Chapter 1: The Seedling

Today was the best day of Fluttershy's life. The cottage was peaceful as usual. Angel, her pet rabbit, was on his best behavior. Her friends had invited her to have a little party again. And best of all, she would not touch the Everfree Forest again today!

Out of the top things she most feared (which was basically everything) it was the Everfree forest (and the occasional thoughts of Nightmare Moon. Oh, that gave her the chills). It was dark there, even in the most brightest day. It contained a variety of dangerous and strange creatures, each that easily frightened the poor pegasus. And of course, the place was so wild! It defied everything Equestria was. It just gave her the chills.

Ironically her home, which was a cottage, was somewhat close to the forest, but it was not close enough to be part of it. Here where she was, she could enjoy the peaceful air that went through her mane and the bright rays of the sun that illuminated her butterscotch face. Today was no other day! Nothing could ever go-

Thud!

Fluttershy instantly leaped up to a few feet in the air. The sudden noise led her to do a little 'eep' as she let fear go through her. She slowly turned around and her eyes instantly turned into tiny dots as she saw dust coming from the Everfree Forest, her worst fear ever.

She could right now run away, go to her friends and tell them about something landing in the Everfree Forest. But Fluttershy shook her head. She would NOT be a doormat any longer. Sure she was shy but occasionally this patriotic idea that was left in her ever since her....training still was stuck in her head. Bravely, but actually timidly, she went into the forest, alone.

Normally she'd be crazy to do this but today, this day was special to her. She would not let anything ruin it, even a little something like a thud. Especially that. So our the timid pegasus crept into the forest, darting her eyes left and right, searching for the thing that had fallen, when she found it.

A little Seedling was already growing. Somehow earlier in time, when it crashed landed the seed packet was able to open and produce this tiny and beautiful seedling. It was in its basic form, a sprout. And Fluttershy instantly adored it.

"Oh! You look so cute!" The timid, now not timid pegasus said. Fluttershy looked around the sprout and saw some seed packets and a bag containing a green leaf. She also saw a small device that had the image of the sun in scripted in it. She picked up everything and slowly walked back to her home when suddenly a rainbow streak met with her.

"Hey Fluttershy!"

Instantly the timid pegasus dropped to the floor completely shocked. Rainbow chuckled.

"Oops! Scared ya Flutters?" Rainbow said, laughing a bit. Fluttershy got up and picked up all the things she found. "Say what is that what you have?" The cyan mare asked. Fluttershy smiled.

"I just found it here. I'm going to take it home with me to take care of this sprout!" Fluttershy said, looking at the sprout. Rainbow Dash smiled.

"Well before you go let's go to the party!" Rainbow Dash said before pulling her friend with her and flying at supersonic speeds.

"T-th-tha-a-a-a-at is t-oooo-oo-oo f-aa-a-a-a-a-a-a-ast!" Fluttershy yelled before fainting on the ground when they got to the Friendship Castle. Twilight rushed to see Fluttershy.

"Rainbow Dash! How many times I told you to stop dragging Fluttershy like this!" Twilight Sparkle yelled. Rainbow shrugged.

"Sorry. At least it was only for a few seconds. And plus I gotta practice more if I want to be #1 in the Wonderbolts!" Rainbow Dash yelled. The fastest fliers in Equestria were her dream and now being part of them, she wants to prove her worth, if she hadn't already. Twilight sighed.

"It's alright Twilight. It's my fault for not arriving on time." Fluttershy said. Twilight smiled.

"Well anyways girls its been a long time since we've been together so Pinkie Pie is setting up a party for us to commemorate our anniversary as friends!" The friends cheered and hugged one another. One by accident bumped into the the water can, spilling water all over the sprout.

"Oops." Pinkie Pie said. Fluttershy smiled.

"It's okay I was going to water it anyways." Fluttershy said, cleaning the water. The sprout moved a bit but remained motionless otherwise. Fluttershy smiled, looking at her friends. The rest smiled.

