert." Pinkie said.
"That's not what deserted means, Pinkie." Rainbow Dash said.
"Are you sure? I would see a lot of cakes, pies, cookies and other kinds of sweets." Pinkie replied.
"Uh, Pinkie. Deserted means there's nobody here." Adagio said.
"Really?" Pinkie asked.
"It's true, Pinkie. Besides, deserted is spelled with one S, not two." Devon explained.
"Oh." Pinkie said.
"Devon, what are you holding there?" Sweetie Belle asked when she looked at the piece of paper in his hand.
"It's a picture of me and my family. It was taken the week before our last day of school." He said, looking at it. "I talked to them last night."
"Devon, that doesn't make any sense." Limestone said. "You told us they died three months ago." Everyone was confused.
"Limestone." Cloudy stops her from hurting the teen.
"I did talk to them. I can only hear their voices through my phone." He said.
"Ya told us a family called you when we went to your house and would tell us where they were." Applejack said.
"There never was a family who called me. It was them." He explained and noticed Twilight inside his truck and looked at his phone.
"Devon. Your phone doesn't have a signal." She said.
"What?" He asked in confusion as she walked up to him.
"Devon, all this stuff with your family is all in your head. Don't let it get to you." She said with her hand on his shoulder.
"I don't know if I can." He replied.
"You can, dude. You're stronger than this." Rainbow Dash said.
"We're here for ya, partner. You can talk to us if you have any problems." Applejack said.
"I'll try." He said as he puts the photo in his pocket. In just two seconds, he and his people were blown away by an explosion from the gate. With the sound of ringing coursing through their ears, they had to get up and looked at the blown open gate and Rainbow Dash's motorcycle was destroyed.
"MY BIKE!" Rainbow Dash shouts is surprise. She and the others looked back and to see Frank and his people are still alive and that they followed them.
"You have got to be fucking kidding me." Adagio said.
"Round them up. He's mine. I'm going to teach them the true meaning of fear." Frank said, while holding his machete.
"RUN!" Shining yelled and everyone ran into the base to find the weapons as the attackers chased them. His people had to shoot and kill their pursuers. Some of Frank's men tried to shoot them, but they got shot and couldn't get up from the pain. Some of the members took cover behind some Humvees.
"We need more weapons." Rarity said.
"Get to the armory. We'll hold them off." Devon said, taking his carbine off his shoulder with the dazzlings by his side. The rest of the group ran and fired back as they try to find the armory. He and the girls fired and took cover to avoid getting shot. Adagio and Devon ran out of ammo in their carbines, they had to drop them and switch to their pistols.
"This isn't a good spot. We're going to get killed." Aria said.
"They don't have much guns. Let's get out of here." Sonata suggested, they agreed and moved away from the Humvee to get to the others. Devon saw two of Frank's men right behind him, he pulled out the whip on his belt and whips the two to get them to back away. He shoots them in their heads and runs to safety. On his way, he finds Frank standing in his path.
"You just can't learn to die, can you?" He asked.
"That's because of the fear you gave to those people last night kept me alive." Frank said.
"How many times do you have to say that fucking word?" He asked in frustration.
"It's what keeps me alive and I'm going to kill you in front of your people and prove how powerful fear is to the world." Frank said, walking towards him and was stopped when Devon points his gun at him.
"Fear is not the answer for everything." Devon pulls the trigger of his gun and to find out he shot all of his ammo.
"Someone forgot to count their bullets." Frank said and continues to walk towards his enemy. Devon swings his whip to Frank's arm and disarm him of his machete. He quickly pulls out his hatchet and throws it hard to Frank's head, but Frank dodged the weapon as it flies into a window of the building behind him. They look at the window and saw zombie soldiers emerging from inside and making their way out the broken window to get them. The two foes run away, but Frank still intends to kill Devon with his bare hands. He tumbles on top of Devon and begins to strangle him. "When I'm done with you, I'm going to take over the next place I see and bring the new world to fix this world." He said in anger. Devon quickly grabs his knife and stabs Frank in the same spot he shot in his shoulder. Frank screams in pain as Devon kicks him off of himself. Devon quickly gets up as Frank pulls Devon's knife out of his shoulder and throws it aside. He saw the zombies getting closer to him, he ran and chased Devon to the bed a M35a3 cargo truck. "I'm going to kill everyone I find as soon as we're done with you." He said as the zombies surrounded the cargo and there was no escape through them.
"Not going to happen, fucker." Devon said and begins to fight to the death.

