It was around noon in Equestria, but the only place you wanna know about is Cloudsdale, the Wonderbolt Academy exactly. On the runway stood Rainbow Dash, Fleetfoot, Soarin, and in front was Spitfire, she was telling them about a very important mission.

"There's a purple cloud of unknown origin floating towards Cloudsdale, and we're ordered to investigate the strange cloud. You all will accompany me and to move it away from the city, got it?"

"Yes ma'am!" They all shouted, Spitfire opened up her wings and flew off, the rest of them followed right behind her.

The flight didn't take long, just a couple minutes, they stopped a few feet from the cloud, it was dark purple with green bolts sparking around the cloud.

"I'm not touching that without gloves." Said Soarin.

"Let's just investigate first." Said Spitfire, they flew all around the cloud, eyeing it on all angles. Fleetfoot asked.

"Anypony got something?"

Spitfire was about to say something, but Rainbow Dash asked, "Permission to touch it, we need to know more."

"Granted." Replied Spitfire, Rainbow Dash flew right up to it, she stuck her hoof out and reluctantly touched the cloud, she waited a couple seconds, but nothing happened, she wasn't shocked, all she felt was cloud.

"I'm not feeling anything out of the ordinar-" Her hoof was sucked in a bit, she tried flying out, but she kept going deeper and deeper into the cloud, "Ergh, A little help guys!" They all got behind Rainbow Dash and tried to pull, but it did nothing.

Before long Rainbow Dash's upper body was inside the cloud, they were still pulling, but it just seemed to pull her in faster. "Pull harder!" Shouted Spitfire, but they couldn't, they were already at their limit.

When Rainbow Dash was pulled all the way into the cloud Soarin got stuck too, but he went in so fast, he couldn't say anything, then Fleetfoot, and finally Spitfire.

Earth:

A purple cloud formed above the city of Dallas, and all the Wonderbolts were dropped out at the same time, they fell for a bit, until they remembered their wings and floated down to the ground.

They landed on some pavement, breathing heavily from the experience, "That was, interesting." Said Fleetfoot.

"Ya, but where are we?" Asked Soarin. They looked around the area, there were buildings in rubble, the streets had stone and various materials strained all around, and the sky was dim. Rainbow looked down and saw a news paper, she picked it up and read a bit, she stumbled away with wide and nervous eyes.

"What is it Dash?" Asked spitfire, Rainbow handed her the paper and she read it out loud, "The dead walk, the end is here. Uh oh." Was all she could say before they heard something growl from the shadows.

They got in a circle ready to pounce on anything that got close, there was no movement for a minute, but from under a bridge they saw a strange bipedal creature walked, but the strange part was that it had only one arm, the other was nowhere to be seen, when it got into the light they saw the pure white eyes and a bloody mouth.

They just stared until it shouted, "ERAGH!!" Then more things like it came out of buildings, the shadows, everywhere, there were about 25 around them.

"Get ready to fly as fast as you all can." Said Spitfire. Until they looked at the closest building and saw another creature on it, it shouted.

"Over here bitches!" It jumped down and landed on one of the creatures, the creature's head was smashed in, his boots covered in the blood. They saw that it was wearing a welders mask, a big long sleeve shirt, spiky boots, and big metal gauntlets with various spikes coming out of it, "Come get some!" It charged at the small pool of creatures and crushed two of them with a punch.

Another one tried to jump on him, but he turned around and threw his fist into it, it's head just exploded all over the mask and fist. "Anyone else?!"

The Wonderbolts just watched at the creature slaughtered all the other creatures with ease, it showed no fear, no hesitation, and it seemed... To enjoy it?

"Is that thing enjoying this?" Asked Spitfire, none of them could reply. Once he was done killing he turned around to face the bolts, they got ready to fly off, until it took the welder mask off and showed its face.

It was covered in grime, and muck, but they could see his brown eyes, and golden brown hair, a beard covering most of his face, they couldn't see much more than that, he was also white.

His armor was heavy duty boots with spikes around it, dirty jeans with knee pads, he had a dark green long sleeve shirt. With a modified football chestplate, it had extra protection on the front and spikes on the shoulders, he had a tactical backpack on that looked to be full. He asked in a semi low voice.

"Okay, what the fuck are you all, who the fuck are you all, and how the fuck did you get here?!" None of them could talk, they just stared. "Sigh, please answer me, I just saved all of you, I think I'm owed that at least."