"Well I guess after we finish this party I'll be going, okay." Fluttershy said. They nodded and so the party began. With Pinkie as the party organizer (no surprise there) everypony was invited, including Vinyl Scratch who played some amazing DJ music. But in the mist of the cheering and partying (and the occasional conga line) they hadn't noticed the sprout moving with the music and noise throughout the entire time. The sun shined on the sprout, revealing its green leaves that reflected the beautiful light that Celestia's sun gave. A few hours of partying and dancing and playing party games, the party ended with the sun setting.

"I guess I'll see you guys tomorrow!" Fluttershy said as she picked up all her stuff, including the sprout, which had stopped dancing.

"See you!" Twilight said, not even bothering to ask where she even found the sprout or something like that. She figured that it was another of Fluttershy's new plants that she had to take care of. Fluttershy and her new plant began their trot back home, with Fluttershy holding the sprout. She looked at the sprout with tender eyes.

"How did you even manage to survive a fall like that? And what will you grow up to be? A sweet looking flower I guess? I wonder what you'll become soon." Fluttershy said to the seedling as they went back into the cottage. She placed the plant on near the window and started to yawn. "See you soon in the morning....." Fluttershy said, yawning as she went upstairs to her bedroom before sleeping.

A small moment of silence moved across the fields. The sprout did not move nor stirred. It was just a normal plant, that is all. Just like a filly or colt who hadn't figured out his/her purpose in this world, this sprout had not yet become what it was planted for. For the entire night nothing moved. The critters laid there peacefully, some snoring as well as the tiredness took them over. There was no threat of a attack from the Everfree Forest. No monsters that would come and destroy the home that the sprout had made for now. Evening passed, Midnight came. And still no movement from the sprout. Midnight become history and the most darkest hours came without sun. The crickets still chirped and fireflies lit up the darkened land with their beautiful lights. The sprout waited patiently for the morning to come. And finally, the sun rose. The sun, which Celestia rose each day and settled each night finally showed its rays of lights. And at that movement, the sprout moved a bit. In the party the sprout had received have of the sunlight required for it to grow. Now it resumed its absorption of the sun. Every minute or so a tiny droplet of sun was absorbed into the sprout. Once the counter reached 100 sun, there was a flash of light as the sprout started to transform. Its time to sleep was finish as it started to grow. A few minutes later the plant landed on the ground, looking around the place with its eyes. It now no longer looked like the sprout it came from. Instead it looked like a a giant pea head with a strange mouth and two eyes that were in the front center of his head. He also had a lone leaf in the back of his head. He was actually not that larger than the other plants around, since he was so young. The new plant looked around for a way to exit the place and found a door. With quick skills the plant opened the door with its leaves and started exited to the world of the unknown.

The being looked left and right. On his right was the dense forest that covered everything. Its trees blocked the sunlight that tried to pierce through its very tight leaves to shine its light over the ground. The being turned to the left and saw a small town in the distance. After calculating a bit, the being started to hop towards the town, leaving a indent on the ground made by the pot he was planted in.

Meanwhile....

"Ten...Twenty....Thrity....Fourty.....aha! 100 zombies available right now for battle!" The mad zombie doctor said as he counted the number of zombies that were now on foot and ready to attack. But then he frowned. "But these are only basic zombies. There's not even a single Cone-Head Zombie nor a Bucket Zombie here anywhere!"

Dr. Zomboss sighed. A zombie dressed in military uniform inspected the town right in front of them.

"This town is weakly fortified. From what I see there is a population of about anywhere from 100 to 10,000 ponies there. We could easily overtake them if we attack precisely." The military zombie said. Dr. Zomboss sighed.

"That's not what I'm worried about. If it were only 10,000 humans then that be fine but from what I can see, some can fly and others can shoot out beams of magic or whatever it is! Our zombies won't be able to fight against such beings!" Dr. Zomboss said, slamming his fist on a control panel. The military commander still held his poker face.

"These are not ordinary basic zombies doctor. These were the zombies that we were starting to design to repel the attacks from the Shadow Plants. In some sense that means they are also immune to any force of magic. The best thing though, is that these are the final touches to the zombies that could repel shadow magic. In fact I bet that these zombies are not only resistant to magic, they're IMMUNE to magic. By the time these ponies realize that, it'll be too late for them." The commander said. Dr. Zomboss started to smile.

