Undead Equestria

Messy… The parts and engines of motor chariots were messy! The ones that were out in the open anyway. They were covered in a black sticky slime that had long been dried up, yet was still sticky. This will take forever to wash off.

Motor engines need special oil to keep the parts working and moving. They get too dry they stop, break, and even catch fire.

Yikes. Nothing’s perfect, right?

Exactly.

“Flurry, over here!” Thorax yelled. I ran over and stood in front of a massive blue and grey metal cariot. “Damn, these chariots are mostly used in Equestria, long distance travel other than trains. Not as fast, but cheaper. They call them a bus, this one looks like it can hold seventy ponies!” Thorax lifted one of the panels on the bottom sides of the bus and opened it, revealing a large empty space. “The cargo hold should be able to hold least a thousand pounds of stuff. This will be perfect for our needs, once those other survivors get here, we can get the rest of them.”

“Sounds like a plan… you know how to drive them?”

“Yeah, had to. Since I couldn’t afford my soda to be delivered I would borrow a friend’s cargo truck to pick up my stock.”

“Alright. So how do you turn it on?”

“This” Thorax held a small key in his magic. “Was taped to the door. Open the large door over there and I’ll start driving.”

I looked over at the end of the warehouse and spotted the door Thorax mentioned. It was easy four meters high, and pulled open by a chain on the wall next to it. I flew over and began pulling. The sun was coming up again, and sunlight brightened up the warehouse. Once the door was completely open I took a quick look outside and froze. Chess was there. Standing under a large dark black umbrella in the middle of the road.

“Finally, a face to face talk.” She said. She talks, she actually does talk, not just in my dreams… “Sorry about that nightmare I gave you, but what can I say? It’s my fetish.”

“Y… What are you doing here?” I managed to say. I could feel Sombra getting ready to take over my horn if needed.

“Just a talk. Felt a strong surge of magic earlier. Guessing that’s you.” I didn’t reply. “I’ll just take that as a yes. Seems you might not be as useless as I thought. Tell me, did you learn anything about us?”

“... You’re made from some kinda half DNA.”

“Something is better than nothing I supose. Yes, on the outside it looks like we’re born from a virus, of sorts, but that’s only half of it my sweet. What makes us what we are is a parasite.”

“A parasite?”

“Yes. Pretty sure there’s notes on that. That Sunburst pony might have had a chance at figuring out what we truly are.”

“Yeah, read something like that in his notes. Wait, you just said-”

“A lady doesn’t kiss and tell darling. If I told you everything then what fun would I have in watching you struggle. We may not be what we once were, but we are what we are now. Lot’s of us didn’t come out right… I believe Kitty called them ‘Dummies.’”

“What are and/or were you?”

“Spoilers sweetheart.” Chess started walking away, then stopped before turning a corner. “I will tell you this, we were never born, but we see everything die.”

With that, Chess turned the corner, out of sight and I fell to the floor, my legs gave out and I didn’t even know they got weak. “That… was… scary.”

Should have killed her there.

“If she can use a Dream Walker spell then she should easy be able to make a bullet proof shield.”

Fair enough. What should we do?

“... I don’t know. I honestly just want to go home right now.” I just felt tired. Really tired…

* * *

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY HEAD!

”You’re finally up. Sombra’s voice came from next to me.

“I feel like my skull broke… Did I…” I say as I start to open my eyes. We’re back in Throax’s bar.

”The stress of meeting Chess in person after your nightmare with her was too much for your mind to handle so you fainted.”

“You look scary as all hell when Sombra has control of you kid.” I looked over and saw Thorax pulling large crates on wheels outside. “Your eyes were as black as my chitten, and your skin turned ash grey. Your wings looked see through and on fire! I don’t know what kinda power you got locked up kid, but it reacts when Sombra takes control.”

I looked over to Sombra. “Did I really?”

“Yes. I didn’t tell you about it the first time because you already went through so much.”

“Ugh. My stomach feels like a water balloon.”

”Heh, heh. That’s my bad.” I looked up and saw dozens of empty mugs. I gave Sombra a plain look. ”You would have done the same and you know it.” He said, turning away and crossing his front legs.

