Equestrian Biohazard

by LegitFTW

Rating: teen
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Alternate Universe, Sad, Lyra, Princess Luna, Tragedy, Big Macintosh, Adventure, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Gore
Length: 2754

Twilight Sparkle and her friend's lives are endangered when a virus spreads through Ponyville.

Twilight Sparkle and her friend's lives are put in danger when one of Zecora's potions is accidentally spilled into a batch of cupcakes. The disease spreads around Ponyville and ponies are eliminated, one by one. The last ten survivors (Twilight Sparkle, Big Macintosh, Applejack, Apple Bloom, Fluttershy, Lyra Heartstrings, Derpy Hooves, Trixie, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash) are all crammed in Applejack's barn with no escape.

Now, they have to live with each other in the barn and fight off hoards of deadly zombie ponies. If any of them make one little mistake, they could all end up dying slow and painful deaths.

WARNING: Descriptive violence.

Published 2012-08-24 21:34:02 UTC
Last updated 2012-08-24 21:34:02 UTC

Prologue

Twilight Sparkle was surrounded. Her five friends had been killed and turned into bloodthirsty zombies, and they formed a small circle around her, closing in fast. Twilight knew she would surely die if she didn't do something fast. In an act of panic, Twilight shoved her horn into Fluttershy's zombified face, tearing the cartilage of her nose, cracking her skull, and fracturing her brain stem, which no longer held a brain. Fluttershy fell to the ground with a thud. Before she could process what just happened, Twilight felt a sharp pain in her lower back. She looked behind her to see Rarity's zombified form shoving her teeth into Twilight's spine, snapping her spinal cord with a loud...

"AAAAAGH" Twilight screamed, as she awoke from her nightmare. Twilight looked around the room. She spotted Spike's empty bed, and remembered that he was away on royal business, so no one was around to hear her screams.

"Phew," Twilight said to herself, "Glad it was only a dream. Zombie ponies are only real in old Pony tales." With that, Twilight fell back asleep.

Approximately 5 hours later...

"TWILIGHT, TWILIGHT, TWILIGHT! WAKE UP!" Twilight opened her eyes to see her friend Pinkie Pie. Pinkie was a very energetic mare, as she suffered greatly from ADHD.

"What? What do you want?" Twilight remarked, still half asleep.

"CUPCAKES!"

"Huh?" Twilight said groggily, and then she suddenly remembered a nightmare Pinkie had told her about, "This doesn't have anything to do with the nightmare you told me about where you killed Rainbow Dash, does it?"

"No, of course not! We need your help at Sugarcube Corner! Cutie Pox is spreading through the foals faster than a flying squirrel on roller skates, or maybe a pegasus in an airplane, or maybe a..."

"I GET IT, PINKIE!" Twilight remarked, now fully awake. "But what is baking cupcakes going to do to help cure Cutie Pox?"

"Zecora, silly! She has a recipe for cupcakes that will cure the Cutie Pox faster than you can say 'Chimicherry Cherrychanga.' She's at Sugarcube Corner right now. LET'S GO!"

"All right, let me just get ready first" Twilght said, looking down at her just-rolled-out-of-bed self.

A few minutes later, Twilight teleported herself and Pinkie to Sugarcube Corner. Zecora was there, already mixing potions.

"A unicorn's magic will do the the trick, to make healing cupcakes to help the sick." Zecora told Twilight. Twilight's horn began to glow bright lavender as she stood up and shot the bowl of ingredients with an electrifying bolt of magic. The tan fluid in the bowl began to sparkle.

"What do we do now?" Pinkie exclaimed.

"In order to make sure of the cupcakes' power, we must let them sit for half an hour." Zecora responded.

"OKEY-DOKEY-LOKEY!" Pinkie exclaimed (Pinkie was always excited when it came to cupcakes, or any dessert for that matter). As she said this, she jumped up and her tail knocked over a dark red potion, and it spilled into the bowl. Pinkie Pie was oblivious at what she had just done, while Twilight and Zecora were both looking away.