"And by that point we'll be ready to conquer the rest of the world!" Dr. Zomboss said. The commander started to yell at the zombies, moving around in his military form.

"Listen up men! These ponies may have a vast number, but they're also very weak. Take note though that we're planning to leave with as much little casualties possible so I ask that all of you would fight like never before so that we could destroy all of them! Now shout...'BRAINS!'" The commander yelled, and the zombies yelled.

"BRAINS!" The zombies yelled. The commander passed a red flag with a brain on it to a zombie.

"Now let's show our loyalty to our master and let's fight!" The commander yelled and the force of zombies slowly started to trek through the Everfree forest in the direction of the small town.

Meanwhile.....

Fluttershy opened her eyes as she finally started to wake up. Her dream had been pleasant, though also strange. She dreamed of being surrounded by friendly plants who all had faces on them. All of them hugged her and they were walking peacefully in the soft grass. Speaking of which she got up and went downstairs to take care of her animals and her sprout.

"How are you little sprout.... (in thought) I should make a name for him (outloud) do you need any water?" The butterscotch mare said as she fed the animals, going more nearer to where the windowsill was. When she looked where the sprout was, it was gone! Fluttershy started to look everywhere for the sprout.

"Where are you mister sprout? I know I left you here...." Fluttershy said before she realized the door had been open.

"I thought I left the door closed....." The timid mare said, starting to become full of fear. She took deep breaths and exhaled. "There is nothing to worry about. You probably just forgot to close it." Fluttershy said to herself. She inspected the ground and saw a indent of a pot forming a trail that went to Ponyvile. The pegasus mare became confused. How was is possible that her sprout was able to grab the knob, open the door, and walk outside? It seemed so strange to her. Angel, her pet rabbit, started to tug her, telling her that he was hungry. Fluttershy smiled to her but shook her head.

"I'm sorry but I have to go find something." She said. Angel looked furious at her. "Please? I have to go...." Fluttershy said. Angel crossed her eyes and looked away. Fluttershy smiled. "I promise when I come back I'll serve you what you like, okay?" She said. Finally satisfied the bunny nodded and Fluttershy departure.

Meanwhile.....

The sprout, no longer a sprout, but a full grown sized plant, was in the town of Ponyvile. His eyes captured a beautiful city, with ponies doing their usual daily activities, being happy and joyful, unaware of what was going to come. The green plant moved around, not being noticed by the other ponies. They were so concentrated in their daily living that they had not noticed the moving plant nor the indents that its pot which it was residing in, left behind.

The plant looked left and right, searching for any signs of danger. In his exploration however, his eyes rested on a beautiful castle made out of pure gems and diamonds. His eyes widened as he started to calculate things in his mind.

Castle = Royalty
Royalty = Political Help
Political Help = Help Warn of Zombie Attack
Help Warn of Zombie Attack = Zombies Being Defeated
Zombies Being Defeated = World Saved
World Saved = Mission Accomplished.

The weird green plant started to move towards the castle. In his eyes it was so beautiful. He was just right there when his hearing detected something. A voice called out. The being looked around and saw a butterscotch pegasus running yelling "Come on little plant...come to mommy...." Again quick calculations began as the plant suddenly became full of fear.

Pony = Herbivore
Me = Plant.
Herbivores Eat Plant = I'm Going to Die
I'm Going to die..... = RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!

The plant raced into the castle, opening the door and going into the beautiful architectural feat. The plant was running across the room and just when he was about to open another door, said door opened itself up and threw the poor plant away into the wall. Said plant crashed into the chasing pegasus, causing her to drop down to the ground.

A little while back.....

Twilight Sparkle. Princess of Friendship (and of Magic but nopony cared for that name). She had already woken up. Already eaten breakfast. She and Spike, her pet dragon and #1 assistant were already starting her list of things and after planning they had prepared a good list of 100 things to do for the day. See Fluttershy. See Pinkie Pie. Write a Letter to Princess Celestia. Meet Flurry Heat. Meet her Brother. Do some reading. Still do some reading. Yeah. It was pretty an eventful day.

