Poisoned Equestriaby Undead Equestrian WriterChaptersActinidia TransmorrisonensisRainbow's storyRarity's and Pinkie's StoryNurse Redheart's and Princess Luna's StoryBack to Pinkie, and FluttershyGoodbye my friend.TimberwolvesOverrun CastlePain, Loss, and AppetiteSurvival to it's fullestZecora's StoryRaiders and NemesisActinidia TransmorrisonensisReseach and self-log #1 of many Today when I was on my way to Zecora's hut I found this strange dark green and black flower growing at the entrance to the forest. I hadn't noticed it from any of my books so I decided to study it. So far it just looks like a normal flower but at random, it lets out a really pungent stench that I can't bare to smell so I have to leave. I tried to stand around when it let out the stench, but I started to felt light headed and if I was going to hurl, so I left the room immediately. I will be righting a research log and self-log every day to two days to research my experience with this flower. Research and self-log #2 The flower's unbearable stench has started to either get better or I'm becoming immune to it, but I still get the feeling of hurling when it does. I studied one of the flower's petals to find that the flower is dead but is being kept alive due to this fungus that is growing on it. The 'blood' of the flower is a dark red almost black color, and it's incredibly thick, sort of like syrup or molasses. I scanned the blood to find the same fungus inside of the blood. I took one of the fungus spores and it died on complete removal of the flower. This flower just keeps getting interesting the more I research it. Day three of my research log. Research and self-log #3 I tested one of the fungal spores on a living subject to see what would happen, so I tested it on Spike to see the effects and Spike is very sick now, after a day of sleeping he is just laying there, I asked him if he wanted anything and he just laid there. The pedal that I picked off two days ago is now decayed and a pile of dust. The 'blood' that I pulled out of the flower is now a bright red color, so I checked it again and the fungus was nowhere to be found. I'll have to put this flower into a case and not just leave it on a table in a vase. Day four of my research log and self-log. Research and self-log #4 Spike was extremely aggressive towards me and tried to bite so I had to chain him to the wall. I decided to take some of Spike's blood for testing and his blood wasn't it's normal dark green, it was the same dark red almost black color that the plant's blood had, and also like the plant the blood had fungus all inside of it. I had to move the flower into the basement and put it into a bulletproof glass case to make sure that I was protected from the fungus growing in the plant. Also when I removed the plant from the vase it was sealed to the bottom with a giant fungus growth, which I also put into a glass container. Day five of my research and self-log. Research and self-log #5 I'm extremely weak and hungry about all the time. Spike's left hand started to decay and rot and it just looked horrid. The fungus growth that was in the bottom of the bass ha grown exponentially in a matter of 36 hours. It went from the shape of the vase to about the entire glass case. I decided to take some of my own blood and I found the same fungus and my blood was the same color as the plants and Spike's. What have I done? Research and self-log #6 or 7 I can't remember. I've gone to the hospital and they said that I should just rest and they handed me some antibiotics which I have been taking but they only make me feel worse. I also noticed that my tongue is starting to rot and when parts break off it leaves a bunch of blood and a terrible taste in my mouth. The area around my hooves is also starting to rot and break away causing a lot of pain. I think picking that flower was a horrible idea. Research and self-log #9 I'm getting sicker and anytime I eat anything I just throw it back up. I checked on Spike which I chained to a table in my basement today and his stomach has become entirely rotten, even showing his internal organs, which are also decaying horribly. I can't leave my house because when I do I burn in the light, I believe they call it photosensitivity or something. I just can't remember. My hair has also started to fall out and patches of my scalp keep coming off too, showing my skull. My horn has also fallen off and I keep it in a jar. Currently, it's a black soot color. I'm hungry and in a lot of pain. Log #? I'm forgetting everything. I can't read anything since I can barely read anymore. I can't eat anymore because every time I do I throw it up along with a large amount of blood. My hair has completely fallen out and my scalp is a patch of dark black bone and dark purple hair. One of my eyes has also fallen out of its socket. My hooves have just about fallen off and my snot is a dark black. I think I'm dying, this is either gonna become the last log I ever right or the next one. My wings have fallen off and my teeth are falling out, my tongue has become entirely rotten out and I can't speak anymore. My hooves have also fallen off and my heart has dropped from 120 beats a second to 50 beats a second. I've also dropped from 98 degrees Fahrenheit to 43 degrees Fahrenheit. I've become even more hungry and I haven't drunk anything in the past week or so, my throat hurts so much. I'm writing this to anyone that finds me in this state, stay our of the basement, Spike had gotten loose and he bit my neck. Stay out of the basement. My horn has become a pile of goo, and my eye and hair have entirely decayed. I'm writing now with what I have left of my teeth. My brain has probably become a pile of goo too, but I can't check. I went from the princess of friendship to a dying heap on the couch. I just coughed up of what I had left of a lung. Rainbow's storySo I've just got back from Twilight's castle and the others left to protect what they wanted and I decided to go find Scootaloo and make sure that she was okay. I flew around and looked for Scootaloo before whatever was left of Spike had got around. We had read Twilight's memos and went to make sure that the basement door had been locked, except when we found the door to the basement the door was broken in the center and bloody paw prints were walking away from the door out the front door. We left shortly after but we first we went and checked in the basement to see if we could see this flower, but when we made it to the case the net to it was shattered and the fungus was growing all around the place, up the walls and on the furniture. The flower had decayed away, so we couldn't see the flower, clearly at least, as the petals were still there but the stem had decayed. We left and went to warn the town and make sure our loved ones were safe. I landed on the ground and walked down the alleyway that Scoots usually played on as it was the cleanest and safest alleyway to do tricks. I walked a little farther and saw a blood trail turning around the corner, that ended at a brick wall. I looked around for any sort of weapon and managed to find a broken pipe in a pile of bricks. I turned the corner to see nothing but a whole bunch of blackish- orangish feathers littering the ground. My heart broke when I saw the feathers, but became whole again when I didn't see a body. I followed the blood trail and the feathers that ended at the brick wall. In front of the brick wall, was a pool of blackish-reddish blood, and splatters of the same blood on the walls of the houses and the brick wall, and a window that was broken with blood on the broken glass. I looked to see if I could see anything when I noticed something shiny sitting on a broken piece of glass. I got closer to notice that the shiny object was a disconnected eyeball, with a light purple iris. My heart had been shattered and melted, when I saw Scoot's eyeball. I turned around quickly to come face to face with the orange filly. Her hair had completely fallen out, and her bottom jaw was nonexistent, her tongue flopping out wildly. Her neck was bit and her jugular vein had become torn out and bit into. Her front left leg was broken to where you could see her bone popping out and her skin was terribly rotten. Her stomach was bitten and torn up, so bad that her entrails were sliding along the ground behind her. I couldn't bring myself to kill her, even if she was already dead. I began to fly when something grabbed my tail and pulled me back down. I looked to see Spike standing there, and he looked worse than Scootaloo, with his hands on the verge of becoming just bone, and his spikes were broken and displaced, and his tail was cut off. He sunk his teeth into my leg and bit hard, causing my bone to snap out of place, sending a violent shock all through my body, and sent me plummeting back to the ground. Scootaloo bit me with the top part of her jaw, as best she could and sunk her teeth into my jugular, cutting it. I laid there and didn't try to escape, since if I did I was just going to die due to the cut jugular. I felt Spike release his bite and started to chew on my leg tearing off flesh. I screamed out profanities and curses at the monsters. I slowly began to fade due to extreme blood loss, the last thing I saw was a light blue beam blasting the monsters through the brick wall and out into the street. Rarity's and Pinkie's StoryI was trying to find Rainbow since Sweetie Belle had gone to AJ's farm to play with Applebloom. I was walking around were Rainbow said she was going to go to get Scootaloo. I was walking around when I heard a scream that sounded like Rainbow's so I ran into an alleyway and saw Rainbow being eaten alive by what remained of Scootaloo and Spike. I blasted the monsters off her with a spell that was sure to kill anything, when the spell hit them they flew a brick wall and landed in the center of town. I looked down at Rainbow but she had already bled out due to the ripped jugular. I closed her eyes when I heard a scream come from the center of town. I ran through the brick wall and saw Spike and Scootaloo, or what was left, eating a poor horse that had a musical note for a cutie mark getting eaten by spike and Derpy about to be eaten by Scootaloo. I ran for Derpy and pushed the monster to the ground and grabbed Derpy and ran from the center of town before those monsters started to spread. "Hey, Rarity, what were those things," asked Derpy. "I don't know Derpy, I don't know," I told her. "We need to get to Applejack's farm, okay." "Why was Spike eating Octavia," She asked. "What were they gonna do to me." I stopped running and looked at her. "Derpy, I won't let anything happen to you," I told her. "I've already lost two of my friends, I ain't going to loose anymore." I continued to run with Derpy flying behind me. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ I ran into the bakery and check on the cakes and told them to leave town immediately, they looked at me like I had gone crazy again, but I told them to grab whatever they needed and leave the town and head for Canterlot. They run upstairs to grab the baby cakes pack a whole bunch of clothes and food and left. I go upstairs and grab gummy and my stress ball that my psychiatrist gave me to keep my stress levels down and left the bakery. I turn to run out of the bakery and see Spike, Octavia, and Scootaloo eating the corpses of the cakes. I tip toe the other direction and bump into Rainbow, but she was like Spike and Scootaloo. I ran away from her crying as I went, I just had to hope that Rarity, Fluttershy, and Applejack were still doing okay. I decided to go and check on Fluttershy since I was going in the direction of her cottage. I ran by an apple stall and grabbed and apple and put it in my hair. I walked by a house that was home to the best music makers or maker now as Octavia was dead. I knocked on the door and waited to see if anypony opened the door. After about a minute, Vinyl Scratch came out, looking dead as the monsters but was still alive. "Oh, hey Pinkie, did you need something," she asked me. "Yes I do, I need you to come with me to Fluttershy's cottage and grab a weapon," I told her. When I said weapon she backed up a little bit. "Why do I need a weapon," she asked. "Just do it, please, there's these things that are killing the town and I already lost Rainbow and Twilight," I told her and I looked to see if anypony was coming and I saw Rainbow's corpse shambling towards us. I pointed at the monster to let Vinyl see and she instantly ran inside and grabbed a metal baseball bat. We left her house and started to run for Fluttershy's cottage. We ran by a flower shop that was on fire and burning, and Rose was hanging out the second story window. Vinyl continued going to Fluttershy's cottage, but I stood there and saw Twilight stumble out the front door with her skin charred and falling off, but some parts were still burning. I continued running with Vinyl and didn't look back at the nightmare that was Ponyville. We had finally shown up at Fluttershy's cottage and started to look for Fluttershy. All of her animals were gone and her front door was open. I walked up slowly and pulled out my apple and got ready to throw it. I ran inside as fast as I could and swirled around to see if anypony was behind the door. I walked upstairs to see Fluttershy cowering in a corner. I looked over to see a black stallion with red hair with gray stripes in his hair. He looked at me and started to calm significantly. Fluttershy also started to calm when she noticed me. The stallion ran past me and started to drink out of the faucet. I turned to Fluttershy and gave her a questioning look. "I found him on my way here, he was running from Twilight, and he says that he knows what these things are," she told me in a way that she never really spoke. "Are you okay Fluttershy," I asked her. "I'm fine," She told me. I walked downstairs and told Vinyl to come inside and shut the door behind her. I sat on the couch and waited for nightfall. "We should wait here until sunrise, since we are in the Everfree almost nothing should come up here," I told everypony. I laid back and sat Gummy on the couch next to me. I pulled out my stress ball and started to squeeze it with my hooves. I looked at Vinyl, and she had already passed out. I looked at the stallion that had come here with Fluttershy. "So do you know what these things are?" "Yes and no," He said. "These things are in folklore that dates back to the beginning of pony life. They're what my ancestors called the walking dead, but I call them zombies." "Okay, what else do you know about them," asked Fluttershy who had finally come downstairs. "Well, the infection starts with an unlucky starter or if somepony is foolish enough to infect anypony else. The infection spreads via bites, saliva in any cut or in your eyes or mouth, and the only way to kill them is if you destroy the brain." "Wait, Pinkie didn't Twilight leave to go get medical attention at the Canterlot hospital," asked Fluttershy. "Yes, she did, wake up Vinyl, now," I commanded. I got up and walked over to Vinyl and woke her from her light sleep. "Vinyl we need you to contact the princess, Canterlot might be in trouble," I told her she got up and started to use her magic to contact the princess, after a minute of a lot of concentration she was able to create a stable connection with Celestia. "Who is this, Vinyl, why are you contacting me at 11 at night," asked Celestia who seemed rather mad that we awoke her. "Princess, we need you to quarantine Canterlot hospital, in Ponyville there is this virus going around making ponies eat other ponies then the ponies that are bitten and killed will come back to life as one of the dead, and the cycle repeats, but Twilight, who is dead princess, was sick and went to Canterlot hospital, so they nurses there might be sick and infected," I told the princess, as quick as I could. The look on her face went from anger to worry, in a matter of seconds. As she was thinking about what to do and how to contain the virus, in the background you could hear an explosion and see yellow light fill her room from her window. She flew out of her bed and looked out of her window and from here it looked as if the hospital just exploded, and the flames were spreading. We were watching the princess come back from her window, when we saw, what looked like a doctors head fly through the window. "Princess be careful he could still be alive, quickly step on the head." "What do you mean the head is disconnected from the body," she walked over to the head and the head managed to jump up at her and bit her on the leg. She threw the leg to the ground and stepped on it, causing the head to shatter into a million pieces. "What the fuck is going on, Pinkie?" "I don't know princess, but I'm sorry princess it was nice knowing you," Just before we cut off the connection we heard her door slam open, and her guards came in and started to give medical attention to the bite, but in under a matter of minutes she went into shock and slammed into the ground. The guards tried to make her regain consciousness but failed, they stood up and started to walk out of the room when Celestia started to get up they turned around and ran over to see if she was okay. One guard was unlucky and got bit by the zombie princess, Vinyl canceled her magic flow, and sat down and hugged her baseball bat. I sat on the couch and punched a pillow, with all my strength, causing the pillow to rip. I took the pillow in my mouth and cursed as many swears that I knew. I heard Fluttershy run upstairs and then I heard large amounts of crying. I stood up and walked around the house and looked for a weapon that I could use. I found nothing of use so I decided to take the stallion with me to the shed and told Vinyl to protect Fluttershy with all her might. "So what's your name," I asked the stallion. "My name is Dark Lightning," he told me. "I thought you knew everyponies names, why don't you feel mine, I feel left out." "Lately, I haven't had time to go and learn everyponies names," I told him. "That's alright, I'm actually in Ponyville on business so I wasn't expecting you to," he told me as he laughed. We reached the shed and pulled the door's handle. Inside was a bunch of tools for gardening. I walked inside and looked for the lightest object. I came across a machete and Dark came across a hatchet. We ran back to the house and locked the door behind us. I finally laid down for the night and fell asleep with Vinyl and Dark there and Fluttershy upstairs. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ As Derpy and I made it to Sweet Apple Acres, we could tell that the apple family had been busy fortifying their farm house. I walked to the front door and knocked 11 so AJ knew it was me. She opened the door and let Derpy in and then I followed I saw Sweetie Belle playing with Apple Blooms dolls, and calmed down from the hectic afternoon. I saw Big Mac carrying a sledgehammer and Granny Smith with her war helmet on. I followed Applejack to the kitchen and sat down and cried into my hooves. Applejack sat next to me and asked me what was wrong. "Rainbow, Scootaloo, and Octavia are dead Applejack," I told her. I looked back into my hooves and started to cry some more. "It's gonna be okay Sugarcube," she told me while hugging me. She was breathing very shakily, so I guess she was crying. "I don't know about Pinkie or Fluttershy, though, so I guess Pinkie went to Fluttershy's cottage," I told her. I stopped crying and Applejack stopped hugging me. I walked into the other room and looked out the window. I saw somepony, but I didn't recognize him, and he didn't look dead as he was galloping towards the barn. "Applejack somepony is in the barn." "Who," she asked as she was walking towards the door that leads to the barn. "I don't know, he had a seafoam green mane and tail and an orange coat," I told her as she went into the barn. I ran after to make sure that she would be safe. I got into the barn and saw Applejack staring down a stallion. "Applejack, calm down he doesn't look like one of them," I told her, she untensed slightly. I walked towards the stallion and stared him up and down, he seemed to be alive. "Who are you, sir." "My name is Seafoam Breeze," he told me. "What are you doing here," asked Applejack. "I was running from those monsters," he told us. "I think we should let him in Applejack," I told Applejack. "Fine, but if you make any funny moves I will buck you through the wall," she told him, which he shook his head nervously. I walked back inside and Applejack followed me and finally Seafoam. "So, Seafoam, how come I've never seen you in Ponyville before," I asked him. "That's because I'm in Ponyville on a business trip with my friend, that I lost back at the bar," he told us. "What's your friend's name," I asked. "Dark Lightning," he told us. "Fastest earth pony you'll ever see." "Yeah, right, I'm the fastest," said Applejack. "No, trust me you're not, if he and Rainbow Dash, with Rainbow Dash flying and him running he would beat her by a good three and half minutes." "Can you please not say Rainbow Dash," I told him. "Why," he asked. "Rainbow is dead," I told him as I started to cry. "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't know," he said with regret in his voice. I went over to the couch and laid down and started to fall asleep, but Sweetie Belle came over and laid with me. "Hi, Sweetie Belle," I told her. "Hi, sister," she told me. I looked over to see Applejack and Applebloom asleep in the recliner. Sweetie Belle and I were about to be. Maybe two hours later the entire house shook, waking everpony. Applejack and I ran outside to see part of Canterlot, exploding and burning. I fell down and cursed into the dirt. "Rarity we need to get back inside, now," we started to walk back inside when a pony grabbed Applejack and bit her neck, ripping out her jugular. "Rarity go." Was the last thing she ever said. I turned to run and saw Big Mac running outside, to save his sister. I saw him slam the sledge, into the horses head, sending brain matter and skull chunks everywhere. I watched him kneel before his sister dead corpse, but his heart picked up when he saw his sister move. Applejack bit him in the neck and ripped out his windpipe, causing him to die of lack of oxygen. I ran inside and stopped Applebloom from running outside. I turned to see Granny Smith in her rocking chair, I walked over to see if she was okay, I checked her pulse but it wasn't there. I sat and looked at the five other ponies, and cried. I heard something slam against the door. I looked out the window to see Big Mac and Applejack trying to break down the door. `"We need to leave, now," I told everypony. Seafoam lead the fillies and Derpy out the barn door and I followed behind with my horn at the ready. We ran away from the farm and walked slowly down the streets of Ponyville. It looked as if some ponies were still alive, which could be the case as I've only seen six or so dead ponies. We were headed for Fluttershy's cottage. We saw the flower sister's, flower shop, burning, with I think rose's burnt and charred upper half crawling it's way towards. I levitated the corpse upward which caused, her entrails to fall to the ground. Applebloom and Sweetie looked away. I threw the empty corpse through the window of the burning building. We finally got to the path that would bring us to Fluttershy's cottage. We got up the path and Seafoam knocked on the front door, 11 times. We waited until we heard moving inside, the front door opened and right there was Vinyl Scratch. She opened the door all the way when she saw me and let us all in. I saw Pinkie sleeping on the couch with Gummy on her stomach, and a stress ball on the floor. I went and sat on the floor next to Pinkie. Vinyl went back to her spot on the ground next to the kitchen, and Seafoam sat on the bottom stair. I heard movement upstairs and saw another stallion come down. Seafoam seemed to brighten. "Bro, what's going on," asked the stallion, while hugging him. "Dark, when did we get split up," he asked who I'm guessing was Dark Lightning. "I think back at the bar, I saw this cute waitress and I went after her, and then I ended up in an alleyway, without my wallet," he told him. I started to fall asleep for hopefully the final time this night. The fillies went and slept in one of Fluttershy's animals beds that looked like it was for a dog. I saw Dark and Seafoam go to the kitchen, and sit in front of the sink. I fell asleep, knowing that everypony was currently safe. Nurse Redheart's and Princess Luna's StoryI was called up to Canterlot due to some virus that was putting too many ponies in the hospital, so they called Dr. Whooves and me, up here as we are the most trained doctors in Ponyville, and they couldn't call people from Appleloosa because they were hoping to contain whatever this virus was and it would take too long for anypony from Appleloosa to get here. I decided to spark a conversation with the doctor to pass the time. "What do you think this virus is," I asked him as he was staring off the side of the carriage. I guess he didn't like heights. "I don't know, but they said it was bad and that they had no cure for it and they had already lost five patients, I just wonder how it started and how it spreads and if there is any way to stop it," he answered me. He was wearing his scarf like he normally does when he goes anywhere. I was just wearing my nurse's cap. "Do you think there is a way to stop it," I asked him. "Well, that's a complicated question, as we have to know this virus exactly, how it started, who was the original carrier, and how quickly it can mutate," he told me with a smile on his face. "Then we have to break down the virus, to keep it from continuously mutating if it can even mutate, then once we break it down we find what makes it tick. If we find what makes it tick then we can use that against it by either changing around the items properties so that way we can kill it or, if it instantly kills it then just set up military checkpoints and give ponies the vaccine." "Well it looks like we're here," I said as we landed on the roof of the hospital. He opened the door of the carriage and helped me out then he came out. The pegasi that brought us here flew off as soon as we were off. We walked inside of them hospital and the first nurse pony that we met handed us some surgical masks and we put them on quickly. The nurse pony led us to a room that had tons of sick ponies, with their skin decaying and their wings and horns falling off and decaying quickly, even some ponies had already died since we got in the room about a minute ago. I walked up to a young pegasus and started a quick routine check up, which was just heart rate, temperature, and blood level. I tested her heart rate and her rate was about 20 beats a minute, which for a normal healthy heart would be about 80, her temperature was about 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and her blood level was nonexistent. I decided to ask a doctor if they had taken any blood tests yet, and the doctor had said that they couldn't due to Equestrian law, and that they have to have a ponies acceptance, and that none of the ponies could speak, due to rotten tongues or vocal cords. I told him to hand me a needle and that if we didn't take a blood test that the law wasn't going to be the thing to worry about. He handed me a needle and I walked back over to the pony that I was doing tests on. I got back to her but she had sadly passed away. I walked over to the pony that the doctor was working on. "Have you figured anything out," I asked him as I took a blood sample from the middle-aged pony. "Well we're dealing with a very bad case of Necrosis, and hypersalivation, I asked the doctors wheeling out a dead pony how many dead they have had so far, and he said the number has gone from 10 to a high 430, in the past hour, I was walking around and a lot of the ponies ear have bite marks on their arms and necks," he told me as we were walking down the hall to find a room where we could do tests on the blood on our own. We came across a room that had a microscope, which was all we really needed, except we wanted to lock the door to get some privacy. I locked the door behind us and took off my nurse's cap and let my pink hair flow as I had always had it in that stupid hat, it didn't even fit anyway. I put some of the blood under the microscope. The viruses and blood cells inside the blood were being eaten by this fungus, which would make this virus a fungus. "I don't think were dealing with a virus, doc," I told him. He came over and looked at the blood. "What do you think this is, doctor?" "I've never heard of a fungus that copies the symptoms and abilities of a virus," he said. He was about to check the blood again when we both jumped when we heard a female scream coming from the reception area. We left the room and ran to the reception to see what was happening. When we got there we saw one of the reception clerks, standing on a chair pointing to a mouse. We started to head back to the room we were just in. As we got to the door to the room, we saw a pony slamming into a doctor and biting into his neck, I held in a scream, but some other nurse didn't and screamed out at the top of her lungs and ran down the hall and slammed into us knocking me to the ground. I got back up to see the pony biting into the doctor's neck stopped and started shaking wildly, he vomited on the floor and his spine popped out of his which made the doctor cringe, his hooves broke and turned more into fingers, and his new fingers became sharpened and elongated to about the size of a normal kitchen knife. His teeth became sharper as well, he went back to eating the doctor. We waited to see if he was done mutating, to which he was. The doctor started to open the door but the nurse that had squealed at the mouse walked around the corner and saw the mutated horse, screamed at the horse. The horse turned to see her and growled, he quickly scaled the wall and ceiling, leaving holes all along the walls and ceiling. The doctor pulled me into the room, but when the monster passed I looked out and saw the horse drop on the poor mare and stab his fingers into her. I grabbed the doctor and started to walk the other way. We found a gas pipe and followed it to the closest window, and I think the doctor was starting to get my plan, he opened the window when I turned the pipes valve letting out a lot of gas, I set a fire on some clothes in a room and left the building, and we started running for the castle. I looked back just in time to see the hospital explode and I noticed the head from the mutated horse fly and smash through a window of the castle. The doctor and I stopped walking to catch our breath. I looked back at the burning building and I saw ponies falling off the roof and out the windows of the hospital. I pointed this out to the doctor, and he said that we should continue running. We started to make our way back to Ponyville when I noticed a fire in the center of town. "What is happening doctor," I asked him. "I don't know," was his answer. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ I sat in my room staring out at the hospital which was bringing in sick ponies every minute. I wanted to do something except I didn't know much about medical practices. I watched the hospital closely that entire night, I was watching Doctors and nurses bringing in sick ponies. I finally got bored of standing and staring out my window, I decided to go to my watchtower and see how things were going in Ponyville. I looked out at Ponyville and noticed a building was burning. I was confused but passed it off as Derpy hitting a light pole. I looked out my telescope and saw Rarity with Sweetie Belle and Applebloom and then another pony that I didn't notice. I went back down my watch tower to go to bed. I made it back to my room when the entire castle shook. I ran over to my window to see that the hospital had lit up in a giant fireball. I looked down to see two ponies that I had noticed before, the Doctor and Nurse Redheart running away from the hospital. I think they were running here but then they stopped to catch their breath, Redheart pointed at the hospital then they started to run for Ponyville. I looked back at the hospital to see ponies jumping off the roof and out the windows, some on fire some not. I ran over to my sister's room, but before I got to her room I saw guards standing outside, visibly shaken. I told them to open the door but they protested. I finally just opened the door myself and saw Celestia, eating one of the guards alive. He was screaming for help but no one was going to help him. I closed the door on the scene, and charged out the front door of the castle and flew up to stay out of the reach of the burning horses. I flew quickly over to the Doctor and Redheart. They noticed me and stopped so I could catch up. I landed next to them and cleared my throat. "Do you know what's going on, Doctor, Redheart," I asked them but they just shook their heads. "Then where are you going?" "We're going back to Ponyville, to look for survivors," Redheart told me. "Um, how is Celestia?" "Celestia is one of them," I told them as I pointed back to the burning horses. "So I'm coming with you." They just continued walking down the path to Ponyville, so I caught up and we walked in silence. "Hey Luna, can you raise the sun," the Doctor asked. "I can try," I said while giving my best effort to lower the moon and raise the sun, but I finally managed to raise the sun. After this we continued to walk in silence. Back to Pinkie, and FluttershyI sat in my closet and cried, I didn't know what was going on and I didn't want to betray my friends. I didn't want to tell them that I had been bitten, but if I did they would either have to kill me but I just didn't want to die but I would die if they didn't kill. I cried and cried. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ I woke up maybe an hour ago, I accidentally hit Rarity in the head when I turned in my sleep so she yelled at me about. I grabbed my stress ball and have been squeezing it for the past hour. I sat around waiting for Vinyl to wake up, I also said good morning to Derpy, and Seafoam, which was this really strange pegasus that I couldn't wrap my head around. He says hello and if you say hello to him he gets mad, so I don't know about him, but Dark was strange. If you say hello to him he will just stand and stare with a blank expression. I waited for Vinyl and the fillies to wake up so that we can actually start thinking about what to do. As Vinyl started to wake up I heard a creak from upstairs. I grabbed the machete that I had moved to the side table and slowly made my way upstairs. I made my way to each room with Rarity right behind me with her horn at the ready. I opened Fluttershy's bathroom door up and saw that the sink had seven teeth sitting in a pool of blood. I also looked in the shower and saw some of Fluttershy's hair and a dead bunny lying on the ground. I read the collar's name tag. Angel Bunny. I left the room and walked into Fluttershy's room since this is where the sound was coming from I opened the door very slowly and peered into the room. I didn't see anything so I slid the door open quickly. I looked around the room and didn't see anything out of place, but just as I was about to leave I heard a thump coming from the closet. I told Rarity to use her telekinesis to open the door. She opened the door and out came a dead Fluttershy, which didn't seem interested in us. She walked over to us but that was it she didn't do anything. Rarity started to back up and hit her hoof against the door causing Fluttershy to look at her and charge her. Rarity levitated her with her horn and threw her with all her might against the wall. The wall cracked and Fluttershy slumped onto the ground, a blood trail behind her on the wall where her head hit and then dragged down. I left the room as quickly as I could and ran down the stairs almost tripping on the last step. I ran over to the door and threw it open, and vomited yesterday's breakfast up on Fluttershy's lawn. I went back inside and sat at the kitchen table, waiting for somepony to talk. "Are we going to do anything productive today," asked Dark. "I don't know, do you have good ideas," I asked in an angry tone. "Yeah I do actually, we need food," he told me. "Yeah, all the food that Fluttershy had stored up is for animals like dog food and bird food," Seafoam said. "Well, who's going to go on a food run," I asked. "We also need some weapons, to defend ourselves," said Vinyl. "Fine, Seafoam, and Rarity, you two will be going for any nonperishable food types, so no apples or carrots, but canned food. Vinyl and I will fo find any weapons, and Dark and Derpy will stay here and protect the fillies," I said. Vinyl grabbed her metal baseball bat and my machete, and Rarity sparked up her horn and Seafoam took Dark's hatchet. We all left the cottage in somewhat of an orderly fashion. "Rarity and Seafoam you two should check the market district, and Vinyl and me are going to check ponies houses." We all departed to out destinations and waved to the other scavengers. I found a house that seemed to be empty, so I went and opened the door slowly. I walked in and saw what looked to be the carcass of a pony hanging off the railing of the building. I walked over and poked the pony in the head with my machete to make sure it was dead. I walked into the kitchen to find anything and told Vinyl to go look for a bag of some sort. She ran upstairs and started searching. I went into the kitchen and opened a cupboard that had a lot of glass cups in it, that were stored horribly. When I opened the cupboard the glass came spilling out on my head and breaking, and the broken pieces cut into me. I heard Vinyl run downstairs. I looked at her and I saw her with her bat raised over her head ready to hit me. "Put the bat down Vinyl," she slowly started to lower her bat, until she heard hooves clopping on the ground outside the house. I grabbed her and pulled her into the kitchen, and looked at the front door. I saw a pony enter the door frame, hesitantly. I noticed her as Nurse Redheart. She turned around to say something to another pony, so I guess she was alive. I came out slowly, so that way she wouldn't blast me against the back wall. "Hey we have somepony alive over here," she yelled to whoever was with her. "Wait, Pinkie?" "Yeah, who are you with," she stepped out of the way and Luna stepped into the doorway. I fell to my knee and bowed. "Princess Luna, wait are you doing today." "Get up Pinkie, were trying to find survivors," she told me. "Vinyl come here," I called out to Vinyl when I realised that she wasn't standing next to me. I walked back over to the kitchen and saw Vinyl bleeding profusely, from her leg. "Redheart, do you know how to deal with this." "Um, do you have some sort of cloth," she asked and as she did I ran over and to the window and ripped a curtain up, and brought it back to Nurse Redheart. She quickly tied the cloth around her leg. I carried Vinyl and led Nurse Redheart, the Doctor, and Luna. I met the doctor when we had left, he had asked if I wanted help with carrying Vinyl. I opened the door to Fluttershy's cottage and let the other ponies in then I came in and set Vinyl on the couch. I also noticed that Rarity was watching over Seafoam. "Rarity, what's wrong with him," I asked her. "When we went to find food, a flock of birds flew over and Seafoam looked up to see them, but then something fell into his eye and Dark thinks that he's infected and that we have to kill him," said Rarity. I dragged Rarity upstairs so we could talk privately. "Why are you so attached to him Rarity," I asked her. "I have a crush on him," she said. "of, course you do," I told her. I walked back downstairs and Luna was already making herself comfortable. Redheart was putting a band-aid on Apple Bloom's arm as she had cut herself. Vinyl was passed out from the shock, and Seafoam was writhing in pain. Dark was holding his friend's hoof and praying. The doctor was looking at this vial of blood that had on him. Derpy was sitting in the corner of the room rocking back in forth. Seeing the morale of everypony was making me sad, my cutie mark is for me to make ponies happy, and I'm not making ponies happy. I stood and my hair fell flat and fur turned darker, I was supposed to make ponies happy. I cried on the stair until I passed out, but in my dream, I was making everypony happy. Goodbye my friend.I walked back inside the house to check on Zecora and my friend. I saw Zecora walking over to me with a dead look in her eyes. I ran at her and tackled her to the ground, and slammed the hatchet into her forehead. I walked over to my friend and sat and cried. I heard a pony walking behind me so I stood up and got ready to attack whoever was behind me. I turned to see Pinkie at the end of the hatchet. I turned back to look back at my friend and cried on him again. I watched his motionless body lie there. I stood up and walked back outside and walked into the Everfree, and punched a tree and broke my hoof. I sat under the tree for about an hour when I went back to the cottage. I saw Pinkie and Rarity moving Seafoam's body to the river behind Fluttershy's cottage. I walked back into the cottage and helped Redheart carry Zecora upstairs. I waited for Pinkie and Rarity to return before talking about somethings. When they did return I told them that Fluttershy's and Zecora's bodies were going to attract attention when they started to rot and that we had no food or medical supplies, we were trying to fix broken bones with a cotton swab dipped in rubbing alcohol and band-aids. "We could try and take over the castle," Luna proposed, and everypony agreed. I heard a thump coming from the living room and I looked to see Vinyl awake and walking towards us. "If we're going to take over the hospital then we need to plan out when we leave and give everypony a weapon," Vinyl said. "So Pinkie and Dark have weapons, and Rarity, Luna, Nurse Redheart, and I are unicorns and an alicorn, so we need to get the Doctor and Derpy a weapon." "Yes, but I no longer control the sun or the moon, or planet just spin," Luna said. "When Celestia dies the planet loses its magical control and just spins, so now we don't control the time." "So it's right now about noon, so we need to leave and head to the castle, and if we can the jail, to see if they had any weapons stockpiled," I told them. "So the fillies stay in the middle of the group, with Luna in front and Pinkie and Rarity on the side, with me in the back, and Vinyl, Redheart, Derpy and the Doctor, will stay with the two fillies in case one of us are attacked." We started to get ready to leave until I ran upstairs to see what I could find. I walked into the bathroom and checked the medicine cabinet, to see a whole bunch of prescription drugs for things like stress, depression, and other dark things, that were all labeled with Fluttershy's name. I looked and saw a needle and thread, so I grabbed it. I walked into Fluttershy's room and saw nothing that seemed to hold anything useful, except a whole bunch of pill bottles on the nightstand. I also saw a bottle of painkillers, so I went over and popped the remaining two into my mouth and threw the bottle to the side. I went and checked the hallway closet, and found a bunch of dead animals, that were all of Fluttershy's house pets. I ran back downstairs and gave the needle and thread to Nurse Redheart. I told Luna that we could go, and she took off slowly enough for the fillies to keep up. I looked around to see if I could find anything that could be kept or anything that would be counted as a threat. I saw this pony climbing up a tree and look at me. I looked back to see that part of it's brain was showing, and it had no eyes. It opened its mouth and its tongue stretched almost its entire body length. I told Luna to speed up. We quickly got away from the Everfree as there seemed to monsters residing inside of the forest. We walked down the path that leads to the cottage. We walked by the residential area of Ponyville, I was watching behind me, and into the houses. The doors of the houses had been kicked in. We walked down past the hospital, to see the windows were all busted and that there were ponies on the inside, alive. I walked over to the door and asked if we could get some bandages, but they replied to me in a way that made me want to bust down the door and holler as loud as I can to draw the attention of all the dead, except he pointed a weapon that was made for riots or end of days scenarios like this one. A gun. He had pointed the weapon at me and made back up to the group and we continued to walk down the road. I looked back at the hospital and wondered how he had got a pistol as they were only given to police officers. We were maybe a block away from the hospital when a thunderous boom rang over the entire area. I saw the same pony that was wielding the gun fly through the front door and slam into the concrete. What next made everyone continue walking. There was this very muscular pony that had this very big piece of rebar with a piece of concrete on the end of it. He slammed it down on the pony crushing the life out of him and making his head pop. We started to walk faster and finally made it to the police station. I told Pinkie to go with me inside the police station. I walked in and walked over to the storage room. I opened the door and saw a pistol and a two longer guns, one with a scope and the other was engraved on the side 'Boomstick'. I grabbed the guns and threw them to Pinkie and she ran outside and ran out of my view. I grabbed the ammunition for the weapons. I ran outside to see she gave the 'Boomstick' to Luna who seemed to really used to guns, the pistol to Rarity who was trying to figure out what she had to do with the weapon and the scoped weapon to the doctor who was laying on the ground trying to steady the weapon and was looking through the scope. I gave the ponies with the guns what I think was the correct ammo, which the doctor through his ammo into his saddle pack and Luna and Rarity threw the ammo into this locker thing that appeared and disappeared with the flash of their horns. We continued to walk towards the castle, where we were hopefully going to be able to survive a little longer. TimberwolvesSweetie Belle and I sat there waiting for the group to finish their little meeting thing. Sweetie Belle had wanted to get a weapon to defend herself, but she started to use her horn even more and got a ton better in the past day. I wanted to get weapon since I didn't have any useful talents, but Sweetie Belle said that she would protect me with her magic. "Hey Sweetie Belle, do you think that we'll be able to make the castle a safe place to stay," I asked her as she was getting ready to cast magic missile. "Of course, with the amount of weapons we have, and an alicorn, we would definitely be able to make it safe," she told me as she cast the rather strong spell. The group started to get back into their positions and we continued to walk towards the castle. We had already spent four hours walking and we weren't even halfway there yet. I wanted this trip to be over before nightfall, but at the pace we were going we would probably be there by tomorrow morning. I looked around at our makeshift army, we had an alicorn, two of the mane six, two doctors, a mentally slow pegasus, and a hitchhiker. I knew that everypony had a little crush on him since he's the 'leader' of our operation, but I feel as though he has a very dark secret that he won't share. I was about to tell Sweetie what I felt about him, but Derpy came out of nowhere. "Hey, Apple Bloom, I was bored so I came over here to see if you have anything to talk about," said Derpy. "Sorry Derpy, I'm probably more bored than you right now, but I do actually have a secret I want to tell you about," I told her. "I feel as if he has a dark secret that he's not letting on," I told her while pointing to the hitchhiker. "Why do you feel that way Apple Bloom, he's the only one leading us on a straight path, without him we wouldn't be anywhere," Derpy said in a very angry tone. "Sorry Derpy, I'm probably just paranoid," I told her as she flew back to where she was put. We continued to walk in silence with the ever so occasion cough or sneeze from somepony. By the time we got maybe halfway to the castle, everypony was starting to get hungry. We walked to the side of the road and took a little break, the sun was straight up so I guess it was noon. We sat back and passed what little food we had around, which was just a head of lettuce and a few apples. I took an apple while Sweetie Belle took some lettuce. The hitchhiker didn't want any food, he said that if his luck was good he would be able to eat at the castle. After everypony had finished their food we continued on the road, except the hitchhiker. "We need to move now, timberwolves," We all looked to see a pack of timberwolves chowing down on the carcass of a dead pony. "Why are they so far away from the forest, aren't they afraid of leaving the forest," I asked the others. "They aren't afraid of leaving they're afraid of us, ponies, but since we aren't around to scare them off and keep them at bay they are out eating whatever they can find," said the hitchhiker. We all walked faster until we heard one of the timberwolves howl. We all looked back to see the timberwolves looking at our group. The doctor was already on the ground aiming out of his weapon. He fired the gun and in the distance, we saw one of the timberwolves loose a leg, but it was still coming for us. I studied the wolves carefully and noticed something slightly off about them, their eye color. Instead of their normal glowing yellow eye color, their eye's were a dull gray color. "I don't think their alive, look at their eyes," I told everypony. "They carcasses they have eaten must of had the virus in it, which made them infected," Luna said. The doctor shot off two more rounds which took off the other timberwolves legs. We all quickly started back on our trail to the castle only to see a pack of 10 to 15 timberwolves standing behind us and another pack next to us. We ran away from the trail and came across a cliff. The cliff was a good 50-foot drop but there was water at the bottom. I watched as I saw Luna jump off the cliff followed by Rarity and then Pinkie, the doctors then Derpy. Me and Sweetie Belle hugged each other and jumped followed by the hitchhiker. We landed in the water and quickly swam to shore. I looked up to not only see the timberwolves but to see the sky was starting to get stormy. "Why are the clouds moving when there are no pegasus," I asked somepony. "Well, it's like when Celestia dies the planet loses its magical grip, the same with the clouds when the weather factory is destroyed, it goes back to the way my grandparent's grandparents found it when they arrived on this planet. The weather had a mind of its own, the clouds formed by themselves and the time went by itself," she said as she recited from something. We started to go back to the path when it started raining. I hope I don't get a cold. Overrun CastleAs we approached the castle, I could instantly tell that something was wrong as the windows were all shattered and the front entrance was busted to the floor. I noticed all the dead in the garden just wandering. I picked up a rock and threw it at a boarded up house, which the dead heard the rock bounce off a wall and started wandering to it. All the dead wandered away from the castle and started to pull the boards off the house. We started to walk towards the castle while the dead were distracted taking down someponies barricades. We made it inside the castle and found a spacious room that we could hold out in and catch our breath. "Hey, Pinkie why did you throw that rock," Rarity asked. "I had the chance to test something about them and now we know that they react to sound, so their sight must not be too good as they would have seen us," I told her. "I might have accidentally killed somepony in the process but still." She looked at me like I was crazy, but I think I was crazy at that point. I looked to see if everypony was safe, and everpony looked safe. I walked towards the door and look out to see if there is anything outside the door. Okay so plan one would have to be, get some