The Airship landed on a hill overlooking the town, Trixie pressed the button the owners manual had instructed her to press and a series of Solar panels made themselves known on the side of the ship.

"Alright so 20 minutes here should give us like a full week of flying, now we just need to find at least a week's worth of Provisions." Trixie made to get up when Spike placed his hand on her shoulder. Trixie looked over at him and frowned at the look on his face.

"So now we have to have this talk." Spike looked down on her, "There's no way in hell you're going to be letting Clayton leave, and you're not about to leave him alone are you?" Trixie looked up at Spike in silence. "And I think we both know that if I was left alone with him I'd let him walk all over me, something you'd probably beat the shit out of him for."

"Don't you dare say it!" Trixie said as Spike pointed at himself.

"So either I'm going alone, or we're all going." Spike motioned around the Airship "And leaving the ship unattended is kind of retarded too." Spike pointed to himself. "So I'm going to go out there, alone, and do a quick look around ok?" Trixie stared him down.

"Don't go more than 7 building into the town." Trixie said as she got up, "And if something is happening, no matter what, put yourself first! You see some pony surrounded by Zombies, leave them! this town could be full of racists-" Spike waved at her.

"Relax Trixie, I'm just looking for supplies, I'll be back before you know it." Spike smiled as he walked over to Clayton, who was standing silently next to the room door holding out Spike's survival bag.

"Thanks, buddy." Spike practically sang as he took the bag and threw it over his shoulders.

"Fuck off," Clayton replied before covering his mouth and looking over a Trixie, who gave no visible reaction to him, Spike strapped the bag on to his back then strapped his still numb tail to the bag so it didn't drag behind him, once he was ready he gave a wave to Trixie, who smiled back at him calmly as he left, she waited as she watched him hop off the airship and head out before standing up and staring Daggers at Clayton.

"Alright shit head." She said calmly while cracking her knuckled "I think you and I need to have a nice long talk about Manners." Clayton gave an audible gulp as he backed up from her in fear.

Spike hop off the ship and looked around it, there was nothing of interest at the top save a small number of tree's and some sticks, one of which Spike decided to take as a wacker should something unexpected swoop in while he walked down the hill, as he did this he noted that the town was eerily quiet, and since he felt Zombies had no reason to stay silent he deduced that there where no more than a handful in this town, not daring to bet on it being empty since he didn't want to give himself any excuses to let his guard down. Spike made it to the bottom of the hill and froze, in front of him was a perfectly normal patch of tall grass, a patch of tall grass that ran in a straight line across the border of the town, in Silence Spike pressed his stick to the ground and dragged it across the dirt, it entered the grass and almost immediately he heard the clang of metal.

"Well that's kind of smart." he said as he carefully walked over the line of traps "Guess somepony is or at was living here within the last 2 weeks or so." Walking casually with the stick over his shoulder Spike walked past the first two building and found himself in front of a Resturant, judging from the look of the glass some creatures had been gutted inside the building.

"Seems like a good place to start." Spike decided as he pushed against the broken door with his stick and let it swing open. Spike put his head in through the door and identified the casue of gore across the front window, the skeletal remains of a two Horned creatures lay in scattered across the floor, Spike walked in and closed the door, checking behind it for anything as the door shut and lazily fluttered back and forth on its broken hinges.

"Either some Yaks, some Buffalos, or maybe one of each died in here." he decided as he walked in, Unbeknownst to Spike as the door swung shut behind him another door opened across the street a Pony walked out and noted the swinging door, a Smile spread across his face as he unclipped a small cylinder from his belt and with a press of a button it expanded and grew into a Large Battle Ax.

"So Little Bite's finally making her move." he said as he threw his ax over his shoulder "About time."

Spike decided to avoid the corpses and past the pile of upturned tables, Spike jumped the counter and opened the top of his bag before picking up a medium-sized box full of tortilla chips bags and dropping it and it's content into the bag before getting on his knees and taking a few other munchies, drinks and a few nick-nacks that looked good for passing time, among these where a few water bottles that had been placed for the work staff, a box full of bits, and a book that's cover was too coated in blood to figure out the name off, Spike was about to go into the backroom when he noticed that one of the skeletal remains had a crumpled piece of paper near it. Spike moved forward, doing his best not to disturb the dead, and took the note, backing up behind the counter before reading it. Spike stared bluntly at the rushed note in silence as he read it's message before rubbing his head.

"Oh shit." He said as he got up, and looked around "I've got to send this to Trixie asap!" Spike looked around in vain for the item that had been used to write the note and rubbed his head when he heard a quiet coughing sound, Spike looked around for a moment and noticed a small figure hiding in the dimly light staircase. Spike clamped down on his mouth so as to not make any noise of shock before the figure called out.

