Zombies in Ponyville.

Chapter One: How it Began
Point of View: Applebloom

During the last lesson in class, which today was about science, which I didn't care for much, so, I started to wonder what we were going to do after school. I also hoped that it wasn't more variations on other dangerous stunts that we'd done other times. With nothing else to do, I kind of listened or the rest of class.

As I walked out of class, I looked around for my friends. Pretty soon, after the crowd got smaller, I found that they were standing behind, and Rarity was talking to them.

"...So, are you going to come?" Rarity asked.

Sweetie belle seemed sure of her sister's suggestion, and would have spoken, except Scootaloo started talking first."Um... I don't know."

As i got to them, Sweetie Belle asked me,

"Do you want to go?" However, upon seeing the odd look on my face, she said "Oh, sorry. Rarity is going over to Twilight's library to pull a prank on Spike." I asked her to tell me more, but Rarity stepped forward and answered for Sweetie Belle.

"Twilight learned a new spell that will make me look exactly like a zombie. I'm just going to pop out and scare him."

I only asked one question even though i had more. "Why'd she pick you?"

"Oh, yes." she answered." Its because the spell will look best on a pony with a white coat.", pointing at herself.

I accepted her answer, even though, if i knew to, I would have tried to convince her out of it."Sounds like fun." I said "So, yes." I could tell that sweetie belle was happy that I approved.

Scootaloo was the only one to disagree. " Come on, guys! Maybe, we would get our cutie marks today!" Lately, she had wanted her cutie mark more than ever, probably because every pony at school had chosen her to pick on. I felt a bit sorry for her, but this sounded like a lot more fun than her crazy ideas like tight rope walking, and one of the worst ones yet, wood cutting. So, I was happy to not have to do one of her crazy new ideas of how to get covered in sap and pine needles. If only I knew how dangerous this would be.

So, to shut her up, I just said "Maybe y'all get cutie marks as pranksters." As we walked to Twilight's library, I wondered if I'd find a prank for one of us instead of Spike, involving something jumping out at us. I also wondered if any pony else would be there. But, when we got there, there was no sign of Rainbow or Pinkie.

"I sent Spike out to do something. While hes gone, I'm going to prepare a great prank for him." Twilight said. Rarity stepped forward and told Twilight, "They already know."

During the silence in the room, we all heard the muffled sound of Spike talking to some pony near the door. "Hurry, Twilight! Spike is almost here!" Rarity said to Twilight, who was reviewing a book on her table, than levitated it to the higher floor. Rarity climbed up the first few steps, and added, "You three come up here."

I walked to the steps and climbed up, with Scootaloo behind me, and Sweetie Belle behind her. Twilight's horn glowed for a second, along with all of Rarity, and then, in the blink of an eye, Rarity looked green, as I'd imagined, but, nothing else. I was a bit disappointed, but, then, Twilight casted another spell that made a realistic gash in Rarity's head. I thought about writing a note to myself to ask Twilight to make me look like that for the next nightmare night.

A few seconds later, Spike walked in the door, holding a small stack of paper, and a hand full of money, and walked toward Twilight.
"Hi, Twilight" he said and placed his stuff on the table. He turned his head around to up where we were, and where Rarity was. Before he could do anything, Rarity was soaring trough the air towards him. He dodged the main impact, but was still smacked hard by her right hoof. Suddenly, a magic barrier came up to block our view, then, we were teleported outside.

I looked in through a window to see what was happening, only to see another magical barrier blocking my view. I probably wouldn't have wanted to look anyway. I saw the the other two fillies trying to look in.

I heard Twilight yelling at Rarity, but, with no response. For about a minute, everything became silent. Then, all the commotion started again. The door opened enough to let me see Spike attempting to flee the house. He failed , and Rarity caught up and bit his tail to fling him to the other side of the room, towards Twilight. Twilight couldn't run from the zombie Spike next to her.

He used his claws to make a small cut on Twilight's neck. I could see various shades of magical purple light coming from her neck as she tried to stop the infection. Unfortunately, in a few seconds, I could see her giving up and turning into a zombie. As I looked around, I saw Sweetie Belle staring at the opening in the door. I motioned to run away, but, Sweetie Belle just stayed for a bit, then, turning to look at me, and walked towards me. I backed up, expecting her to be a zombie, but, then, she said "Let's go to Canterlot.", and answered my question before I could ask it "It was Twilight's last order."