food and water. I look at Luna and she looks back at me. "Luna do you know where the kitchen is," I ask her. "Of course, I do I own this castle now," she said, in a very sad tone. She got off the box that she was sitting on. I also told Rarity and Nurse Redheart to come with us. We prayed that we wouldn't die and we left for the kitchen. I looked down the halls of the castle and noticed one or two dead here and there but it was rather empty. We made our way to a corridor that was wider than the rest. Luna made her way down the hall quickly but silently. She opened a pair of double doors and let us in and quickly shut the door. I looked around at the dining room and went to the first door I saw. I opened the door and saw the kitchen. Overrun. The kitchen was swarming with them. I walked forward a little and let Rarity in and then nurse Redheart, as Luna had left and gone back to join the others. I saw Rarity levitate her gun up and then I whispered a no to her. I walked over to one of them and stabbed my machete into the back of their skull. I pulled the machete out of their head and the body dropped like a sack of potatoes. I looked around and found a knife that was long and sharp. I gave it to Rarity and us slowly but carefully killed down the numbers. I walked over to the final dead and slammed my machete into the back of their head. My machete broke off in their head so I was now weaponless, the body dropped to the ground. I looked around and grabbed a mallet, that was used for squeezing fruits and vegetables. I went over to all the doors and opened them up. All of them were pantries with tons of food, so much food that we would last for maybe about three years in the castle. That is unless if we could make our way to the garden and use it for growing crops. I went to the final door and looked on the other side, the other side was an empty hallway that went nowhere, but had a whole bunch of doors. I had Rarity and Nurse Redheart help me open the doors. Every door was another pantry bigger than the ones in the kitchen. With the food, we had now we would last maybe ten years with gardening. I wanted to find the quickest way and safest way to the kitchen from where ever we were going to keep our living quarters. I walked back into the dining room and locked the other doors besides the one we came in from. We all left back for the others. Pain, Loss, and AppetiteWe were all scared as the giant pony that was nicknamed "The Nemesis" by all the other ponies, I don't know why though but I think it's a book thing? I was never good at reading books since my 'problem' limited me to a few things, but I still tried to read when I had a chance. I walked with Apple Bloom and listened to how she tried to guess what would happen next, which ranged from extremely unlikely to possible. She started with dinosaurs rising from the ground to the Nemesis coming and destroying our entire group. I wanted to know when we would get Appleloosa as I wanted to determine how long we would be there. I looked around but I couldn't see anything that looked too dangerous. I went into my head and started to day dream. We had been walking since last night and haven't stopped since, as we were all terrified by the nemesis. I was hoping he would never show up again, so that way we could worry about less important things like medicine, food, and water. At the rate we were going, Vinyl would die from infection of her cut. I caught up to Dark, as he had taken the lead back in Canterlot. "Dark, we need to get someplace quick. Everypony is getting sick from malnourishment and dehydration, and Vinyl is gonna drop dead if we don't get her some antibiotics," I told the dark stallion. He looked at me and I knew that something was wrong as his eyes were a dark black and were bleeding profusely. I told the group to stop and called Redheart to come help me. "What's wrong Pinkie, why did we stop," she asked me and I pointed to Dark. She looked at him and laid him on the ground. "When was he infected?" "I don't know, he didn't tell me," I told her. Dark began to convulse on the ground and coughed up a gallon of blinding white blood. "Why is his blood white, isn't the infection supposed to make it pitch black?" "Yes, but I guess he must be fighting it hard, and is winning," she told me with a slight smirk on her face, but her face went from a look of hope to sheer terror as Dark stood up and stared at her. He cocked his head to the side and opened his mouth to speak, but all you could hear was a low guttural, painful moan. He charged at her and she dodged his attack, and flew to the left. He stopped when he slammed into the wall and dropped to the ground in a dead-ish state. I walked over to him and poked him with a stick. I dropped the stick and turned to have seen that Nurse Redheart had split her head open with a sharp rock, and a pool of blood had already formed under her. I shook her, but I already knew she was dead, from the lack of her chest heaving. I sat and cried for a minute, only a loud boom coming from behind the group. I told the group to keep moving, and we continued moving. I was in so much pain right now, I was trying to keep my body from attacking anypony, but I was losing the battle over the control of my body. I threw myself at Nurse Redheart, only to miss and slam into the side of a mountain and knock myself into a lifeless hump, even though I wasn't dead, but the virus somehow managed to "kill" itself from the powerful collision with the half iron half stone and dirt wall. I felt Pinkie poke me with a stick and I heard her give up after a few more pokes. I laid and tried to get up and move, but my whole body hurt and my mind was more numb than my hooves. I was finally able to move my head a little a get a small look around. I noticed that it was now nightfall and my friends were all gone, except Redheart. I walked over to her lifeless body and got rid of the birds that were nibbling on parts of her body. The pony that I used to know was now a carcus on the side of the street, minus an eye and a few limbs. I continued on the path that I had been guiding my group along for a while. I didn't know how long I had been laying there I could have been there for days, weeks, or even months. I was now scared for my friends and myself. I decided that I should wait for morning to continue as anything coul attack me in the position I was in now. I found a low hanging tree and climbed in and laid on a branch. I awoke in the middle of the day and continued on my way towards Appleloosa where my friends have hopefully stopped their journey, or atleast died trying. I walked for what seemed like an eternity, but I could finally see what I hoped was Appleloosa. I saw a fortress surrounding an old country like town, that was more modern, but I didn't care as I continued walking towards the castle. I approached the walls of the fortress that looked like it had took forever to build. I walked to the front gate only to be shot at, by what sounded like a high power rifle. I ran behind a tree and hoped that they wouldn't send their army out to execute me. I heard the gate open and saw a cowboy walk out with a pistol in his magic grip pointed at me. "Come out nice and slow now you here," I heard him say and I came out really slowly to only be shot in the leg and fall to the ground. "What have you done," I heard a mare say. Her voice sounded very familiar, but I couldn't place where I had heard from. I looked up through teary eyes to see Vinyl Scratch with a scar going down her back left flank and down her leg. I wanted to cry more knowing that she was alive, as she was the one that was in most trouble in my group. I saw her run over to me and pick me up and ordered the cowboy that shot me to help her. I was carried inside by the two and brought to the hospital that they had put together. I noticed Dr. Whooves at a desk working on some very articulate drawings or blue prints of this weird box thing that was impossible to build as it was bigger on the inside then on the outside, but I didn't care. I was laid on a bed and saw Sweetie Belle, come over with a tray and medical suplies. I was put to sleep right before they took the bullet out of my leg, but I over heard Sweetie say that it hit a major artery and I was lossing a lot of blood, very quickly. Survival to it's fullestI awoke to the sound of gunshots and a ground shaking explosion. I fell out of the bed only to be helped up by the Doctor and given crutches. I slowly waddled over to the entrance to the makeshift infirmary. I looked over to the front entrance of the very rubbish looking wall they had made. I guess I was hallucinating when I had seen the giant stone castle walls. The walls were made of some apple cider barrels, some wooden planks, three or so wagons, and a derailed train. I felt a hoof on my shoulder to see Pinkie wearing a stetson that had the name Applejack stitched into the brim. I gave her a quick hug to only be thrown off and have a gun pointed at my face. "Pinkie, stop," I heard the Doctor yell at Pinkie. Pinkie continued to stare into my eyes while I laid on my back and getting ready to jam a crutch into her. "PINKIE!" "He's infected we can't let him stay here, and if he does then he has to be put in the dungeon with... her," she said her with a bit of remorse, anger, and self-hatred. She slowly backed off me and holstered her rusty revolver and looked at the doc. "We can through him into the dungeon after we ask how he managed to fight off the virus and come out of a fatal "your going to die" gunshot to a major artery and how it healed so quickly," he said with a hint of sarcasm in his tone somewhere. I was once again forced to the ground with another pistol forced into the back of my head. I was lifted up as if I were a criminal and carried to what looked like a sheriff's office in the middle west. I was forced into a chair and handcuffed to it. I was a whole jumbled up mess of emotions, from anger to the fact that my friends are treating me like a wild animal and sadness that my friends had... changed. I was emotionally, physically, and mentally wrecked. I wanted to just go to sleep in my bed back in Fillydelphia and forget about all of this drama and chaos. I wanted to go home to my wife and kids and tell them that their father was right there. I started to cry when I knew that I would never see my family again, via it being me locked in a cell until I die or my family being dead due to this apocalypse, but I had that feeling a father gets when he knows that he will never see his kids again. I cried until I felt a presence in the room. I looked up to see Pinkie, Luna, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle staring at me like they wanted to murder me, and have me for dinner. "How are you "immune" to this thing," Applebloom asked me. "Don't answer and I'll cut your tongue out." I was startled at the comment I thought about what I would say because I felt if I told them anything they would drain my blood for the antivirus that lived inside. "I worked for this company, well not really worked more like forced to do their dirty work. When I had arrived there they injected me with this potion that had a bright white fluid in it. I asked what it was and they said it was a suppressant for whatever they were going to put on me to do my job. I had been given a pill that had a green coat and a brown inside. I was told that my mission was to put it in somepony's drink and have them drink it." I told them and waited for them to register what I had just said. "I was told that if I could get the mane six infected then I would be sent home to my kids, and if I refused they would kill my family, or if I had told anypony about this operation. I guess the suppressant was more of a cure and a super healer which would explain the rapid healing and lack of me being infected." "Thank you for the information and for being cooperative, but I'm sorry," I felt a slam into the back of my head and I blacked out on the table in front of me. Zecora's StoryI sat and listened for the monsters of the prophecy. She had been ready for when the prophecy would unfold. The prophecy stated that one will pick the flower of the dead and the dead will rise. I had made several potions that reverse the effects of the dead, changing them back into their former selves. I made six to be exact one for all elements since the elements of harmony had to survive if they didn't then all of Equestria would collapse. I packed the potions into my rucksack and started to make my way to Ponyville. I grabbed my walking stick and departed. I traveled the same route that I normally did to get to Ponyville. I was making my way when one of the potions fell out of my rucksack, breaking the top part of the bottle. I quickly grabbed another bottle, that I had brought with me if this emergency arose. I poured the potion into the other bottle, quickly. I got the entire potion into the bottle, except I didn't have a cap to put on the bottle. I carried the bottle in my mouth and made my way towards Ponyville. I heard a twig snap behind me, so I twirled around to see a pony clinging to a tree, and as soon as it saw me, it leaped and bit me on my neck, but missing my jugular barely. I slammed my stick into its throat, pushing it off of me. I ran as soon as it was off of me. I ran the rest of the way to Ponyville. I ran to the first pony that wouldn't want to die. Fluttershy. I charged to her cottage and knocked on her front door. Who opened the door was a surprise to me. Luna opened the door. I went in to see a whole bunch of ponies, Nurse Redheart, The Doctor, Pinkie, Rarity, Derpy, and others. "Pinkie, I have come to see Fluttershy," I said while dropping the bottle that was in my mouth on the counter in the kitchen. "I have brought a cure for the mane six," Rarity ran over and grabbed the one on the counter and ran back and gave it to Seafoam. Seafoam chugged it down. "Wait, are you bitten," Pinkie asked. "Yes, I was bitten on my way here," I told her. After I got done telling her Seafoam started shaking violently on the couch. He vomited on the floor next to Rarity, then he stood up and started to cough up blood and his arms started to deteriorate quickly and his left eye fell out of its socket. He looked at me with a pained expression, as his teeth were falling out of his mouth. I started to feel a sick feeling in my stomach. He started coughing up a green gas, that was not supposed to come out of the pony body. He finally fell over and his body let out a large amount of horrible smelling gas. Everypony left, except me, I started shaking wildly and finally fell over hearing all the bottles break against the hard floor. I went into shock and fell unconscious. Raiders and NemesisI walked back to the storage room we had found refuge in with Rarity and Nurse Redheart. I was planning out how to clear this place out quickly and make it livable again. I wondered away from the group as I wanted to check something out, I had always been very observant of my surroundings. I walked over to the hallway that leads to Celestia's and Luna's rooms. I walked down and saw Celestia's door blown off its hinges, which meant that Celestia was loose in the castle. I started to walk into the room when I heard a maniacal scream or laugh coming from the entrance. I trotted back to the beginning of the hallway when I saw a gang of ponies with weapons and burning liquor bottles. I backed up so I wouldn't be seen by the band of maniacal ponies. I waited until they had passed and followed behind them and followed them to the kitchen. I watched them as they grabbed some food then just burnt the rest. I ran down the hall and back to my friends and told them the horrible news. Luna was about to run past me until we heard a giant roar. I silently walked over to the door and looked out to see the huge pony from the hospital. The gang had returned from the kitchen and started to shoot at the pony. The giant pony charged the center of them, but the gang quickly moved out of the way and the beast slammed into a support column destroying it. The pillar fell on it but it didn't seem to kill him as he picked up a part of the column and threw it at a group of the gang slamming them against a wall killing them immediately. The beast grabbed his giant hammer and charged the other group of ponies, all of the ponies dodged it except one that exploded on the impact of the giant beast. One of the gang members shot the beast in the eye making the beast drop dead. The gang members cheered and danced around the beast when suddenly the beast sprang to life sending a pony flying and crushing another. I didn't stick around after that and lead everypony out of the castle that was starting to crumble due to the missing support column. I watched from a safe distance as the beast ran down the road towards Ponyville, which after I saw one of the gang members crawl to the door only to have one of the giant wood doors land on him and crushing the life out of him. I sat and cried as we had a supply of food and an almost safe place to stay, and now we were back to square one. I thought about what we could do when I heard one of the fillies cough Manehattan. I started thinking what was in Manehattan and why would we want to go there. I thought about our current predicament and suddenly remembered the Manehattan Observatory Labs and Forensic Science Lab. I told everypony and they asked why and then I pointed at the doctors, as they could make us and everypony the cure. Hopefully.