Spitfire replied, "Well, we're pegasi, and we came here from that cloud up there, we investigated it and we were sent here. And I'm captain Spitfire, this's Soarin. "He waved with his mouth open, "This's Fleetfoot. "She waved and never took her eyes off his blood covered hands. "And this's Rainbow Dash."

Rainbow asked, "W-what were those things?"

"Oh those, they're walkers, humans that were infected by one of these walkers and killed, then came back to life with very animalistic mind and super fast reflexes."

"Well, we've had fictions about the undead, but I think we get it." Said Soarin.

"Look, you saved us and we're very grateful, but we need to get back to Equestria, and we don't know how long that cloud's gonna be there so. I guess this's goodbye."

"Hold on, I weigh around two hundred pounds, with the armor, and since you ALL owe me. How about carrying me into that cloud and getting me out of this fucking madhouse of a planet."

"What?" Asked Fleetfoot, "What about the other humans, your family?"

He looked down, "Everyone's pretty much dead, crazy, or a zombie. And the only real family I had was..... A puppy named Theo. Those bastards took him from me, but I want to live some place that I won't have to be ready to kill at every moment of every day, its what's right, it's what I'm owed."

They all looked at each other before Spitfire decided, "Fine, we'll take you, but if you pull anything, we'll send you right back here in a heartbeat, got it?!"

"Don't worry, I can be quite tame, before all this started I had a clean bill, no crimes, a very nice job, I'm fucking solid." She rolled her eyes and each of them took a limb, "Ready?" Asked The man.

"Sure." They replied, they flapped their wings fiercely, he didn't budge for a minute, but then they started to fly up, he said.

"Holy crap is this weird, but also cool at the same time." None of them said anything, besides a lot of grunting, until they got up to the cloud, they floated for a second until Spitfire shouted.

"Now!" They flew right into the cloud and everything went black.

Equestria:

The cloud hadn't really moved since the event, and no pony was around. Suddenly the cloud poofed away to show the Wonderbolts and the human.

They looked at each other, they took it a lot better than the first time, but something felt... off, they looked down only to see the human falling and screaming so many curse words I wouldn't be able to write if I wanted to.

Spitfire and Fleetfoot flew down instantly, followed by Rainbow Dash and Soarin, he was falling really fast and fell halfway down to the ground before Spitfire and Fleetfoot grabbed his arms, they struggled to keep him up, but they held him long enough for Rainbow Dash and Soarin to get his legs.

"Holy crap, I think we're even." Said the human. They flew up and back to the academy.

The flight was silent, mainly because he was very heavy, but once they got to the landing strip they slowly set him down on the pavement, they were all breathing heavily, no one said anything until.

"So, who are you?" Asked Fleetfoot.

"My apologies, I'm Eli, Elius Korben. Now how about a drink?" They nodded and headed over to the nearest bar.

On the way they went through a few paved streets with pegasi eyeing him up and down, some were shocked, others disgusted, and some interested.

"I'm starting to think I should have stayed in my madhouse. I'm not used to everyone looking at me like this."

Spitfire replied, "Hardly half of them would look at you like that once you get a shower in, when was your last shower?"

"Eight months ago, when the virus began."

"Eight months?! The moment we get back to the academy you're taking a shower, got it?" Ordered Spitfire.

"Alright, jeez, I was gonna do that ether way, I just need a drink first." Rainbow Dash whispered something to Spitfire, she nodded and Rainbow flew off at record speed.

They arrived at the bar moments later, it wasn't much to look at, but it seemed like a good place. The walls were brick with a couple windows around, it was one story and about the size of a small restaurant.

Soarin held the door open and let everyone in, Eli had to duck his head so he wouldn't hit the frame. He looked all around the bar. It was nicely lit, there was a bar all along the back left wall, the rest was occupied with tables and booths.

It had brick walls and wood floor, but the ceiling was made out of cloud, that part confused Eli, a waitress flew over to them, she was blue with a blonde mane and tail, she was about to speak until she saw Eli, then she just froze, unsure what to do.

"It's okay Lassy, he's with us, it's a long story."

She grabbed four menus nervously and flew over to the far back, a round booth was sitting, ready for them, it was round with enough space for the Wonderbolts and Eli.