After the trio finished baking and icing the cupcakes, they were ready to give them to the sick foals. There were seven colts and six fillies infected with Cutie Pox, thirteen in all. Among the infected were Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, who had contracted the virus from Apple Bloom when she took one of Zecora's 'Heart's Desire' potions. Pipsqueak also had come down with the Cutie Pox, and he likely contracted it when he went trick-or-treating with the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Each patient ate a cupcake, and immediately their fake cutie marks went away and they stopped performing their fake talents.

"HOORAY!" Pinkie exclaimed, and she began to trot away. When suddenly, she felt an unbearable pain in the back of her thigh. She screamed and looked back to see Scootaloo with a gray and veiny face, digging her teeth into the flesh and muscle tissue in the back of Pinkie's thigh. Pinkie's blood spurted onto the faces of the the other foals. That's when Twilight and Zecora noticed that all the other foals, and now Pinkie Pie, had gray and veiny faces as well. Twilight then heard Zecora scream in pain. In panic, Twilight teleported back to her treehouse.

Part 1: The Barn

Not too long later, Applejack stormed into Twilight's house She found Twilight curled up in a corner, crying.

"Twilight!" Applejack yelled, breathing heavily, "Y'all better come with me, sugarcube. A huge hoard a zombie ponies are rampagin' through Ponyville. One o' them varmin done gone n' bit Granny Smith"

"That's terrible!" Twilight remarked. "I hope this isn't my fault."

"Now why in the hay would this be your fault?" Applejack asked. Twilight then told Applejack the whole story about the cupcakes, and Twilight using her magic to finish the recipe. Before Applejack could respond, a zombified Silver Spoon broke down Twilight's door, followed by about 20 other zombified ponies.

"QUICK, TWILIGHT! Applejack screamed, "TELEPORT US TO MAH BARN NOW!"

In a flash of purple smoke, they were gone. They reappeared in the Sweet Apple Acres barn, where they regrouped with Big Macintosh, Apple Bloom, and Rarity. Big Macintosh was comforting Apple Bloom, who was crying in the corner of the barn. Rarity was brushing her hair.

"Rarity, all of our friends are dying and turning into bloodthirsy demons who want to murder us, and you're brushing your hair?" Twilight asked.

"Of course, my dear, how else will everyone remember how fabulous I was if I die?" Rarity responded.

Suddenly, Rainbow Dash crashed through the barn doors, carrying Derpy Hooves and Lyra Heartstrings. A few seconds after, Fluttershy gracefully flew in, carrying Trixie.

"We found more survivors." Rainbow Dash exclaimed, "They're in pretty rough shape, but they're stable."

Rarity spoke up "Not to interrupt darling, but what the moon are we going to do now?"

"Well we gaht a lotta food here in this barn, so we cn' survahve offa that." Applejack explained. "We alsa have these" Applejack kicked over a large bale of hay, revealing a wall of machine guns. "Suit up ponies."

All of the ponies besides Apple Bloom grabbed a gun.

"So here's the plan. If anypony walks in here, and they can't speak ta us besides sayin' brains, we blast 'em." Applejack wiped away a tear. "Even if they... they useta be... ahhr friends."

A few seconds later, the zombie versions of Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo entered the barn. Everyone raised their weapons and were about to fire, when Apple Bloom jumped out in front of them.

"Guys, it's me Apple Bloom, your friend, remember?" Apple Bloom obviously had not heard what Applejack had just said.

"APPLE BLOOM, DON'T..." There was no use for Twilight finishing that sentence. Scootaloo bit Apple Bloom directly in the mouth. The blood vessels in Apple Bloom's mouth were torn apart, causing the dark red blood being propelled through the vessels to spew out onto the floor. Her teeth were crushed in Scootaloo's mouth with a horrifying crunch. What was left of Apple Bloom's face turned gray, and she turned towards the others and mumbled the word "braaaaains..."

The ponies opened fire on the three girls, and they were dead before they hit the ground.

Applejack, Macintosh, and Fluttershy began uncontrollably bawling, and the rest of the fillies were crying as well, except for Trixie.