Actinidia TransmorrisonensisReseach and self-log #1 of many Today when I was on my way to Zecora's hut I found this strange dark green and black flower growing at the entrance to the forest. I hadn't noticed it from any of my books so I decided to study it. So far it just looks like a normal flower but at random, it lets out a really pungent stench that I can't bare to smell so I have to leave. I tried to stand around when it let out the stench, but I started to felt light headed and if I was going to hurl, so I left the room immediately. I will be righting a research log and self-log every day to two days to research my experience with this flower. Research and self-log #2 The flower's unbearable stench has started to either get better or I'm becoming immune to it, but I still get the feeling of hurling when it does. I studied one of the flower's petals to find that the flower is dead but is being kept alive due to this fungus that is growing on it. The 'blood' of the flower is a dark red almost black color, and it's incredibly thick, sort of like syrup or molasses. I scanned the blood to find the same fungus inside of the blood. I took one of the fungus spores and it died on complete removal of the flower. This flower just keeps getting interesting the more I research it. Day three of my research log. Research and self-log #3 I tested one of the fungal spores on a living subject to see what would happen, so I tested it on Spike to see the effects and Spike is very sick now, after a day of sleeping he is just laying there, I asked him if he wanted anything and he just laid there. The pedal that I picked off two days ago is now decayed and a pile of dust. The 'blood' that I pulled out of the flower is now a bright red color, so I checked it again and the fungus was nowhere to be found. I'll have to put this flower into a case and not just leave it on a table in a vase. Day four of my research log and self-log. Research and self-log #4 Spike was extremely aggressive towards me and tried to bite so I had to chain him to the wall. I decided to take some of Spike's blood for testing and his blood wasn't it's normal dark green, it was the same dark red almost black color that the plant's blood had, and also like the plant the blood had fungus all inside of it. I had to move the flower into the basement and put it into a bulletproof glass case to make sure that I was protected from the fungus growing in the plant. Also when I removed the plant from the vase it was sealed to the bottom with a giant fungus growth, which I also put into a glass container. Day five of my research and self-log. Research and self-log #5 I'm extremely weak and hungry about all the time. Spike's left hand started to decay and rot and it just looked horrid. The fungus growth that was in the bottom of the bass ha grown exponentially in a matter of 36 hours. It went from the shape of the vase to about the entire glass case. I decided to take some of my own blood and I found the same fungus and my blood was the same color as the plants and Spike's. What have I done? Research and self-log #6 or 7 I can't remember. I've gone to the hospital and they said that I should just rest and they handed me some antibiotics which I have been taking but they only make me feel worse. I also noticed that my tongue is starting to rot and when parts break off it leaves a bunch of blood and a terrible taste in my mouth. The area around my hooves is also starting to rot and break away causing a lot of pain. I think picking that flower was a horrible idea. Research and self-log #9 I'm getting sicker and anytime I eat anything I just throw it back up. I checked on Spike which I chained to a table in my basement today and his stomach has become entirely rotten, even showing his internal organs, which are also decaying horribly. I can't leave my house because when I do I burn in the light, I believe they call it photosensitivity or something. I just can't remember. My hair has also started to fall out and patches of my scalp keep coming off too, showing my skull. My horn has also fallen off and I keep it in a jar. Currently, it's a black soot color. I'm hungry and in a lot of pain. Log #? I'm forgetting everything. I can't read anything since I can barely read anymore. I can't eat anymore because every time I do I throw it up along with a large amount of blood. My hair has completely fallen out and my scalp is a patch of dark black bone and dark purple hair. One of my eyes has also fallen out of its socket. My hooves have just about fallen off and my snot is a dark black. I think I'm dying, this is either gonna become the last log I ever right or the next one. My wings have fallen off and my teeth are falling out, my tongue has become entirely rotten out and I can't speak anymore. My hooves have also fallen off and my heart has dropped from 120 beats a second to 50 beats a second. I've also dropped from 98 degrees Fahrenheit to 43 degrees Fahrenheit. I've become even more hungry and I haven't drunk anything in the past week or so, my throat hurts so much. I'm writing this to anyone that finds me in this state, stay our of the basement, Spike had gotten loose and he bit my neck. Stay out of the basement. My horn has become a pile of goo, and my eye and hair have entirely decayed. I'm writing now with what I have left of my teeth. My brain has probably become a pile of goo too, but I can't check. I went from the princess of friendship to a dying heap on the couch. I just coughed up of what I had left of a lung.
Rainbow's storySo I've just got back from Twilight's castle and the others left to protect what they wanted and I decided to go find Scootaloo and make sure that she was okay. I flew around and looked for Scootaloo before whatever was left of Spike had got around. We had read Twilight's memos and went to make sure that the basement door had been locked, except when we found the door to the basement the door was broken in the center and bloody paw prints were walking away from the door out the front door. We left shortly after but we first we went and checked in the basement to see if we could see this flower, but when we made it to the case the net to it was shattered and the fungus was growing all around the place, up the walls and on the furniture. The flower had decayed away, so we couldn't see the flower, clearly at least, as the petals were still there but the stem had decayed. We left and went to warn the town and make sure our loved ones were safe. I landed on the ground and walked down the alleyway that Scoots usually played on as it was the cleanest and safest alleyway to do tricks. I walked a little farther and saw a blood trail turning around the corner, that ended at a brick wall. I looked around for any sort of weapon and managed to find a broken pipe in a pile of bricks. I turned the corner to see nothing but a whole bunch of blackish- orangish feathers littering the ground. My heart broke when I saw the feathers, but became whole again when I didn't see a body. I followed the blood trail and the feathers that ended at the brick wall. In front of the brick wall, was a pool of blackish-reddish blood, and splatters of the same blood on the walls of the houses and the brick wall, and a window that was broken with blood on the broken glass. I looked to see if I could see anything when I noticed something shiny sitting on a broken piece of glass. I got closer to notice that the shiny object was a disconnected eyeball, with a light purple iris. My heart had been shattered and melted, when I saw Scoot's eyeball. I turned around quickly to come face to face with the orange filly. Her hair had completely fallen out, and her bottom jaw was nonexistent, her tongue flopping out wildly. Her neck was bit and her jugular vein had become torn out and bit into. Her front left leg was broken to where you could see her bone popping out and her skin was terribly rotten. Her stomach was bitten and torn up, so bad that her entrails were sliding along the ground behind her. I couldn't bring myself to kill her, even if she was already dead. I began to fly when something grabbed my tail and pulled me back down. I looked to see Spike standing there, and he looked worse than Scootaloo, with his hands on the verge of becoming just bone, and his spikes were broken and displaced, and his tail was cut off. He sunk his teeth into my leg and bit hard, causing my bone to snap out of place, sending a violent shock all through my body, and sent me plummeting back to the ground. Scootaloo bit me with the top part of her jaw, as best she could and sunk her teeth into my jugular, cutting it. I laid there and didn't try to escape, since if I did I was just going to die due to the cut jugular. I felt Spike release his bite and started to chew on my leg tearing off flesh. I screamed out profanities and curses at the monsters. I slowly began to fade due to extreme blood loss, the last thing I saw was a light blue beam blasting the monsters through the brick wall and out into the street.
Rarity's and Pinkie's StoryI was trying to find Rainbow since Sweetie Belle had gone to AJ's farm to play with Applebloom. I was walking around were Rainbow said she was going to go to get Scootaloo. I was walking around when I heard a scream that sounded like Rainbow's so I ran into an alleyway and saw Rainbow being eaten alive by what remained of Scootaloo and Spike. I blasted the monsters off her with a spell that was sure to kill anything, when the spell hit them they flew a brick wall and landed in the center of town. I looked down at Rainbow but she had already bled out due to the ripped jugular. I closed her eyes when I heard a scream come from the center of town. I ran through the brick wall and saw Spike and Scootaloo, or what was left, eating a poor horse that had a musical note for a cutie mark getting eaten by spike and Derpy about to be eaten by Scootaloo. I ran for Derpy and pushed the monster to the ground and grabbed Derpy and ran from the center of town before those monsters started to spread. "Hey, Rarity, what were those things," asked Derpy. "I don't know Derpy, I don't know," I told her. "We need to get to Applejack's farm, okay." "Why was Spike eating Octavia," She asked. "What were they gonna do to me." I stopped running and looked at her. "Derpy, I won't let anything happen to you," I told her. "I've already lost two of my friends, I ain't going to loose anymore." I continued to run with Derpy flying behind me. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ I ran into the bakery and check on the cakes and told them to leave town immediately, they looked at me like I had gone crazy again, but I told them to grab whatever they needed and leave the town and head for Canterlot. They run upstairs to grab the baby cakes pack a whole bunch of clothes and food and left. I go upstairs and grab gummy and my stress ball that my psychiatrist gave me to keep my stress levels down and left the bakery. I turn to run out of the bakery and see Spike, Octavia, and Scootaloo eating the corpses of the cakes. I tip toe the other direction and bump into Rainbow, but she was like Spike and Scootaloo. I ran away from her crying as I went, I just had to hope that Rarity, Fluttershy, and Applejack were still doing okay. I decided to go and check on Fluttershy since I was going in the direction of her cottage. I ran by an apple stall and grabbed and apple and put it in my hair. I walked by a house that was home to the best music makers or maker now as Octavia was dead. I knocked on the door and waited to see if anypony opened the door. After about a minute, Vinyl Scratch came out, looking dead as the monsters but was still alive. "Oh, hey Pinkie, did you need something," she asked me. "Yes I do, I need you to come with me to Fluttershy's cottage and grab a weapon," I told her. When I said weapon she backed up a little bit. "Why do I need a weapon," she asked. "Just do it, please, there's these things that are killing the town and I already lost Rainbow and Twilight," I told her and I looked to see if anypony was coming and I saw Rainbow's corpse shambling towards us. I pointed at the monster to let Vinyl see and she instantly ran inside and grabbed a metal baseball bat. We left her house and started to run for Fluttershy's cottage. We ran by a flower shop that was on fire and burning, and Rose was hanging out the second story window. Vinyl continued going to Fluttershy's cottage, but I stood there and saw Twilight stumble out the front door with her skin charred and falling off, but some parts were still burning. I continued running with Vinyl and didn't look back at the nightmare that was Ponyville. We had finally shown up at Fluttershy's cottage and started to look for Fluttershy. All of her animals were gone and her front door was open. I walked up slowly and pulled out my apple and got ready to throw it. I ran inside as fast as I could and swirled around to see if anypony was behind the door. I walked upstairs to see Fluttershy cowering in a corner. I looked over to see a black stallion with red hair with gray stripes in his hair. He looked at me and started to calm significantly. Fluttershy also started to calm when she noticed me. The stallion ran past me and started to drink out of the faucet. I turned to Fluttershy and gave her a questioning look. "I found him on my way here, he was running from Twilight, and he says that he knows what these things are," she told me in a way that she never really spoke. "Are you okay Fluttershy," I asked her. "I'm fine," She told me. I walked downstairs and told Vinyl to come inside and shut the door behind her. I sat on the couch and waited for nightfall. "We should wait here until sunrise, since we are in the Everfree almost nothing should come up here," I told everypony. I laid back and sat Gummy on the couch next to me. I pulled out my stress ball and started to squeeze it with my hooves. I looked at Vinyl, and she had already passed out. I looked at the stallion that had come here with Fluttershy. "So do you know what these things are?" "Yes and no," He said. "These things are in folklore that dates back to the beginning of pony life. They're what my ancestors called the walking dead, but I call them zombies." "Okay, what else do you know about them," asked Fluttershy who had finally come downstairs. "Well, the infection starts with an unlucky starter or if somepony is foolish enough to infect anypony else. The infection spreads via bites, saliva in any cut or in your eyes or mouth, and the only way to kill them is if you destroy the brain." "Wait, Pinkie didn't Twilight leave to go get medical attention at the Canterlot hospital," asked Fluttershy. "Yes, she did, wake up Vinyl, now," I commanded. I got up and walked over to Vinyl and woke her from her light sleep. "Vinyl we need you to contact the princess, Canterlot might be in trouble," I told her she got up and started to use her magic to contact the princess, after a minute of a lot of concentration she was able to create a stable connection with Celestia. "Who is this, Vinyl, why are you contacting me at 11 at night," asked Celestia who seemed rather mad that we awoke her. "Princess, we need you to quarantine Canterlot hospital, in Ponyville there is this virus going around making ponies eat other ponies then the ponies that are bitten and killed will come back to life as one of the dead, and the cycle repeats, but Twilight, who is dead princess, was sick and went to Canterlot hospital, so they nurses there might be sick and infected," I told the princess, as quick as I could. The look on her face went from anger to worry, in a matter of seconds. As she was thinking about what to do and how to contain the virus, in the background you could hear an explosion and see yellow light fill her room from her window. She flew out of her bed and looked out of her window and from here it looked as if the hospital just exploded, and the flames were spreading. We were watching the princess come back from her window, when we saw, what looked like a doctors head fly through the window. "Princess be careful he could still be alive, quickly step on the head." "What do you mean the head is disconnected from the body," she walked over to the head and the head managed to jump up at her and bit her on the leg. She threw the leg to the ground and stepped on it, causing the head to shatter into a million pieces. "What the fuck is going on, Pinkie?" "I don't know princess, but I'm sorry princess it was nice knowing you," Just before we cut off the connection we heard her door slam open, and her guards came in and started to give medical attention to the bite, but in under a matter of minutes she went into shock and slammed into the ground. The guards tried to make her regain consciousness but failed, they stood up and started to walk out of the room when Celestia started to get up they turned around and ran over to see if she was okay. One guard was unlucky and got bit by the zombie princess, Vinyl canceled her magic flow, and sat down and hugged her baseball bat. I sat on the couch and punched a pillow, with all my strength, causing the pillow to rip. I took the pillow in my mouth and cursed as many swears that I knew. I heard Fluttershy run upstairs and then I heard large amounts of crying. I stood up and walked around the house and looked for a weapon that I could use. I found nothing of use so I decided to take the stallion with me to the shed and told Vinyl to protect Fluttershy with all her might. "So what's your name," I asked the stallion. "My name is Dark Lightning," he told me. "I thought you knew everyponies names, why don't you feel mine, I feel left out." "Lately, I haven't had time to go and learn everyponies names," I told him. "That's alright, I'm actually in Ponyville on business so I wasn't expecting you to," he told me as he laughed. We reached the shed and pulled the door's handle. Inside was a bunch of tools for gardening. I walked inside and looked for the lightest object. I came across a machete and Dark came across a hatchet. We ran back to the house and locked the door behind us. I finally laid down for the night and fell asleep with Vinyl and Dark there and Fluttershy upstairs. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ As Derpy and I made it to Sweet Apple Acres, we could tell that the apple family had been busy fortifying their farm house. I walked to the front door and knocked 11 so AJ knew it was me. She opened the door and let Derpy in and then I followed I saw Sweetie Belle playing with Apple Blooms dolls, and calmed down from the hectic afternoon. I saw Big Mac carrying a sledgehammer and Granny Smith with her war helmet on. I followed Applejack to the kitchen and sat down and cried into my hooves. Applejack sat next to me and asked me what was wrong. "Rainbow, Scootaloo, and Octavia are dead Applejack," I told her. I looked back into my hooves and started to cry some more. "It's gonna be okay Sugarcube," she told me while hugging me. She was breathing very shakily, so I guess she was crying. "I don't know about Pinkie or Fluttershy, though, so I guess Pinkie went to Fluttershy's cottage," I told her. I stopped crying and Applejack stopped hugging me. I walked into the other room and looked out the window. I saw somepony, but I didn't recognize him, and he didn't look dead as he was galloping towards the barn. "Applejack somepony is in the barn." "Who," she asked as she was walking towards the door that leads to the barn. "I don't know, he had a seafoam green mane and tail and an orange coat," I told her as she went into the barn. I ran after to make sure that she would be safe. I got into the barn and saw Applejack staring down a stallion. "Applejack, calm down he doesn't look like one of them," I told her, she untensed slightly. I walked towards the stallion and stared him up and down, he seemed to be alive. "Who are you, sir." "My name is Seafoam Breeze," he told me. "What are you doing here," asked Applejack. "I was running from those monsters," he told us. "I think we should let him in Applejack," I told Applejack. "Fine, but if you make any funny moves I will buck you through the wall," she told him, which he shook his head nervously. I walked back inside and Applejack followed me and finally Seafoam. "So, Seafoam, how come I've never seen you in Ponyville before," I asked him. "That's because I'm in Ponyville on a business trip with my friend, that I lost back at the bar," he told us. "What's your friend's name," I asked. "Dark Lightning," he told us. "Fastest earth pony you'll ever see." "Yeah, right, I'm the fastest," said Applejack. "No, trust me you're not, if he and Rainbow Dash, with Rainbow Dash flying and him running he would beat her by a good three and half minutes." "Can you please not say Rainbow Dash," I told him. "Why," he asked. "Rainbow is dead," I told him as I started to cry. "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't know," he said with regret in his voice. I went over to the couch and laid down and started to fall asleep, but Sweetie Belle came over and laid with me. "Hi, Sweetie Belle," I told her. "Hi, sister," she told me. I looked over to see Applejack and Applebloom asleep in the recliner. Sweetie Belle and I were about to be. Maybe two hours later the entire house shook, waking everpony. Applejack and I ran outside to see part of Canterlot, exploding and burning. I fell down and cursed into the dirt. "Rarity we need to get back inside, now," we started to walk back inside when a pony grabbed Applejack and bit her neck, ripping out her jugular. "Rarity go." Was the last thing she ever said. I turned to run and saw Big Mac running outside, to save his sister. I saw him slam the sledge, into the horses head, sending brain matter and skull chunks everywhere. I watched him kneel before his sister dead corpse, but his heart picked up when he saw his sister move. Applejack bit him in the neck and ripped out his windpipe, causing him to die of lack of oxygen. I ran inside and stopped Applebloom from running outside. I turned to see Granny Smith in her rocking chair, I walked over to see if she was okay, I checked her pulse but it wasn't there. I sat and looked at the five other ponies, and cried. I heard something slam against the door. I looked out the window to see Big Mac and Applejack trying to break down the door. `"We need to leave, now," I told everypony. Seafoam lead the fillies and Derpy out the barn door and I followed behind with my horn at the ready. We ran away from the farm and walked slowly down the streets of Ponyville. It looked as if some ponies were still alive, which could be the case as I've only seen six or so dead ponies. We were headed for Fluttershy's cottage. We saw the flower sister's, flower shop, burning, with I think rose's burnt and charred upper half crawling it's way towards. I levitated the corpse upward which caused, her entrails to fall to the ground. Applebloom and Sweetie looked away. I threw the empty corpse through the window of the burning building. We finally got to the path that would bring us to Fluttershy's cottage. We got up the path and Seafoam knocked on the front door, 11 times. We waited until we heard moving inside, the front door opened and right there was Vinyl Scratch. She opened the door all the way when she saw me and let us all in. I saw Pinkie sleeping on the couch with Gummy on her stomach, and a stress ball on the floor. I went and sat on the floor next to Pinkie. Vinyl went back to her spot on the ground next to the kitchen, and Seafoam sat on the bottom stair. I heard movement upstairs and saw another stallion come down. Seafoam seemed to brighten. "Bro, what's going on," asked the stallion, while hugging him. "Dark, when did we get split up," he asked who I'm guessing was Dark Lightning. "I think back at the bar, I saw this cute waitress and I went after her, and then I ended up in an alleyway, without my wallet," he told him. I started to fall asleep for hopefully the final time this night. The fillies went and slept in one of Fluttershy's animals beds that looked like it was for a dog. I saw Dark and Seafoam go to the kitchen, and sit in front of the sink. I fell asleep, knowing that everypony was currently safe.
Nurse Redheart's and Princess Luna's StoryI was called up to Canterlot due to some virus that was putting too many ponies in the hospital, so they called Dr. Whooves and me, up here as we are the most trained doctors in Ponyville, and they couldn't call people from Appleloosa because they were hoping to contain whatever this virus was and it would take too long for anypony from Appleloosa to get here. I decided to spark a conversation with the doctor to pass the time. "What do you think this virus is," I asked him as he was staring off the side of the carriage. I guess he didn't like heights. "I don't know, but they said it was bad and that they had no cure for it and they had already lost five patients, I just wonder how it started and how it spreads and if there is any way to stop it," he answered me. He was wearing his scarf like he normally does when he goes anywhere. I was just wearing my nurse's cap. "Do you think there is a way to stop it," I asked him. "Well, that's a complicated question, as we have to know this virus exactly, how it started, who was the original carrier, and how quickly it can mutate," he told me with a smile on his face. "Then we have to break down the virus, to keep it from continuously mutating if it can even mutate, then once we break it down we find what makes it tick. If we find what makes it tick then we can use that against it by either changing around the items properties so that way we can kill it or, if it instantly kills it then just set up military checkpoints and give ponies the vaccine." "Well it looks like we're here," I said as we landed on the roof of the hospital. He opened the door of the carriage and helped me out then he came out. The pegasi that brought us here flew off as soon as we were off. We walked inside of them hospital and the first nurse pony that we met handed us some surgical masks and we put them on quickly. The nurse pony led us to a room that had tons of sick ponies, with their skin decaying and their wings and horns falling off and decaying quickly, even some ponies had already died since we got in the room about a minute ago. I walked up to a young pegasus and started a quick routine check up, which was just heart rate, temperature, and blood level. I tested her heart rate and her rate was about 20 beats a minute, which for a normal healthy heart would be about 80, her temperature was about 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and her blood level was nonexistent. I decided to ask a doctor if they had taken any blood tests yet, and the doctor had said that they couldn't due to Equestrian law, and that they have to have a ponies acceptance, and that none of the ponies could speak, due to rotten tongues or vocal cords. I told him to hand me a needle and that if we didn't take a blood test that the law wasn't going to be the thing to worry about. He handed me a needle and I walked back over to the pony that I was doing tests on. I got back to her but she had sadly passed away. I walked over to the pony that the doctor was working on. "Have you figured anything out," I asked him as I took a blood sample from the middle-aged pony. "Well we're dealing with a very bad case of Necrosis, and hypersalivation, I asked the doctors wheeling out a dead pony how many dead they have had so far, and he said the number has gone from 10 to a high 430, in the past hour, I was walking around and a lot of the ponies ear have bite marks on their arms and necks," he told me as we were walking down the hall to find a room where we could do tests on the blood on our own. We came across a room that had a microscope, which was all we really needed, except we wanted to lock the door to get some privacy. I locked the door behind us and took off my nurse's cap and let my pink hair flow as I had always had it in that stupid hat, it didn't even fit anyway. I put some of the blood under the microscope. The viruses and blood cells inside the blood were being eaten by this fungus, which would make this virus a fungus. "I don't think were dealing with a virus, doc," I told him. He came over and looked at the blood. "What do you think this is, doctor?" "I've never heard of a fungus that copies the symptoms and abilities of a virus," he said. He was about to check the blood again when we both jumped when we heard a female scream coming from the reception area. We left the room and ran to the reception to see what was happening. When we got there we saw one of the reception clerks, standing on a chair pointing to a mouse. We started to head back to the room we were just in. As we got to the door to the room, we saw a pony slamming into a doctor and biting into his neck, I held in a scream, but some other nurse didn't and screamed out at the top of her lungs and ran down the hall and slammed into us knocking me to the ground. I got back up to see the pony biting into the doctor's neck stopped and started shaking wildly, he vomited on the floor and his spine popped out of his which made the doctor cringe, his hooves broke and turned more into fingers, and his new fingers became sharpened and elongated to about the size of a normal kitchen knife. His teeth became sharper as well, he went back to eating the doctor. We waited to see if he was done mutating, to which he was. The doctor started to open the door but the nurse that had squealed at the mouse walked around the corner and saw the mutated horse, screamed at the horse. The horse turned to see her and growled, he quickly scaled the wall and ceiling, leaving holes all along the walls and ceiling. The doctor pulled me into the room, but when the monster passed I looked out and saw the horse drop on the poor mare and stab his fingers into her. I grabbed the doctor and started to walk the other way. We found a gas pipe and followed it to the closest window, and I think the doctor was starting to get my plan, he opened the window when I turned the pipes valve letting out a lot of gas, I set a fire on some clothes in a room and left the building, and we started running for the castle. I looked back just in time to see the hospital explode and I noticed the head from the mutated horse fly and smash through a window of the castle. The doctor and I stopped walking to catch our breath. I looked back at the burning building and I saw ponies falling off the roof and out the windows of the hospital. I pointed this out to the doctor, and he said that we should continue running. We started to make our way back to Ponyville when I noticed a fire in the center of town. "What is happening doctor," I asked him. "I don't know," was his answer. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ I sat in my room staring out at the hospital which was bringing in sick ponies every minute. I wanted to do something except I didn't know much about medical practices. I watched the hospital closely that entire night, I was watching Doctors and nurses bringing in sick ponies. I finally got bored of standing and staring out my window, I decided to go to my watchtower and see how things were going in Ponyville. I looked out at Ponyville and noticed a building was burning. I was confused but passed it off as Derpy hitting a light pole. I looked out my telescope and saw Rarity with Sweetie Belle and Applebloom and then another pony that I didn't notice. I went back down my watch tower to go to bed. I made it back to my room when the entire castle shook. I ran over to my window to see that the hospital had lit up in a giant fireball. I looked down to see two ponies that I had noticed before, the Doctor and Nurse Redheart running away from the hospital. I think they were running here but then they stopped to catch their breath, Redheart pointed at the hospital then they started to run for Ponyville. I looked back at the hospital to see ponies jumping off the roof and out the windows, some on fire some not. I ran over to my sister's room, but before I got to her room I saw guards standing outside, visibly shaken. I told them to open the door but they protested. I finally just opened the door myself and saw Celestia, eating one of the guards alive. He was screaming for help but no one was going to help him. I closed the door on the scene, and charged out the front door of the castle and flew up to stay out of the reach of the burning horses. I flew quickly over to the Doctor and Redheart. They noticed me and stopped so I could catch up. I landed next to them and cleared my throat. "Do you know what's going on, Doctor, Redheart," I asked them but they just shook their heads. "Then where are you going?" "We're going back to Ponyville, to look for survivors," Redheart told me. "Um, how is Celestia?" "Celestia is one of them," I told them as I pointed back to the burning horses. "So I'm coming with you." They just continued walking down the path to Ponyville, so I caught up and we walked in silence. "Hey Luna, can you raise the sun," the Doctor asked. "I can try," I said while giving my best effort to lower the moon and raise the sun, but I finally managed to raise the sun. After this we continued to walk in silence.