He sat on the left edge while the Wonderbolts took most of the right, there was some more space in the back of the round booth, but they thought it best if there was a bit of space, just in case.

Spitfire asked, "What happened to your world, how did it get that bad?"

"That's a long story, just order for me, I take a normal beer.

But I guess it started during the war, the world was at war with everyone, and with that came the development of new weapons. But in one of the labs, a vile of the disease was cracked killing all the scientists there, when people investigated it, they removed the lock down and freed the virus.

Even with all of our weapons, humanity still lost in about a week, that's when zombies, as we call them, outnumbered humans, that's when they took... my dog, poor Theo, best dog I could've asked for. Since then I and a couple others have been surviving, some crazed cannibal bandits, bases full of normal people, locked out from the rest of the world. And a couple of adventurers, like me, not part of a gang, or a group, but just going around doing whatever we want.

I visited the great canyon, ran around nude in the playboy mansion, and I even ate the last twinkie on Earth, it was so fucking good. It's a golden sponge cake filled with nothing but creamy goodness. Does that clear up my world?"

They nodded, "Alright then, now I have to ask, how did you all make that cloud, and why?"

Spitfire was ordering so Fleetfoot replied, "Well, we don't know actually, we didn't make it, we just investigated and got sucked into your world."

"Interesting, now, what kind of world is this?"

The talk was basically the history and both of the princesses, and quite frankly, I don't want to write it all here.

Once they finished explaining the thirty minute history course, Eli just stared at them with really wide eyes, "Did you get all of that?" Asked Soarin.

"I... think so. Wait, where's Rainbow dash? It is Rainbow right?"

"That's right, and she went to get somepony who'll really like to hear this. One of the princesses."

"Oh fuck, now I gotta repeat all this again, and I just finished, I have food on the way, god fucking damn it."

Soarin replied, "Don't worry, once you tell them there's no pony you need to repeat this to if you so choose."

"Fine, but I just hope I can eat while I talk, I'm not very.... Formal so to say." He gestured to his battle armor, his smell, and the grime all over his body.

"I think they won't mind, but don't be surprised if they sit on the other side of the bar."

He looked at Fleetfoot and replied, "If I didn't have a buzz going on that might offend me." He saw the Wonderbolts look to the door, "Oh great, they here?" They all nodded, he sighed and mumbled something really bad under his breath.

He looked to his left and saw Rainbow Dash with princess Twilight, and Spike. The small drake was holding a whole bunch of paper, quills, and other writing material. Twilight had a very, creepy face, the kind that wanted to peel his flesh off and study it.

"Hello, I'm princess Twilight and I need to hear your entire history and everything about you, oh this's exciting, an alien comes here and I get to interrogate it, yay!" All she could say was.

"We'll be even if you all take me BACK to Earth, okay?"

After about four hours of explaining what he knew of human history, and much of what led to the zombie outbreak, but not much about him.

He ate three burgers, each with large fries, and two milkshakes. He was starving.

"That was a damn fine meal, I haven't felt this full since humans reigned supreme."

"Well, thank you for telling me all about your history, now if you'll be staying up here let me cast a cloud spell, if you step on a cloud you'll fall right through, this'll prevent it."

He finished his third milkshake and replied, "That'd be mighty kind of ya." Her horn glowed and he felt his whole body tingly, it was hard not to laugh, but he did smirk.

It took less than a minute, but Twilight's horn stopped glowing and Eli opened his eyes, "Hmm, I don't feel any different, is that good?"

"That's normal, if you felt like your legs would fail, then that would be bad." He jumped a bit to test it, but it was wood so no go.

"Well it's been nice to talk with, well real beings, not having anyone to talk to for three months can do things to you, humans are social creatures. So can you all take me back to that academy so I can take a shower?"

"Please do." Replied Twilight, Rainbow chatted with Twilight on the way out and the rest of them went on their merry way.

Nothing big happened well, at all before Eli got to the academy locker room, it was just Eli, Spitfire, and Soarin. Fleetfoot and Rainbow Dash decided to practice a bit, but most likely to get some space to talk about Eli.

Spitfire flew over to an unnamed locker and said, "You can put your stuff here while you shower, don't worry, it won't be stolen, none of us can wear it." He laughed.

"Thanks." He set down his welders mask, took off the armor, boots, everything except pants, and the shirt. He looked to his left and saw only one door to the shower room, "Um, why's there only one door to the showers?"