She seemed sad. She motioned for me and Scootaloo to follow her. After a few moments of silence, Scootaloo was the first to talk. "Does any pony know what happened? Or was that just an act to prank us?" We just shook our heads. After about 10 minutes, we finally reached the train station. Normally, we probably would have reached the station in under half the time, but, we followed Sweetie Belle's slow walk. When we reached the small clearing near the train, we, were lucky enough for there to already there. As we walked up to the train, this time, with Scootaloo in front, a pony, who I could guess worked on the train stopped her. "What are you three doing here?" he asked "Don't you have school tomorrow?" None of us had a good excuse, so, we backed out of the train and turned away and walked away without saying a word to him.

We all sighed at the same time. "Now, what are we going to do?" Asked Scootaloo. I had no idea how to get to canterlot if we couldn't take a train. So, I shook my head. "hmm..." Sweetie Belle said as she thought "Got it!" I correctly anticipated that she would have a weird solution. " I could get Rarity to make us some costumes to make us look like adults!"
I was going to tell her the huge flaw in her plan, when a high pitched scream came from the area near twilight's library to remind her that either the prank on us was still being played or, that her sister was a zombie.

"Oh. Oops never mind" she said, obviously feeling a bit embarrassed. "Um... then, I don't know."

Then, Rainbow Dash appeared from behind a large cloud in the sky and flew toward the noise. "Hey, Rainbow!" Scootaloo yelled as loud as she could without sounding angry." Wait up!" Scootaloo ran after Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash turned around and slowly flew toward her biggest fan. "Whats up?" Rainbow asked "And what happened over there?" ,pointing to Twilight's house. "Come down, and us three can explain what we know." Scootaloo said.

Once Rainbow reached the ground,I walked toward her with Sweetie Belle. Scootaloo said" Its probably just a big prank by Twilight and Rarity."before Sweetie Belle interrupted"Its not a prank on us! They would certainly be telling us by now." During the moment of silence, Scootaloo said"Well, maybe, its just a prank that they are planing to keep going a while." Sweetie shook her head"Rarity would never throw Spike across the room like that unless something really happened to her."

Scootaloo was going to object, but, Rainbow said "I'm not here to listen to you argue about weather it's a prank or not. I just want to know what happened." Before the other two could, I spoke up "This is what I saw. So, we went to twilight's library on an invitation to prank spike instead of our usual dangerous stunts. When we got there, everything was going fine until Rarity started attacking them instead of just scaring spike thanks to Twilight, us three were teleported outside. Then, Spike and Twilight both turned into zombies and, us three ran.Oh, and, According to Sweetie Belle, Twilight wants us to warn Canterlot."

Rainbow considered it for a bit, then made up her mind " I will think this is a prank until you get me more evidence." I thought that that was a fair way to decide.

I heard the bouncing sound that only Pinkie Pie could make coming towards us. I turned around, and, sure enough, Pinkie was hopping towards us. Rainbow shook her head "Bye, guys! I'll be checking out what happened over there a bit ago." And, she flew away. Scootaloo watched her fly away until she went out of view.

Once pinkie had reached us, she said "Hey, guys, wanna come to Sugar Cube Corner?" Scootaloo said "Well, I dont know. There is this big prank being pulled on us." Pinkie gasped "How did you know? Oh, well I'll find another pony to prank." And, she hopped off just as happily as she had came. "See? It was all a prank." Scootaloo said, but, I still wasn't sure. I said" I think shes talking about some other prank. After all, what did that other one have to do with Sugar Cube Corner?Tell ya what? Lets see if there's any other prank at Sugar Cube Corner." Scootaloo said "Deal!"

As we walked over to Sugar Cube Corner, It was mostly silent, except for one scream, this time, further away from the library. "This is starting to get annoying" Scootaloo said. When we reached our destination, Sweetie Belle didn't notice the slippery puddle in front of the steps to the door.

She slid across it, and a small figure came out of the shadows and scratched her side enough to make a tiny cut. While, normally, a cut like that would just heal soon, this one had her nearly instantly a zombie. I could soon see that the figure that had so easily turned Sweetie Belle into a zombie was spike.

Instead of attacking like I expected, though, Sweetie Belle soon only looked like herself again, but, she was getting tired. She walked away about as fast as she could if she was pushing a heavy box. Then, she collapsed on the ground,and looked like a zombie again. She instantly had her strength back, and she charged at us. I ran away, but, Scootaloo just ran to the side and dodged. Sweetie Belle continued chasing me. In a matter of seconds, she had caught up to me, and was about to strike, when, once again, she looked like herself.

I flowed her signal to continue running. After she appeared like a zombie again, she flowed Scootaloo. She found a foot hold on a house and used it to help her flutter her way on top. I continued running toward my sister's farm. It took all the rest of the day to reach the clubhouse, but, I made it. When I knocked on the door, I was surprised to see Scootaloo already inside.