From the day she become supervisor of the Summer Celebration, her life was stressful. Writing friendship lessons. Fighting bad guys. NOT dying.... Stopping a somehow strong unicorn who could time travel. Take care of a school. Save the Crystal Empire. Stop Tirek. For one Twilight actually thought that today was going to be more peaceful since she only had 100 points instead of the usual 1000. But she would be proven wrong.

"Okay Spike! Time to get ready for another day........." The purple alicorn said to her #1 assistant when she noticed the fallen pegasus and the mysterious plant. Twilight got mad.

Now understand this. Twilight had just in-planted (yes this pun was necessary) in her head that today, nothing would happen that would somehow ruin her day! And then she sees her friend on the floor. First of all she hates seeing her friends hurt, and second, she SERIOUSLY did not want to have another thing to bother her. And so she started to yell, furious at the thing that perturbed her planned-to-be-perfect-day.

"Who do you think you are to hurt my friends, you monster!" The young alicorn said as she charged up her magic. She planned to fire a deadly ray of magic at the plant. Again the plant not having enough time, did some quick calculations.

Monster = Probably Zombie
Probably Zombie = Attack
Attack = Counterattack Threat.

The plant used his daily special ability as a golden aura covered him. He went under a special transformation as he began to power up turning into this:

The powered up plant started to fire a barrage of peas at the alicorn just when the alicorn fired a burst of magic at the plant. The spell, being only a single shot, destroyed only one pea, meaning that Twilight was now being bombarded by the tons of peas being fired at her.

Now note that had she known before-hoof that the plant could fire, Twilight's best choice and most logical one would've been to create a shield. Either that or she would've started to continuous bombardment of magical spells at the plant. But unsuspecting the amount of peas that were fired upon her, the alicorn princess soon was being pounded by the peas.

After a few seconds of being pea-nalized by the barrage of, well peas, the power up mode finally finished as the being calmed down. Twilight was still shaking herself all the peas that are now stuck to her mane. At that moment Fluttershy started to get up.

"What just happen?" The timid mare said when suddenly Twilight pushed Fluttershy out of the way. Fluttershy could see Twilight's bewildered face.

"Get away from this plant! He's dangerous!" The now freaked out mare said as she pointed the plant. As certainly one could tell, the fact that the plant had defied everything about plants caused Twilight to have a mental breakdown. Fluttershy gasped as she saw the plant.

"Aw......you look so cute!" Fluttershy said as she hugged the plant. Fluttershy broke the hug. "What is your name?" The timid mare asked. The Peashooter spoke in his native language of plants.

"My name is Peashooter!" Said plant responded kindly. Fluttershy looked at Twilight while cuddling against the Peashooter.

"How could a cute little plant do any type of damage?" Fluttershy said as she cuddled more against the Peashooter. Peashooter did a smile.

"But....but....." Twilight said, her eyes now twitching.. Then she immediately recovered as she began to send out notes to the rest about this....creature's sudden appearance. So many thoughts were going through her head that it would be impossible to jot them all down.

"We have to figure out where this....what's its called again?" Twilight asked, still in her state of anxiety but now a little bit more reassured now that Fluttershy, the most timid of all of them, is hugging the plant.

"Peashooter." Answered Fluttershy on behalf of the green plant.

"....Peashooter came from and if its dangerous! This plant could bring Equestria to its....leaves for all what we know!" Twilight said. Though everypony knew, including the alicorn princess herself, that this was a overstatement. Twilight or basically any unicorn could've been able to generate a shield that would've protected themselves from the assault of peas that just occurred. Twilight suddenly started to do a embarrassed smile as she started to realize how out of character she can act. Fluttershy smiled.

"Well I found him in the Everfree forest as a sprout after I heard something crash. I took him with me at the party, remember....?" Twilight at that moment felt stupid for not asking at that moment. Now thinking about it, the sprout was a bit more detailed and refined than other sprouts. Fluttershy continued to talk.

"....and then he disappeared from the morning.......say.......first of all how did you grow so fast. Why did you come here anyways?" Fluttershy asked. Peashooter was about to respond when Twilight's friends came.

