Zombies in Ponyville.

Chapter 2: Our Trip to Canterlot
Point of view: Scootaloo

As we ran, I could see Apple bloom getting tired. It didn't take long to get to a good resting point. By then, it was getting to be night slowly. The ponies that were normally out at this time weren't there. Applebloom started slowing down faster than I expected, and I could tell that she needed the closest place to rest in pony ville. As we turned a corner, Applebloom finally gave up "Wait. Scootaloo. I need ta' rest", while stopping to sit down on her flank.

I heard hoof steps coming from around the corner where we had just come. It would be no use trying to save Applebloom from the zombies. In an instant, I was about 15 yards away from her, when I heard Applejack coming around a corner. For a bit, I ran and boosted myself with my wings just as I'd taught myself one day in a rodeo contest with Applebloom, and even with that advantage, I lost. I'd never really expected to win it, though.

"Wait! Scootaloo! I got rid of 'em. I'm still alive!"Applejack shouted louder than enough to let me hear. For a bit, I didn't trust her because we used the same trick in tag where you say your not "it" when you are and then tag them until we made a rule that you couldn't do that. But, when I saw her getting closer, I gave up, and looked back at Apple Jack coming towards me. When she reached me, she didn't attack.

"Let's all see about go'in ta' Canterlot." She said, maybe to prove that she was on our side. I said "Okay" , and, so, Applejack went over to Applebloom, who was now lying down in the dirt road. "Come on, Applebloom, the train aint far from 'ere." Said Applejack, and, Applebloom got up as her sister had told her to, and started walking. In a matter of minutes, we reached the train station. When we got there, Applejack started talking with a pony inside a train. When she turned to face us, she said "Now, they believe us. Lets go." and, so, we climbed on, and found seats for the rest of the ride.

Applejack looked at her sides and looked a bit sad to see that she didn't have saddle bags on. The rest of the car soon filled, and, one unicorn, who had another point of view on the opposite side of the car looked at a doorway, and, quickly made another appear there which I could guess was locked by the loud banging on it. I wished that I could see through the door, but, it was solid, and, I could imagine what was behind it. Probably a zombie banging mindlessly on the other side, wanting to come in and attack every pony inside. Then, I noticed that almost every pony there had saddle bags on, and no pony had pets.

When we finally reached Canterlot, every pony in the car faced another problem, though. The main problem was not about the crazy pink mare bouncing into the car, though. The exits were all blocked up by magical doors. The two cars next to each other were the only places the ponies inside could move around in. A few physically stronger looking unicorns cast spells and walked through the walls of the train, and outside. As the crowd started to panic, a lavender colored pony, who for a second, I thought was Twilight until I noticed that it was a stallion stood on top of a chair, and in a fairly young sounding voice announced "STOP! If you can all listen to me, you can escape." when I looked around, I noticed that she was the only unicorn on that car. "Now, I'll open up a magical way outside if you can just calm down!"

Then, I heard a noise coming from the head of a train of a pony jumping down, and, walking towards this car, probably to see what all the noise was about. By then, most of the noise had died down. Then, the sound of the pony outside falling to the ground with a thud. That one death probably was a big deal, considering how few zombies there were before that. The lavender pony, who I could now see had a cutie mark of a clay pot's horn glowed continuously, opening a magical way to walk out on the other side of the car. I got a bit annoyed, but, we still didn't have to wait long to exit the train. Each time a pony walked through the door, I could see him getting more and more tired. Just a few ponies who exited after us, the magical gate closed. It was about 7.5 ponies after us. I'd always wondered what would happen if a pony was in a magical doorway when it closed. The pony was basically chopped in half, but, luckily, the half that I could see fell under the pathway, down to the tracks below. The only details that I could catch in that short time that I saw her was that she was a dark orange colored Pegasus with a green and red mane.

As I was staring at her, I noticed that Applebloom, and, Applejack were starting to gallop away. I quickly sprinted toward them to catch up, but, after just a few seconds, Applebloom started breathing heavily, and soon stopped. It was a bit of a disappointment seeing that Applebloom was tired even after the train ride over. At least, by then, we'd gotten out of the worst of it. But, it was still too crowded, and, the infection could spread fast among a such a dense crowd. By this point, I'd almost forgotten what I'd been saying about that it was all a prank. If it still was, it would probably be fun to play along with. I told Applebloom "Come on, can you go a little further? This big crowd might be dangerous" She agreed to move more, but, the crowd seemed to move with us. It became evident that it wouldn't help to move unless we were to go a lot faster than Applebloom could go right now. Applejack practically read my thoughts and said over the loud croud"It 'aint helpin' ta' move forward! We've gotta go back!"

