I groaned and woke up to someone lightly shaking me, I yawned and sat up, looking at who woke me. I saw it was Aloe, however her sister was nowhere in sight, she chuckled and spoke. "I would have woken you, but you looked like you needed some rest, so we simply let you be, however now it is closing time, 6 pm to be exact, so you shall have to leave, but remember you are free to come back anytime, full service, free of charge." She handed me my clothes, that I put on, and tipped my hat at her.

I nodded in thanks. "Thank you for the offer, and thank you for the massage, even if you didn't get to complete it, was still amazing." I checked my pipboy as I left the spa, and as she had said, it was 6pm, to be exact, 6:05 pm,looking up at the sky I saw the sun was still shining bright in the sky.

Checking the map on my pipboy, I took a look at the towns for a minute, before I decided what one I was going to visit next, and selected it on my map, marking it, but I was NOT going to just go in without defenses like I did last time, so I was going to modify my car a bit, also, I had replaced my ALR with a beam rifle, it was another mod I had forgotten I downloaded, it replaced the crappy alien blaster with a bad ass powerful alien assault rifle. I called it a beam rifle cause I used the beam barrel, and the fusion core converter, meaning fusion cores could be used as ammo, and since I never used power armor, ever, I had a fuckton of those, so I wouldn't even need to use console commands to spawn myself ammo.

Walking to my car, I attached some laser turrets to it, on the top on the four corners, on the front hood by the headlights, on the back by the tail lights, and to make sure they'd stay on, I drove my car around a bit, before parking again, I noticed a plane flying over the town, and crates being dropped out of it, they had parachutes attached to the crates, so it reminded me of a video I had watched of how the USA dropped large amounts of MRE's into the battlefield for their soldiers, ah, gotta love the good ol US of A, may sound weird but hey, a guy can love his country eh? Anyways, the crates landed all around the town, where royal guards rushed and collected them, dragging them to the center of town.

I watched as the guards took 20 weird metal trays to each home, before one guard walked up to me. "Where is your current residence." He asked while holding a box of some sort.

Giving him a confused look, I pointed to my car, and to my surprise 20 of those metal trays where placed into the back of the car. "Just what are you placing into my car exactly?" I asked him.

He gave me a confused and spoke as if I should have known this, since its been going on the past week. "We are required to give everypony 20 PMM's per home, per family."

Still confused, I continued with my questions. "What is a PMM? I have no idea what that stands for dude, remember I am new here."

His face lit up like a fucking nuke, with a smile he grinned and spoke, now cheerful. "Oh your THAT fellow, well anyway, PMM stands for Pre Made Meal, its contained in a metal tray with a tinfoil covering, and kept frozen using an enchantment, press the red gem on the side of the tray and wait 5 minutes and your meal will be done, just pull back the foil covering the top and enjoy, everypony knows what these are, as each kingdom makes their own versions."

Now it made sense, these WHERE like MRE's! just, frozen and heated using magic....taking a closer look, they looked like old fashioned TV dinners, even with the pictures of whats in them on the foil, the guard had walked off while I looked at one of the PMM's, so I just stored them into my inventory and just as I was about to get into my car, I heard a snobbish 'AHEM' so I turned around and saw to my surprise, Diamond Tiara.

The second I turned around she started speaking, seemingly she was still snobbish so I had to be here before that one CMC episode where they turned her nice. "What is an ugly pony like you owning a nice car like that? you don't deserve it, I demand you give me the keys now." She held her hand out, as if actually expecting me to do what she wanted.

I gave her a deadpan look. "Hell no, while I COULD just spawn another car, I don't feel like it, nor do I feel like giving an entitled little shitstain a NUCLEAR powered car, as you'd most likely just fucking blow the damned thing up, let alone the fact you where rude to me the minute you spoke, what in the name of all that is kind and decent made you think you can just come up to me, demand something and insult me, and actually think you'll get it?"