Only seconds after, I almost got a heart attack from seeing a dark purple flash lighting up the room. Me and Scootaloo had the same, probably best idea. We fled the club house and ran away. For the first few seconds, she started turning in another direction, but, she noticed that I wasn't following her, so, she started running in the same direction, towards the civilization. It didn't take us long to reach the town when we were running, so, once we reached it, we stopped to catch our breath. After a few seconds, she was able to talk again.

"What was that?" I saw the answer across the distance we had run. The zombie Twilight Sparkle was standing in our clubhouse, looking at us for a few seconds, before vanishing in a puff of her darker purple magic. I said "I think Twilight's a zombie. Oh, and, is that enough evidence? She slowly said"Um, maybe."

I decided to get a bit more advice "Let's see what my sis is up to." So, we walked toward the barn house looking around us in case Twilight appeared again or something like that.

When we reached the barn, Applejack practically flew out of the higher window. I couldn't tell whether it was by choice or not, but, knowing her, she would definitely land on her hooves even if she was just flung into the air. As I expected, she landed on her hooves, and skidded for a bit before coming to a complete stop. She ran a lot faster than normal to the nearest apple tree and bucked it. A few apples fell, and she picked them up. She threw one at each window with precision to close each side, and another at each side to shut them more firmly.

She looked a bit more relaxed, but, still busy when she noticed us. "Howdy! Wheres Sweetie Belle?" She asked. The topic nearly brought tears to my eyes, but it looked like Scootaloo still thought it was a prank. I replied "She's a zombie.", expecting her to laugh, but, she just gave me a sorry look "Whatcha doin', Applejack?" I asked.

" So, y'all have had problems with 'em, too? I've got this here barn full of 'em. I think I'm gonna have ta' burn the whole place down." She replied with a hint of sadness in her voice. It was also a bit sad for me, too. The building had been standing there for ages, and would take a lot of money and time to rebuild. "No!" I exclaimed "There has to be a way to save them! They're trapped for now, at least."

"Tell y'all what. Why don't you two go ta' Rarity's place, and fetch me something to seal this place up." Applejack said, obviously not knowing that Rarity was a zombie. "Y'all know ,Rarity's a zombie. Do ya think y'all can make something yourself?"I said. She said "I reckon, I can make a little something myself. Go get some string and glue, and stuff."

So, Scootaloo and I started walking towards Rarity's boutique. While a few minutes after we started walking, we found Pinkie Pie. "Oh, hi, again!" she said in her a few seconds before her tail started twitching. In a dangerous time like this, something falling probably meant a zombie. Scootaloo had already started to run, when, as I expected, a zombie fell from the house Pinkie was next to. I didn't recognize the mare. The zombie mare turned to look at us, and then, turned to where Pinkie was. She charged at Pinkie, who, just flew into the air, by being Pinkie Pie, and came back down a few seconds later a few feet away from where she had been standing before. Any smart zombie would have approached with a smile, and pounced, but, I doubted that a zombie would have that intelligence.

The zombie walked past Pinkie, and towards a another pony around a corner. "Hey!" a masculine voice said from around the corner. Next, there were two zombies hunting together. Luckily, they didn't turn to come back where we were. The rest of the walk was mostly uneventful. As I walked up to the door, it opened in the blink of an eye, Rarity was there with Sweetie Belle. They both jumped at us, but, Scootaloo and I just went under them, and into the building. Stlill having the adrenaline from the two sisters attacking us, I ran around the room as fast as I could, picking up fabric, and, at one point, some tape and scissors. Scootaloo found similar stuff, and also, some streamers pinkie must have put there for some reason.

As we circled around, I found Sweetie Belle guarding the door, and Rarity close behind us. The only way to escape was trough the door, which was being blocked by Sweetie Belle. I turned around, only to find Spike attempt to sneak atack me. I screamed as loud as I could, and continued running around the room. About half way around, I saw Applejack running around outside, probably looking for a way to save us. As Rarity and Spike continued to chase me, and were getting closer, I noticed that Scootaloo wasn't at my side anymore. Then, there was a big thud as Rarity was knocked off her hooves, and took Spike with her. "QUICK! Run for the door!" Scootaloo yelled. Applejack was outside, and looked ready to save us, as we charged at the zombie Sweetie Belle. As we ran by, I closed my eyes, and expected to open them and see nothing, or a fantasy land with candy ponies, but, instead, I saw my old friend waving goodbye, then, being tackled to the ground by Rarity, Spike, and for a bit, Applejack, too.

The whole thing felt almost like a dream. I didn't feel my hoofs hitting the ground like I normally do. It was almost all like running on an extra soft bed all the way. For the first time, I noticed a bit of sweat pouring from my four head.Still somehow had a lot more than enough energy left to run toward the sunset, and the barn, but, at the same time, I also felt like giving up and resting right there and then.