"You need to come up this way now!" the figure, witch Spike now Identified as a young girl, called motion for him to hurry after her, the message in the note gave Spike more than enough confidence to run after her at full speed, he ran up the stairs and found her waiting for him at a door near the end of the hall Spike turn into it and found it was a small closet before the tiny thing said shakily. "we need to be quiet, if they find us they'll eat us." Spike took a small breath and set the tip of one of his organic fingers on fire, Spike looked down at what he now identified as a very young Buffalo as he sat criss-cross on the floor and motioned her to him in silence, the young Buffalo closed the door with a click and sat on his lap and dug her face into his Scaly chest before sniffing, It took all of Spike's will power not to automatically jump back at her touch, the tiny thing was ice cold, just letting her lay on him was making him shiver slightly, Spike sucked it up before asking politely.

"Little one I know this is a strange request, but do you have anything to write with?" The young Buffalo nodded and reached into a satchel laying in the musty closet and pulled out a bottle of almost empty ink and handed it to him, Spike move the fire to his head spines before pulling the note out and adding on the blank side using his Finger as a pen.

"To Trixie, So this shit is happening! Spike." Spike took a deep breath and blew flames on the note, it blew to ash and out of the room from under the door, The Young Buffalo offered Spike a slightly crushed lantern and Spike moved the fire to it before repositioning himself so he was blocking the inward swinging door with his bag, keeping it from being opened, and keep the small light that the two had from showing through the bottom, the light was too small and not bright enough to properly shine through the side of the door, but just to make sure Spike used his tail to keep most of it from shining anywhere but directly at the duo.

"So Little one?" Spike asked. "I'm Spike, and who might you be?"

"I'm Wandering Winds, but my Mommy liked to call me Winnie" She replied quietly as Spike pulled out one of the water bottles and offered her a drink. "Thank you."

"No problem," Spike said sweetly as he used every part of his body to try and keep her warm. going as far to direct his hot breath in her direction, something she seemed to enjoy beyond measure.

Trixie was flipping through the ships Owner Manuel,after a very angry scolding Clayton informed Trixie that The airship was currently condensed into single-occupant living mode, now she was trying to figure out how to make it bigger so she could just Lock Clayton in a room and go join Spike, unbeknownst to her the town in front of her was slowly, and quiet un-naturally, being cast into extream darkness by clouds full of thorns. she was looking at the first of a 30 page set on how to achieve this imparticular action when she felt a strange tingling in her horn, she dropped the book as she looked up in absolute confusion as her horn cast a spell without her say so and a crumpled letter flopped on the Cosel, She looked at it in silence as she read what it said silently to herself for a moment "To Trixie, So this shit is happening! Spike." Trixie picked up the note and began uncrumpling it as Clayton walked out of the room to ask how progress was going on making the ship bigger and almost fell on his face when he looked out the front window

"What the fuck!?" he asked, Trixie looked at him, then out the window, she almost dropped the note as she got up and ran out of the airship to look at the small town, above it in a perfect circle encompassing the entire town was a huge cloud, but what had really gotten their attention was that the Entire town had become pitch black, Snow was pelting over the town so hard that there was already almost 12 inches, and all around the town hundreds upon hundreds of Zombies where walking about, a large shimmering barrier was keeping them all in the town. Trixie almost fell to her knees as she looked out over the chaos before returning the letter and reading it for Clayton to hear

"To any-non-Pony reading this, I'm sorry I couldn't put this in a place outside this death trap before you walked in, but your fucked, Gumshoes has rigged this entire town, if you've walked in, you're not walking back out alive, You can run, and you can hide, but your going to die here, anything can walk in, but only Living Ponies can walk back out through the Barrier, there's only one way out of this place alive, you ha-" Trixie stared in silence at the horribly written mess in front of her, staring hard at the part where it cut off, Trixie fell to her knee's crushing the paper in her hand as she took heavy breaths,

"No...no,no,no." Trixie pulled herself back up as she looked around the infested town. "He's mine! I just got him back, This was just supposed to be a simple run out and come back!" Trixie wiped at her eye's as she cried. "Why the fuck didn't I go? Why the Fuck?" Trixie's panic was turning to Rage at herself for letting Spike talk her so easily into letting him go, Rage for stopping at this town, Rage for the Undead for starting this. "Spike!" She screamed out, several of the undead noticed her and began walking into the barrier, they began piling up before giving up on getting a snack and looking for something else. while Trixie was Screaming, she was being watched through a Telescope in a bell tower, the walls of the tower had the same spell on them as to town as Gumshoes laughed at Trixie.

"Well now." he said "Looks like I got's me a New Bites! Oh, I wonder if he's a living through this first night?" The Unicorn got up and laughed "Well than, now that I's got another contestant, let the games difficulty be going up!" the Unicorn laughed as he lifted up his ax and hit a Gong next to him, as the sound rang out the snow was joined by heavy winds, Gumshoes laughed as he leaned back and spun the ax in the opposite direction, his little home warming up a little as he did this. "Wonder who this new Bites is, Hope they's a fun one to watch!"

Author's Note

Special thanks to Viper Pit for the name Wandering Winds