Her face, it puffed up and she turned red. "How DARE you speak to me like that you abomination!? Do you know who I am! who my daddy is!? He will get you kicked out of this town!" She screeched, for how high her voice was she may as well have been reeeing.

I rolled my eyes, and took out my beam rifle. "He can try, and he can die, listen here, I give zero fucks who you, or your little daddy is, so fuck off lil runt, before I decide today is the day I shoot a kid." She paled, and ran for it like the damned road runner from Loony Toons. ha, I decided, that before I go I'd explore the town a bit more, see what I could buy or trade, as they still used bits, and I didn't have bits, just items I could trade, like low grade weapons, ammo, scrap, those kinda things, as I walked ponies stared at my beam rifle as it glowed slowly spinning, yeah, it never stopped spinning unless it had no ammo inside it, cool in my opinion, the creator of that mod really out did himself.

As I was looking at a stall that sold fish, I was surprised, and it was explained to me that while ponies are omnivores, meat is hard to come by aside from fish, so seafood was very present here, I kept walking and saw a weird vending machine, it looked like an old fashioned soda vending machine, It had options that reminded me somewhat of soda from home, like Hyper Cola, that one gave me weird vibes as I remembered listening to creepy pastas by CreepsMcPasta, and CreepypastaJr, I loved those guys, they posted the best scary stories, as I continued on walking, I saw a dinner, and my stomach decided to make itself known.

Taking a look at the sign I almost laughed, it was called the Leaping Pony Dinner, I decided, eh fuck it, and walked inside, it looked like an old fashioned dinner from like the 50's, or the 60's, taking a seat at one of the booths a orange mare, no not Applejack, came up and handed me a menu, and asked if I would like anything to drink, thinking about it, I quicksaved and decided to take a risk, and order the Hyper Cola, I had no idea if it would be like it was in the creepypasta so I was taking a huge risk, hopefully not however.

I looked at the menu, and surprise surprise, rarely any options had meat in them, I decided on an order of fried codfish, fries, I had to specify I wanted potato ones and not hay ones, and a side of mashed potatoes and gravy, and I was handed a glass bottle, that MUCH to my surprise, looked like a glass coke bottle, with the 'Hyper Cola' label looking almost exactly like the coke label, wavy letters colored in white, on a red background, cracking it open and taking a sip I perked right up, it tasted like classic Coca Cola, my favorite soda, another ten minutes later the mare walked up to me with my food and said. "Here ya go darlin, enjoy your food, ya need anythin jus call me over." Before walking back into the kitchen.

As I ate my food, AFTER pouring ketchup onto the fries, and cod, cause I love ketchup, I ate and drank slowly, it took me about 30 minutes to finish, of which when I was done I payed for the meal, by giving the dinner some defenses outside its doors, two laser turrets to be exact.

I was just walking past that weird vending machine again when Diamond Tiara and two buff looking stallions in black suits and sunglasses walked up. "Ha! ugly pony! now what are you gonna do that I have my body guards with me? Now, you can hand over the car, or this can get ugly." Her two goons pulled out MLE pistols, and aimed at me threateningly, causing the other ponies around us to gasp, while Diamond smirked.

I started chuckling, which turned into a light laugh, that turned into psychotic laughter that would make the joker piss himself, I stopped suddenly and spoke, in a cold, emotionless voice. "People like you make it sick, you think you own the entire fucking world, because you have a little more money then everyone else, you think you can just have your little goons point a gun at me? I cleared out an entire town of psychopaths, you think I can't take on two little earth ponies with pistols?"

I pulled out my beam rifle and revved it up, causing it to spin rapidly. "Try me, and see what happens." I pretty much dared.

Seemingly she was unaffected, as I was able to tell by what she said next. "You know the drill colts, get em." Her two goons started to shoot at me, only for me to enter vats and vaporize them using my beam rifle, they turned into glowing blue ash piles on the ground, leaving not even a skeleton, while Diamond Tiara almost pissed herself and tried to run, only for two royal guards to swoop in and cuff her, they'd have cuffed me to, but other ponies had explained to them that I acted in self defense, and even warned them I'd defend myself if I needed to, but I was questioned about my rifle, and they did in fact try, and fail, to take it for testing, they can't exactly take something stored in my inventory, or if its pressed under their chin glowing hot with heat waiting to be released.