Back to Pinkie, and FluttershyI sat in my closet and cried, I didn't know what was going on and I didn't want to betray my friends. I didn't want to tell them that I had been bitten, but if I did they would either have to kill me but I just didn't want to die but I would die if they didn't kill. I cried and cried. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ I woke up maybe an hour ago, I accidentally hit Rarity in the head when I turned in my sleep so she yelled at me about. I grabbed my stress ball and have been squeezing it for the past hour. I sat around waiting for Vinyl to wake up, I also said good morning to Derpy, and Seafoam, which was this really strange pegasus that I couldn't wrap my head around. He says hello and if you say hello to him he gets mad, so I don't know about him, but Dark was strange. If you say hello to him he will just stand and stare with a blank expression. I waited for Vinyl and the fillies to wake up so that we can actually start thinking about what to do. As Vinyl started to wake up I heard a creak from upstairs. I grabbed the machete that I had moved to the side table and slowly made my way upstairs. I made my way to each room with Rarity right behind me with her horn at the ready. I opened Fluttershy's bathroom door up and saw that the sink had seven teeth sitting in a pool of blood. I also looked in the shower and saw some of Fluttershy's hair and a dead bunny lying on the ground. I read the collar's name tag. Angel Bunny. I left the room and walked into Fluttershy's room since this is where the sound was coming from I opened the door very slowly and peered into the room. I didn't see anything so I slid the door open quickly. I looked around the room and didn't see anything out of place, but just as I was about to leave I heard a thump coming from the closet. I told Rarity to use her telekinesis to open the door. She opened the door and out came a dead Fluttershy, which didn't seem interested in us. She walked over to us but that was it she didn't do anything. Rarity started to back up and hit her hoof against the door causing Fluttershy to look at her and charge her. Rarity levitated her with her horn and threw her with all her might against the wall. The wall cracked and Fluttershy slumped onto the ground, a blood trail behind her on the wall where her head hit and then dragged down. I left the room as quickly as I could and ran down the stairs almost tripping on the last step. I ran over to the door and threw it open, and vomited yesterday's breakfast up on Fluttershy's lawn. I went back inside and sat at the kitchen table, waiting for somepony to talk. "Are we going to do anything productive today," asked Dark. "I don't know, do you have good ideas," I asked in an angry tone. "Yeah I do actually, we need food," he told me. "Yeah, all the food that Fluttershy had stored up is for animals like dog food and bird food," Seafoam said. "Well, who's going to go on a food run," I asked. "We also need some weapons, to defend ourselves," said Vinyl. "Fine, Seafoam, and Rarity, you two will be going for any nonperishable food types, so no apples or carrots, but canned food. Vinyl and I will fo find any weapons, and Dark and Derpy will stay here and protect the fillies," I said. Vinyl grabbed her metal baseball bat and my machete, and Rarity sparked up her horn and Seafoam took Dark's hatchet. We all left the cottage in somewhat of an orderly fashion. "Rarity and Seafoam you two should check the market district, and Vinyl and me are going to check ponies houses." We all departed to out destinations and waved to the other scavengers. I found a house that seemed to be empty, so I went and opened the door slowly. I walked in and saw what looked to be the carcass of a pony hanging off the railing of the building. I walked over and poked the pony in the head with my machete to make sure it was dead. I walked into the kitchen to find anything and told Vinyl to go look for a bag of some sort. She ran upstairs and started searching. I went into the kitchen and opened a cupboard that had a lot of glass cups in it, that were stored horribly. When I opened the cupboard the glass came spilling out on my head and breaking, and the broken pieces cut into me. I heard Vinyl run downstairs. I looked at her and I saw her with her bat raised over her head ready to hit me. "Put the bat down Vinyl," she slowly started to lower her bat, until she heard hooves clopping on the ground outside the house. I grabbed her and pulled her into the kitchen, and looked at the front door. I saw a pony enter the door frame, hesitantly. I noticed her as Nurse Redheart. She turned around to say something to another pony, so I guess she was alive. I came out slowly, so that way she wouldn't blast me against the back wall. "Hey we have somepony alive over here," she yelled to whoever was with her. "Wait, Pinkie?" "Yeah, who are you with," she stepped out of the way and Luna stepped into the doorway. I fell to my knee and bowed. "Princess Luna, wait are you doing today." "Get up Pinkie, were trying to find survivors," she told me. "Vinyl come here," I called out to Vinyl when I realised that she wasn't standing next to me. I walked back over to the kitchen and saw Vinyl bleeding profusely, from her leg. "Redheart, do you know how to deal with this." "Um, do you have some sort of cloth," she asked and as she did I ran over and to the window and ripped a curtain up, and brought it back to Nurse Redheart. She quickly tied the cloth around her leg. I carried Vinyl and led Nurse Redheart, the Doctor, and Luna. I met the doctor when we had left, he had asked if I wanted help with carrying Vinyl. I opened the door to Fluttershy's cottage and let the other ponies in then I came in and set Vinyl on the couch. I also noticed that Rarity was watching over Seafoam. "Rarity, what's wrong with him," I asked her. "When we went to find food, a flock of birds flew over and Seafoam looked up to see them, but then something fell into his eye and Dark thinks that he's infected and that we have to kill him," said Rarity. I dragged Rarity upstairs so we could talk privately. "Why are you so attached to him Rarity," I asked her. "I have a crush on him," she said. "of, course you do," I told her. I walked back downstairs and Luna was already making herself comfortable. Redheart was putting a band-aid on Apple Bloom's arm as she had cut herself. Vinyl was passed out from the shock, and Seafoam was writhing in pain. Dark was holding his friend's hoof and praying. The doctor was looking at this vial of blood that had on him. Derpy was sitting in the corner of the room rocking back in forth. Seeing the morale of everypony was making me sad, my cutie mark is for me to make ponies happy, and I'm not making ponies happy. I stood and my hair fell flat and fur turned darker, I was supposed to make ponies happy. I cried on the stair until I passed out, but in my dream, I was making everypony happy.
Goodbye my friend.I walked back inside the house to check on Zecora and my friend. I saw Zecora walking over to me with a dead look in her eyes. I ran at her and tackled her to the ground, and slammed the hatchet into her forehead. I walked over to my friend and sat and cried. I heard a pony walking behind me so I stood up and got ready to attack whoever was behind me. I turned to see Pinkie at the end of the hatchet. I turned back to look back at my friend and cried on him again. I watched his motionless body lie there. I stood up and walked back outside and walked into the Everfree, and punched a tree and broke my hoof. I sat under the tree for about an hour when I went back to the cottage. I saw Pinkie and Rarity moving Seafoam's body to the river behind Fluttershy's cottage. I walked back into the cottage and helped Redheart carry Zecora upstairs. I waited for Pinkie and Rarity to return before talking about somethings. When they did return I told them that Fluttershy's and Zecora's bodies were going to attract attention when they started to rot and that we had no food or medical supplies, we were trying to fix broken bones with a cotton swab dipped in rubbing alcohol and band-aids. "We could try and take over the castle," Luna proposed, and everypony agreed. I heard a thump coming from the living room and I looked to see Vinyl awake and walking towards us. "If we're going to take over the hospital then we need to plan out when we leave and give everypony a weapon," Vinyl said. "So Pinkie and Dark have weapons, and Rarity, Luna, Nurse Redheart, and I are unicorns and an alicorn, so we need to get the Doctor and Derpy a weapon." "Yes, but I no longer control the sun or the moon, or planet just spin," Luna said. "When Celestia dies the planet loses its magical control and just spins, so now we don't control the time." "So it's right now about noon, so we need to leave and head to the castle, and if we can the jail, to see if they had any weapons stockpiled," I told them. "So the fillies stay in the middle of the group, with Luna in front and Pinkie and Rarity on the side, with me in the back, and Vinyl, Redheart, Derpy and the Doctor, will stay with the two fillies in case one of us are attacked." We started to get ready to leave until I ran upstairs to see what I could find. I walked into the bathroom and checked the medicine cabinet, to see a whole bunch of prescription drugs for things like stress, depression, and other dark things, that were all labeled with Fluttershy's name. I looked and saw a needle and thread, so I grabbed it. I walked into Fluttershy's room and saw nothing that seemed to hold anything useful, except a whole bunch of pill bottles on the nightstand. I also saw a bottle of painkillers, so I went over and popped the remaining two into my mouth and threw the bottle to the side. I went and checked the hallway closet, and found a bunch of dead animals, that were all of Fluttershy's house pets. I ran back downstairs and gave the needle and thread to Nurse Redheart. I told Luna that we could go, and she took off slowly enough for the fillies to keep up. I looked around to see if I could find anything that could be kept or anything that would be counted as a threat. I saw this pony climbing up a tree and look at me. I looked back to see that part of it's brain was showing, and it had no eyes. It opened its mouth and its tongue stretched almost its entire body length. I told Luna to speed up. We quickly got away from the Everfree as there seemed to monsters residing inside of the forest. We walked down the path that leads to the cottage. We walked by the residential area of Ponyville, I was watching behind me, and into the houses. The doors of the houses had been kicked in. We walked down past the hospital, to see the windows were all busted and that there were ponies on the inside, alive. I walked over to the door and asked if we could get some bandages, but they replied to me in a way that made me want to bust down the door and holler as loud as I can to draw the attention of all the dead, except he pointed a weapon that was made for riots or end of days scenarios like this one. A gun. He had pointed the weapon at me and made back up to the group and we continued to walk down the road. I looked back at the hospital and wondered how he had got a pistol as they were only given to police officers. We were maybe a block away from the hospital when a thunderous boom rang over the entire area. I saw the same pony that was wielding the gun fly through the front door and slam into the concrete. What next made everyone continue walking. There was this very muscular pony that had this very big piece of rebar with a piece of concrete on the end of it. He slammed it down on the pony crushing the life out of him and making his head pop. We started to walk faster and finally made it to the police station. I told Pinkie to go with me inside the police station. I walked in and walked over to the storage room. I opened the door and saw a pistol and a two longer guns, one with a scope and the other was engraved on the side 'Boomstick'. I grabbed the guns and threw them to Pinkie and she ran outside and ran out of my view. I grabbed the ammunition for the weapons. I ran outside to see she gave the 'Boomstick' to Luna who seemed to really used to guns, the pistol to Rarity who was trying to figure out what she had to do with the weapon and the scoped weapon to the doctor who was laying on the ground trying to steady the weapon and was looking through the scope. I gave the ponies with the guns what I think was the correct ammo, which the doctor through his ammo into his saddle pack and Luna and Rarity threw the ammo into this locker thing that appeared and disappeared with the flash of their horns. We continued to walk towards the castle, where we were hopefully going to be able to survive a little longer.
TimberwolvesSweetie Belle and I sat there waiting for the group to finish their little meeting thing. Sweetie Belle had wanted to get a weapon to defend herself, but she started to use her horn even more and got a ton better in the past day. I wanted to get weapon since I didn't have any useful talents, but Sweetie Belle said that she would protect me with her magic. "Hey Sweetie Belle, do you think that we'll be able to make the castle a safe place to stay," I asked her as she was getting ready to cast magic missile. "Of course, with the amount of weapons we have, and an alicorn, we would definitely be able to make it safe," she told me as she cast the rather strong spell. The group started to get back into their positions and we continued to walk towards the castle. We had already spent four hours walking and we weren't even halfway there yet. I wanted this trip to be over before nightfall, but at the pace we were going we would probably be there by tomorrow morning. I looked around at our makeshift army, we had an alicorn, two of the mane six, two doctors, a mentally slow pegasus, and a hitchhiker. I knew that everypony had a little crush on him since he's the 'leader' of our operation, but I feel as though he has a very dark secret that he won't share. I was about to tell Sweetie what I felt about him, but Derpy came out of nowhere. "Hey, Apple Bloom, I was bored so I came over here to see if you have anything to talk about," said Derpy. "Sorry Derpy, I'm probably more bored than you right now, but I do actually have a secret I want to tell you about," I told her. "I feel as if he has a dark secret that he's not letting on," I told her while pointing to the hitchhiker. "Why do you feel that way Apple Bloom, he's the only one leading us on a straight path, without him we wouldn't be anywhere," Derpy said in a very angry tone. "Sorry Derpy, I'm probably just paranoid," I told her as she flew back to where she was put. We continued to walk in silence with the ever so occasion cough or sneeze from somepony. By the time we got maybe halfway to the castle, everypony was starting to get hungry. We walked to the side of the road and took a little break, the sun was straight up so I guess it was noon. We sat back and passed what little food we had around, which was just a head of lettuce and a few apples. I took an apple while Sweetie Belle took some lettuce. The hitchhiker didn't want any food, he said that if his luck was good he would be able to eat at the castle. After everypony had finished their food we continued on the road, except the hitchhiker. "We need to move now, timberwolves," We all looked to see a pack of timberwolves chowing down on the carcass of a dead pony. "Why are they so far away from the forest, aren't they afraid of leaving the forest," I asked the others. "They aren't afraid of leaving they're afraid of us, ponies, but since we aren't around to scare them off and keep them at bay they are out eating whatever they can find," said the hitchhiker. We all walked faster until we heard one of the timberwolves howl. We all looked back to see the timberwolves looking at our group. The doctor was already on the ground aiming out of his weapon. He fired the gun and in the distance, we saw one of the timberwolves loose a leg, but it was still coming for us. I studied the wolves carefully and noticed something slightly off about them, their eye color. Instead of their normal glowing yellow eye color, their eye's were a dull gray color. "I don't think their alive, look at their eyes," I told everypony. "They carcasses they have eaten must of had the virus in it, which made them infected," Luna said. The doctor shot off two more rounds which took off the other timberwolves legs. We all quickly started back on our trail to the castle only to see a pack of 10 to 15 timberwolves standing behind us and another pack next to us. We ran away from the trail and came across a cliff. The cliff was a good 50-foot drop but there was water at the bottom. I watched as I saw Luna jump off the cliff followed by Rarity and then Pinkie, the doctors then Derpy. Me and Sweetie Belle hugged each other and jumped followed by the hitchhiker. We landed in the water and quickly swam to shore. I looked up to not only see the timberwolves but to see the sky was starting to get stormy. "Why are the clouds moving when there are no pegasus," I asked somepony. "Well, it's like when Celestia dies the planet loses its magical grip, the same with the clouds when the weather factory is destroyed, it goes back to the way my grandparent's grandparents found it when they arrived on this planet. The weather had a mind of its own, the clouds formed by themselves and the time went by itself," she said as she recited from something. We started to go back to the path when it started raining. I hope I don't get a cold.