"Because we only need one, what's wrong with it?" Asked Soarin.

"Well, on Earth we would separate men and women shower rooms to make sure there was no... um.. activities."

They started to blush, "We're a lot more behaved than that, we respect each other's space. Plus if we made two we would have to move my office to another place and it's already close to the door. I don't want to fly across the base to sit at my desk." Said Spitfire.

"Oh, I guess I get it, but you two can go first, I don't mind waiting." They put their towels on their back, Soarin asked.

"Why? That's more than enough room."

"Because I have a fear of showering with others, I was the smart kid in high school and I was almost drowned in one, the bullies shoved my mouth into a shower head and turned on the hot water. They almost drowned and burned me."

They just looked at each other for a couple minutes, unsure what to say. "Well, alright, we won't be long." Said Soarin, they walked in to the shower room and Eli decided to sit down.

He waited to hear the water run before he grabbed his backpack and unzipped a secret pouch, he pulled out a picture and looked at it.

It was three people, two adults and one kid, he said ,"I miss you both." A couple tears came out with a whimper.

He doesn't know how long he looked at that picture, but once he heard the water stop he put the picture away and stood up.

Spitfire and Soarin walked out of the shower room with towels over their backs, and towels drying their manes. "Go on ahead, we'll be finishing up out here." Said Soarin.

"Thanks, and I won't be long ether." He took off his shirt showing his starved figure, you could see his ribcage, he took off the pants to show very bulky legs, his underwear was gray and torn up. He grabbed a towel and walked into the room, a couple seconds later the underwear flew across the room and landed right on his pile of clothes.

He turned on the hot water and just watched it flow, he hadn't seen a working shower in ages, he took a step and felt the water pour all over his body, luckily the shower head was very high so he didn't need to duck. He just enjoyed the shower, letting the water flow all over him, letting go of his stress.

Once he turned off the water he got the towel and dried off his messy hair, and most of his body. When that was done he tied the towel around his waist covering that part of his body.

He looked over to the back wall and found a mirror, he ran out into the locker room and grabbed a small brown case, a shaving kit and his knife.

he ran back to the mirror and opened up the bag, there were various shaving tools, razor blade, alcohol, shaving cream, which turned out to be a great way to blind somebody, don't ask him how he knew that.

But he took his knife and cut most of the beard off, then he cut off most of the hair coming down. He took the rest of the tools and went to work tidying up his face.

Once he was finished he looked into the mirror and his beard was gone, and his hair was in a buzz cut fashion, and there was no gruff around the edges, "Damn do I look good, now I look civil." He walked out of the room and discovered that his shirt, pants, and even underwear were washed, his boots however were still stained in blood.

"Well that was nice of them." There was no pony around, so he took the towel off and put his clothes on, he decided against the armor, but he still grabbed his desert eagle out of his bag along with a side holster.

He put the welders mask in the bag and slid the backpack on, he walked out of the room to see two almost identical hallways, all he could say was, "Aw damn it, now I need to navigate this place." He choose the left hallway and went on his merry way.

Half an hour later he found Spitfire, Rainbow, Fleetfoot, and Soarin in the cafeteria, turns out it was near dinner time. There was hardly a pony in there. "Most of them probably went home." He thought.

Cafeteria

They looked over at him and their mouths dropped, he looked at them for a few moments trying to figure out what they were gawking at, until he remembered his shave. "Oh right."

He walked over to them and sat on the far right of the table, keeping as much space from them as he could, as did they in a more subtle and unconscious way. "Who are you? you look nothing like the creature we found." Fleetfoot said jokingly.

"It's amazing what a shower, and a shave can do for you, now there's a question I need to address. What are the living arrangements?"

"Well, we have the bunks, and we'll be staying overnight, mainly because we have some serious training we need to do, we have a show in a couple days." Said Spitfire.

"I've seen how big you ponies are, so I think that'll feel like shit. How about I sleep outside, grab a blanket and a pillow and I'll just sleep next to the strip. How's that?"

"That sounds like a plan until we find more permanent arrangements." Said Spitfire.

"Perfect, now what's for dinner, I'm starved, literally you two saw my rib cage, if I'm in a good mood I'll show you all my beating heart, you can literally see me skip a beat."

"We'll take your word for it." Replied Rainbow.