When we got to the back of the crowd, I saw a exhausted white colored earth pony with a cutie mark o fa magnifying glass trying to get to her hooves. Applejack started walking towards her to lend her a hoof, but, she shook her head, almost as if straining against some magical force. She looked almost like Sweetie Belle after levitating something into the air. The last time she tried, she'd been too tired to do anything for a few days, and, ever since then her horn remained on her head, like a useless party hat.

Anyway, after about a minute of watching at the struggling pony, she stopped breathing. Applejack , saddened a bit but, not as much because she'd never known that pony, walked over to investigate the body, when, it turned into a zombie, and leaped at her. Applejack looked startled, and took a tiny hop backward, and the body sprang up to face her.

A potion few red drops and some weird sharp object went sailing trough the air towards the zombie, and made hit the zombie in the forehead, spraying a bit of blood. Then, I realized something I hadn't noticed. Every time I'd seen a zombie, despite the big wounds they had, none were bleeding. The zombie dropped to the ground, like a stone. I whirled around to look in the direction of the train station to see who'd done that, or, tell me what had happened, but, all I saw was a dark purple flash, and then, the train with a few zombies near it. Then, Pinkie Pie popped out of the train, and started hopping in another direction

Apparently, Applebloom had been looking there before I did, and, she said "Twilight saved ya', sis." Applejack was still looking at the body with her mouth agape. It was hard to tell weather the pony was dead, or, alive, so, Applejack did the nicer thing, and, started to drag the body towards a big plus sign in the sky.

None of us said anything on the short walk over, and, pretty soon, we reached a hospital, and, Applejack dragged the body, who's cutie mark had somehow faded in the rest of the way, into the building. The unicorn pony behind the wooden desk looked at the pony, and frowned, seeing that there was no big injury. "Can y'all see if she's alive?" Applejack asked. The pony behind the counter's horn glowed, and, he teleported onto the side we were on. After a few seconds of some tests, the pony said "She is alive, but, will require a lot of magic to regain the energy to move at all. I'm not strong enough to do it without anything special.

A couple of awkward seconds passed, and, then, Pinkie Pie stood up from behind the counter, and, climbed over "Hi, guys!" Pinkie greeted. I raised one of my fore hoofs up to my face, and shook my head. "I heard you needed a super big ton of magic to save that pony you've got there. I think I can help you with that." She said cheerfully. Then, she turned around, and lifted up a four hoof, and, when she turned back around, there was a sparkly box in her hoof. "Doctor, sniff the powder inside this! After that, you'll have enough magic to revive her!" Pinkie said, pointing at the barely moving body on the ground. The only unicorn in the room took a few sniffs of the white powder inside the box, and after frowning from the smell, lit his horn up, as he tried to pump all of his magic into the body. But, there wasn't much change. The breathing increased a bit, but, soon went back down to the minimum a pony could do, and live.

"Oops, that was the wrong box." Pinkie said, taking the box back and sniffing it a few times before getting a more relaxed smile on her face. She turned around again, and pulled out another, more sparkly box with a few gems. She gave it to the doctor pony. "This is the one that will help." She said. The doctor opened the box, and, a bright light came out in the partially moon lit room, illuminating his face. He smiled, and, started a magical flow. The light slowly faded after a couple seconds, and, in the place of the body that was on the ground, there was a perfectly normal looking pony, standing there, blinking.

She looked around from under a purple mane, and, screamed louder than any pony I'd ever heard scream before when she looked at her flank with no cutie mark. It didn't look right to see an adult pony with no cutie mark. I remembered a lesson from a few days ago. We'd been taught that a dead, or, nearly dead pony's cutie mark would fade, and, that sometimes they'd never be able to get another. I also had a thought that maybe, when we were too young too remember, something had happened, that denied me and my two best friends the ability to get a cutie mark.

The pony, who'd just been revived said in a tone almost as soft as Flutter shy said "Um, hi. Does any of you know where we are?" Applejack greeted her "Aw, y'all don't remember? Were in a hospital. Y'all were almost dead, so, I took ya' here and got ya' all healed up, thanks to Pinkie here. Whats 'yer name, anyway?"