"I, the great and powerful Trixie, delivered a kill shot directly to that ugly zombie Sweetie Belle's face" Said Trixie.

"SHUT UP!" Rarity screamed. "THAT UGLY ZOMBIE USED TO BE MY LITTLE SISTER. THAT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU BOAST ABOUT YOU BRUTE!" With that, Rarity shot Trixie right between the eyes. With this all happening, nopony noticed that Pipsqueak was approaching Rarity. She suddenly felt intense pain in the back of her neck. Pipsqueak's zombified self had jumped up and dug his teeth into the back of Rarity's brain stem. Her brain quickly lost connection with the rest of her body. She twitched for a few seconds and then her body fell limp in a pool of her own blood, while her head rolled away. Rarity did not turn into a zombie, as she was already completely dead from the bite. Macintosh quickly shot Pipsqueak until he was sure he was dead.

Fluttershy was crying, but everyone else, although they were quite sad, they were starting to get used to it.

"Unless we stop fighting amongst ourselves, we're all going to die!" Twilight said. "Now, everyone is going to stay away from the entrance, we're going to watch each other's backs, and we're not going to stop until every zombie is drowning in their own blood! Now who's with me?"

"HOORAH!" responded Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Lyra. Macintosh responded with an "Eeyup," Derpy responded with the word muffins and Fluttershy was still crying.

After three days in the barn, they had begun to get the hang of things. Twilight had planned four different sleeping shifts, where they slept in groups of twos, leaving the other five to guard. Each shift would last three hours, giving each pony six hours of sleep per day. There was only one hay bed. Twilight, a master at organizational skills, also devised an eating schedule, so that the large supply of food would last for months. With this system, the group was able to keep out quite a few of zombies without getting a scratch on them, for the first few days.

Lyra expressed hear concern during a conversation on the fourth day. "Not too many zombies have come to try and kill us. If everyone in Ponyville besides us is a zombie, then there must be more coming. I'm afraid they may be forming a large group, and are planning to attack us all at once."

"Zombies don't have brains." Twilight responded. "I don't think that they can plan... or at least I hope not..."

Part 2: The Attack

Six days later was the day Lyra's fears were confirmed.

It began at around 4AM that morning. Twilight, Macintosh, Applejack, Lyra, and Derpy, who were guarding at the time, heard scratches outside the back of the barn. Since Derpy was the only pegasus awake at the time, she was told to fly out and see where the scratches were coming from.

She was only out of the barn for a few seconds, and she quickly came back screaming "MUFFINS MUFFINS MUFFINS!" The rest of the group looked out the door to see a large hoard of zombies coming towards them. They all opened fire, and the number of zombies was quickly decreasing. With all this happening, they had forgotten completely about the scratching at the back door.

All of a sudden, The back wall of the barn collapsed, and many sharp pieces flew off. One of these pieces was a 2" by 2" by 5" plank of wood with one rounded off into a sharp cone, like the tip of a pencil. This plank flew through the air and found it's way to Rainbow Dash's head, cutting through her skull and mashing her brain into a bloody pulp. Many more wood planks of the back wall, and Fluttershy, who was also in the hay bed at the time, had awoken at the sound of the back wall cracking. However, she couldn't gain consciousness quickly enough before planks from the wall fell on her, and many sickening cracks we're audible from the fracturing bones of her limbs.

The wall was the least of the problems for the conscious ponies, as behind the back wall, hundreds of zombies had piled up. Now that the back wall was eliminated, they all fell into the barn in a large herd. The last five survivors were surrounded by zombies, and they were closing in fast. Derpy, the only one that could fly away, couldn't even make an attempt to leave before dozens of Pegasus zombies stopped her in her trail, and she fell to the ground. Applejack had a good strategy, she was shooting the zombies in front of her with her machine gun, and bucking the zombies behind her like they were trees. This was super effective until zombified Lemon Hearts came behind Applejack with her mouth open. When Applejack went to kick her, she bit down on Applejack's leg, tearing through her flesh tissue until the virus in her saliva seeped into Applejack's veins. One-by-one her cells began to become filled with this virus, and quickly Applejack had become a zombie. Applejack's first move as a zombie was a jerk of her head, where she bit Big Macintosh in the hip. Applejack's teeth cracked Macintosh's pelvic bone and punctured his kidney, releasing a filthy stench into the already disgusting smelling barn. Big Macintosh didn't become a zombie, he simply fell to the ground.