I grinned as I was finally allowed to leave the town in peace, and started to drive on the empty highway, yeah they had highways but only the really rich drove nice cars, the more normal ponies, drove Model T style cars and trucks, so the cars aside from those where like the 50's and 60's version of cars from the pictures I've seen, but all of them ran on a Crystal Sugar engine, they used a sugar in liquid form for fuel, like gas but it won't explode if you set it near a fire, I turned and drove over a zombie eating what looked like a dog, and kept an eye on the road signs, I was close to a ocean by this time, evident by the seagulls, before I noticed something weird, you know those large metal shipping containers ocean liners used to transport goods? seemingly they had the same thing here, except I was seeing what looked like a wall constructed out of them, the size of a football stadium from what I could see, and ponies where defending it against zombies.

I drove up to see what looked like an MK2 50 cal heavy machine gun placed in a section on the second story of the wall, on a platform made to shoot from the inside at anything outside the walls, and the pony using it was mowing down a rather large hoard of zombies, I had expected large hoards now, that it had been 14 days since zombies started attacking cities, from what I had heard on the radio Baltimare had fallen, and so had Trottingham, but it surprised me that someone, or a lot of someones had made a city or town, out of large shipping containers, I got out of my car and climbed onto the roof, and watched as 70 or so zombies where taken out by a the 50 cal, if they where not killed they had all their limbs missing, not much of a threat to anyone if they had no arms or legs, and just as I was about to get down, a large gate opened, two sections of one of the shipping containers moved to the sides as ponies in makeshift armor rushed out as the gate closed, and began to kill any zombies that had not been completely killed by the 50 cal, and one of them noticed me, and yelled something, I was to far to hear it, and they all aimed their weapons at me, from rifles, shotguns, pistols, and even a few swords, before I just waved and one of the pegasi flew over.

He was a light brown stallion, he had on bits of metal armor, he had a long bolt action rifle with him. "What are you doing here?"

I shrugged. "I was driving by, and noticed a large wall made of metal crates, I wanted to get a closer look to see what it was, but to many zombies prevented me from getting to close." While that was true, I could have taken out those zombies if I had wanted to, but honestly I just didn't feel like doin so, a waste of my almost unlimited ammo, I'd rather just watch these ponies fight zombies as it was fun to watch how they did so, now if one was about to die, then sure I'd pitch in and help, but otherwise unless it was to defend myself not very likely, its why I left Bonbon and Lyra back at the town, I could tell they where not fit for a life on the road in a zombie pandemic.

He gave me a look, narrowing his eyes before he shrugged and motioned for me to follow him, I did so in my car, and along with him, I was let in, I was told the other ponies had already gone back inside the walls, and it looked a lot like diamond city, but cleaner, and less rust and blood, the small town did in fact have power, it was explained to me that the town was powered my enchanted gems that had an electric enchantment, outdated technology I was told, but it worked well enough with a few unicorns to recharge the gems every week or so.

Looking around, I noticed makeshift homes out of other shipping crates, small stores made out of them, pretty much everything here was made out of those large yellow, orange, blue, and red crates, and to my surprise they had anti air guns, like the ones you'd see in world war one, I decided I would ask whomever decided to run this place, about how exactly this was built so quickly, I found the 'mayors' office, which was rather just five crates welded together with sections of walls taken out with doors placed into them, when I walked inside I saw griffons in makeshift metal plate armor, iron or tin, as it was grey, and I finally found the mayor of this football stadium sized town, it was a mint green unicorn stallion with a purple mane and green eyes, he was sitting at a wooden desk looking over some papers, seemingly parts of the town that could possibly reinforced for better defense against zombies, I coughed and he looked up from his papers.

