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Chapter 6

I had left the little makeshift town of Newhope, left it a week ago, now I was on my way across the land once again, more zombies, more raiders and morons, but what seemed weird to me, was the fact the zombies while they did decay, had started to turn black, their skin, fur, mane, tail, anything on them aside from their yellowish eyes, and what tattered clothing they had on, had begun to turn black, normally this would mean they where in the advanced stages of decay, but that should have taken at least two more weeks, taking the weather and conditions like that into account, another week at most.

Strangest part of them turning black, was the fact they didn't slow down, fall down unable to get back up, or anything like that, they got faster, not Rainbow Dash fast mind you, but some started to run when seeing me, if there was anything I hated more than a zombie, it was a zombie that could out fucking run me, thankfully I had my car still, abit some dents and dings from where I had run infected ponies over, but as I was driving I saw Canterlot, and had decided, that was where I was going to go next, as who the fuck knows, maybe they need help?

Turning my car onto another small highway, I slammed the breaks and forced the car to halt to a stop as I had realized how they kept infected ponies out of the city, they had blown up the only ways in and out of the city aside from air travel, just how the hell was I supposed to get into Canterlot now? Thinking for a few minutes, I thought of an idea, I could build like in game, and the gap in the highway was only twenty or so feet, I should be able to make a bridge, drive across it, then destroy it again, so I did just that.

I chuckled as I destroyed the concrete bridge I had made, then got back in my car, just as I had closed the car door a zombie slammed into my car door causing me to yelp, the fucker started punching my window causing it to crack, nothing had been able to crack that so far, not even when it took a shotgun blast from a raider pony, thankfully the laser turrets I had placed onto my car took it out before it could do TO much damage, getting back outside of my car I looked down at the zombified pony.

As I had said before, the zombies had begun to turn a blackish hue, like coal, and I poked it with my boot, the black sections of it started to glow a light red, before .....flowers, made of rotted flesh, sprang up from the black sections, and opened up before spraying a purple mist into the air, I quickly hopped back into my car and slammed the door shut, I still had no idea if I could be infected or not, and I sure as fuck did not want to find out the hard way.

I continued on my way to Canterlot, only to find the gates closed, but no guards manning the walls, I tuned into the military radio station that had been broadcasting since the beginning of the outbreak, what I heard kinda surprised me.

"To anypony listening to this, the Princesses, along with what little royal guard, and remaining towns that managed to not be overrun, have been evacuated to the Crystal Empire, that explains why I had seen little to no pony that did't have rotting flesh in their mouth, the living, most of them at least, had vacated the premises to go to a safer place, it was lonely out here, no one to talk to, just music to listen to and zombies to kill.

I sighed and started to turn around, before something that horrified me banged on the gate to Canterlot, on the other side of the gate banging with rotting hands trying to get through the bars to me, was Rarity, but...she had turned, her white fur matted with blood, tears in her flesh, and rotting green flesh, her fur just beginning to dull and turn black, they must have evacuated once infected had gotten inside, and I was once again surprised as a large metal golem shambled up to the gate and smashed Rarity into paste against the gate, its eyes glowing red as it kept going around and from what I could see, killing any zombies it could find by turning them into pudding.

That must have been the 'automated' defenses I was told had been protecting Canterlot in the first few days, I turned the car around and drove out of there, this time I had built a ramp and jumped it in the car to get back across that gap made on the road, I had to get to the Crystal Empire, see what the absolute fuck was going on with the zombies, and how one of the mane 6 had been turned, as far as I knew, she had been guarded heavily, as had the other ponies from the mane 6.

Checking a map I had taken from a gas station, and checked, it would take me a day to get to the Crystal Empire by car, assuming I didn't run into any...problems, on my way there, and so my short trip began, as I was driving down another highway about to take the turn off, had to steer around a few busted up cars, I was flagged down by a Fancy Pants, he and Fleur De Lis, where next to a fancy car that seemed to have broken down.

I pulled over, knowing these two from the show, they'd still be sane enough to not try and eat my liver like that other hitch hiker I had picked up did, that was a story for another time however, I rolled my cracked window down, and Fancy started talking. "I am terribly sorry to bother you, but as you can see my cars radiator is broken, we ran out of fluid for it and for the past ten miles have been driving, the engine just stopped working as we got to the turn off, its only another 50 miles to the Empire, do you think you'd be able to give me and my friend Fleur a ride?"

Looking a bit closer at them, they seemed to be mostly alright, aside from a few tufts of ripped fabric from Fleur's dress, but I wanted to be sure of something. "Alright, but if either of you are bitten, I will shoot you the second I find out, I am not taking chances like that, if you are infected, let me know now, and I can just drive off, if your not, get in the car."

Fancy and Fleur looked relived and got into the car, the back of it after grabbing two small suitcases from Fancy's car, and he spoke up again. "I am able to assure you neither of us are infected, thankfully enough, and we are very thankful you had given us a ride, as I don't think we could have made it through the night, cigar?" He held out a fat cigar, I'm not one to smoke normally, aside from the one time I did weed, but there is a first for everything.

"Sure, I could use a smoke I guess." I took the cigar and was about to pull out a flip lighter before Fleur pulled out a blue one and lit my cigar, then Fancy's, and I took a look at the time, it was almost sunset, I had been driving all day, and it was rare to get sleep or rest while on the road, more so now with the mutated zombies, so I took a hit of X-cell, it acted like an energy drink for me, and continued to drive in silence.

Fleur tapped my shoulder. "Would you happen to have any water or food? we where unable to take any with us while we fled Canterlot."

"Why did you guys have to flee from Canterlot? I thought it was one of the safest places left in Equestria, or the world." As I said this, I gave them both a bottle of water, and a bag of cookies, they where about the size of a chips ahoy cookie, but the bag had like 50 of the things, snacks here where awesome, after Fancy ate a few he spoke up.

"Somehow infected ponies had gotten through, seemingly some ponies that had fled to Canterlot for safety had been bitten , once the guard found out they had them put into cells, but as a maid went to take them water she was bit, and seemingly didn't tell anypony, from there thats all we know, as it was announced on the radio that a maid had been infected, we left two days ago, we had to stop a few times for fuel, but where unable to fund radiator fluid for my car, how was Canterlot? last we checked everything was going slightly bumpy but otherwise alright."

I sighed. "Canterlot is gone, everyone that I assume was not infected was evacuated via airship or something to the Crystal Empire, the barrier there from what I have been told, keeps the zombies away since they are made using dark magic, the barrier the crystal heart produces naturally repels and destroys dark magic, hence why we are going there, so long as the crystal heart has power the Empire will be safe."

The Crystal Empire had come into sight by now, it had been another two hours while I had talked with Fancy, damn...time moves fast when your not looking at the clock waiting for every minute to go by, good thing to because my X-cell was wearing off and soon enough I would be unable to go any longer without sleep, I had been taking X-cell the past two days, two days without sleep, or rest, my own damned fault for not stopping somewhere safe like a small town that still had ponies in it.

We watched infected ponies turning to dust as they touched the barrier, there where not to many, just about 5 or so, small groups of them all turning to dust as they tried to force their way through the barrier, I just drove past them and into the barrier, and strait into a military tent with royal guards inside it, I slammed the breaks just in time to avoid crushing more than a pole on the tent, and got out, as did Fancy and Fleur, before turning to Fancy, the cigar I had been smoking was tossed to the ground and stepped on. "Welp, we're here, I'm gonna just pass out now, since I have not slept for two days." The look of horror on Fancy's face as I fell backwards and blacked out, oooo if only I had a camera.