That question was answered with a silence, where it seemed like Applejack noticed that the pony had forgotten everything. "Um, I don't know I hope that's alright. Would you mind telling me your names?" The recently revived pony said. We all said our names, first, Pinkie, then, Applejack, then, me, and, last, Applebloom. The doctor, who was apparently not very friendly appeared behind the counter and said " I think you haven't payed me yet." Applejack was about to speak up, when Pinkie brought out a generous stack of bits, and dumped them on the counter. I gasped to see that Pinkie Pie had just gotten a lot of money out of nowhere. Sure, she'd always seemed to get stuff out of nowhere, but, I'd never see her get money.

After Applejack had explained the situation, and gave the nameless pony a few options "Y'all can come, help us, or, ya' can just stay 'ere." The nameless pony said in a more confident tone"I think I should help you, considering that you saved me." And, that's how we got a fourth pony to help us.

We walked out the building, only for all of us except the nameless pony to step back inside when we saw a line of at least 10 zombies walking at the end of the street, just a few small houses down. To get her back inside, where it Applejack whispered sharply "Come inside! Before they see you" The pony didn't hesitate much to step back inside. It seemed the right time to find a name for the nameless pony. I said "I think you need a name.", pointing at the nameless pony. "But, until then, can we just call you Nameless?" It wasn't a very good name, but, at least it would be something. All of the others nodded in agreement.

I heard a short shout, and looked out the window to see Rainbow Dash bucking a zombie trough a house window with her amazing strength. All of us gasped, except for Nameless, who saw it, but, maybe, didn't know that it wasn't the only way to get rid of a zombie. I had almost forgotten somehow, even though she was half of what I thought about at home. With the two strongest ponies that I knew, this whole thing might have be easy.

Seeing my face in the window,or maybe one of the others Rainbow flew quickly over, to see why we were in there. She landed on the ground, and opened the door, and walked inside."HI, guys. whats up? Why are you in a hospital?" Rainbow asked. Applejack answered both questions pretty quickly, before Twilight appeared beside her. Applejack prepared to buck Twilight onto the other side of the desk to make her the doctor's problem, when Twilight spoke up. "Just one quick message.Don't let ANY flying creature become a zombie at all costs! We can't let cloudsdale become zombies!"

Then, she vanished in a purple flash. Rainbow looked like she'd just been told that cloudsdale was about to explode in a few minutes if she didn't get there in time, and, after she explained, that was somewhat true."Oh, no! I let derpy get turned into a zombie! Cloudsdale is doomed. I'm doomed." One of the main ways that Rainbow made money was keeping a close eye on Derpy, and, now, I could only guess that Rainbow would kill Derpy with no other choice. In the blink of an eye, Rainbow Dash was outside, and soared away. After a few seconds, a beautiful rainbow spread across the sky.

If there was any way that I could help her, I would've. The rainbow line slowly started to shrink away. I started to think about what we should do next, when there were more hoof steps than at the beginning of cider season, or any other crowd that I'd ever seen. Nameless, who had the best view, of the zombies said, now, with full confidence " Scootaloo! Run! It took me a second to remember that I was a Pegasus and that the zombies would stop at nothing to catch me. I ran for the stairs, and flutter-ran up them faster than ever, making every sharp turn perfectly. It didn't take long for me to reach the roof of the building. Even though it was a hospital, there wasn't a very tall fence to stop you from falling off. It would be pretty ironic if some pony fell of of the hospital. As I made a leap, boosted with my wings over the fence, I could tell that I couldn't make it to the next house. I stopped flapping my wings and fell down to the fence. It thankfully didn't have any spikes or anything like that, even though it still hurt. I got up, and wobbled around on the fence, trying to get into a good take-off position, like Rainbow Dash had taught me. I eventually jumped off, and flew trough the air, higher than I'd expected. It looked like I'd go further than the first house, but, I doubted my ability to fly over two pretty big houses. In a panic, I flapped my wings like a scared chicken, and fell to the ground. By the time I'd gotten back to reality, I heard more hoof steps coming towards me. I could almost hear Rainbow Dash in my mind, telling me what to do. I noticed some bricks jutting out of both of the house walls in the narrow space between them. Just as the zombies started to get closer, I flutter-jumped onto the bricks on one side, and jumped to the next about 6 times, before reaching the top of a house.

Next, still in a hurry, I jumped to the house closer to the hospital, just in case my friends would be able to help me somehow. There were still zombies below, but, from a roof on a two floored house, they couldn't get to me. As I started to relax, the pain from the fall to the ground hit me like a train. My wings ached from the earlier flight, and, everything else hurt from the fall. It would be impossible to get anywhere like this.

Then, I did what I thought would be possible. I fell asleep. Maybe, from pain, but, more likely from the exhaustion from what had happened that day. It was also my usual bedtime.