I just dropped my head onto the table and then, Burped. ”BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH!” I quickly covered my muzzle with my hooves and my head with my wings. “That was soo embarrassing!”

“I’d give it a two outa five stars.” Thorax said.

“Shut up!”

* * *

The drive back to the castle was rather quiet. Kitty met us at the barrier, and Thorax went up to her, she was hesitant at first until he gave her the picture of her from the soda bar. She looked at it, then him. Then hugged him. “You know me!”

“Yeah,” He replied, stuck in Kitty’s hug. “You held the record for best burp in my bar. Your full name Is Kitty Curiosity - *Sqeek*” Kitty looked like she was gonna rip Thorax in half with that hug.

Kitty Curiosity. I like that name. And now Kitty has her full name back. “Easy Kitty, Thorax may have a natural armor but he can still be hurt.” I said, making Kitty let go of him. She looked rather sheepish… before quickly kissing him on the nose and then running off. “Well… That happened.”

”Somepony’s got lover~” Sombra teased.

“I-wa-she… I’m just gonna unpack my shit, then think… till I pass out.”

”Isn’t it drink till you pass out?”

“That too.” With that, Thorax went to unpack his things. A look of plain confusion across his face.

Walking inside, Kitty stopped me to talk. “Got messages. Push button like Sombra tell me how.” She said, wearing a happy smile the whole time.

I looked over at Sombra. ”I told Kitty incase we were out that she can record the messages survivors give out. Just needs to push the record button.”

“Well let’s go listen to them.”

We walked upstairs to the radio controle room and Sombra played to first message. It was Reaper’s voice.

”Hey there Princess, if you can hear this then we’re closer than we expected. Myself and a few others here pulled overtime so we could arrive sooner. Our ETA is nineteen hundred.” The message clicked, signifying it’s ending.

“Nineteen hundred?”

”Means seven’a’clock. It’s how military typically relay time.”

“Oh, well what’s the next one?”

”Flurry, this is the Survivors. Due to a swarm near the railroads the team had to work like hell to get away. We lucked out since no Pony Flies were there and we managed to make enough distance. This downed our ETA time to today, around five or later. If you get this we’ll meet you at the train station, east side, Pound Cake out.”

“Pony Flies? Do they mean those hulking flying ones?”

”Possibly. Oh crap!” Sombra’s sudden profanity caught me off guard, until I looked where he was. It was four-thirtyfive.

“Shit! How long will it take to get there?”

”Twenty minutes if you fly fast. No time for me to run under you, I’ll just leave my body here. Kitty, you put your suit and mask on and tell Thorax to get the bus ready and not to mention you’re an Undead to anypony. Got that?”

Kitty gave a quick nod and ran out the room. “Ready Sombra?”

Already in you… Gods that sounds wrong.

Ignoring Sombra’s dirty mind, I flew out the nearest window. Where to?

Turn left and fly straight.

The Sun was still high up in the sky, I just hope it stays there for long enough.

I spotted the train station with ten minutes to spare. Thankfully signs were everywhere to I found the east station with ease. Now all that’s left to do is wait. I did keep my shotgun in my magic, there were no Undead here, which made me nervous since new Undead were coming from outside the empire and we were at the border of the empire. You think the Undead are coming from another direction?

They shouldn’t. This station should actually be relatively full of Undead. Where are they?

“Chess?”

Perhaps, might me leading them elsewhere. For what only the Stars know.

I heard a faint yell. I looked down the rails and spotted what looked like a metal platform on wheels. Some.. thing, it clearly wasn’t a pony, was moving up and down repeatedly. When they got closer I saw that the thing moving up and down was a dragon, pulling up and down on some weird lever. Including the dragon there were four others. Three ponies and a dragon. Huh.

When they reached the station and the dragon's scale colors looked familiar. They were purple and green. He was tall, about a head taller than me. He had this massive gun strapped across his back and a rather weird looking dagger tied to a string across his waist. “Been a long time Flurry.” He said. His voice was oddly high pitch for a dragon his size.

“You look familiar. I just can’t-”

“I’m Twilight’s assistant.”

I just stared at the dragon in front of me. My magic faded and my shotgun hit the floor. “S… Spike!?”