Three of Frank's men split from their people, they thought they could get to group before the others.
"They won't get away from us this time." The first man said. They turned around the corner and saw the crusaders aiming their guns at them.
"Leave us alone." Sweetie Belle said.
"Heh. Are you serious?" The second man said.
"We will kill ya." Apple Bloom warned them.
"You don't have the guts you little bitches." The third guy said, but the girls shot them in their heads and watched them fall to the ground.
"We warned you, fuckers." Scootaloo insulted the dead men.
"Girls." Sweetie Belle pointed at a big group of zombies coming from where the men came from and ran. They got to a marauder and climbed to the top so that way they can kill the zombies with whatever ammo they had.

The fight between Devon and Frank continues on. Frank kicks Devon off of him and gets up to try and punch him into the zombies. Devon ducks under the punch and gets around him to punch him into the zombies. Frank manages to block the attacks and turns Devon's arm back behind him to punch him in his back and make him fall off the truck. Devon manages to bring his elbow to Frank's face and punch him in his face a couple of time at a different angle away from the edge. Frank punched his opponent in his ribs and his face to bring him down on the platform.

The group fought back against the attackers as they try to find the armory. Some of the members try to get a jammed door open with all they've got. Applejack and her friends fought some of the men with their empty guns and melee weapons. Applejack gets hit in the face and falls to the ground by one of the attackers and was about to accept her fate. As he was about to kill Applejack, his hand gets hit with a staff and knocked out by Zecora.
"Zecora?" Applejack asked why she knocked him out.
"I do not kill the living, because life is very giving." Zecora said, helping Applejack up and they saw the door was now open. They ran inside with the others as the attackers chased them.
"You son of a bitches can't escape from us in there." The guy in front said as he and his men followed. They got to the door and got the group for a few seconds when they got shot with full-auto guns.
"We hit the jackpot." Bulk said.