Twilight was completely out of ideas. She knew no spells that could handle a zombie apocalypse, because she never believed one would occur. The next thing Twilight saw was a bright flash of white light, and when her vision cleared, she saw that every single zombie pony had fallen, dead. The only ponies standing were her and Lyra Heartstrings, who looked just as puzzled as she was. They bother looked up and they saw something, or somepony, coming towards them from the sky. This figure was none other than Princess Luna, who spoke to them.

"HUZZAH, WE'VE BEEN WAITING YEARS TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT SPELL. TOO BAD IT COULDN'T COME UNDER HAPPIER CIRCUMSTANCES..." This was said in her Royal Canterlot Voice.

"Princess Luna..." Twilight said weakly "Why couldn't... you... come... sooner?"

"MY DEAR, THERE WERE CHANGELINGS COMING BACK FOR REVENGE IN CANTERLOT. THE ENTIRE CITY WAS ON LOCKDOWN."

"Is... every... one... okay?"

"THANKS TO YOUR BROTHER AND HIS ARMY, NO CIVILIANS WERE HURT, BUT THERE WERE MANY CASUALTIES AMONG SOLDIERS. YOUR BROTHER FRACTURED HIS RIBCAGE, BUT HE IS EXPECTED TO MAKE A FULL RECOVERY."

This time Lyra spoke up. "So... what... do we... do... now?"

"THE PARAMEDICS ARE COMING SHORTLY TO RESCUE YOU AND SEE IF THEY CAN FIND ANY OTHER SURVIVORS"

Twilight and Lyra had nothing else to say. Instead, they cried. The thought that they would never again hear the voices of their friends and be able to love them had set in. They didn't stop crying until Twilght heard a faint scream.

This scream would be hard to hear otherwise, just drowned out with the wind, but the scream sounded familiar, it sounded like... Fluttershy!

Twilight ran to where she heard the scream and saw a pile off rubble. She cleared the rubble with magic and found Fluttershy, silently screaming in between coughs. Her cute face and torso were still completely intact, but her limbs had taken severe damage, enough so that bloody bone covered in splintery wood chips was visible. Fluttershy forced a smile onto her face as paramedics came to take her to the hospital.

"She's going to be just fine." A paramedic assured Twilight.

Part 3: The Aftermath

After being treated in the Canterlot Hospital, Fluttershy was going to be sent to Cloudsdale and live in Rainbow Dash's old house. As for Lyra and Twilight, they would be staying at the Canterlot Castle. On the day Fluttershy was set to leave, they said their goodbyes.

"Well, Fluttershy, I guess this is goodbye.

"Yeah" Fluttershy said quietly, staring at the ground. "I guess it is."

Lyra ran up to Fluttershy and gave her a big hug. Twilight followed, and they had one last group hug. Fluttershy leaned into Twilight's ear and whispered something barely audible.

"Hey, Twilight" Fluttershy whispered "You have to get up. It's cider season and we want a good place in line."

Suddenly, Twilight's vision changed, and she was looking at her ceiling.

"No, no, darling, you have to do it like this." remarked Rarity, "TWILIGHT! GET UP!" Twilight was now fully awake in her own room.

"Rarity, you're alive!" Twilight jumped up and hugged Rarity and Fluttershy.

"Well, why wouldn't she be?" said a voice across the room. Twilight looked over to see that it was Pinkie Pie. She also saw Rainbow Dash, who then proceeded to exclaim. "Can we get on with this?"

"Ok, I must have just consumed a little too much cider last night" Twilight explained. "I had the weirdest dream."

"You can tell us on the way" Fluttershy said.

"LET'S GO!" Pinkie Pie excitedly screamed, and with that, they walked off to have another glorious day in Ponyville.