“In the flesh- Uph!” I tackled Spike down into the strongest hug I could make. I was crying. Mom and dad always talked about aunt Twilight like she was… I had assumed Spike was gone too. “Hey, good to see you too.”

“I thought you were…”

“Where’d you get that idea?”

“Mom and dad always talked about aunt Twilight like she was gone.”

Spike sighed. “That’s a… long story. I’ll tell you when it’s safe, but Twilight is alive and well.” I got off of Spike and looked at the others. I still have family out there...

“So, who was the one who radio’d me?”

“That be me.” A vanilla pegasus with a brown mane and tail walked up. “I’m Pound Cake. This is my sister, Pumpkin Cake.”

A light orange unicorn with an orange mane and tail stood next to Pound Cake. “Nice to meet you.”

Suddenly, an earth pony mare wrapped one of her front legs around me. She was a dark orange with a wild hot red mane and tail. “Name’s Babs. Glad to meet ya.”

“Good to see you’re all okay… how come only Spike has a weapon?”

“Lost ours escaping that horde we ran into.”

“Oh, well when we get back to the castle you can all have your pick from the armory.” There’s another group coming today. At seven by train. A friend of mine will be coming by with a bus to carry everypony in. Doubt he’ll bring weapons but I think I saw a sporting store when I was flying over here. It’s just a couple kilometers away.”

“Sound’s good. You and I can fly out and grab what we can then come back. It’s five so we have an hour.” Pound Cake said.

“Sound’s good. You three will be okay?”

“We’ll be fine. Spike’s got a gun and I know more than my fair share of combat spells.” Pumpkin said.

With a nod, Pound Cake and I flew off. When we were high enough we spotted the sporting store and B-lined it. Luckily it was also a glass building, no Angeries. We flew right through the front door.

“Shit.” Pound Cake said, noticing several frozen Undead and ponies. “You weren't kidding about ponies and Undead being frozen.” He tapped a frozen Undead.

“Yeah, it was scary for me when it happened. It hasn’t been long at all, day and a half.”

“Wait, so when we called?”

“Was a couple hours before you called. It honestly feels like it’s been MUCH longer than just a day.” We walked towards the back. The guns, like before, were all lined up in glass display cases that were locked.

“Your strong Flurry. It took months before my sister and I got over first seeing a pony die. Longer when it was our parents.” Pound Cake said as he browsed the pistols.

“I’ve just been so preoccupied. I haven’t had much time to feel sorry. If it wasn’t for a good friend of mine I’d probably be curled up in a ball in my parents room.” I pulled out my machete and began hacking at the lock.

“Who is he?”  WHACK.

“A, uhh. Guard. Been looking over me my whole life.” I could hear Sombra chuckle. WHACK.

“How come he wasn’t with you?”

“He… is a firm believer in experience is the best tutor. But I’m sure he’s close by.” CLANK! With a heavy drop the lock fell off, giving us access to the rifles, shotguns, and ammo.

Pumpkin immediately grabbed a small rifle that had a wood frame and rather small, yet rather plentiful when I looked around, ammo magazines. “Man I wish I had a horn like you Flurry.”

“Huh?”

“Well, I shoot with my wings. They take all the recoil, anything larger than a .32 round and my wings might pop outa place… Wait a minute.” Pumpkin took a look at my shotgun, mainly, it’s strap. “Where did you find a combat strap?”

“Oh, it was in a sporting store near the castle. Magic can only hold back so much recoil.” And yet I can apparently make a shield spell that’s stronger than anything my dad has ever made. How does that makes sense?

“Can you help me find one then? I’ve been looking for one since we left Ponyville.”

They have plenty in the castle.

“There’s some in the castle, we can get you one there.”

“Thanks. Let’s get this stuff and the ammo to the gu-”

Pound was cut short by a sudden loud whistle in the distance. “Shit the trains early!”

Pound Cake and I rushed to gather weapons and ammo of all types, just incase Reaper’s group had different types of weapons. We flew fast and managed to catch the train as it stopped. The first off the train was a pony dressed in a trench coat with metal patched onto it. He also wore the same type of mask the ponies outside the isolation chamber wore.