"So what's the emergency? I'm going to destroy anything that gets in our way!" Rainbow Dash said, doing some karate kicks. Peashooter frowned. Apart from Fluttershy, all the other ponies annoyed him. There was that pink hyperactive jumping pony that was bouncing all over the place. There was one that seemed to be too fancy of herself. There was a mare with a cowgirl personality....maybe he could scratch her off the 'annoying' list and place it on the 'friend' list since she probably worked with plants. And there was that other annoying mare that was too egoistic or so it seemed. And there was the alicorn princess that nearly killed him. But Fluttershy was not aware of this. Fluttershy smiled.

"There is no emergency. We're trying to figure out where this plant came from!" Fluttershy said. Rainbow did a double-take, nearly falling to the floor. Peashooter had a look similar to a grin. This was going to be amusing, especially with that rainbow mare.

"Wait, I came all the way over here, just to see a plant?" Rainbow Dash asked, her eyes twitching. Peashooter did one of his happy faces. Yes. This was a keeper.

"This doesn't seem to be any ordinary plant I believe. What's it called?" Applejack inquired.

"It's called....."

"A Peashooter!" Said the hyperactive party pony. The others did a double-take, including the Peashooter itself, who nearly fell off his pot.

"HOW!?" Peashooter thought to himself. Luckily somepony else responded.

"How do you know the name of this plant?" Rarity asked. Pinkie Pie smiled.

"Easy! It shoots peas and thus its called a Peashooter!" Pinkie Pie said. They looked at the Peashooter. The Peashooter did a little demonstration. Something started to travel up his stem and suddenly he shot a pea which splatted against the wall.

"Well that was interesting." Said the cowgirl after recovering from the little demonstration. Twilight came over to the Peashooter and grabbed his pot.

"HowareyouabletofirepeaswhoareyouwheredoyoucomefromIgottaknowhowyoushootpeasandIwon'trestuntilIknowthethruhnowspititallout!" Twilight was saying, now going into her crazy mode as yet again the Peashooter defied physics and logic itself. Is the stem where he gets his nutrients or is it his throat? Or both? Or neither? Wait the throat is to swallow something.

And then the Peashooter fired a pea at Twilight to snap her back into her senses. Rainbow Dash chuckled.

"Well she did said to spit it out!" Rainbow Dash said before crashing on the ground and laughing. Applejack smiled and Rarity rolled her eyes. Pinkie joined into the laughing as well as Spike who said no lines in this chapter. (Sadly). Twilight was blushing in embarrassment. She made herself a fool so many times today.

"Well in the meantime why don't we show Peashooter the palace?" Pinkie Pie said. Twilight sighed.

"Okay. Let's do it." Twilight said in defeat.

The group of ponies started to travel around the castle of Friendship, explaining each of their roles in their society.

"I'm a fashion designer." Rarity said as she presented Peashooter one of her famous (well best) clothing. Peashooter lifted one eyebrow as he curiously examined it. Like he guessed it looked nothing like what the humans wore, but it also fascinated him that these ponies were able to create such things like this. Peashooter did a nod of satisfaction.

"I make parties!" Pinkie said as she bounced around when suddenly the whole castle were filled with blurs and Pinkie Pie suddenly released the party cannons as a "Welcome to Equestria, Peashooter!" appeared. Peashooter was surprised about this and as usual he gave his nod of approval.

"I work as a farmer in Sweet Apple Acres." Applejack said, presenting Peashooter her hat. The hat alone was enough to convince Peashooter, along with her color scheme and cutie mark. Peashooter reminded himself that he should ask Fluttershy what was the tattoo that was on every pony's rear end.

"My name is Rainbow Dash, the fastest flier in Equestria!" Rainbow yelled as she did some air tricks and loops inside the castle. Peashooter looked in awe as her. Maybe he should rethink about his thoughts on her. These ponies seemed nice to Peashooter.

Fluttershy introduced herself as a animal caretaker while Twilight introduced herself as the Princess of Friendship. They started to share their stories about one another and how they meet in the Summer Celebration, their adventure together, how they fought to many villains and so forth. Peashooter started to get calm. It seemed that this world might be enough to defeat the zombies all by themselves. If these six had been able to defeat someone that broke the laws of physics, one who could shape shift, one who used the shadows as their weapon, and one who could steal all the magic in the world, then these six could certainly defeat the zombies all by themselves.