"Well, I don't think I've seen you around here before, I am Leaping Hoof, the mayor and creator of this little town, what can I do for you?" He asked, his voice sounded kinda posh, snooty, like a rich guy would talk.

"I had some questions as to just how this place was built, and so fast as well, as its only been 14 or so days since the outbreak of zombies began, from what I was told." I sat down on a chair, gotta hand it to these guys for a town built in so little time, they had a lot of commodities needed for a comfy life, running water, electricity, heating and cooling systems, defenses, anti air defense, for fucks sake what should they need that for!?

He chuckled. "Ah, that would mostly be my doing, well me and the 30 or so workers I had payed to help, once I heard news of the outbreak, the shipping boats where turned into shelters,, till those where overrun, using the crane on the ship some workers moved the shipping crates into a rather large pile, and 60 or so unicorns helped move them all into place, where welders welded the crates together and placed quick dry cement in the cracks, soon we had a town that could be called a home, and since the crates needed to be empty, we had shipments for weapons to the royal guard, ammo, armor, weapons, food, clothing, and a lot of other items, so, I designed this town from the ground up after 3 days into the outbreak, now we are well defended, well supplied, and are able to defend ourselves, shipments of PMM's also arrive via air, we have radio stations here that can all override every channel on a radio near here and give a warning if we are about to be attacked, or overrun, the law is strictly enforced, just as it would be before the outbreak."

Holy crap that was a long explanation, I just sat for a minute, before I grinned. "Well, what do you call this little town?"

He grinned back at me, chuckling slightly. "We call it NewHope, since it offers shelter and food, for those who need it and have nowhere else to go, or just no way to get anywhere."

"I like that name, it suits this place, but if I where you, I'd expect larger hoards of zombies in the future."

He tilted his head and raised an eyebrow. "And why is that?"

"Because, the longer this outbreak goes on? the more zombies will be around, the longer zombies are able to infect other ponies and turn them? the more zombies you'll have to fight one day."

He looked like he had chewed on a lemon, before he nodded and jotted down what I had said on a new piece of paper, before thanking me, but told me I had to leave the office while he jotted down new defense plans, and plans to reinforce the town even more, with metal and concrete, so I just started to explore the town, it was almost the size of Ponyville, so there would be a lot to explore, but that will be for next time I suppose.

Author's Note

I have decided to up the tech in the story, as since the ponies are anthro....they can use more complicated weapons and cars, since before I had been accounting for hooves, as I don't think a pone can shoot a bereta 9mm pistol even without a pistol grip, and model t style cars are simple, and easy for somepony with hooves to use, so since they have hands now, I will be introducing some more advanced technology, I will TRY to keep it from before 2000 but the highest I am willing to go in terms of tech is 2008, for guns, not cars, cars will be from 40's style, to 60's style, only, so they kind of match the fallout car Max has, and also, I have come up with a BUNCH of product ideas, just looking around in walmart while shopping, and watching a creepy pasta called Hyper Cola, by CreepsMcPasta, go check em out, good stories, if you want to see the product ideas, just ask and I will post a blog about it, and as one last side note, I have decided to remove Lyra and Bonbon as main characters, as I feel it weird to write for three characters at a time, often I forget they are with max and have to re write entire sections of a chapter, also, I am VERY sorry for the short chapters, I try to make them as long as I can with the time I have, keep in mind, I write when I FEEL like it, and when I have TIME for it, so sorry for those who want me to write a ten thousand page novel, but it ain't gonna happen, I just don't have the time for it, other than this message, hope ya enjoy the story, and no, I haven't forgotten about Your human and you giant, I am just trying new ideas , coming up with a plot for it like I am while writing this story, plus I am just addicted to zombies atm for some stupid reasons I don't know lol, and wow! 97 followers!? never thought I'd get more than one or two, I am surprised to know others actually LIKE what I write, half the time at least, and ONE LAST SIDE NOTE the reason this is so long, as I took 8 days to make it, not all at once keep in mind! but combined its about 8 days of work put into this damned chapter

and for those who wonder what a beam rifle looks like, here it is