Oh, I’ve been meaning to tell you, they’re called a gas mask. They filter out harmful pathogens in the air.

Thanks for that.

“You must be princess Flurry Heart.” The stallion said.

“Yes, are you Reaper?”

“In the flesh.” He replied. “Glad to finally meet you in person.”

“Same”

“Now then, I hope that we won't have to walk to the castle. The sun’s going down an-” Reaper just froze, I turned around and saw he was looking at Babs. “Um, Reaper?”

“B, Babs.”

“Do I know you?” She asked. Reaper immediately took off his mask. He was a light gold stallion with a light pistachio mane. Babs looked like she was in shock. “D, Dad.”

“Yes honey, it- Oumph!” Reaper was suddenly being squeezed by Babs, who was howling in tears.

“Daddy!” Babs howled once again. I felt touched. And sad. Will I ever get to be in her horseshoes?

We will reverse this Flurry. I promise you.

Thanks you, Sombra.

BEEEEEEEP! BEEEEEEEEP! The loud honk made me jump. I saw Thorax through the windshield. He came to a screeching halt near the train station. “All aboard, next stop the Crystal Castle, none stop!”

“It’s a changeling!” One of the ponies from Reapers group yelled in a worried tone.

“Hey!” I replied, gaining their attention. “He is the Crystal Empire’s resident changeling, has been for years. So you can trust him. And if not then trust me cause I trust him, understood?”

“Yes Princess.” Every adult pony said in unison. Great, they called me princess. That’s gonna get old quick.

“Thorax!” Spike said, running up to the bus.

“Spike!” Thorax replied. The two giving a quick hug. “Long time no see! You haven’t been falling into frozen underground ravines have you?”

“It was only twice.”

“Still.” The two shared a laugh.

ROOOAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everypony froze at that unholy scream. “Pony Flies!” Pound Cake screamed, pointing towards the sky. There were, those hulking flying nightmare fuellers, ten of them at least.

“Knee Capers!” Reaper yelled, pointing out towards the train tracks. Seven or so hairless, super thin Undead running at impossible speed. Those were in Sunburst’s notes.Looks like they get along with each other.

“Creepers!” I turned around to see what those were… Pigs… Undead pigs…

I’ve seen those, they explode when killed. Splash acid everywhere.

You gotta be shitting me. “Everypony to the buss! Foals first!”I joined Pound Cake in the sky, trying to take on the Pony Flies. Oddly enough, my pistol was doing more damage to them that I was able to notice. Thank you aunt Twilight and your magical abilities. Looking around the buss, I spotted something atop the roof of a nearby building.

It was Chess. Overlooking what was going on. This was a trap!? She noticed me, I saw her look at me, then levitated up a sign. “Test number 2.” Number two? When was the first one!? “Flurry, Everypony is accounted for!” I heard Thorax yell from the buss.

“WELCOME TO THE EMPIRE! NOW DRIVE!” I yeleld, but not a typical yell. It was so loud, Most of the Undead jumped, Chess included, and echoed for kelometres. What was that?

Royal Canterlot voice. I’ll explain later, for now, FLY!

“Fly and shoot Pound!” The buss drove at high speed below us. Pound Cake was flying next to me, taking aimed shots at the Pony Flies. More precisely, he was trying to aim at the head. I took shots with my assault rifle. Killing those knee Cappers when they got too close too the buss. Suddenly, a chunk of the busses roof was ripped of from the inside and Spike came out, and started unleashing his large gun on some of the Pony Flies.

I thought it was a sniper rifle, I was wrong. It was fully automatic, and the size of my rifle. It tore chunks off of the Pony Flies with each hit, sending them down to earth with an explosion of blood.

I saw the castle ahead of us, so close. We’re almost ther- Pain I twitched and spasmed in pain. I was falling. This again? I thought as I fell.

“Flurry!” I heard somepony yell, my head can’t quite make it out.

I suddenly felt very light. Seeing a sickly green filter my vision, followed by Chess’s face, her horn was lit up. “Test two is another failure.”

“They’re safe.” I said.

“Was never after them.” My vision went black and something hit my head, causing me to go into the void of unconsciousness.