"So where do you come from Peashooter?" Fluttershy asked. Peashooter looked around, darting his eyes left and right. He didn't want to break to them about how his world was wrecked by the zombies and that those same zombies were now coming here. But maybe if he told them they would be able to defend themselves.

"Okay...." Peashooter said, sighing in his peashooter language. He really did not want to break it to them. "Let's see....I come from a world where plants and humans....."

"Wait. What's humans?" Fluttershy asked in behalf of her friends.

"...they're the beings that walk on two legs. They sort of look like monkeys...do you guys have them here?" Peashooter asked. Fluttershy nodded. "...well they look sort of like them but more hairless in various places. They're also way more smarter...."

"How smart?" Twilight asked, after Fluttershy interpreted it to her. Peashooter looked around, trying to stall a bit more.

"Well....I think they might be smarter than most ponies here. They created a lot of things that seem to not exist here. For example the humans used the castles a long time ago, maybe about a few hundred years ago? Now they live in tall skyscrapers, buildings made out of steel instead of wood or rock or gems. So I guess they're pretty smart. They also planted us to protect themselves from the-" Peashooter said, before cutting himself off. The group of friends looked at each other in confusion.

"Protect them from what?" Twilight asked after Fluttershy told her. Peashooter looked around.

"Protect them....from...the-"

Suddenly a note came from the sky and landed on the floor. Peashooter's eyes shrunk. He knew who sent it based on how the letter was written. Twilight picked it up.

"HeLlo,
We ArE aBoUt To LaUnCh An AlL oUt AtTaCk On YoUr ToWn.
Please PrEaPaRe To GiVe YoUr UnCoNdItIoNaL SuRReNder To Us aNd pLeAse hAvE YoUR BrAI- I mEAn BaLLooN PaRTy ReADY fOr Us wHeN wE aRRiVE.

sInCerily, tHe zOMbiES."

There was a silence in the group. Peashooter hopped towards the door as the friends started to discuss.

"What villain write a letter like this? Least they could use some proper spelling!" Rarity cried out.

"I agree. At least this bad guy should have the dignity to write a proper letter that we could READ!" Applejack responded, agreeing with Rarity.

"What the heck are zombies anyways? Wait was it actually zombies or sandles? It's hard to read this thing." Rainbow said.

"Hey guys! It's not a bad guy! They want a balloon party! A BALLOON PARTY!" Pinkie Pie said joyfully as she began to jump around, making balloons when suddenly she stopped and her body started to twitch.

"I fear it might be something more dangerous than that." Twilight said. They heard a banging and saw Peashooter banging the door to get out. Fluttershy walked to him.

"What's wrong Peashooter?" Fluttershy said. Peashooter somehow again opened the door with his leaves and dashed out, coming back with all the seed packets and the bag of plant food. The Peashooter looked frightened.

"Is something bad coming?" Fluttershy asked. Peashooter pointed at one direction. Fluttershy and the rest looked and were horrified on what they saw.

From the Everfree Forest a lone zombie came out with a red flag. The sounds of drums rung in everypony's ears. And suddenly a large group of zombies came out. Ponies started to run around, some dropping to the floor, mainly the Flower Trio in complete panic. A zombie came to a pony and grabbed her head. And the six friends saw something that would scar them for life.

*Chomp* *Chomp*

The pony screamed as her head was being eaten until.....

*GULP*

The pony dropped to the floor, dead after having her brain consumed by the zombie. A huge cry of "BRAINS~" Came out from the zombies. The ponies now started to run away from them as a horrifying voice was heard.....

"The Zombies...ARE COMING!"

Author's Note

Will Ponyvile survive this all-out zombie apocalypse? Will Peashooter be able to defend his new Equestrian friends? Or will he fail and see his friends having their brains eaten like the one they just saw? Find out next time in the next chapter of THERE'S A ZOMBIE ON YOUR LAWN!

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