Overrun CastleAs we approached the castle, I could instantly tell that something was wrong as the windows were all shattered and the front entrance was busted to the floor. I noticed all the dead in the garden just wandering. I picked up a rock and threw it at a boarded up house, which the dead heard the rock bounce off a wall and started wandering to it. All the dead wandered away from the castle and started to pull the boards off the house. We started to walk towards the castle while the dead were distracted taking down someponies barricades. We made it inside the castle and found a spacious room that we could hold out in and catch our breath. "Hey, Pinkie why did you throw that rock," Rarity asked. "I had the chance to test something about them and now we know that they react to sound, so their sight must not be too good as they would have seen us," I told her. "I might have accidentally killed somepony in the process but still." She looked at me like I was crazy, but I think I was crazy at that point. I looked to see if everypony was safe, and everpony looked safe. I walked towards the door and look out to see if there is anything outside the door. Okay so plan one would have to be, get some food and water. I look at Luna and she looks back at me. "Luna do you know where the kitchen is," I ask her. "Of course, I do I own this castle now," she said, in a very sad tone. She got off the box that she was sitting on. I also told Rarity and Nurse Redheart to come with us. We prayed that we wouldn't die and we left for the kitchen. I looked down the halls of the castle and noticed one or two dead here and there but it was rather empty. We made our way to a corridor that was wider than the rest. Luna made her way down the hall quickly but silently. She opened a pair of double doors and let us in and quickly shut the door. I looked around at the dining room and went to the first door I saw. I opened the door and saw the kitchen. Overrun. The kitchen was swarming with them. I walked forward a little and let Rarity in and then nurse Redheart, as Luna had left and gone back to join the others. I saw Rarity levitate her gun up and then I whispered a no to her. I walked over to one of them and stabbed my machete into the back of their skull. I pulled the machete out of their head and the body dropped like a sack of potatoes. I looked around and found a knife that was long and sharp. I gave it to Rarity and us slowly but carefully killed down the numbers. I walked over to the final dead and slammed my machete into the back of their head. My machete broke off in their head so I was now weaponless, the body dropped to the ground. I looked around and grabbed a mallet, that was used for squeezing fruits and vegetables. I went over to all the doors and opened them up. All of them were pantries with tons of food, so much food that we would last for maybe about three years in the castle. That is unless if we could make our way to the garden and use it for growing crops. I went to the final door and looked on the other side, the other side was an empty hallway that went nowhere, but had a whole bunch of doors. I had Rarity and Nurse Redheart help me open the doors. Every door was another pantry bigger than the ones in the kitchen. With the food, we had now we would last maybe ten years with gardening. I wanted to find the quickest way and safest way to the kitchen from where ever we were going to keep our living quarters. I walked back into the dining room and locked the other doors besides the one we came in from. We all left back for the others.
Pain, Loss, and AppetiteWe were all scared as the giant pony that was nicknamed "The Nemesis" by all the other ponies, I don't know why though but I think it's a book thing? I was never good at reading books since my 'problem' limited me to a few things, but I still tried to read when I had a chance. I walked with Apple Bloom and listened to how she tried to guess what would happen next, which ranged from extremely unlikely to possible. She started with dinosaurs rising from the ground to the Nemesis coming and destroying our entire group. I wanted to know when we would get Appleloosa as I wanted to determine how long we would be there. I looked around but I couldn't see anything that looked too dangerous. I went into my head and started to day dream. We had been walking since last night and haven't stopped since, as we were all terrified by the nemesis. I was hoping he would never show up again, so that way we could worry about less important things like medicine, food, and water. At the rate we were going, Vinyl would die from infection of her cut. I caught up to Dark, as he had taken the lead back in Canterlot. "Dark, we need to get someplace quick. Everypony is getting sick from malnourishment and dehydration, and Vinyl is gonna drop dead if we don't get her some antibiotics," I told the dark stallion. He looked at me and I knew that something was wrong as his eyes were a dark black and were bleeding profusely. I told the group to stop and called Redheart to come help me. "What's wrong Pinkie, why did we stop," she asked me and I pointed to Dark. She looked at him and laid him on the ground. "When was he infected?" "I don't know, he didn't tell me," I told her. Dark began to convulse on the ground and coughed up a gallon of blinding white blood. "Why is his blood white, isn't the infection supposed to make it pitch black?" "Yes, but I guess he must be fighting it hard, and is winning," she told me with a slight smirk on her face, but her face went from a look of hope to sheer terror as Dark stood up and stared at her. He cocked his head to the side and opened his mouth to speak, but all you could hear was a low guttural, painful moan. He charged at her and she dodged his attack, and flew to the left. He stopped when he slammed into the wall and dropped to the ground in a dead-ish state. I walked over to him and poked him with a stick. I dropped the stick and turned to have seen that Nurse Redheart had split her head open with a sharp rock, and a pool of blood had already formed under her. I shook her, but I already knew she was dead, from the lack of her chest heaving. I sat and cried for a minute, only a loud boom coming from behind the group. I told the group to keep moving, and we continued moving. I was in so much pain right now, I was trying to keep my body from attacking anypony, but I was losing the battle over the control of my body. I threw myself at Nurse Redheart, only to miss and slam into the side of a mountain and knock myself into a lifeless hump, even though I wasn't dead, but the virus somehow managed to "kill" itself from the powerful collision with the half iron half stone and dirt wall. I felt Pinkie poke me with a stick and I heard her give up after a few more pokes. I laid and tried to get up and move, but my whole body hurt and my mind was more numb than my hooves. I was finally able to move my head a little a get a small look around. I noticed that it was now nightfall and my friends were all gone, except Redheart. I walked over to her lifeless body and got rid of the birds that were nibbling on parts of her body. The pony that I used to know was now a carcus on the side of the street, minus an eye and a few limbs. I continued on the path that I had been guiding my group along for a while. I didn't know how long I had been laying there I could have been there for days, weeks, or even months. I was now scared for my friends and myself. I decided that I should wait for morning to continue as anything coul attack me in the position I was in now. I found a low hanging tree and climbed in and laid on a branch. I awoke in the middle of the day and continued on my way towards Appleloosa where my friends have hopefully stopped their journey, or atleast died trying. I walked for what seemed like an eternity, but I could finally see what I hoped was Appleloosa. I saw a fortress surrounding an old country like town, that was more modern, but I didn't care as I continued walking towards the castle. I approached the walls of the fortress that looked like it had took forever to build. I walked to the front gate only to be shot at, by what sounded like a high power rifle. I ran behind a tree and hoped that they wouldn't send their army out to execute me. I heard the gate open and saw a cowboy walk out with a pistol in his magic grip pointed at me. "Come out nice and slow now you here," I heard him say and I came out really slowly to only be shot in the leg and fall to the ground. "What have you done," I heard a mare say. Her voice sounded very familiar, but I couldn't place where I had heard from. I looked up through teary eyes to see Vinyl Scratch with a scar going down her back left flank and down her leg. I wanted to cry more knowing that she was alive, as she was the one that was in most trouble in my group. I saw her run over to me and pick me up and ordered the cowboy that shot me to help her. I was carried inside by the two and brought to the hospital that they had put together. I noticed Dr. Whooves at a desk working on some very articulate drawings or blue prints of this weird box thing that was impossible to build as it was bigger on the inside then on the outside, but I didn't care. I was laid on a bed and saw Sweetie Belle, come over with a tray and medical suplies. I was put to sleep right before they took the bullet out of my leg, but I over heard Sweetie say that it hit a major artery and I was lossing a lot of blood, very quickly.
Survival to it's fullestI awoke to the sound of gunshots and a ground shaking explosion. I fell out of the bed only to be helped up by the Doctor and given crutches. I slowly waddled over to the entrance to the makeshift infirmary. I looked over to the front entrance of the very rubbish looking wall they had made. I guess I was hallucinating when I had seen the giant stone castle walls. The walls were made of some apple cider barrels, some wooden planks, three or so wagons, and a derailed train. I felt a hoof on my shoulder to see Pinkie wearing a stetson that had the name Applejack stitched into the brim. I gave her a quick hug to only be thrown off and have a gun pointed at my face. "Pinkie, stop," I heard the Doctor yell at Pinkie. Pinkie continued to stare into my eyes while I laid on my back and getting ready to jam a crutch into her. "PINKIE!" "He's infected we can't let him stay here, and if he does then he has to be put in the dungeon with... her," she said her with a bit of remorse, anger, and self-hatred. She slowly backed off me and holstered her rusty revolver and looked at the doc. "We can through him into the dungeon after we ask how he managed to fight off the virus and come out of a fatal "your going to die" gunshot to a major artery and how it healed so quickly," he said with a hint of sarcasm in his tone somewhere. I was once again forced to the ground with another pistol forced into the back of my head. I was lifted up as if I were a criminal and carried to what looked like a sheriff's office in the middle west. I was forced into a chair and handcuffed to it. I was a whole jumbled up mess of emotions, from anger to the fact that my friends are treating me like a wild animal and sadness that my friends had... changed. I was emotionally, physically, and mentally wrecked. I wanted to just go to sleep in my bed back in Fillydelphia and forget about all of this drama and chaos. I wanted to go home to my wife and kids and tell them that their father was right there. I started to cry when I knew that I would never see my family again, via it being me locked in a cell until I die or my family being dead due to this apocalypse, but I had that feeling a father gets when he knows that he will never see his kids again. I cried until I felt a presence in the room. I looked up to see Pinkie, Luna, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle staring at me like they wanted to murder me, and have me for dinner. "How are you "immune" to this thing," Applebloom asked me. "Don't answer and I'll cut your tongue out." I was startled at the comment I thought about what I would say because I felt if I told them anything they would drain my blood for the antivirus that lived inside. "I worked for this company, well not really worked more like forced to do their dirty work. When I had arrived there they injected me with this potion that had a bright white fluid in it. I asked what it was and they said it was a suppressant for whatever they were going to put on me to do my job. I had been given a pill that had a green coat and a brown inside. I was told that my mission was to put it in somepony's drink and have them drink it." I told them and waited for them to register what I had just said. "I was told that if I could get the mane six infected then I would be sent home to my kids, and if I refused they would kill my family, or if I had told anypony about this operation. I guess the suppressant was more of a cure and a super healer which would explain the rapid healing and lack of me being infected." "Thank you for the information and for being cooperative, but I'm sorry," I felt a slam into the back of my head and I blacked out on the table in front of me.
Zecora's StoryI sat and listened for the monsters of the prophecy. She had been ready for when the prophecy would unfold. The prophecy stated that one will pick the flower of the dead and the dead will rise. I had made several potions that reverse the effects of the dead, changing them back into their former selves. I made six to be exact one for all elements since the elements of harmony had to survive if they didn't then all of Equestria would collapse. I packed the potions into my rucksack and started to make my way to Ponyville. I grabbed my walking stick and departed. I traveled the same route that I normally did to get to Ponyville. I was making my way when one of the potions fell out of my rucksack, breaking the top part of the bottle. I quickly grabbed another bottle, that I had brought with me if this emergency arose. I poured the potion into the other bottle, quickly. I got the entire potion into the bottle, except I didn't have a cap to put on the bottle. I carried the bottle in my mouth and made my way towards Ponyville. I heard a twig snap behind me, so I twirled around to see a pony clinging to a tree, and as soon as it saw me, it leaped and bit me on my neck, but missing my jugular barely. I slammed my stick into its throat, pushing it off of me. I ran as soon as it was off of me. I ran the rest of the way to Ponyville. I ran to the first pony that wouldn't want to die. Fluttershy. I charged to her cottage and knocked on her front door. Who opened the door was a surprise to me. Luna opened the door. I went in to see a whole bunch of ponies, Nurse Redheart, The Doctor, Pinkie, Rarity, Derpy, and others. "Pinkie, I have come to see Fluttershy," I said while dropping the bottle that was in my mouth on the counter in the kitchen. "I have brought a cure for the mane six," Rarity ran over and grabbed the one on the counter and ran back and gave it to Seafoam. Seafoam chugged it down. "Wait, are you bitten," Pinkie asked. "Yes, I was bitten on my way here," I told her. After I got done telling her Seafoam started shaking violently on the couch. He vomited on the floor next to Rarity, then he stood up and started to cough up blood and his arms started to deteriorate quickly and his left eye fell out of its socket. He looked at me with a pained expression, as his teeth were falling out of his mouth. I started to feel a sick feeling in my stomach. He started coughing up a green gas, that was not supposed to come out of the pony body. He finally fell over and his body let out a large amount of horrible smelling gas. Everypony left, except me, I started shaking wildly and finally fell over hearing all the bottles break against the hard floor. I went into shock and fell unconscious.
Raiders and NemesisI walked back to the storage room we had found refuge in with Rarity and Nurse Redheart. I was planning out how to clear this place out quickly and make it livable again. I wondered away from the group as I wanted to check something out, I had always been very observant of my surroundings. I walked over to the hallway that leads to Celestia's and Luna's rooms. I walked down and saw Celestia's door blown off its hinges, which meant that Celestia was loose in the castle. I started to walk into the room when I heard a maniacal scream or laugh coming from the entrance. I trotted back to the beginning of the hallway when I saw a gang of ponies with weapons and burning liquor bottles. I backed up so I wouldn't be seen by the band of maniacal ponies. I waited until they had passed and followed behind them and followed them to the kitchen. I watched them as they grabbed some food then just burnt the rest. I ran down the hall and back to my friends and told them the horrible news. Luna was about to run past me until we heard a giant roar. I silently walked over to the door and looked out to see the huge pony from the hospital. The gang had returned from the kitchen and started to shoot at the pony. The giant pony charged the center of them, but the gang quickly moved out of the way and the beast slammed into a support column destroying it. The pillar fell on it but it didn't seem to kill him as he picked up a part of the column and threw it at a group of the gang slamming them against a wall killing them immediately. The beast grabbed his giant hammer and charged the other group of ponies, all of the ponies dodged it except one that exploded on the impact of the giant beast. One of the gang members shot the beast in the eye making the beast drop dead. The gang members cheered and danced around the beast when suddenly the beast sprang to life sending a pony flying and crushing another. I didn't stick around after that and lead everypony out of the castle that was starting to crumble due to the missing support column. I watched from a safe distance as the beast ran down the road towards Ponyville, which after I saw one of the gang members crawl to the door only to have one of the giant wood doors land on him and crushing the life out of him. I sat and cried as we had a supply of food and an almost safe place to stay, and now we were back to square one. I thought about what we could do when I heard one of the fillies cough Manehattan. I started thinking what was in Manehattan and why would we want to go there. I thought about our current predicament and suddenly remembered the Manehattan Observatory Labs and Forensic Science Lab. I told everypony and they asked why and then I pointed at the doctors, as they could make us and everypony the cure. Hopefully.