He shrugged and stretched his back earning a loud pop, he sighed as he leaned on the table again. When he got up to get the food up on the front they couldn't help but notice something strapped to his side.

"What's that? A weapon?" Asked Soarin.

"I don't know, but it couldn't hurt to ask, right?" Asked Rainbow Dash. They looked at each other nervously, then Eli came back with a full tray, a sandwich, chips, three large glasses of water, and more goodies.

"Isn't that a bit too much wat-" Spitfire was cut off by him chugging one of the eight inch glasses of water, "Nevermind."

"So, what's that on your leg?" Asked Soarin.

He pulled it out to show the magnum. "This's the IMI Desert Eagle, it's a semi-auto handgun that chambers the largest rounds for a pistol, at least on Earth. It holds nine .357 mm bullets. And if I want to go big, .50 mm rounds, which would hold seven. Those are big for a handgun such as this."

He twirled it in his hand and slid it back into the holster. "Wow, but how can you hit something with that?" Asked Soarin.

"You don't hit, may I show you, and don't worry, just point we in a direction with no one near and a target."

They looked around, until they saw an archery target out of a window a few yards away, "Hit that." Said Rainbow. He was just high enough to go past the window, he aimed down the sights for a second, until BAM. Their ears were ringing something awful, for a few minutes they couldn't hear anything.

Eli chuckled and said, "Noobies."

When they got the ringing out of their ears they looked and saw that the target had a hole through it, "Wow, and with those kinds of weapons you still lost?" Asked Fleetfoot.

"Yes, the population was just to massive and the virus spread in less than a week to seventy five percent of the world. We stood no chance, no matter what weapons we had." He sat back at the table and started to eat.

Fleetfoot asked, "That's saddening, sorry."

"No worries, I survived, now what other questions do you all have?"

Soarin asked nervously, "So what kind of a life did you have before, well that?"

He stared at them for a moment, "Well, I was a wonder kid, I had all A's in every class, I was super smart, and bullied often. But I got to work my college classes at sixteen, got done early just so I would be away from... Them.

I got my bachelors degree, four years, and I got a job as a business manager. During college I had a beautiful girlfriend who was the biggest bitch in the whole world, I hated her."

"So why did you date her?" Asked Spitfire.

"Because she had an ass that could kill, literally. She bent over once and an old man behind us died of a heart attack, do you know how I knew it was of her?" They nodded. "He had a boner." They were blushing so much.

"And while with her we had, Theo, remember?"

"Oh ya, your dog." Said Rainbow.

"Ya, exactly, best god damn dog I could've asked for." A single tear ran down his cheek. Spitfire sat next to him and draped a wing over his back, she had sympathetic look with a nice smile. "Thanks." Was all he could say.

Rainbow asked, "On cheerier topic, what kinds of things do you like, if you stay here, you'll need a job."

"Well, I like killing zombies, I'm also a decent scavenger, I know english and latin, I can run a business, or organization, and, well that's about it right now."

"Wait, you have latin in your society?" Asked Spitfire.

"It's a dead language, but ya."

"There was a little bit in our language, but it's died off."

"Ut bene sit uel tristia uel lingua, sed non erat malus in primo loco." They all looked at him curiously, "That roughly means, well that's saddening, but it was a sucky language anyway."

They laughed a bit, "Very true." Said Fleetfoot.

They just sat around and joked for hours, but before long it became time for the Wonderbolts to turn in, and with everything that happened, Eli needed some rest too.

They walked over to the barracks, they went in, but Eli stood at the door and shouted, "Can one of you throw me a blanket and a pillow?" A pillow and a blanket flew onto his face, they landed in his arms, inside he heard Spitfire shout.

"Good night!"

"Night!" He shouted back, he walked around the strip, looking for the best place to sleep, luckily the ground we nice and dry, he picked the very end, not next to the edge, but out of the way and facing the stars.

He laid out the blanket and dropped the pillow, he stretched and laid on his back. His head laid on the pillow letting him look at the sky, "So nice when there's nothing to harm you, so beautiful." He closed his eyes with excitement, wonder, and curiosity, what were these ponies, and how would he live in this new world?

Author's Note

I hope you all like this, I have many chapters wrote already, but the story is not done. Let me know if this is good, there is a lot more to come, and I mean a LOT.

Each chapter will come out in roughly a week to two based upon my schedule. So keep an eye if you don't wanna miss a chapter.