The fight between Frank and Devon continues. Frank has Devon beaten from the fight and got the upper hand. He noticed a photo in Devon's pocket and pulls it out to see his family.
"I assume this is your family?" Frank asked at the beaten teen crawl away. "The funny thing about them. They are first people I killed and I liked how they were in fear when they crashed and died." A cocktail of adrenaline grew inside Devon after hearing what he just said. "I can't wait to kill the last member of this family." He said. Devon noticed a baseball bat under a blanket and grabs it. He swings it so hard to the side of Frank's right knee, he broke it and caused Frank to fall on his good knee so he can kick him right into his chin, causing him to bite his tongue. They both get up, but Frank tries his best to stand with his good knee while Devon swings the bat from behind his back and over his head to Frank's head. The bat splits in half after it hits Frank's head, leaving a dent in the top of his skull. Devon tossed the handle aside and punches Frank in his face so hard, he was forced back towards the edge of the bed. Devon brings a really hard punch to the side of his face, he spins at a hundred-eighty degrees. He turns back around to see Frank still standing, he continues to fight and stops when Frank falls off the truck and down to the ground where the zombies were standing. He regains his senses and sees the number of zombies reaching for him. He screams in complete fear, well deserved fear when they tore his right arm off from the elbow, bit two of his left fingers off, bites his lips off and tear into his abdomen to pull out his intestines. He stops screaming as the massive amount of pain kills him. Devon watched Frank get eaten alive. He picks up his photo and gets off the truck to find the others. Devon reloads his gun and looks around for any sign of his friends. He spots the crusaders on top of a marauder and shoots at the zombies to get them away from the girls.
"GIRLS! GET OUT OF HERE!" Devon shouts and made the two groups of zombies come after him. He shoots all of his ammo and uses his gun as a blunt weapon to bash the heads in. Most of the blunt hit forced the zombies back as the survivor backed up to a corner of a wall. The crusaders got off the marauder and ran off to find their friends to save their fellow savior. He fought for his life as the dead closed in on him. He was trapped and there was no escape. He was about accept his fate when gun fire was killing the undead soldiers surrounding him. He ducks to avoid fire and looks at all the dead lying on the ground. He looks up to see his people with full auto weapons.
"You look like you needed help." Spitfire said.
"At the right time." Devon said, walking over the dead and to his people, rubbing the blood from under his nose. "Are there any more the people trying to kill us?"
"No. We killed them all. There's not much of them left." Shining said, holding a Colt M16A3. "There's a lot more weapons in here."
"What else can we find?" Devon asked.
"We should check the other builds and take whatever we can find here." Shining suggested, everyone walked in different directions to each of a building for anything of good use. He and a few others walked to a building to find a storage of any food and noticed some zombies eating something behind a cargo truck. Devon knew they were eating what was left of Frank.
"Can I borrow that?" He asked, Shining hand him the carbine and Devon shoots one of the zombie's head. It got their attention and they got up to get some fresh meat. Devon managed to kill the rest and see what was left of Frank. He was now ripped in half. His legs were ripped from his spine, only had one arm to reach out to anything and most of his inside were ripped out. Frank was now a helpless zombie from the look of the color in his eyes. Devon gives the carbine back to Shining and approached the undead monster who killed his family. "I don't know if any part of you is still in there. This is for my family. You getting torn apart is what the true meaning of fear." He spots Frank's machete under the Humvee and walks over to retrieve the red handled machete and finds the word Fear carved into the handle. He walks back to Frank. "You won't be needing this anymore." He steps on Frank's arm and cuts it off at the elbow. He looked at his people and was shocked to hear what he just said.
"Devon, is it true about what he did?" Rarity asked.
"Yeah. He looked at my picture and told me how he killed my family." He said.
"Aren't you going to kill him?" Trixie asked.
"As in again? No. This is going to make him suffer for what he has done to me and he’ll just rot in hell." He said, calming down and taking the machete sheath off of Frank's belt. "Let's get the supplies and we can get out of here." He spots his knife and picks it up and puts it in his knife holster.

Twenty minutes later, everyone gathered outside with all the guns, ammo and loads of MREs from the buildings. There were loads of handguns, shotguns, submachine guns, rifles, light machine guns, a few launchers and grenades put inside crates so that way they can carry them faster. They took some ammunition boxes with ammo in as much as they can take. The rest carried boxes of MREs from the food storage and duffel bags with stainless steel canteens inside for the other members to carry their own water and flashlights for everyone. Everyone decided to load the weapons and ammo onto the M35a3 truck Devon was on, even the guns of the people they killed. They managed to find a cover for the bed, so that way they can sit in the bed and keep any rain and possible snow off of them and the supplies. Bulk already found the key to the truck inside on the driver seat. Hothoof got the marauder started to get some of the others to ride in there. Devon retrieved his hatchet and had the holstered machete on his belt now. The knocked out member of Frank's group woke up and finds the surviving group still alive. All of his men were now dead. He searched for his weapons and finds no weapons around him.
"You fuckers are going to die for what you've done!" He shouts and got their attention. "You'll suffer when I'm done with you!" He receives a shot to his head from Sunset Shimmer.
"Shut up." She said, put her gun back in her holster. With everything they looted, they drove and walked to the gate to leave and drive off with the rest of their vehicles. Shining and Cadance got into the RV and saw the Cake family and pets still alive.
"How is everyone else?" Carrot asked.
"We made it. We're well supplied now." Cadance said.
"We also got two more trucks to drive and carry the stuff we found." Shining said, getting in the driver seat of the RV as his family got in and sit down on the seats. Before everyone leaves, Devon spray paints 'LOOTED, NO SUPPLIES' on the sign of the base and gets in his truck to continue their journey to survive.

Author's Note

My father, sister and I went to one of these alligator zoos in Florida and someone did use a whip, but not to whip an alligator. Indiana Jones whip skills got me to think that whips can be useful in a zombie apocalypse. For Scootaloo, I decided to make her the adopted relative to Rainbow Dash's Family. For the military base, I looked on IMFDB on which U.S. armed forces used which guns and I decided use all of the in service one.
Link here: List of weapons used by U.S. Armed Forces - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games